They "seeded the roots of alternative music, absolutely refusing to compromise their message or music despite being constantly hounded by the authorities. They were the natural descendents of the country outlaws of the generation before them".

"While the postwar boom accelerated manufacturing and consumerism, no one foresaw the rise of a youth counterculture that would challenge the fabric of society from within."

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"Eye Mind: The Saga Of Roky Erickson And The 13th Floor Elevators" Drummond

17 October 1966 appeared 'The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators', the first LP to feature the term prominently and a drug-fueled debut that would shape Psychedelic Rock like no other.

As the Summer of Love came the next year, they were already plagued by drug busts, police force, and fleeing to San Francisco, freaking out hippies while "remaining strange anomalies and, ultimately, outsiders".

"Punk ethos a decade too soon"

02. Roller Coaster

#13thFloorElevators #PsychedelicRock

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Oct. 15, 1966: The Black Panther Party (BPP) Founded
https://web.archive.org/web/20190724043423/https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/black-panther-founded/

Lowndes County and the Voting Rights Act 1965
https://web.archive.org/web/20150912212129/https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/lowndes-county-and-the-voting-rights-act/

What We Don’t Learn About the BPP - but Should
https://web.archive.org/web/20190817165854/https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/black-panther-party-what-we-should-learn

Impact on Modern Day Activism
https://web.archive.org/web/20210212130257/https://time.com/5938058/black-panthers-activism/

Origin of the logo
https://web.archive.org/web/20070317100832/https://www.docspopuli.org/articles/Yuen/BPP_logo.html

THE FIRST BLACK PANTHER POSTER Move On Over or We Will Move On Over You
https://web.archive.org/web/20160309123842/https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2408+++++151+&refno=++715709&saletype=

Photos ©StephenShames Comrade Sisters: Women of the BPP
https://web.archive.org/web/20230307095257/https://www.blind-magazine.com/stories/comrade-sisters-women-of-the-black-panther-party/

"The Panthers were neither a monolith nor perfect: they were plagued, at various points, by infighting, sexism and violence."

But "'What we’ve learned from the Panthers is much greater than the failures of what they’ve done.' And many of their ideals continue to reverberate and gain steam."

- "If you ask many current activists fighting anti-Black racism and inequity today, they’ll tell you that the influence of the Black Panthers is immeasurable."

"The Black Panther is an animal that when pressured it moves back until it is cornered, then it comes out fighting for life or death."

On Oct. 15, 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was founded in Oakland, California.

While confronting racism and police violence of the Black community with open militancy, their grassroots "community survival programs" addressed multiracial struggles and provided vital access to food, clothes, housing, healthcare and education.

On 7 October 1986, something fundamental changed with the release of Slayer's third album, the quintessential thrash metal masterpiece, Reign in Blood.

Tom Araya's piercing scream gave birth to a genre-inspiring, extreme metal monument. A filthy onslaught for the ages that has lost neither its power nor its influence.

01. Angel Of Death

#Slayer #ThrashMetal

How am I supposed to add alt text to uploaded audio files straight away?

The new desktop design now shrinks them to an unclickable thumbnail in the editor. Neither the '...' menu nor the alt text button is visible.

Posting them as they are and then adding the alt text later doesn't work either (apart from using another app, client or web interface).

Or am I missing something entirely?

Mastodon v4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06

#Mastodon #AltText #Accessibility

"Beach House was so successful at this that it changed the very nature of dream-pop itself. Sure, the genre always had a fickle definition; a genre so heavily dependent on the “atmosphere” it produces was bound to be instrumentally overhauled by whoever could achieve the effect better.

What’s remarkable about Beach House, however, is that they’ve held their claim on dream-pop for 20 years."

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Holy Hell! Beach House Turns 20 - Spectrum Culture https://web.archive.org/web/20260922163045/https://spectrumculture.com/2026/03/18/holy-hell-beach-house-turns-20/

Photo © David Belisle

On 3 October 2006 Beach House released their DIY-recorded, namesake debut album.

"In 10 or 20 years, dream-pop could sound completely different, redefined by another band. But Beach House will remain untouchable. Their ability to infuse you with a single mood and hold you still in that moment makes them timeless, and they achieved it in just two summer nights in a Baltimore basement."

04. Master of None

#BeachHouse #DreamPop #LoFi

In September 2006, Fall of Efrafa released their debut album, Owsla.

As the first part of their trilogy about Richard Adams' Watership Down, it marked the beginning of their conceptual journey.

The cello-backed crust quintet explored the book's anthropomorphic mythology through the lens of post-civilisation, animal rights and eco-activism until their planned dissolution three years later, greatly influencing a new generation of listeners.

02. Pity the Weak

#FallOfEfrafa #Crust #PostHardcore

On 30 September 1996 Lamb released their eponymuos debut album.

"Using a sampler with 20 seconds of memory and a four-track borrowed from New Order, itself with a broken channel", the Manchester duo added more club-oriented elements to the trip hop formula, carving out their own little niche to widespread critical acclaim.

09. Górecki

#Lamb #TripHop #Jungle

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THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG: «I Put A Spell On You» by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - Rocking In the Norselands
https://web.archive.org/web/20260104035850/https://norselandsrock.com/i-put-a-spell-on-you-screamin-jay-hawkins/

The Legendary Screaming Jay Hawkins https://web.archive.org/web/20251231195658/https://msmokemusic.com/blogs/mind-smoke-blog/posts/6782479/the-legendary-screaming-jay-hawkins

"The entire band was intoxicated during a recording session where Hawkins screamed, grunted, and gurgled his way through," what would become "his greatest commercial success and reportedly surpassed a million copies in sales, although it failed to make the Billboard pop or R&B charts."

"I don’t even remember making the record," he later said.

02. Little Demon

Before "shock rock", "goth" and the likes of Captain Beefheart, Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne came along, there was Screamin' Jay Hawkins.

On the evening of 12 September 1956, he recorded a 7-inch that would transform the image of daring music forever.

"Before, I was just a normal blues singer. I was just Jay Hawkins. It all sort of just fell in place. I found out I could do more destroying a song and screaming it to death."

01. I Put a Spell on You

#ScreaminJayHawkins #RnB #RockNRoll

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What Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” Means to the Children of Survivors | The Nation - https://archive.is/oChll

"Spiegelman decided to publish the book in two volumes because he learned Steven Spielberg was making An American Tail, an animated film about a family of Jewish mice fleeing Cossacks and cats in early-20th-century Russia.

Spiegelman thought that, if he waited until he completed both volumes of Maus, people would believe he had gotten the idea from Spielberg instead of the other way around. The publication of Maus I preceded the release of An American Tail by three months."

After "Maus" comic strips were published in Raw magazine regularly since 1980, Art Spiegelman's "Maus: a survivor’s tale I: My Father Bleeds History" was released on 12 August 1986.

Spending 13 years on the depiction of his father's experiences during the Holocaust, the anthropomorphic comic would become the first to win a Pulitzer Prize, using 'images that are too brutal to comprehend if you see them in photos'.

"Maus — unflinching, honest, and daringly creative — heralded a new genre."

In response to protests by the German ambassador in The Hague and the German consul in Amsterdam, Amsterdam Mayor De Vlugt took the precautionary diplomatic measure of first having Harmen Meurs’ 'Zeitbild' ("Portrayal of times", 1934) removed, later followed by Karl Schwesig’s autobiographical 'Schlegelkeller' (1936) — which recounted his torture by the SA in Düsseldorf.