How To Music Major

jcverne:

Hey there, Minnesotan here.

Are you outside of Minnesota, but want to know what’s going on with the ICE occupation? Check out:

• On Site a local independent news organization covering accurate news here.
• Toussaint Morrison, who writes for On Site but has a lot of good coverage
• Georgia Fort, an independent journalist covering what’s happening on the ground
• And of course, the videos being posted directly to social media from people on the ground.

National news is not covering everything that’s happening here. (Almost like that’s on purpose.) But these are helpful, local sources to Minnesota to provide an accurate depiction of what’s really happening here.

Are you outside of Minnesota and looking to help?

• Donate to the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee
• MN ICE Watch not only sends updates about federal activity, but also highlights individuals affected where you can donate or send help to our neighbors impacted by ICE.

These links go to those sources’ Instagram profiles. And I will edit this post with more, it’ll remain a living document.

A final note: You may have seen posts on social media about what it’s like here. Believe them. It is that bad. It is that scary. They are kicking doors down. They are demanding to see identity papers if you’re simply walking on the street.

My sister is a teacher, and they were driving around her school yesterday. A middle school.

They are offering people money to out undocumented immigrants or protest organizers. That link is a firsthand account of someone who was detained, and asked those very questions.

They are taking our neighbors.

This is an occupation.

I don’t have a lot of followers, so hoping the tags can help spread this far and wide.

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whatbigotspost:

earhartsease:

ceasarslegion:

ceasarslegion:

I started listening to the cree radio station because its the only one left in my range that doesnt play alberta separatist ads now and those make me see red like some sort of bull, which is not safe while im behind the wheel of a vehicle going 110

Why haven’t they told me about the cree all-purpose radio station sooner. They play everything from the 50s to today. Half of their ads and one of their shows is in cree which I do not speak a lick of but thats fine, they play banger music. They give me local news updates that arent dripping with UCP cocksucking. They tell me about things that affect a demographic I otherwise hear very little about by virtue of being a white guy in alberta.

We are holding hands. We are learning about other cultures. We are listening to 60s rock and roll and then an elder will tell us stories about his youth. I am enamored. I am in love.

Lots of people in the notes have asked me to drop the radio station im talking about here. If youre in the Edmonton area the frequency is 89.3, and when we went on a trip recently we got pretty reliable signal all the way to Ponoka. If youre outside of it or international you can get the live broadcast at ravenradio.ca

They also have a retro hour at noon every day and do language lessons for allies

89.3 The Raven

Playing a little bit of everything from the 50's to Today! Alberta's Best Rock

89.3 The Raven

for easy access

Not to be an annoying USian butting in (but you know how we are…) but this is fascinating! When I visited Canada my one and only time so far in 2023, the place we spent the most time was Calgary, Alberta. Being Texans, everyone kept telling us “oh that’s like the Texas of Canada” my one IRL Canadian friend included. I definitely saw what they meant (by way of rodeo, beef, oil industry stuff) but no one ever mentioned ALBERTA SEPARATISM. That’s the most important and unbecoming “samsies” I’ve yet heard of so far. Yech.

Anyway, this station sounds awesome and if you can listen to it, you should.

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cardassiangoodreads:

Previous poll remade because I forgot a whole century the first time, this is what I get for doing this on mobile LOL

Think of the oldest song that you know by heart — can sing the melody and any words it has from memory, without looking it up. Search the name of it in Wikipedia, looking for when it was first documented with both the melody and (if applicable) lyrics you know, together. When is it ACTUALLY from? (If it’s way newer than you think, you can’t switch to an older song. Answer based on this one you initially THOUGHT was the oldest.)

20th century (1900s) or later

19th century (1800s)

18th century (1700s)

17th century (1600s)

15th-16th centuries (1400s-1500s)

13th-14th centuries (1200s-1300s)

11th-12th centuries (1000s-1100s)

First millennium CE (if you are not a musician, no you don’t, go back)

It’s the Seikilos Epitaph (circa 1st century CE), oldest complete melody found

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I am a music historian with a PhD and the point of this poll is that the vast majority of people don’t actually know much music from pre-1500s or so, and most music that people think is ancient or medieval is actually far more recent.

There are no options before the first millennium CE because the Epitaph of Seikilos is the oldest complete work of music found anywhere in the world, and it’s around 2000 years old. If you think you know something older than that, either only the text was written down (e.g. Biblical, Vedic and Greco-Roman hymns) or it only exists in fragments (e.g. the Hurrian hymns and Orestes stasimon). Which is to say, it does not count for this.

If it fits into a few of these potential time frames, pick the one that’s considered the most likely. If historians genuinely have no fucking clue, THEN you can go back and try with another really old song.

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vin-of-the-void:

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sycamorality:

rwrv:

sycamorality:

sycamorality:

spotify is Pissing me off so im just gonna locally download all my (2.7k……) songs. Cant give me ads if theyre local mp3s. bitch.

soooooo does anyone know of any good programs for yoinking music from spotify with metadata included (one way or another idc if it matches it to youtube videos or not) or am i gonna hgave to manually go through all 2.7k songs myself

this might have metadata

Spotify Downloader

Download songs, albums and playlists from Spotify instantly.

spotdownloader.com

it seems to only do up to 100? which, i have. like 2.7k songs i wanna download

i will always shill for spotdl. it’s a primarily command line tool which is an obvious turnoff for many but it’s a phenomenal lil program

spotDL

Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata

spotdl.readthedocs.io

highly rec pairing it with mediamonkey so you can quickly sync your music to a phone or ipod

my tags:

Heres all the things I mentioned!

Should mention you may want to learn port forwarding for using soulseek/nicotine+ to share your own files, some people wont share their files to people that aren’t sharing themselves.

Soulseek

Soulseek

slsknet.org

Nicotine+

Graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network

Nicotine+

And for editing tags in bulk:

Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...)

Mp3tag is a powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files.

mp3tag.de

MusicBrainz Picard

Official website for MusicBrainz Picard, a cross-platform music tagger written in Python.

picard.musicbrainz.org

Finding album covers in high res:

COV - Cover Search Engine

Search for high quality album covers from various online streaming services, music stores and databases.

covers.musichoarders.xyz

Also gonna include some music players I like:

https://getmusicbee.com/

Tauon | Music player for the Desktop

Install via EXE, Flatpak or the Arch User Repository.

tauonmusicbox.rocks

So far as iOS goes, this is the only one that supports replaygain and doesn’t have in-app purchases, no lastfm support tho:

‎foobar2000

‎foobar2000 mobile is an advanced audio player for mobile devices. Main features: * Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, Vorbis, Opus, F

App Store

I’m not too familiar with android but the best one I found during a time I was planning to swap to android (still am eventually) is this:

Musicolet - Offline Music Player for Android

Musicolet is a small yet powerful offline Music Player for Android, which organizes and plays local audio-files stored on your device.

krosbits.in

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in-sufficientdata:

screenshotting and reposting this because OP made it non-rebloggable but I think it’s important to spread it and don’t mind blocking post notifs if it blows up on my timeline

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At this point tumblr user @/ms-hells-bells reblogged with this link:

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have

apmreports.org

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This reblog included this link:

SUNY New Paltz | The State University of New York at New Paltz

SUNY New Paltz, The State University of New York, is a four-year, public liberal arts college located in the Hudson Valley region.

newpaltz.edu

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This reblog included this link:

Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong

There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by

features.apmreports.org

I just personally listened to episodes 1 through 8 of this podcast and believe it to be key in understanding what has happened and why as far as this switch in reading instruction and how things are coming back to phonics (though now they’re referring to ‘the science of reading’ for reasons that are explained in the podcast).

In searching for resources for myself, being a parent, I have found this book with accompanying book for the child, which can be bundled when you select to purchase:

The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading, Revised Edition Instructor Book

Scripted lessons mean every parent can teach their child to read! This plain-English guide to teaching phonics will give your student a stro

Well-Trained Mind

gayvampyr:

xoxoviva:

jabbotmohan:

princess-snorlaxx:

The idea of listening to no black music is bizarre to me. Even if it’s not rap like no earth wind and fire? No reggae? No moonstomp? No ska? No classic jazz? No R and B? No disco??? No skindred? No jungle? No even like metal bands with a few black members? No gospel? Not even stuff like alors en dance? No blues music? No mo town? No jazz of any kind? No big band? No soul music? Not even a little James Brown?

not even yola or tanner adell or brittney spencer or tracy chapman or india.arie or chapel hart or the carolina chocolate drops or rhiannon giddens????

Or…

• Hemlocke Springs (alt rock/new wave revival),
• the Noisettes (indie),
• Skunk Anansie (hard rock/metal),
• Tamar Kali (rock/punk),
• Valerie June (country/blues),
• Santigold (indie),
• Bloc Party (post punk revival/indie rock),
• O Children (goth),
• Lord Scary Black (goth),
• Cemetery Sex (death rock)

Originally posted by whattimeisitanyway

a few more artists i love:

• deepincision (heavy metal)
• zulu (metal)
• black pantera (rock, metal)
• winter wolf (punk, metal)
• erzulie (punk, rock)
• youth man (punk)
• the 1865 (punk)
• crystal axis (punk)
• pleasure venom (post-punk/hard rock)
• the rack (they describe their sound as “hard pop rock”, blends punk vocals and rock)
• danny denial (indie punk/rock, queer)
• gloom east (alt/indie rock, moody pop blend)
• big joanie (synth punk + some more melodic, blues-like tones)
• madame st beatrice (gothic, moody and melodic)
• shadow age (goth)
• saccharin (goth)
• the ire (goth, punk)
• bastet (goth punk)

here’s a playlist with a good mix of the above genres + some alt & indie from Black artists

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cowboyjimkirk:

Images from Leonard Nimoy’s The Full Body Project (2007)

The Full Body Project is a book of photography by Leonard Nimoy that features a group of women involved in fat liberation. They were the Fat-Bottom Revue—women who worked in film, theatre, and art and who formed the first all-fat burlesque performance group. The founder of the Fat-Bottom Revue, Heather MacAllister, was an advocate in the LGBT rights movement, the fat acceptance movement, and in particular was a champion for fat lesbians.

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ralfmaximus:

argumate:

love a key change, not sure about a second key change, feel it devalues the first key change and honestly at that point why stop at two

The minor fall, the major change, the 1024-bit key exchange

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junglejim4322:

aleph-none:

realmarysue:

junglejim4322:

junglejim4322:

Something that I have noticed is I know almost nobody my age that goes to a food pantry. I know people who regularly run out of money for food and in general have to eat an unsuitable diet because that’s what they can afford and they still don’t go to a food bank, im not sure if it’s because they’re embarrassed or maybe if you didn’t grow up going you don’t know much about it but if you’re financially struggling I really recommend it. And look into other options for food assistance too like community fridges and gardens and other programs that can assist you, where I live Salvation Army pays for an allotted amount of grocery delivery for low income people every month, in the summer farmers take excess produce to the library to be taken by anyone who needs it, etc. There are a LOT of resources for free food that you can look into especially if you are literally not eating because of your financial situation

Btw if you have dietary restrictions you can often let them know and in many cases they’ll prioritize certain items for you

• Global map of community fridges
• Urban Harvest - global foraging maps
• Food Not Bombs Global Chapter Locations (mostly vegan!)
• USA - Find your local food bank
• USA - Meals on Wheels free or reduced cost food delivery (age usually 60+, check your specific area’s eligibility

• Map of US food banks that can accommodate gluten-free

Good thing to have on hand in the midst of food stamps issues

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pseudotsugas:

Are you going to New Orleans?

Parsley, sage, and the rising sun

Remember me to many a poor boy

For a true love of mine was one

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