Welcome to /leftymu/ sticky (WIP)
Discuss what info, links, resources, etc. to add on this sticky as well as drop ideas and suggestions to the /leftymu/ board at largeWas gonna post in /akm/ but it's about music
>rolling stones make a song about depressionCultural BDS is failing
Cultural boycotts of Israel and pro-Israel artists is failing. The Instagram accounts Zionists in Film, Zionists in Music, etc, are constantly sperging out about how when you give money to X artist you're giving money to Zionists. But it's all reductive because the entertainment industry is run by Zionists, and normie proles aren't going to give up their entertainment for Palestine and start listening to Hezb nasheeds instead. A case in point of a Zionist artist who keeps winning is the rapper The Alchemist. Rap fans love him, and his tracks are lit af, so his relationships with Israeli genocidaires doesn't matter. He's even collaborating with Mos Def, a longtime leftist.Music Search
Music Sauce ThreadGreat Introductory Music
My taste in music is extremely under developed/"uncultured"/shallow because I struggle with music alot. I can only listen to music if I'm doing a activity, it I sit down and try to listen I feel genuine pain, which makes it hard for me to pay attention to lyrics./AMVs/
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Insane amount of banger albums/collabs this year. A lot of A-list artists experimenting with different styles even within the same album (compare say Justice - Hyperdrama to previous albums) I've even felt excited about mainstream pop for the first time in… ages (instead of only checking out obscure/underground stuff)#FreeDiddy
Diddy was clearly the target of a Biden DOJ witch hunt investigation, because rap is the music of the people, and few have delivered more than Diddy. Trump knows the ghetto vote helped get him elected, and will take the heat off Diddy. Just like with the witch hunt against other celebrities like Roman Polanski, the hysteria over Diddy's sexual proclivities reflect a thoroughly bourgeois mentality.post-punk, shoegaze, melodic experimentalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJhaQHUKWaI&ab_channel=KirilovConcert tickets are too damn expensive
50 Cent is coming to Boston on Nov 1, and I was excited, until I saw that they're all resale standing room tickets only at $150 per ticket. Vendors like Ticketmaster, and then scalpers later on, need to be regulated and punished for price gouging. There's not reason a concert ticket shouldn't cost the same as a movie ticket. Most of the revenue doesn't even go to the artist. Under socialism we need to have publicly funded concerts with price regulated tickets.Experimental & avant-garde metal
Post experimental, progressive, avant-garde etc. metal music. The more experimental and out-there the better.Native Music
Any native people here? Why is it so hard to find Native music by tribe? It's all just 'native' or 'native american'. I found a playlist on spotify that's all Cherokee music and thought some of y'all would like it:Nasheed thread
RIP Syed Nasrallah. Post your favorite nasheeds here. https://soundcloud.com/facho3133/ya-wadallah-ya-nasrallahKick’n it old school
Just gonna get the vibe warmed up for ya.Song finders come
https://x.com/Yukari_Akiyama_/status/1836835030234263855?t=BUhPghrhGGcD4kJDaWV2hg&s=19contemporary classical thread (1945-present)
get in loser we're circlejerking about one of the most niche subgenres in existence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQXhOctGad4Ra Diggs
Ra Diggs should be a fucking legend. This rapper is so underrated. I've been pimping him here and there for a few years. Looks like he's picking up some steam with this vid from 6 months ago getting 100k+ viewsMaterial analysis of XXXTentacion?
Since it's the sixth anniversary of his death I thought this would be a good time to talk about him.phonk anime bitches
remember when phonk thumbnail have one of the most lust provoking bitches in their thumbnail? (say yes i know you know).I made my first song!
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdBvAbB9kV4&ab_channel=WhinfpProductionsSabaton sucks ass
This is a very mainstream surface level metal band with pop music like sound and song structure. It’s not like the more extreme types of metal that break the traditional pop song structure and where you actually have to train your ears by listening to metal for a long time to appreciate it.Boyd Rice and other (?)Nazi(?) Musicians
Can someone who is a fan or something explain what this guy's fucking deal is? Why is he releasing albums on major labels while prancing around with Wolfsangels and other pseudo-swastikas?What happened?
I don’t get it. Five years ago we were told this girl was going to save pop music. She made an album where she blended art pop with trap, industrial and dark ambient. She was single-handedly usurping the control if the major labels. She is also extremely socially conscious and leftist, basically the zoomer Joan Baez. Now she’s only released one song in the past two years and it’s bland as hell. WhyNew Ai tool for this dystopia has dropped.
With this one, you can make actual songs.Atari Teenage Riot
This band seems to have been a pretty big deal in their peak and they even have their own genre of music (digital hardcore), but I don't think I have ever heard anyone making music similar to them, were they an evolutionary dead-end? Why nobody else got successful with digital hardcore?Dio
>be meMusic that gives you hope
Do you listen to anything that makes you keep your head up in hopes of a better tomorrow? Things have been turbulent in Brazil this year, and it'll only get even worse from here, regardless of the outcome of the election. I've been listening to communists songs lately, more specifically the Internationale, that gives me hope to keep fighting liberal and reactionary hegemony in the country.Has rap gone woke?
Back in the 90s and Bush years rappers loved conspiracy theories, the Nation of Islam, liberally using "faggot" and "uygha", indulged in virulent misogyny, etc. Even in the early Obama years Killer Mike was rapping:I’m just gonna post some sick ass country music when I feel like it. Feel free to join in.
https://youtu.be/JBosQe3FVpA?si=L-om3hnt4OAThTzPRed Metal
As an avid listener of metal, something that frustrates me is the prevalence of chuds and reactionaries in metal (especially black metal). The visibility of guys like Varg and Famine of Peste Noire infamy has colored the public perception of extreme metal as being the domain of edgelord fascists. What are some metal groups that could be said to be socialist, anarchist, or leftist in some manner?Global contemporary music
I'm tired of anglo shit period, post non-english language music (especially non-western) from other parts of the world.Brazilian Music Peaked Here
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_G2ONaOGRwCx8P9qpzz-GyOtt9Ld1yI0&si=J4xjdvwiVkFeZF7SFUCK musicians
>reading about vaporwave and other 2010s genres (including ones that aren't just samples slowed, chopped and changed) for nostalgia purposesSynth Singing General
Vocaloid, UTAU, clever use of Text-To-Speech or Sentence Mixing, ect…Bollywood Music
ITT: I poast bolly music I just heardPick Which Song I'll Learn on Guitar Please
I bought a new Kramer Baretta Special for 180 bucks to try to get back into guitar playing. It's been fun, but I'm running out of songs I want to learn. I like to be spontaneous by just picking up random songs that I might not have listened to on my own. Tell which song to learn please, it's your pick. I'm advanced enough I play pop,metal, rock, some jazz, but please don't say Polyphia or something that's going to blister the fuck outta me fingers.Bob Motherfucking Dylan
>Come gather 'round peopleALL GENRES Gen Z
Is there more of a phenomenon of people listening to all/every genre or at least a ton of them? 20-30 years ago shit was a lot cliquish with punks, metalheads, hip hop fans, etc. having their own subcultures and people thought old music was cheesy. Now I notice zoomer listen to all genres and a ton even listen to old/boomer music without any reservations.RIP Steve Albini
>Steve Albini, the noise rock pioneer with Big Black and Shellac who also helped engineer some of the greatest alternative rock albums of all time — Nirvana’s In Utero and Pixies’ Surfer Rosa among them — has died at the age of 61.good shit
There was someone on this site who posted a bandcamp of what they called a maoist american acoustic folk band or some shit. It was fucking grimey as fuck but most importantly they were actually fucking good and I'm kicking myself for not favoriting that bandcamp page.chill hip hop thread
fellow zoomers get ITT. I'm making this thread for myself, since it's all I listen to these days. don't hesitate to recommend shit you like. it does not necessarily have to contain rap. anything in the area of trip hop, downtempo, lo-fi, chopped and screwed, gorillaz. you get the ideaPower Metal thread
I fucking love Blind Guardian, I've been neglecting all their albums other than the first 2 for the past 5 or so years, only recently did I begin to appreciate Tales from the Twilight World and Somewhere Far Beyond, they're such wonderful and epic albumsJazz General
Time to share some of that most sophisticated music, you know what it is.David Rovics - Notes From A Holocaust
David Rovics released an album about Gaza:Shostakovich Jazz Suites
It's literally the soundtrack to Banjo-Kazooie, and I can't get enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz90iTlVPd0&t=719sCU-CU-CU-CUMBIA (wipi!)
FUCK IT, cumbia threadRage Against the Machine
Underated spanish leftist album.
España de Hoy y de Siempre is an album made by Paco Ibañez out of several Góngora and Garcia Lorca poems. It goes about little stories in the context of the spanish civil war. This album is underated even between most of hispanics who listen to comunist/socialist/leftist music. Worst yet, even spanish people don't seem to give enough credit to this album and Paco Ibañez and I don't really get why. Highly recommended.Music that gets stuck in your head
What is the materialist explanation for music that gets stuck in your head always being songs you DON'T like? It's not that you get sick of it AFTER it's stuck in your head. It's always songs that you don't like to begin with.Catchy folk/ propaganda music.
No boring ass woody Guthrie singing about how sad it to be from Oklahoma while strumming his guitar. I want synthesisers, fast rhythms, weird ass instruments you’ve never heard before. I want shit that would make you want to get up and dance in your local town square with other third world peasants.all music has been made?
I keep seeing videos about how "pop is dead" "hip hop is dead" and of course, the now venerable "rock is dead" and how catalog music is outselling new music and every record label is just surviving off the copyright for elvis and aging rock/pop stars from the 70s/80s. About how new music sales declining.MeToo: need help identifying this punk guitarist
With the outing of Justin Sane and several other big names in the punk movement I need help finding out who this one other abuser could be.Hip Hop is dead?
>To be clear, hip-hop is still the most listened-to genre of music by far, and it’s still growing. According to Luminate, it has a 26.8% share of U.S. recorded music consumption; the next closest genre is rock at 20%. But that hip-hop number was 27.7% in 2021 and reached a peak of 28.2% in 2020. After a heightened growth period in the 2010s, hip-hop’s growth has slowed down.young gen z music
Am I crazy for thinking younger Gen Z's have way different music tastes? Alot of zoomer girls like nu-grunge/punk like Olivia Rodrigo, or jersey club, or straight up pop i.e. Taylor Swift, etc. or Kpop. I think Old Gen Z was the last generation that really liked hip hop.Krautrock was anti-DDR propaganda?
I've seen this theory on 4/mu/ that krautrock was promoted by the British music press during the 70s to show the superiority of West Germany over East Germany, which is funny considering a lot of the bands were far-left themselves (CAN is an abbreviation for "communism, anarchism, nihilism").No war but class war.
There is no war but class war,Lyapis Trubetskoy - Capital
I want some other lefty perspectives on this song.Weird Psychedelic Hip Hop
more songs like this?Music Festivals
What do music festivals in a future socialist society look like?Ishkur was right
Ishkur is the only guy who has never ever had any cringe takes when it comes to electronic music. There, I said it. I can deny it no longer. Whatever style he shits on is always cheesy manufactured cringe anyway. The dude is based, I stand by my words.Anyone else hate when they put random rapping in songs?
Havana, Juicy, Industry BabyTATSURO YAMASHITA AND CITY POP THREAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqobRu9aR3MBest Media player for making playlists?
I fucking hate spotifyGrunge
>Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is an alternative rock genre and subculture that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American Pacific Northwest state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns. Grunge fuses elements of punk rock and heavy metal, but without punk's structure and speed. The genre featured the distorted electric guitar sound used in both genres, although some bands performed with more emphasis on one or the other. Like these genres, grunge typically uses electric guitar, bass guitar, drums and vocals. Grunge also incorporates influences from indie rock bands such as Sonic Youth. Lyrics are typically angst-filled and introspective, often addressing themes such as social alienation, self-doubt, abuse, neglect, betrayal, social and emotional isolation, addiction, psychological trauma and a desire for freedom.Ph-ph-ph-phases
what were your musical "phases" you went through at various ages? This is kind of a cringe confessional thread, but I'm too old to be ashamed of my proclivities.RIP Harry Belafonte
>Harry Belafonte, the effortlessly graceful singer credited with popularizing calypso in the U.S. in the 1950s who then marched at the forefront of the country’s civil rights struggle for half a century, died Tuesday, according to his spokesperson.Is Justin Timberlake done making serious music?
When I saw the Mario movie with my brother & a friend of his about a week ago, I saw a preview for yet another Trolls movie. Do you think Justin's tapping out with regard to serious studio releases? Man of the Woods (2018) had some goofy cuts like "Supplies" but you could at least consider that a genuine attempt of his at modern R&B (though The Weeknd basically had a monopoly on that for at least a year by that point).I love soviet military songs!
When I listen to old soviet post WW2 or revolutionary songs I just get goosebumps.Footwork/Juke/Baltimore club/Jersey Club
This style of dance music has been having a slight resurgence the past few years online and on east coast/midwest US club circuitsAlt-Country
The Alternative Country scene is unironically the best singer-songwriter scene in the entire music industry at this moment.Finnish Communist Music Containment Thread
No lord in the heavens made this cosmos,What is 12.5 TET (12.5 tone equal temperment)?
What is does it mean?Denpa music thread
Denpa(電波) is a Japanese subculture characterized by bizarre and eerie themes. It originally began as a derogative term for mentally deranged behavior, but over the 1990s was adapted by otaku into their culture. In part, through artistic expression within manga, anime and visual novels, and also separately as a genre of cute and quirky music.DIY instruments
So I just read about Bo Diddley's weird shaped guitars and apparently he created them himself using an electric pick-up (and probably a pre-amp) from an old phonographPost good music that makes you happy
Post good music that makes you happy/Lowrider/
Music for posting lowrider music also known as Chicano Soul or really just 50s-60s Doo Wop. They call it Chicano Soul but most of the artists are black(especially when it comes to the oldies.) Mexicans in SoCal never stopped driving those sick old cars from that era, and when you're cruising in one of those old vintage beauties you an appropriate soundtrack. So lots of oldies and also a lot of throwback music has been coming out in the last few years.Songs that completely give you the opposite feeling/effect when listened to
I fucking hate this song growing up and I never could figure out why. Now that I have grown up, I understand why I hate it.