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indieheads - For fans of indie and alternative music.
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For fans of indie and alternative music.
For now there’s no real rules of Lemmy’s indieheads except these guidelines from the original subreddit:
We are purposely vague on a definition of “indie”. In general, music & news posts from these genres are not allowed:
Mainstream Rock/Metal Mainstream Pop Mainstream Hip Hop/R&B Mainstream Electronic & EDM
This is to encourage posts with music from more independent & underground artists. Experimental music & underground acts that exist within the banned genres will be allowed, at the discretion of the mods.
Feel free to discuss features you'd like to see on this community here. All ideas welcome!
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1822004
For today, I will be showing something truly special. It's not only of musical value, or even monetary value, its of truly historically valuable on its impact on indie music. I am the very happy owner of an original 1980 copy of Orange Juice's Falling and Laughing. This is the record that truly kicked off the indie-pop sound that we've come to know from the mid to late 80s, to the 90s, and even the 2000s.
This record came in a run of only 934 copies, and went on to launch Postcard Records as a label to influence bands like Franz Ferdinand, The Wedding Present, Belle and Sebastian, King Krule, The Cribs, The Smiths (though only slightly), the C86 scene of the mid 80s, the twee pop of labels like Sarah (Field Mice, Another Sunny Day, The Orchids, Brighter, Heavenly, etc) and K (Beat Happening), and many more. It is a marvel to now be an owner of a copy of this record. Not only that, this is also one of only 200 copies out of the 934 copy run that has the extra postcard included with it (This one being a pair of pliers). This also includes the extra flexi disc that was sometimes included with this record.
This is a valuable piece of music history that ought to be preserved in archives and I feel Orange Juice deserves some mention in music history for the impact this record and the Postcard singles that followed had on modern music.
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Did you know about Alternative Nation? Lemmy's largest active alternative music community?
(lemmy.world)
!alternativenation@lemmy.world
I love the Fediverse and have been promoting Lemmy & our alternative music community on Mastodon for over a month now. It's getting pretty active and we are sharing all kinds of music from 80s college rock to today's indie every day.
But somehow it seems lemmy.ml hasn't heard yet! Nearly 1000 subscribers on lemmy.world, but like 17 from lemmy.ml? Oh fediverse, you minx you.
Well, time to change that! I'm spreading the good word for alternative music fans to join & share.
Lemmy: !alternativenation@lemmy.world
Post from Mastodon: @alternativenation@lemmy.world
or rawdog link: https://lemmy.world/c/alternativenation
Hope to see you there!
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