I don't know if this is the right community to post this, but whatever.

I've been using Spotify for a while, it's a reduced price in my country and so far the experience is good, but podcasts are not available in my country.

I'm in a free trial for Youtube Premium, and the experience for watching Youtube is so much better, and there are a few things that I like from Youtube Music, like the smart downloads, but the audio quality is trash. I though there was something wrong with my earbuds, but no, music sounds good everywhere except on the YT music app. Hard bass and drum kicks are often distorted and I had to enable the equalizer, and I love music with a lot of bass and kicks.

As an App the experience is good, but god damn it is a downgrade in audio quality. What you think? Might it be worth it?

Part of a discovering of my investigation about the origins of rock at my province: Tucuman

Arqueología del rock: Sombra en vivo (audio) #monteros #tucuman #rock #santana #fediversetv #peertube a document that came out in my research about the origins of rock in my province

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/929040

Actually pretty pleasant. I wasn't really vibing with this at the start, but it's not that bad. I think you need to be in a certain mental state to enjoy this, it's very... Odd... ~I~ ~think~ ~that's~ ~just~ ~Art~ ~Pop/Neo-Psych~ ~really~~.~

The vocals are horrible, though. I'd never heard of John Cale before, but I'm aware he's rather old. Maybe he's lost his hearing in his advanced age, on the other hand, Beethoven, so I'm just gonna say John Cale's vocals are trash.

The production is fine. It's nothing special, there's not much distinguishing each track, but there's some nice passages, occasionally. The drums are bad, the guitars on I KNOW YOU'RE HAPPY are really nice though. It's a bit of a hit or miss on whether any given song lands on the good or bad side of mediocre.

The lyrics are garbage. Maybe I just don't get it, I'm willing to admit that, but honestly I didn't care about anything he was saying, and honestly I'd rather he hadn't said anything. I'll remind you the vocals suck, there was really nothing he could've said that would've made his piss poor performances worth it, but still, I'd appreciate something more than repetitive repetition, repeatedly.

He does ask some very hard hitting questions, though. Namely on this song called THE LEGAL STATUS OF ICE. I recommend you listen to it. ~~You'll regret it!~~

It was hard to put THE LEGAL STATUS OF ICE as my least favourite song on this album. It's hilarious. It's ACTUALLY so fucking funny (which is why it's also my favourite track on the album), everything, every single word, the instrumentals, the performance. It just cracks me up! It sounds horrible, it's just so bad I can barely comprehend why anyone would ever put that in a serious album. I think it's a troll, honestly. And that just makes it better.

What is the legal status of ice?
Where does it come and where does it go

Comedy gold.

Listening to this album almost gave me an aneurysm.

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Best song: THE LEGAL STATUS OF ICE (feat. Fat White Family)
Worst song: THE LEGAL STATUS OF ICE (feat. Fat White Family)
Rating: THE LEGAL STATUS OF ICE/5

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/861908

A brilliant musical journey.

I've listened to a lot of music. A lot of great music. And I can tell you, this is special.

It's one thing to infuse your art with a message, another thing to actually convey it properly, and a whole other debacle to manage to do that while creating something truly enjoyable. Little Simz made something magical. This album is way more than just music, it's a whole experience. And one that I'm sad I won't be able to experience again for the first time.

Being a woman, being black, her culture, her desires and aspirations. Little Simz shows all of herself for us to see. This album is incredibly personal, and one of the most majestic things I've ever listened to.

I already knew she was a brilliant rapper; her lyricism is nigh unmatched, and her delivery is second to none. Of course, the production leaves nothing to be desired either.

But really, the message is what elevates this to the next level.

There's a nice variety of sounds too, some hardcore hip-hop cuts, some jazzy tracks, pop, soul, and plenty of time to cleanse your palate before the next stop on the Introvert train by way of several interludes. Some spoken word passages as well, which I really appreciate.

I tend to dislike longer albums; 30 minutes is plenty, 60 minutes is pushing it. But this is different, I can't have enough of this!! I wish it would last forever...

If I could tattoo this album on my brain, I would.

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Best song: Rollin Stone
Worst song: Never Make Promises (Interlude)
Rating: 5/5

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What music has been stuck in your head this week? What songs or albums have you been obsessed with? Which new artists have you discovered?

Introduce something new to someone else, or maybe discover something awesome for yourself!

website that has a lot of remixes and similar music to what was in the soundtracks of Jet Set Radio games

I’ll start: for Germany, I’d go for Die Ärzte. A rock/pop/punk band from the 80s which is still active today. One of my all-time favorites because I grew up with them :)

Looking forward to some great new music discoveries 😁

A pretty cool spanish song of the first band of the Santa Fe province (Argentina) to record an LP. "Los Bichos de Candy" with their LP "Basura". Composed by 7 own tracks, and covers from The Beatles and even the first album of McCartney (Junk, song of the tittle of this album)

Big big fan of PTM, have mixed feelings regarding the new album. What do the rest of y'all think?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/466792

A very interesting sound!

This was majestic, beautiful, mystical! Both the vocals and the instrumentals are ethereal, and the lyrics are inspiring, sweet and sour, all the right things.

The production remains interesting throughout. You can hear something weird nearly every second of every track, but it never gets boring or repetitive, it's just good production.

The seemingly ubiquitous vocal harmonizations really remind me of Aoba Ichiko. It's just an image I can't shake when listening to this. Normally, that'd be a great compliment, but I feel like it's not done very well actually, like a poor man's Ichiko...

As the track list progresses, it feels as if the album keeps winding down. It starts so strong, but by the time we get to Hopedrunk Everasking we've slowed to a halt.

How long can she stay floating in harmonic clouds? I'd argue not 45 minutes, gee. And yet, that's what she tries to do.

She picks it back up a little bit in Smoke, but too little too late.

The album never crosses the dreaded threshold from "interesting" to "bad" that so many alternative projects do. It manages to stay tolerable throughout. It starts incredible, but it loses steam.

If she'd cut it off at Track 5 this would've been a brilliant EP, but alas, it's a mediocre LP.

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Best song: Sunset
Worst song: Fly To You
Rating: 3/5

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One of the finest bands of my province in the 70's. They played at BA Rock Festival an received an outstanding ovation.

Sadly they didn't record anything thus they have a complete own repertoire. It was very difficult not being at Buenos Aires.

However, Viajero Inmovil Records (progressive rock) made the publication of a double album with new stuff and other with bootlegs that were recorded between 1972 and 1974. Here, "Cae la lluvia" of 1972 with a humongous Juan Escalante on battery and the band at their finest

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/462089

Extremely emotional. The feelings of being lost, hurt, depressed... slowthai screams his misery at the top of his lungs. He opens up about his struggles with addiction and relationships, and that makes this album feel really personal.

There's a nice variety of sound on this project; every song feels decently distinct, even if they have a lot of thematic overlap. There's a lot of guitars and heavy bass, very punk, but also a strong beat and artificial sounds. There's some hip-hop slices too. I love it!

The sounds on this album really jump out at you though, there's no two ways about it. Really, what jumps out the most is slowthai's vocal performance. He puts his all into nearly every word, you can really feel his emotion, his desperation, his despair. He's lost, and he'll make sure you know it, and that you won't do a thing to help.

This album feels like a trip down a tortured mind.

Still, the lyrics make the album, no question. The instrumentals are great, the vocals are strong, but the lyrics... He really has a way of keeping your attention, of pulling you in with melodies and punching you square in the jaw with total hopelessness and drug-fuelled spurts of vague happiness. The emotion is almost overwhelming at times.

I'd heard of him before, and I've even listened to one of his songs before, which I liked quite a bit. This is the first full-length project of his I've listened to though, and I'm looking forward to finding more of his stuff. This was great.

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Best song: Selfish
Worst song: Falling
Rating: 4/5

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Los Walkers, probably one of the best garage and later psych bands of Argentina in English language. Their peak, their last album

Over 100 music artists, including Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine, have banded together to announce they are boycotting concert venues that use facial recognition technology, as originally reported by Rolling Stone. The artists cite a number of concerns, including privacy infringement and increased discrimination.

The boycott was organized by a digital rights advocacy group called Fight for the Future and its ultimate goal is the elimination of face-scanning technology at all live events. Beyond the two founding members of Rage Against the Machine, other participating artists include Speedy Ortiz, Anti-Flag, Boots Riley and Deerhoof, among more than 80 others. The full list is available right here.

In addition to artists, some venues are getting in on the action, pledging to not use this type of technology for their events. These include House of Yes in Brooklyn, the Lyric Hyperion in Los Angeles and the infamous Black Cat in Washington D.C. In recent months, over 40 big-time music festivals, like Coachella and SXSW, also vowed to stop using facial recognition technology.

Fight for the Future said in a statement that facial scanning companies are “morally corrupt” and that facial recognition tools are “so inaccurate” that they “actually create more harm and problems than they solve.” While the organization says this tech is rife with inaccuracies, for now, it dreads a future world “in which privacy is non-existent, where we are identified, watched and surveilled everywhere we go.”

Nobody wants a Minority Report-esque police state, but proponents of facial recognition tech tout some of the positives. For instance, Taylor Swift recently employed this technology to root out potential stalkers during concerts. However, it’s already being used to do some pretty foul stuff. Madison Square Garden has begun employing the technology to identify and ban lawyers involved with suits against the venue and affiliated companies.

Several attorneys have been forcibly removed from both MSG and Radio City Music Hall in recent months, prompting New York Attorney General Letitia James to issue a formal inquiry. The New York State Liquor Authority also recently initiated proceedings to strip the parent company, Madison Square Garden Entertainment, of its liquor licenses, as reported by the New York Post. MSG sued the state over this decision and doubled down, saying “we understand this policy is disappointing to some, but we cannot ignore the fact that litigation creates an inherently adversarial environment.”

MSG has received the lion’s share of scrutiny here, but other large venues throughout the country have also gotten their Orwell on, from New York’s Citi Field to Cleveland’s FirstEnergy Stadium and Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, among many others. So this is definitely a thing.

Fight for the Future, along with Morello and artists like Speedy Ortiz, have found success with similar boycotts in the past. In 2022, Denver’s Red Rocks Amphitheater in Denver stopped using Amazon’s palm-reading technology following a protest from the organization. All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. All prices are correct at the time of publishing. Over 100 artists boycott venues that employ face-scanning tech

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/445942

This is horrible. The industrial style... It's so heavy, I feel like I'm drowning. It's crushing, overwhelming, uncomfortable,

grating.

There are definitely things here that are interesting, I liked passages from basically every song. But the vast majority of this album is just unadulterated trash. It doesn't even feel like music, just a random assortment of sounds barely "arranged".

I suppose that's the thing with experimental albums; if you want to listen to innovation in music, you have to be ready to listen to all the failures. Most of the stuff on this album doesn't work, it's horrible, actually. Occasionally, a nice melody plays, an interesting beat shines through... And that's it.

I'm trudging through shit in hopes of hearing gold.
^Maybe^ ^I'm^ ^giving^ ^this^ ^shit^ ^too^ ^much^ ^credit...^

Also, this album is 2 years old, so I guess I've already listened to the good stuff in other songs, from artists that took inspiration... Really, it's unfair.

The lyrics are interesting sometimes. The flow, when there is a flow, is usually pretty cool. The spoken word sections are nice.

I mean, all things considered, this wasn't torture. But it did feel like Injury Reserve are unable to avoid ruining a perfectly good song with awful production and ridiculous vocal performances.

I don't have it in me to recommend this to anyone, ever. Their knees hurt 'cause they're growing, my ears hurt 'cause I'm listening to this album.

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Best song: Bye Storm
Worst song: Superman That
Rating: 1/5

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/437553

This is a short reminder to leave your hopes and dreams behind.

A beautiful project. I love the mostly instrumental nature of the album! The vocals are very welcome though, and the vocal chops add a lot to the texture of the tracks. And the vocals feel mostly like just another instrument, really.

This album feels like bubblegum and depression. I'm a big fan of hyperpop, so this really scratches a particular itch for me. It's weird in all the right ways, and it manages to have this connecting thread throughout the whole thing that makes it feel somewhat grounded. The spoken portions of the album add a special human flare to the otherwise very alien production, but they're not exactly great.

The Bandcamp entry states this was mostly made in-transit. I feel like the feeling of constant motion, of a rushing landscape, really permeates every note.

I wonder if Europa was travelling exclusively between 2 places though, as every song feels rather similar. It's nice, as I mentioned before, to have a connecting thread throughout a project, but there's not enough to distinguish every track, to make every entry unique.

Overall, I like it quite a lot. The laugh in Toxibaby is horrible.

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Best song: Absentia
Worst song: Toxibaby
Rating: 4/5

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I found this quite a while ago, and the sounds and distortion are interesting to listen to. So do you know any music like that without vocals?

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Four decades of music, one legendary band. Duran Duran’s concert documentary A Hollywood High arrived Wednesday (June 21) on Paramount+.

Released in theaters last year, A Hollywood High celebrates the British rock band’s 40-year career and “love affair with Los Angeles.” The film features new interviews with the band alongside a performance on a Hollywood rooftop near the legendary Capitol Records building, the band’s first label home. The concert footage was shot in Los Angeles in March 2022.

Read on for ways to stream A Hollywood High for free. How to Watch Duran Duran’s Concert Documentary on Paramount+

A Hollywood High is available exclusively on Paramount+. If you’re not already subscribed, you can stream the movie with a free trial from Paramount+.

Paramount+ subscriptions start at $4.99/month (or $49.99 a year) for ad-supported streaming and $9.99/month (or $99.99 a year) for the ad-free Premium plan. Both subscription tiers let you stream tens of thousands of episodes and movies but upgrading to the Premium tier gives you access to local CBS stations. And if you’re a Prime member, you can stream Paramount+ on Prime Video.

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Additionally, Paramount+ subscribers can stream Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Scream VI, 80 for Brady and, Top Gun: Maverick and other movies on the platform.

In addition to a streaming release, A Hollywood High will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on Aug. 4. The Blu-ray and DVD is packed with 20 extra minutes of exclusive content including unseen footage, an additional song recorded at the band’s live performance and highlights from a film Q&A with the band in Los Angeles.

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Product bundles will also be available, which will include limited-edition recordings from the show released as flexi-disc test pressings in specially designed booklets and signed items from the band.

Fans in London can attend a special one-night-only screening of A Hollywood High at Outernet on Aug. 3. Tickets will be available via DICE, according to Duran Duran’s website.

As far as music goes, Duran Duran will resume its North American tour with a show in San Diego, Calif., on Aug. 22. The tour will include stops in Las Vegas, Chicago, Boston, Toronto, Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C. and more. Get tickets here.

See the trailer for A Hollywood High below.

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After delivering a rousing feature on Killer Mike’s “Scientists & Engineers,” Andre 3000 might have more verses under the tuck. In a Tuesday (June 20) interview with Sway in the Morning, Killer Mike revealed that the Outkast lyricist doesn’t only have more music on the way, but also a new album that might be coming soon.

During their discussion in light of Mike’s new album, Michael, Sway mentioned Andre having a new album on the way, with the Run The Jewels rhymer seemingly agreeing with him. “Yeah. I think we fly out in a couple weeks to go listen to it,” he revealed. The conversation continued with Sway saying that Mike had already heard nine songs and that there were more records in the stash.

In a previous interview with The Breakfast Club, co-host Charlamagne Tha God noted that Mike played him an unreleased song featuring Three Stacks and dubbed it “one of the greatest hip-hop records” he had heard. Mike doubled down Charlamagne’s claims and said: “There is another Killer Mike and Dre feature and all we gotta do is make this album go No. 1 and make the guys from the label really, really happy and I’ll be back next year. It’s about 12 minutes — seven and five. Stacks rap longer. When you handsome all the girls like you, you get to rap longer.”

If 3000’s album comes to light, it will serve as his debut effort as a solo artist. Along with “Scientists & Engineers,” 3000’s last sighting was from Kanye West’s 2021 Donda loosie “Life of the Party,” where the rap luminaries teamed up for the seven-minute gem.

Last Friday (June 16), Killer Mike released Michael with a laundry list of features, including Future, Andre 3000, 2 Chainz, Ty Dolla $ign, Blxst, Curren$y, and more. The 14-track offering touches on Mike’s childhood, especially his relationship with his mother.

“I miss my mama. I miss her so much,” Mike told Billboard last week. “I wish I could call her and tell her how much people love this record. I wish I could tell her having me listen to Curtis Mayfield influenced the first song on this record and the vibe of this record. I wish I could tell her how much her encouragement means to me. And I said all of this while she was alive. I told her she was dope. I told her, ‘Aw Ma, I love listening to Curtis Mayfield, The Isleys and Willie Nelson with you,’ but I didn’t understand how to let her know until she was gone the deep reverence I have for her. I revere her and I wish I had the opportunity to share that with her. She’s the only human being I hold that kind of reverence for. And that’s how that song makes me feel every time I hear it."