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Alternative Nation: The Fediverse's Alternative and Indie Music Community

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Alternative Nation : The Fediverse's largest alternative and indie music community! All things alternative music, from 80s college rock to today's indie and all the amazing alternative music in between. Welcome home, music nerds!

Some of y'all may remember MTV's Alternative Nation or 120 Minutes, awesome programs & incredible ways to discover #music back in the 80s & 90s...

Welcome, to the Fediverse edition!

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Subscribe, share, & chat!

Share youtube, songwhip, spotify, bandcamp links, music memes, album art, articles, whatever! But avoid links to directly download music (don't want to get Lemmy.world in trouble). Songwhip links always appreciated!

See this post on recs on how to post!

The Golden Rule: Music taste is subjective so don't be a gatekeeping asshole. There's no "bad music", only music you like or don't like.

We Are A Community: So no racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or spam.

๐ŸŽต Let's get lost in the Fediverse's record store together! ๐ŸŽถ

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https://davestrickson.blogspot.com/2020/05/john-peel-sessions.html

https://davestrickson.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-hidden-delights-on-youtube.html

https://davestrickson.blogspot.com/2020/05/john-peel-session-tracks.html

Huge archive of John Peel Sessions. Hundreds of artists between the 60s and 2000s played live on Johnโ€™s Radio 1 show in the UK including many, many alternative and indie acts.

Hereโ€™s one of my favourites, PJ Harvey playing Shela-na-gig in 1991:

https://youtu.be/hQfElg77sCA

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[โ€“] satanmat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Holy balls!!!

This is an amazing deep dive. Damn.

[โ€“] maniacal_gaff@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Smashing pumpkins released a few tracks from their Peel Session, would be cool to know if there were more songs recorded but not on that release. Thanks, this is a very cool archive!

[โ€“] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I had no idea there were so many complete Peel Sessions on YouTube. But somehow I'm not surprised, that site truly is like The Jukebox Of Alexandria.

[โ€“] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

So far, I've saved three posts on lemmy. This is #4. Thanks OP!

[โ€“] promodel@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you, this is brilliant. Met John a couple of times, real nice bloke - still miss him.