"Their new LP keeps a similar trajectory of wrecking crew bass lines, urgent post punk and soaring space rock, DIY log synth noise meets reconstructed club deviance and motorik madness"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/snapped-ankles-hard-times-furious-dancing-the-leaf-label

Find Snapped Ankles in banging company over at the End of Week Freak Playlist.
https://www.submithub.com/link/end-of-week-freak

"On the remix Saltbreaker opts for a warmer, smoother approach by largely ditching the surface noise and the minimal piano lines, exchanging them for more comforting sonic swathes"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/sólstrauman-how-the-river-flows-remix-by-saltbreaker-re-memory

Find Sólstrauman floating around the Ambient Pop Playlist.
https://www.submithub.com/link/ambient-pop-playlist

the cat wakes up late
independent in rhythm
he keeps to himself

#haiku #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

#MastoPrompt #independent
@stevencudahy

The #MastoPrompt for Monday 14 April 2025 is:

#independent

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.

"All is not lost but time is fast running out. The revolution will not be televised but there is strength in numbers and the music is better in the resistance."
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/calming-river-macdui-self-release

Find Calming River adding some brutal realism to the Slow Folk Playlist.
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-folk-playlist

"If acoustic guitar and the folk sound of America are your thing then look no further."
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/cameron-knowler-crk-worried-songs

Find Knowler amongst friends in the Slow Folk Playlist.
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-folk-playlist

Hubby, who used to teach American history, reminded me of the #HartfordConvention from 1814-15. #Maine, #Massachusetts, #Vermont, #Connecticut, #NewHampshire and #RhodeIsland had considered leaving the union and forming their own "independent republic" in opposition to "political problems arising from the federal government's increasing power. "

Excerpt:
"Some delegates may have been in favor of New England's #secession from the United States and forming an #independent republic, though no solution was adopted at the convention. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison rejected the notion that the Hartford convention was an attempt to take New England out of the Union and give treasonous aid and comfort to Britain. Morison wrote: 'Democratic politicians, seeking a foil to their own mismanagement of the war and to discredit the still formidable Federalist party, caressed and fed this infant myth until it became so tough and lusty as to defy both solemn denials and documentary proof.' "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Convention

50 years ago Freda Josephine Baker (née McDonald) died in #Paris #france

She was an #artist, #singer, #dancer, #actress, and a #fighter for #freedom

During #WW2 she fought against #facism as part of the #resistance and always fought against #racism

She was an #independent #woman that resisted inequality of her time

Her life was not easy, she did not inherit fortunes she could build on

She did it herself

Let's borrow some of her courage & build a society she'd liked

"It's a fierce, impassioned tune that takes no prisoners and exactly the sort of militant, saying something jazz that we need to wake people up to how f*^ked the world is"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/milena-casado-o-c-t-oda-to-the-crazy-times-candid

Find Milena Casado saying something in the Slow Jazz Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-jazz-playlist

I am simply unable to resist the lone tree.

To me, it is a symbol of strength, independence, and stubbornness, representing a determination to grow and flourish despite so many factors being against it.

Living on the Edge art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/living-on-the-edge-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print

"whilst Yoshida alternates his electric piano playing between cosmic textures and scurrying, urgent improvisation"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/phi-psonics-new-pyramid-gondwana

Find Phi-Sonics adding some spiritual vibes to the Slow Jazz Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-jazz-playlist

#Trump asks #SCOTUS to let him break the #law AGAIN – this time by illegally firing #independent #regulators

The cases test the boundaries of #PresidentialPower & involves Gwynne Wilcox of the National #Labor Relations Board #NLRB & Cathy A. Harris of the Merit Systems Protection Board #MSPB.

#AbuseOfPower #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #Corruption #WatchdogAgencies #whistleblowers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/09/trump-supreme-court-fire-independent-regulators/

"Electronic augmentation is kept to a minimum and when it does slip into the mix it’s for good reason, adding an air of universal mystery and cosmic shimmer to the virtuoso guitar interplay. "
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/pan-american-michael-grigoni-new-world-lonely-ride-kranky

Find a track from them in fine deep roots & alt-folk company in the Slow Folk Playlist.
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-folk-playlist

#ambient #americana #electroacoustic #ambientamericana
#independent #artist #slow #music

"Freeform" enlists the seductive spoken words of Sydney Lowell, who despite her measured delivery and patiently delivered wisdom, inspires Ribeiro to deeper spiritual realms:
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/ranie-ribeiro-contemplation-self-release

Fine Ribeiro and Lowell in the Slow Jazz Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-jazz-playlist

S1315
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a refundable credit for certain home accessibility improvements.

Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1315

"augmented by symbiotic field recordings that bring some of that fresh air and fauna into your listening space and which act as the perfect backdrop for his minimal guitar meditations"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/michael-scott-dawson-guitar-solo-we-are-busy-bodies

Find more alt-folk in the Slow Folk Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-folk-playlist

#ambient #americana #ambientamericana #fieldrecordings #canada
#independent #artists #slow #music

"also be the perfect shoulder to lean on in times of hardship - your next break up will never sound so good.."
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/slow-hunch-the-bluest-sky-on-the-coldest-day-self-release

Find Slow Hunch in the Slow Indie-Folk Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-indie-folk-playlist

"The local fauna, who fortunately don't know what Fox News is, chime in with perfectly weighted sounds of encouragement as minimal guitar refrains and palliative synths weave themselves through the soundscape"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/go-outside-resilience-self-release

Find Go Outside in the Slow Ambient Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-ambient-playlist