I've been making some headway into pivoting to music as my full-time career but it's feeling difficult to get other people to care about it. But I'm plugging along and making music because the alternative is not making music, which feels worse. How about you? How can we support you in this endeavor...

There's a thread specifically about Dennis now. viewtopic.php?p=235702#p235702

Thank you so much for sharing. Do you have any idea what happened and is it anything you can share? Not that it really matters in the end, I guess.

Totally understandable. Such terrible news no matter what.

Ah jeeze. Any idea what happened yet?

What is with this month?

Me too! It seems they're pretty popular and behind on manufacturing right now but their whole business model is to be able to scale up to meet demand (that's even in their name, "elastic") but it's also apparently pretty new and suddenly getting a lot of attention. For example, this Reddit...

There's been a bunch of services that will do small runs of lathe-cut vinyl LPs but they're all ludicrously expensive and have terrible quality. Today I learned about elasticStage which claims to be much higher-quality for not much more than the cost of a run of pressed records, and apparently some ...

Oh, fuck, I'm so sorry to hear that. Irwin was a good dude and I always enjoyed the chats we had together at various Song Fight! Lives.

May his memory forever be a blessing. He'll definitely be missed.

Okay I've done some account rearranging and now my music-related stuff is https://bsky.app/profile/sockpuppet.band. I'm also trying to move my main profile back to @beesbuzz.biz but bluesky seems to be having trouble with some caching stuff right now. Anyone following @fluffy.beesbuzz.biz will be au...

I've been making some headway into pivoting to music as my full-time career but it's feeling difficult to get other people to care about it. But I'm plugging along and making music because the alternative is not making music, which feels worse. How about you?

Well I guess I have no choice but to attend. My home recording studio (which is around 12 minutes from the venue by car) will be available as a practice space for those who need it. I'd also be able to accommodate one or two people with lodging on my couch if they need it although that's more of a d...

Yeah, just to clarify, Content ID is the copyright enforcement thing, Content Mapping is where it decides whether to put a release onto an artist's official YouTube channel or onto a "topic" channel. For example, here's my official YouTube page: https://youtube.com/@realfakesockpuppet and ...

Content ID is different than content mapping, but nice to know that thing is finally working, jeeze.

PS. LANDR appears to have a dedicated form to link YouTube artist channels. I haven't tested it though. Too Lost has a form too and I’ve filled it out many times and each time they say it’ll be taken care of. It never is. I’m not sure if the problem is with Too Lost or if it’s on YouTube’s end. Dis...

... I’m switching away from distrokid after using them for like 15 years. I mean they still fucking suck in a lot of respects but what in the streaming industry doesn’t? Do yo have an update on your experience with them? So far they’ve been okay, not great. They told me to rerelease my albums with ...

ok but

1. that's hilarious
2. what did you expect to happen?

I got to meet him back in 2006 or 2007. Pretty sweet genuine guy in person. Also I loved how matter-of-fact the trans representation was in Twin Peaks, back in an era when trans people in media were almost always just a cruel joke.

There's quite a few Song Fight!ers of yore. PrayForMojo, State Shirt, Ross Durand, and Rabid Garfunkel all come to mind.

I'm sure that our LA Song Fight! contingent has better things to be doing than to check the forums right now but I hope that everyone who lives in the area is safe and avoiding catastrophe as best they can.

By every reasonable definition, yes, I'm just hoping to find something that makes JB have to reevaluate his personal ban on classic rock

Apparently some people think Journey, U2, and Bryan Adams are classic rock, judging by this music discord community I’m on

Some of the then-current bands you grew up with are likely to be considered "classic rock" now.

I remember feeling very strange when I was listening to the classic rock station and Soundgarden came on.