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Radio Free Fedi

Forget Spotify and Youtube Music. Great music submitted by the artists with links to follow them and support them. You can even submit your own music. Currently 3 different “stations” playing a wide range of genres. No algorithms, no ads (except for brief station breaks and, hey, you can even submit a station break!) https://radiofreefedi.net

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It’s Only Love

In 2016 North Carolina passed HB2 otherwise known as “The Bathroom Bill”. Thankfully, it was later repealed after much uproar and the state losing millions of dollars in revenue. My friends in the (now mostly defunct) band Craicdown wrote this song in protest and made a wonderful video. I played for the soundtrack but do

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Petition to Support the Newly Formed Union at Bandcamp

Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. This might possibly be a good thing but hard to know at this point. But right now things are up in the air for the Bandcamp staff and there is no clear word on their status and the status of their newly formed union. See https://www.wired.com/story/epic-games-sale-bandcamp-music-platform-limbo/ and https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2023/09/28/songtradr-bandcamp-acquisition/ So

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Dittersdorf Concerto #2

I was happy to find a piano accompaniment for the Dittersdorf Concerto for Bass #2 on Musescore.com today. I have a student wanting to play it for an audition. It is generally played in D Major on the modern double bass with solo strings tuned up a step so the piano accompaniment and orchestra parts

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Links for 5/20/23

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1176175801/boot-girls-atlanta-private-parking-enforcement  When governments give power to private corporate vigilantes then sometimes private citizen vigilantes need to strike back. Best thing about this story is the publicity these women got is likely to get the law changed for the better. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/17/miller-lite-ads-women-clothing-misogyny  If the right keeps it up there won’t be any beers they can safely drink.

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