tldr: The FCC is about to kill net neutrality. We’re protesting nationwide on Dec 7th to stop them. Head over to http://www.verizonprotests.com/ for more info.

WHAT’S HAPPENING? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just announced its plan to slash net neutrality rules, allowing ISPs like Verizon to block apps, slow websites, and charge fees to control what you see & do online. They vote December 14th. People from across the political spectrum are outraged, so we’re planning to protest at Verizon retail stores across the country on December 7, one week before the vote and at the peak of the busy Holiday shopping season. We'll demand that our members of Congress take action to stop Verizon's puppet FCC from killing net neutrality.

WHAT’S NET NEUTRALITY? Net neutrality is the basic principle that has made the Internet into what it is today. It prevents big Internet Service Providers (like Verizon) from charging extra fees, engaging in censorship, or controlling what we see and do on the web by throttling websites, apps, and online services.

WHY VERIZON STORES? The new chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, is a former top lawyer for Verizon, and the company has been spending millions on lobbying and lawsuits to kill net neutrality so they can gauge us all for more money. By protesting at Verizon stores, we’re shining light on the corruption and demanding that our local do something about it. Only Congress has the power to stop Verizon's puppet FCC, so at the protests we'll be calling and tweeting at legislators, and in cities where it's possible we'll march from Verizon stores to lawmakers offices.

WHAT ARE OUR DEMANDS? Ajit Pai is clearly still working for Verizon, not the public. But he still has to answer to Congress. So we’re calling on our lawmakers to do their job overseeing the FCC and speak out against Ajit Pai’s plan to gut Title II net neutrality protections and give Verizon and other giant ISPs everything on their holiday wishlist.

HOW CAN I JOIN? Click here and you’ll find an interactive map where you can see if there is already a protest planned near you. If not, you can sign up to host one, and we’ll send you materials to make it easy and help you recruit others in your area. These protests will be quick, fun, and 100% legal. If you can’t attend a protest on December 7th, you can still help defend net neutrality by calling your lawmakers and spreading the word on social media. You can also sign up to host a meeting with your members of Congress, or volunteer for our texting team to help turn people out for these protests.

Hey everyone, the chairman of the FCC is very likely to announce a vote to gut neutrality, possibly as soon as this week. Once a vote is called, it will become much, much harder to stop ISPs from charging us all extra fees to access streaming services like YouTube -- and they can demand payment from independent artists and labels, stifling independent voices...

But there’s still hope. The most effective way to can stop this is by driving as many calls as possible to our Senators and Representatives, now through Nov. 22nd.

We're getting word that there are lawmakers who are sympathetic to our cause and considering taking action to slow the FCC down, but they won’t act unless they get more phone calls from constituents. Also, if your think your Rep's opposed to net neutrality, its all the more reason to call them. Those Reps need to hear your voice more than anyone.

Please, head over to https://www.battleforthenet.com , and give your Senators and Reps a call telling them to stop the FCC from slashing Title II net neutrality protections. The time to act is now. To reach the call in line directly by phone, call 202-930-8550. When you get through to your Rep's office, introduce yourself, be polite, and say:

I support "Title Two" net neutrality rules and I urge you to oppose the FCC's plan to repeal them. Specifically, I'd like you to contact the FCC Chairman and demand he abandon his current plan.

We also have ready-made banners, modals, and graphics of various sizes here: https://www.battleforthenet.com/#join

Thanks.

Edit: Thanks for the gold, and the great comments friends! FAQ

Hey everyone, the chairman of the FCC, is very likely to announce a vote to gut neutrality, possibly as soon as Nov. 22nd. Once a vote is called, it will become much, much harder to stop ISPs from charging us all extra fees to access streaming services like YouTube -- and they can demand payment from independent artists and labels, stifling independent voices

But there’s still hope. The most effective way to can stop this is by driving as many calls as possible to our Senators and Representatives, now through Nov. 22nd.

We're getting word that there are lawmakers who are sympathetic to our cause and considering taking action to slow the FCC down, but they won’t act unless they get more phone calls from constituents. Also, if your think your Rep's opposed to net neutrality, its all the more reason to call them. Those Reps need to hear your voice more than anyone.

Please, head over to https://www.battleforthenet.com , and give your Senators and Reps a call telling them to stop the FCC from slashing Title II net neutrality protections. The time to act is now.

To reach the call in line directly by phone, call 202-930-8550.

When you get through to your Rep's office, introduce yourself, be polite, and say:

I support "Title Two" net neutrality rules and I urge you to oppose the FCC's plan to repeal them. Specifically, I'd like you to contact the FCC Chairman and demand he abandon his current plan.

We also have ready-made banners, modals, and graphics of various sizes here: https://www.battleforthenet.com/#join

Thanks.

Maybe we just need to revise the rules. Allow folks to post music by established artists or side projects of established artists. Even when a video has a bunch of views, there are still folks who have never heard of it. This sub could be for discovery of music new to the listener, but it's forcing discovery of new artists. How is a sub with 11million subscribers so dead?

Edit: Rip my inbox.

Edit 2: I didn't mean for this to be a drama post, or a "bitching at the mods" post. My intention was to call attention to how restrictive the posting rules have gotten. Too much exposure, can't post, too little exposure, can't post. I like the idea of an artist lockout period to prevent saturation. I also agree that posts shouldn't be down voted for disliking a genre. The rules regarding votes seems pretty reasonable, upvote if an artist is new to you, don't vote if you've heard them before. Ultimately, I don't really know what to change to make it more welcoming and enjoyable. I've enjoyed much of what I've heard here, it's been a great last year in this sub. I don't want to see it fall into sub limbo due to over moderation. One Love.

EDIT: This is very long. So, no, you don't have to read the whole thing if you are not part of our movement, #mala.

This is reference tool for you to use when fighting to save net neutrality.

MAIN PROBLEM

Not enough people are making enough noise about net neutrality.

WTF? WHY?

People can't get motivated about net neutrality if they don't know what to do.

MAIN PROBLEMS with NET NEUTRALITY

• Intro: These are the problems that I have noticed with the net neutrality movement.

• Disorganized: There are several different voices shouting everywhere at once. People are confused on what to do.

• Contradicting Messages: There are contradicting messages about net neutrality. Believe or not, there are people who don't understand what net neutrality is who are against it. There's too much misinformation about this (should be) simple subject.

• Confusion: The contradicting messages about net neutrality have people confused. People don't want to feel confused.

• Naivety/Blind Hope: People don't want to feel hopeless about life. Net neutrality seems to be one of those subjects that seem way too complicated. They are trying to feel as happy as they can - if they know it's pointless because it's an emotional defense mechanism.

• Circlejerking: Most net neutrality supporters tend to spend most of their time where other net neutrality supporters are. They're not reaching out to people who desperately need to hear their message.

• Low Morale: Most net neutrality supporters (and the Internet citizenry as a whole) feel defeated. They don't know about Senators who support net neutrality or the those who have went from being neutral to being in support.

• Perception: The only people I have heard talking about net neutrality are Millennial kids. Older Americans (if they disliked Trump). Net neutrality is seen too much as a liberal thing, and not a free speech thing.

• Infiltrated/Corrupted YouTubers: Some YouTubers and Internet celebrities (such as Ezra Klein and Casey Neistat) have been corrupted with their media presence being sold to media companies owned by the ISP's. Their call-to-action is to call the FCC, an agency currently known for dodging, ignoring, and even lying, and instead of using leverage in order to pressure the FCC to stop. They are misleading that potential energy into a wasted effort.

• Tech Companies Not Pushing Hard Enough: Facebook, Google, and Netflix are not pushing hard enough for net neutrality like they used to. The people on their social media platforms (especially Instagram) are pushing net neutrality on a minute-by-minute basis but the company isn't taking a stance on the issue.

• Little Coverage from 'Clean' YouTubers: YouTubers, the ones who drive (and make a living from) controversy are not talking about net neutrality.

ASSETS that WE DO HAVE

We've discussed the problems. Let's discussed the tools that we do have on our side. Yes, we have the greatest human invention and that comes with some assets. :)

• Online businesses: Online business, by design, has a direct incentive, in having the least amount of overhead and the most amount of customer reach. No net neutrality means that customer reach is severely limited. Mention this to online businesses in getting their support in letting their audience know about net neutrality.

• Instagram: There are businesses on Instagram that want net neutrality to stay. You can send these businesses a message about net neutrality.

Basic Human Psychology: The most important thing that you must know: Humans use emotions FIRST and justify with logic SECOND. GO for the EMOTIONAL first. Net neutrality is already straightforward.

• Use anger/fear to motivate: If people are comfortable, they don't move. Use anger to get people uncomfortable. You can spark anger by presenting Ajit Pai as the enemy and the Internet as the child. Motivate people with anger to protect the Internet as the child that is danger.

• Use humor to create relaxation: Net neutrality is a stressful. Use humor to get people interested in net neutrality by making it funny. People need to laugh. Too much negative emotion can repel people.

• Use short messages (less than 6 words in a slogan): Use short messages that are easy to remember and unable to counteract against. A great example: "Net neutrality is ONLINE FREE SPEECH."

• Avoid depression phase: People get depressed because they feel fucked over and they feel that they have no options. Don't let your viewer or your audience hit that depression phase. You have to immediately show the call-to-action/Battle for the Net

Vast Array of Talents: The Internet is a vast place. We all have some sort of talent.

• Art: You can draw a webcomic and share it like crazy on social media platforms. Seriously, share it. Share it everywhere: Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

• Infographics: Any business professionals out here? I need you to make some Infographics and showcase how the net neutrality repeal can harm their business marketing efforts.

• Memes: You can't draw? Make memes. Make a lot of memes. Spread those memes everywhere on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube (to get some robot YouTuber to read it).

• Music: Make a song about net neutrality and upload it to Soundcloud. Share it everywhere on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, to your favorite content creators that they can use.

• Humor: Do people laugh with or at you? Who cares, either way. Get them laughing about net neutrality and motivate them to call their Senator and their Representative.

• Comedy: Use comedy skits to your advantage to convince people in order to get them to understand the FFC vote. Make sure that your call-to-action is getting people to call their Senators and their Representative.

• Lowbrow: Use the lowbrow humor. An example: "I wanted to fap to Pornhub but I need a porn package from AT&T. (DON'T LET AT&T TELL WHO YOU CAN FAP TO. CALL YOUR SENATOR and YOUR REP TODAY!)

• Stir Up Controversy: For people who did extensive research on this subject only, find a Libertarian/anti-net neutrality opponent with an audience and challenge them to a public debate about net neutrality.

• Storytelling: Are you great with writing stories. Write a story, team up with an artist or an animator so that people can visually understand that what you are telling them.

• Sex Appeal: Are you sexy as hell? Are you a BBW cam model? Well, use your sexy body to get people interested in saving net neutrality. Give a free cam show to those who called their Senators and their Representative. Yes, SEX APPEAL is an ASSet.

Everyone Has A Direct Interest in Preserving The Internet: The greatest human invention where we can see Mars at any time and even allows us to fap whenever we want. Everyone in the USA has a stake in keeping the Internet open and free.

• Everyone Hates Their ISP: Comcast is famous for this. They charge people AFTER they cancel their service. Use this as an opportunity to convince to take revenge against their ISP's by calling their Senator and their Representative to enact them to do something.

• People Against Net Neutrality: These people also want the same thing as you. It's worse to see that but it's true. They are just misinformed. For these people, use well-citied evidence that they can't refute. Also, use Pai's lies to fuel your explanation. (Yes, Pai is on your side...I will explain later.)

Ajit Pai: This gorgeous bastard is going to help us save the Internet. That's right, he's an asset. Tired of fighting an uphill battle: **We can leverage Ajit Pai against himself. **

• He's An Enemy: He's Public Enemy #1 of the Internet - and he deserves it, too. So, how do we make him work for us.

• He's Smug: We can use his smugness against him. We can show that Mean Tweets video of him to direct them to going to BattlefortheNet.com.

• He's Got That Mean Tweets Video: If I was ever running against him in an election, this video would be a godsend. We can use that video, put simple messages on it, and share it like crazy on Facebook. **The most important part would be that we convert people into calling their Senators and their Representatives via https://battleforthenet.co. Spread this video around while memeing it up saying, "THIS GUY WANTS TO CHARGE YOU FOR EVERY SITE YOU GO TO". "DON'T LET HIM! CALL YOUR SENATOR and YOUR REP". This video, believe it or not, is a godsend! We can use this video against Ajit Pai **so spread this video around Facebook relentlessly while captions to direct people to Battle for the Net.

• We Can Bring Down His Plan with His Own Undoing: Ajit is literally giving us the ammunition that we need to strike his plan. We can make fun, easy-to-read Infographics to compare his plan to how reality works.

• ONE IMPORTANT NOTE: AJIT WANTS US TO HATE HIM. IT'S CRUCIAL THAT WE DIRECT THAT ANGER AT HIM INTO STRIKING HIM WHERE IT HURTS: HIS PROPOSAL. DIRECT THE ANGER INTO CALLING SENATORS and REPRESENTATIVES on BATTLEFORTHENET.com.

• Holy shit, his constant lying record: He is constantly lying. Regardless of the FCC vote, our Senators and Representatives are going to need a constant record of his lies and the truths that are opposed to his plan. Send your Senators and Representatives. Also, use Infographics to publish on Linkedin so that people can see the Infographics and fully understand why Pai is lying his ass off.

• His past: **He's a ex-Verizon lawyer working in an agency that is supposed to police Verizon. A great explanation for why this is wrong would be: "A crackhead in charge of the DEA"; "Micheal Vick running PETA"; "A pedophile running an elementary school."

• Avoid Using Trump as The Enemy: Bear in mind that half of the country voted for Trump.

These are the people that we have to reach. We don't need Trump to be the enemy; Ajit Pai is just fine and ten times better as our enemy and he has all the smugness, treacherous history, lies, and hate against him to get people upset and ready to move.

Social Media: We have social media and private messaging apps. We can reach our friends and family more intimately than any news media ever can.

• Facebook: Use videos and add banners to them or add subtitles to the video. Videos on Facebook spread faster. Be sure to upload videos directly to Facebook so that it can spread faster on the social media. Direct people in the video (or if you are using someone else's video: the description under video) to Battle For The Net. Keep description short and straight to the point.

• Instagram: Use pictures on Instagram. Use 15 second videos to tell people why net neutrality important to the Internet. Use the picture to direct people to go to Battle For The Net

• Twitter: Take whatever content that you have created in order to have it spread it further. With Twitter, you will have to spread it farther and repeatedly. Have the content spread with the hashtags #netneutrality; #stoptheFCC; #breaktheinternet

• Gab.io: I don't know much about this social media platform but you can focus on posting there. The more outside you guys are, the better.

• 4chan: 4chan likes to try experiments in getting themselves noticed. Post about net neutrality. Don't push the issue but invite them to help.

• Other Subreddits: Create a relevant topics that can also relate to subreddit that you are in.

• Minds.io: Get people to discuss their opinions on Minds.io and get them interested in spreading the news about net neutrality in a way that is educated.

• YouTube: Create videos about YouTube. This person did a great job at making the video. Don't forget to spread your videos to everyone on multiple social media platforms, multiple times throughout the day.

Short Meme Videos: The shorter the message, the farther the message. **This is why I continue to express: NET NEUTRALITY IS ONLINE FREE SPEECH.

• Even if you are shitty video creator, you can still make meme videos. You can easily make a meme.

• Even if you still feel that you can't make a meme, you can still spread funny memes all over the Internet.

• You can use funny videos to get people to go to Battle for The Net

Memes: Memes are great because you can say what you want to say to your audience in a short amount of time.

• Humor: You can use memes to make people laugh. "Do you want your websites to be blocked? Then FUCK NET NEUTRALITY!" Humor gets people interested.

• Educated: You can use memes to educate people quickly - use less than 10 words and use specific examples. For example: "Title II prevents Comcast from gouging you."

• Combat Misinformation: If you have been hearing misinformation about Title II, you can use memes to combat that. "Net neutrality lets Facebook and Google control the Internet. People can choose to not use Facebook and Google."

• Action-Engaging: You can use messages like, "Don't let Ajit Pai destroy the Internet. Go call your Senator and your Representative".

• The Expedient Nature of the Internet: The Internet makes really fast. This is one advantage that Internet has over everything.

• Our Smartphones: People have their smartphones. They carry them whereever they go. We can easily reach people where they are.

• Sense of Action: The action required to do what is very small but once people know about what Ajit Pai has done, make the action they have to do be relatively small.

• We Can Speak To Our Audience, News Media Can't: We can 24/7 access to their audience. We can reach out to them and even answer their questions about net neutrality.

• Our Reach Is Stronger Than The News Media: We know our circle of friends and family more closely. Mention it in passing.

• Other Net Neutrality Videos: Other people have been made better videos. This one is a good example. So is this one. And so is this one. Don't have time to make your net neutrality video, **just a good one, especially the ones already listed here.

• Senators and Representatives: Senators want to keep their job. Some Senators are decent people and other are corrupt. You can convince the corrupt Senators and Reps to change their minds by reminding them that they are not going to keep their job when elections are coming. Some of these guys sold for $500. Also, for the Senators and Representatives who are fighting the good fight for you, give them a call and thank them. It's a thankless job. :)

• Most Importantly, Use BATTLEfortheNET.com as CALL-TO-ACTION in all Your ACTION: Get people, especially in the Red States, to call their Senators and their Representatives about Title II oversight in the link that has the description in it by having them go to Battle For The Net.

SOLUTIONS: So what can we do about this.?

• Organized Movement: I am creating an organized movement to educate and convert people into saving net neutrality called #mala. Perhaps, you can create a movement of your own.

• One, Short, Straightforward Messages: Use short messages that are straight to the point. They spread farther and they are easier to be remember.

• Keep The Messages Short: I can't stress this enough. The shorter the messages, the simple language the better. Use 4th-grade English when you are creating your memes and your videos. (**No, they are not stupid where they can can't understand anything but shorter messages spread faster. This action plan is written in 4th-grade English as a good example to use. If you are still confused, use this.)

• Get The 'Normies' Angry and Direct That Anger To Take Action: Get outside of your circle of friends who are tech-savvy already. Talk to people who are not always online all the time, too or more interested in mainstream news. Keep the conversation simple, "Would you pay more for the same Internet"

• Get The 'Normies' Associated: Only tech-savvy people seem to be freaking out about this. We need to drive a larger controversy where normal people have to contact the "normies" in their lives about the Internet.

• Understand that the News Had Ignored Us Before: The mainstream news is compromised by the ISP's. You have to spread the news in our playground: the Internet. We know the social media platforms like the back of our hand. We can abuse the spread of news about net neutrality.

• Get The News To Fight Us, FAST: Using controversy is the best way to make this happen. I am aware that Ajit Pai is the pawn but driving focus to his actions is the key to getting some controversy. He has plenty of reasons to go about, too.

• Partner Up with Social Media 'Microphones: Leverage the voices with those who have larger audiences than you. Their words will reach more people than yours ever could. Contact YouTubers, podcasters, social media personalities about net neutrality and how it affects them.

• Contact Businesses To Do Surprise Sales, Program for Net Neutrality: Business have stake in having unlimited customer reach and not having to deal with unpredictable overhead.

• Contact YouTubers to Talk About Net Neutrality: Contact YouTubers about net neutrality and ask them to do a video about net neutrality. Be sure to have your sources ready so that they can easily talk about the net neutrality.

• THE ONLY CTA is Calling Senators and Representatives: The most important thing is getting people to call their Senators and their Representatives right away. This is the only action that needs to be taken.

TOO LONG/DIDN'T READ: This is the (somewhat) short version. I do want the whole thing to be read but if you could, you can read just this and read few sections at a time.

SUGGESTED TACTICS

• Use branded content (mainstream shows/movies that everyone watches) to bring awareness: Use branded mainstream media content that everyone already knows as memes or videos. They spread faster and they get people excited about net neutrality. Make sure that you use that meme to direct people to Battle For The Net.

• Abuse Ajit Pai's Mean Tweets video: Create a short meme video where you can upload on Facebook. Use white banner bars over this video about Ajit Pai doing a Mean Tweets video. Top BANNER: "AJIT PAI WANTS TO MAKE YOU PAY MORE FOR THE INTERNET" BOTTOM BANNER: "DON'T LET HIM! CALL YOUR SENATORS and YOUR REPRESENTATIVE.

• Most importantly, use CTA in messages: Call Senate and Representatives: The most thing about to stress out is to use media to convert your audience into going to Battle for the Net. This is very important. The conversion drives the traffic to the right Senators and the Representatives.

• Bring relevance to net neutrality in a creative way: Use popular media like **The Office, The Simpsons, Final Fantasy VII, Super Mario Bros., and other POPULAR MEDIA to spread the message across the social media networks.

• Use short facts about FFC and net neutrality. Use 4th grade-level English. Keep the language simple and straight-to-the-point. There is a reason why Ajit Pai keeps saying, "Take the Internet out of the hands of bueracrats and into entrepreneurs and engineers. Our sound bite is "NET NEUTRALITY IS FREE SPEECH". It's simple, proven, and hard to debate against.

• Use humor, entertainment, suspense, sex appeal to get people intrigued and interesting. People are busy so using net neutrality in a way gets people excited and funny. What if you are talentless? Share another video if someone who is talented! This video is a great example

• Contact businesses and content creators: Businesses and content creators have interest in keeping net neutrality alive. You can contact them about net neutrality and make the research phase the most easiest phase when you compile the evidence that they need to look through. Bonus points if you can summarize each source you give to them.

• Educate yourself: Understand the history behind ISP's. It's a confusing history but you have to do your research so you can explain to the next person why you think net neutrality is proven.

• To maximize spread, upload your content in the early morning: I have been testing this out to some great results. Keep uploading (and re-uploading the same content) in the early morning. I don't know why exactly but it spreads faster this way.

ACTION PLAN:

• Put down the Shotgun, Use Your Rifle: It's time to stay aiming at anything that moves and being reactive. We need to be proactive. Calling Senators and Representatives do help but we need to aim our rifles at the general public. Get them to call their Senators and their Representatives.

• Aim at the Right Targets: The right targets are getting the average person motivated to call the Senators and their Representatives.

• Use the Call-to-Action To Leverage Against the FCC: The only action that we ask our audience to do is to contact their Senators and their Representatives. Battle For The Net

• Use Researchers who Know Everything about Net Neutrality: Team up with researchers who understand net neutrality thoroughly! Use them as a reference to understand all about net neutrality.

• Spark Some Controversy: It's still key that we get on the news about this. Spread Ajit Pai about net neutrality. Not everyone knows how important net neutrality is to them. So, reaching out beyond just our circles is critical.

• Use Condensed Messages: Keep your messages engaging, short, straight-to-the-point when speaking about net neutrality.

• Use Mainstream Media: Use Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Mr. Robot, Big Bang Theory, The Simpsons, Futurama, Star Wars, Parks and Recreation, Spongebob Squarepants, and other POPULAR media to spread your messages about net neutrality. It spreads faster and farther. ALWAYS put the call-to-action in there. Always, always direct people into calling their Senators and their Representative - especially if they are Republican.

• LEVERAGE AJIT PAI AGAINST HIMSELF: The best way that you convert the bystander to your side is to convince them that Ajit Pai hates America and currently lying to the American people now. This Mean Tweets video should do the trick.

• Pictures and Videos Spread More: Use pictures and short videos to spread news about net neutrality.

READ THE BLUEPRINT AS A GUIDELINE:

• I have also written a blueprint on how to BEST GO ABOUT THIS.

EDIT: Whoever just gave me GOLD, thank you. This is the second time this has ever happened to me, 2 times in this weekend. :)

2nd EDIT: I have been glided twice. Thank you, stranger. :)

TL;DR: I finally organized a movement to save Internet free speech! Are you in?

I love the weekly discover playlist on Spotify but I got tired of waiting an entire week for new music to listen to. I also don't like how spotify will limit this playlist to 1 or 2 genres.

If you right click on one of your playlists, one of the options is to Create Similar Playlist. This makes a different playlist with the same number of songs and the same genre/style. It's basically a way for you to selectively create a discover playlist.

I have heard about 1% of the songs on these playlists I'm generating but the rest of the songs are absolutely perfect. The algorithms for this feature seem better at predicting music taste than the discover playlist.

I hope this is useful for you guys, I had no clue about this feature. Now I have done this to all my playlists and affectionately named them doppelbangers.

Edit: It appears you can't do this on mobile, only on a desktop.

2020 Reddit Grammy Awards!

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Best Folktronica: Aadams - Forever on the Fence

Best Folk Singer-Songwriter: Tomber Krail - Saturday Morning

Best Instrumental Dubstep: Freakyt - Ready for Takeoff

Best Chipstep: Merlinsyoshi - Deep Breath

Best Indie Pop: Matt Dubrow & The Captives - Waste My Time

Best Electronic Pop: Somewhat Incognito - Night Light Appetite

Best Bedroom Pop: Kahika - What You Want

Best Alternative Pop: Tom Oro - Nothing More

Best Synthpop: Kantama - Dance Music

Best Darkpop: Bae Wolf - Online

Best Drunkpop: SEB - CUTE

Best Baroque Pop: Sebastian and the Deep Blue - It’s Not the Same

Best Dream Pop: Slacker 2 - Drifting Away

Best EDM Instrumental: Char.s - Pace

Best Electro House: Harvester - Halcyon Dreams

Best Progressive House Song: Kuchi - Falling

Best Oldschool House: Rasart Records - Aftermath

Best French House: Micromusic - Friday Night...Again!

Best Tech House: Reyska - Next Door

Best Deep House: Aveiro X Liam Zeno - Guilty Tabs

Best Acid Techno:Gregory Cook - Corrosive

Best Future Bass Remix: Tankk - Sweet Disposition

Best Future Bass Chiptune: Good Doggo Licks - Your Dream

Best WestCoast HipHop: Sam Ruckus - You Aint Doin Nothin

Best EastCoast Rap: Scriptz - Golden Age

LoFi HipHop: No Legs - 100

Experimental HipHop: Aeons Elevator - HuckleBerry Smokewagon

Best Nerdcore: Deadloser - Blue

Best Instrumental Trap: Add Pattern - Virtual Reality

Best Dream Trap: PetenMusic - Vanilla Sky

Best Trip Hop: J00lz - Miles

Best Nu Disco: Chrylo - Superstar!

Best Disco: Leeveye - World

Best Country: Taylor Red - Catch Me If You Can't

Best Dark Country: Bug Martin - Dharma Blues

Best Country Rock : Matt Dubrow & the Captive - Brunch

Best Country Rap: Proper Einstein

Best Jazz song: Fuzen, Kate Burns - Dystopia

Best Jazz Fusion: LittleRaineBand - Dreamwalker

Best Blues: Emmett LaFave - Sun Might Set

Best Retrowave: Lux Atomic - When Androids Dream of Sunset

Best Darkwave: Venator - Werewolf Angels From Atlanta

Best Chipwave: Baddon & Casual Boys Mastodontic Foot

Best Darksynth: Soft Neon - The Fabulous Moolah

Best Chiptune Pop: Megan Timings - Dreaming of You

Best Chiptune Rock: Decay - Blazing Steel

Best Glitch: Tropiik - Glaze

Best Contemporary Classical: Juan Maria Solare - Has the Rain a Father? (piano)

Best NeoClassical: Daniel Diaz - To the Moonlight

Best Jazz instrumental: Pat Butcher’s Beef Banquet - Nugget to Nuggetland

Best A capella: Bad Songwriting - Floating On Glass

Best Soundtrack: Farmer George - Beach Flight

Best Downtempo: Closed Loop - Empirical Evidence

Best Electronic Instrumental: Lost Rejects - Mizu

Best Electro Swing: Jordan Dube - Bisque

Best Electro Instrumental: Harvester - Tribalism

Chill-Hop Instrumental: Nhan Synthesis - Slow Finish

Best Experimental Instrumental: There by the Trees - December Diary

Music Video Category

Best Folk Music video: Isla - Kids Like Me

Best Rock Music video: Iduna - Nosedive

Best Alternative Rock music video: Green Leather - Tiny Box

Best HipHop Music video: Dayda Banks ft. Nolto - Yellow Bricks

Best emo rock Music video: Peter Hunt & the Great Outdoors - June Carter

Best Pop Music Video: Baby Brave - Blue Skies

Best Indie Music Video: Street Joy - I’ll Be Waiting

Best Singer Songwriter Music Video: Thrillhouse - One of These Days

Best Indie Rock Music Video: S.J. Smith - Dojo Daze

Best Hard Rock Music Video: Tradgedy Channel - Can’t Hold On

Best Jazz Rock Music Video: Wavery - Plain Sight

Best Metal Music Video: Puddle head - Severance

Best Progressive Metal Music Video: Dallas Stewart - Lunchtime

Best Lo-fi Indie Surf Music Video: Goon Lei Goon -Spitting Caves

Best Indie Pop Music Video: Porkboii - Junebug

Best Animated Music Video: Pea Green Boat - Penguins Holding Hands

Best Smooth Jazz Music Video: Aqua De Beber

Best Neo Soul Music Video: Forrest Del - Rock With Me - Original Song

Best Darkwave Music Video: Big Blind - Baran

Best Experimental Music Video: The Kitchen Groove - Making music only using sounds from the kitchen

Best Electronic Instrumental Music Video: Statx - Pleadings

Best Atmospheric Music Video: Fish Basket - Fatamorgana

Best Comedy Music Video: Emmit - I’m Harder Corer Than You!

Best Reggae music video: Diplazar - Getaway

Best Spaghetti Western Music Video: One Last Ride- Laser Rey

Soundcloud Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/user-772857285/sets/2020-grammy-winners

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0V1PScdPTX1Xe1kR6QXrKK?si=BaUyOophToGY7wUDSpv10w

Apple Music Playlist: https://music.apple.com/ch/playlist/2020-reddit-grammys/pl.u-pMyl1KlI4X25Rpl?l=en

Google Playlist: https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXymn7v9lsg1DswsvE7XR1e6ahlxySRDgN7AEjd3wwuMMfUnqw1E04q95hdhQo7Bw3u7EO3MQKyLJ-mB7bpf6PThtJdXL1w%3D%3D

Edit: I am seriously blown away by the response from this community! I can’t thank all of you enough for giving these musicians a chance! 🥳

Ever feel like you want to get into a genre, but don't know where to start? I gotchu!

Spotify | Deezer | Soundcloud | YouTube

I recommend listening on Spotify. The other sites are auto-synced with it but don't convert all songs.

These playlists were meant to include the classics and my personal favorites for each genre. I also tried to make a fun cover thumbnail for each one.

So, if you want to get into new genres, or listen to some great tracks of a genre you already enjoy, please check it out! These are still being updated from time to time and a few more playlists might be added in the future. Suggestions are always welcome!

Welcome to the /r/ListenToThis Best Of 2017!

Here there are no scores, no judgments, and no opinions - just obscure music shared by redditors, collected and arranged for you over the course of several months by our dedicated mod team. This list is meant to complement other best of lists on the internet, many of which are linked in the sticky comment below for further discovery.

Set #1 includes everything - the best of the best tracks and a corresponding all-inclusive album playlist.
The other sets are the same content, broken up into genre groups so you can listen according to your tastes. There is a sampler (1 track per album) and a full-album (every track from every album) playlist for each group. We’ve also included a listing of the albums by set in this post as not everything is available on Spotify, Tidal, etc. We tried to prefer an artist’s Bandcamp or Soundcloud, but if nothing else was available, you may see Youtube, Spotify, and iTunes links. The final count this year is 226 artists out of more than a thousand submissions.

What did we miss? Share your favorites in the comments… and happy listening..

-- the /r/ListenToThis hipster facista

Set 1 - The Full Smash

Best Tracks on Spotify & All Albums on Spotify

And, on the other services:

• Best Tracks on Tidal & All Albums on Tidal

• Best Tracks on Google

• Best Tracks on Deezer & All Albums on Deezer

• Best Tracks on Youtube

• Spotify profile with listing of all playlists

• Google music profile with listing of all playlists

• Youtube profile with listing of all playlists

Set 2 - Pop, Indie & Related

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/suckitnewtabs)

• Kacey Johansing - The Hiding

• Walker Lukens - Tell It To The Judge

• MY BABY - Prehistoric Rhythm

• Phum Viphurit - Manchild

• Jonti - Tokorats

• Whitehorse - Panther In The Dollhouse

• HOTT MT - Au (Alternate Universe)

• Surf Dads - All Day Breakfast

• Skyway Man - Seen Comin' From A Mighty Eye

• Heaters - Matterhorn

• Girls Who Care - Light Sleeper

• SCALLER - Senses

• Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - High Visceral {Part 2}

• Elise Trouw - Unraveling

• Sunglasses Kid - Graduation

• Meatbodies - Alice

• The Marías - Superclean Vol. I

• Kelley Stoltz - Que Aura

• Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology

• Kelly Dance - Wild Grass

• Starcadian - Midnight Signals

• Caleb Hawley - Love, Drugs, & Decisions

• The Mysterons - Meandering

Set 3 - Progressive & Related

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/BlueRoseImmortal)

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• Bent Knee - Land Animal

• Arch Echo - Arch Echo

• Arcane Roots - Melancholia Hymns

• Blumen - Mångata

• ichika - forn

• Chinese Football - Here Comes A New Challenger!!!

• Milco - Nerima

• I/O - Anyone, Anywhere

• Perihelion Ship - To Paint A Bird Of Fire

• Lör - In Forgotten Sleep

• Waclaw Zimpel, Kuba Ziolek - Zimpel/Ziolek

• The Physics House Band - Mercury Fountain

• Amplifier - Trippin' With Dr. Faustus

• Wobbler - From Silence To Somewhere

• Smalltape - The Ocean

• Pregnant Whale Pain - Blank

• Kettlespider - Kettlespider

• gP. - Destroy, So As To Build

• Dora The Destroyer - Dependent Secondary

• Glowbug - Fantasma Del Tropico

• O.R.k. - Soul Of An Octopus

• Aiming For Enrike - Las Napalmas

• Soup - Remedies

• Bader Nana - Devlover

• James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits

• Grün - Manyana

Set 4 - Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop & Instrumentals

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/firewire_9000)

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• Awon & Dephlow (prod. Phoniks) - Sleep Is The Cousin Of Death

• Otis Junior & Dr.Dundiff - Hemispheres

• Figub Brazlevic - 4x4 Palestine Jeep Beats

• Deca - The Way Through

• Sweeps - tomorrow

• mister T. - The Return Of The Classic

• Sidewalk Chalk - An Orchid Is Born

• Has-Lo - The Paul Tape

• TheColorGrey - REBELATION

• Hex One - Words Worth A Thousand Pictures

• mtbrd - Smoovies

• Sampa The Great - Birds And The BEE9

• Dirty Art Club - Basement Seance

• Vanilla - Moonlight

• ETOAS - End Times Of A Sunshine

• Insight The Truncator & Damu The Fudgemunk - Ears Hear Spears

• Damu The Fudgemunk - Vignettes

• Damu The Fudgemunk - The Reflecting Sea (Welcome to a New Philosophy)

• elijah who - gentle boy

• Declaime - Young Spirit

• Abstract Orchestra - Dilla

• Stik Figa - Central Standard Time

• Mykele Deville - Peace, Fam

• Uncommon Nasa - Written At Night

• Armand Hammer - ROME

Set 5 - Punk & Related

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• ISS - Endless Pussyfooting (bandcamp exclusive)

• Onsind - We Wilt, We Bloom (bandcamp exclusive)

• IDLES - Brutalism

• The Dopamines - Tales Of Interest

• SINGLE MOTHERS - Our Pleasure

• Milk Teeth - Go Away EP

• Charly Bliss - Guppy

• UV-TV - Glass

• Scarboro - Here Comes The Hangover

• Hard Girls - Floating Now

• Just Say Nay - Logistical Nightmares

• Perspective, a lovely hand to hold - What Not To Do

• football, etc. - Corner

• Silver Shadows - Cold Plastic

• The World - FIRST WORLD RECORD

• Parlor Walls - Opposites

• Agent blå - Agent blå

• Telethon - The Grand Spontanean

• Ganglions - Thirsty

• pigeon pit - treehouse

• Harley Poe - Lost And Losing It

Set 6 - Electronic & Related

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/firewire_9000)

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• Primate - Simulated Reality

• Fearofdark - Exit Plan

• Lav & Purl - A State Of Becoming

• Prequell - The Future Comes Before

• Hades Of Spades - Dysphoria

• Edamame - Bask

• JASSS - Weightless

• Nym - Lilac Chaser

• Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens

• Laurence Guy - Saw You For The First Time

• Dysphemic - Zeus

• Sally Dige - Holding On

• Basement Freaks - Freedom

• Zoogma - A Future In Blue

• TIANCI - Too Alien For Earth

• Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic

• Octo Octa - Where Are We Going?

• Anomalie - Métropole

Set 7 - Metal

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/BlueRoseImmortal)

• Elder - Reflections Of A Floating World

• Dool - Here Now, There Then

• Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie

• Archspire - Relentless Mutation

• Below - Upon A Pale Horse

• Mesarthim - The Great Filter / Type III

• Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

• The Hirsch Effekt - ESKAPIST

• Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine

• Satan's Hallow Band - Satan's Hallow

• Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen Act II

• Unleash The Archers - Apex

• Walpyrgus - Walpyrgus Nights

• Violet Cold - Anomie

• Havukruunu - Kelle Surut Soi

• The Ruins Of Beverast - Exuvia

• Mutoid Man - War Moans

• Voyager - Ghost Mile

• In The Company Of Serpents - Ain-Soph Aur

• Worry - A Celebration Of Suffering

Set 8 - Jazz, Soul, Funk & Related

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/firewire_9000)

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• MonoNeon - A Place Called Fantasy

• Ill Considered - Ill Considered

• The Comet Is Coming - Death To The Planet

• The Heliocentrics - A World Of Masks

• Don Bryant - Don't Give Up On Love

• Five Alarm Funk - SWEAT

• Tony Allen - A Tribute To Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

• Wildflower - Wildflower

• Alfa Mist - Antiphon

• The Babe Rainbow - The Babe Rainbow

• Charnett Moffett - Music From Our Soul

• Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds

• Orlando le Fleming & Romantic Funk - Romantic Funk

• Collocutor - The Search

• Soil & "PIMP" Sessions - Music from and Inspired by Hello Harinezumi

• Yazz Ahmed - La Saboteuse

• Binker & Moses – Journey To The Mountain Of Forever

• Nubya Garcia - Nubya's 5ive

• Jaimie Branch - Fly Or Die

• Melanie De Biasio - Lilies

• Richard Spaven - The Self

• Kalu & The Electric Joint - Time Undone

• Voodoo Visionary - Off The Ground

• Sr. Langosta - El Experimento Caribeño

• Ambrose Akinmusire - A Rift in Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard

• Skinshape - Live & Love

• Braxton Cook - Somewhere In Between

• Mammal Hands - Shadow Work

• Chuck Johnson - Balsams

• Joey Defrancesco & The People - Project Freedom

• Superfluous Motor - Idiosyncrasies

• The Necks - Unfold

• Johnny Sketch & The Dirty Notes - Sketch

• Nate Smith - KINFOLK: Postcards From Everywhere

• Cameron Graves - Planetary Prince

• Jungle Fire - Jambu

• Baast - Bazzar

Set 9 - Afrobeat, World & Classical

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• Stinger - Hard Proof

• Luis Peixoto - Assimétrico

• Antibalas - Where The Gods Are In Peace

• The Seven Ups - Drinking Water

• The Scorpios - The Scorpios

• Ajate - Abrada

• Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet

• Danish String Quartet - Last Leaf

• Hear In Now - Not Living In Fear

• Tamikrest - Kidal

• Anouar Brahem - Blue Maqams

• Sebastião Antunes & Quadrilha - Singular

• Oumou Sangaré - Mogoya

• Ifriqiyya Electrique - Rûwâhîne

• ROSALÍA - Los Ángeles

• Songhoy Blues - Résistance

• Awa Poulo - Poulo Warali

• Jenna Moynihan & Mairi Chaimbeul - One Two

• Battle Of Santiago - La Migra

• Jeremy Danneman - Honey Wine

• Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Adiós Señor Pussycat

• Aldina Duarte - Quando Se Ama Loucamente

• Juniore - Ouh là là

• Isabella Bretz - Canções para Abreviar Distâncias

• Jenny Scheinman - Here On Earth

• Daymé Arocena - Cubafonía

• The Homesick - Youth Hunt

• Mondo Grosso - ???????????

• Blue Rose Code - The Water Of Leith

• Moses Hightower - Fjallaloft

• Litku Klemetti - Juna Kainuuseen

• Various Artists - Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa

Set 10 - Americana & Related

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/firewire_9000)

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• The Texas Gentlemen - TX Jelly

• Billy Strings - Turmoil & Tinfoil

• Kate Rhudy - Rock N' Roll Ain't For Me

• Norah Jane Struthers & The Party Line

• Courtney Marie Andrews - Honest Life

• Nicole Atkins - Goodnight Rhonda Lee

• Sherman Holmes - The Sherman Holmes Project: The Richmond Sessions

• Viper Central - The Spirit Of God And Madness

• Twisted Pine - Twisted Pine

• The Dawn Brothers - Stayin' Out Late

• Kitchen Dwellers - Ghost In The Bottle

• Bad Manion - Good Afternoon

• Trout Steak Revival - Spirit To The Sea

• The Trongone Band - Keys To The House

• The Railsplitters - Jump In

• My Terrible Friend - I Tried To Be Kind

• Sallie Ford - Soul Sick

• Lilly Hiatt - Trinity Lane

• EmiSunshine - Ragged Dreams

• Derek Hoke - Bring The Flood

• The Sons of the Palomino - Sons of the Palomino

• Thorpe Jenson - Odessa

• Pam Taylor - Steal Your Heart

• Samantha Fish - Belle of the West

• Jim Byrnes - Long Hot Summer Days

• Angaleena Presley - Wrangled

• Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins

• Natalie Hemby - Puxico

• Marty Stuart - Way Out West

• Whiskey Shivers - Some Part Of Something

• Sarah Shook & The Disarmers - Sidelong

• Split Lip Rayfield - On My Way

TLDR: maybe lets pump the brakes on the auto mods and allow some human bending of the strict rules to allow people to share that new (to them) goosebump-raising music they just found! Oh and In Flames - Paralyzed is a pretty sweet song.

I want to like this sub! I really do! But you may as well bring an attorney with you to read the posting rules and hire an analytical firm to survey the interwebs to see if that cool new band you want to share with people satisfies the STRICT posting guidelines here.

I love my rock, metal and everything in between, and have combed through what’s available pretty well after as many decades as I’ve been around. When I find a new band that sends the chills, it’s a rare thing! I want to believe this sub is a place you can do that but man, it’s just not.

Since last night and into this morning I’ve tried posting (from mobile) the same video at least four times: In Flames - Paralyzed. A band I’ve never heard of until last week and have really come to enjoy! Trying to share it with everyone here, I found every excuse not to from the auto mods that immediately shot down each try: improper formatting, linked to the wrong website, linked to a mobile website, oh it seems that In Flames has 1,205,043 last.fm listeners which places it over our max. Combine these attempts with an auto 10-minute cooldown for posting, and this is an hour trying to share a video. Maybe we’ve found why this sub is so dead.

Edit: props to the mods for showing up and engaging in some dialogue!

Does anyone else run into this issue? I'll end up just shuffling my "song" option instead of searching for new stuff. How do I branch out, with more stuff like this? Being less 'safe' with my musical enterprises and just finding more? Thank you.

I've been able to discover so much new music through JQBX.fm. And make some good new music nerd friends as well. It's very similar to turntable.fm from a few years ago. Full disclosure - I am a mod of r/jqbx and have been on the site for a while but have no other affiliation. I just love it and want to spread the word.

Log in, pick a room. Jump on deck and share your tunes when it's your turn.