Well, 2025’s shaping up to be a weird year. In light of how insanely shitty Meta’s been in the last few months, we’ve made the difficult decision to discontinue using both Facebook and Instagram. Those accounts are still accessible to the public, but we’ll no longer be posting to them, and their main function now is as waypoints to help people find the platforms we’re actually using. If a band or venue messages us through those accounts, we’ll still see it and respond, but we would really prefer being contacted pretty much any other way.

This was hard to pull the trigger on, as these are by far our most successful accounts and the easiest ones to actually promote upcoming shows and releases on. It felt like a necessary decision though. While Resistance wasn’t really designed as a political band, it still feels like we’d be missing the point of our own songs if we poked fun at narcissistic assholes dragging society towards doomsday while still using the platforms built by our antagonists’ real life counterparts. We made a similar decision to nuke our Twitter/X account not long after Musk bought it, and I guess we’ll keep drifting from site to site anytime we start feeling morally uncomfortable with the ones we’re currently using.

So what does that mean now? Well, for one thing, it means Bluesky is basically our main platform now. Its design isn’t quite as well built for band promotion as Facebook or Instagram, but it doesn’t come with the ethical baggage either, and in general, it’s a site I’ve enjoyed using and think others would find value in if they give it a shot. As a way to entice bands to consider joining, we’ve been operating a Local Tennessee Music feed that users can subscribe to as an easy way to keep track of what’s happening locally. If you have a band or venue with a Bluesky account and want to be added to it, send us an email at resistancehouseband@gmail.com or DM us through our Bluesky account.

On top of that, we’ve created a newsletter that we’re going to use to share monthly updates on upcoming shows and releases. In theory, that could be as effective as Facebook ever was at promoting shows since we don’t have to fight an algorithm, but it’s highly dependent on actually building up the subscriber list. That might be easier to do if we have like a QR code to sign up that we display at shows or something, but for now, we’re just posting the signup page every now and then and hoping people believe us when we say we will use that power very sparingly and not blast you with emails every time we hold a band practice.

If I’ve made it sound like we’ve basically resigned ourselves to band purgatory, the good news is we actually do still have some cool stuff coming up! On April 18, we will be returning to play the Middle Tennessee Anime Convention (MTAC), which is always one of our favorite shows of the year. Then the next day, we’ll be back at Roasted Hemp Co in Cookeville for a two-day festival they’re putting on. Finally, our good friends in The Dangerous Method are throwing a band anniversary celebration at the 5 Spot on July 12 that we’re a part of!

With any luck, there will be more show announcements coming to kind of fill in those summer months as well. And a big thing we’ve got to get figured out is a release show, as we’ve finally got a full length album recorded and ready to share with everyone! We’ve been moving kind of slow on that, so there’s a decent chance that will end up being an October/Halloween kind of thing. Stay tuned for updates on where and when that will be, and thanks for reading as we figure out what the fuck it means to still be a band in 2025.