Streaming music is a great way to discover new music, but if you want indie artists to have the time, money, & emotional support needed to continue making new music, you need to purchase their music outright.
This is the last check I got from my distributor for all streaming royalties for the past 3 years. It’s “sandwich money” as Weird Al would say.
Shout out to @nigelharpur for buying my two songs on Bandcamp yesterday! I was having a day full of frustration and self-doubt as I work on my latest track. Thank you so much for reminding me why I do this; you made me feel like a rock star.
We like to use it for early availability. Before appearing at the streamers, it’s there on our page. Two “sided” singles for June, July, and August, and the tenth album, “Constructivism in Blue”. You might enjoy something from “Too Lazy for Words: An Instrumental EP.”
Join RFF and Blue Nagoon @bluenagoon for a world premiere watch party of their new music video for "Garden" featuring Alyssa Fischer.
We'll spin some Blue Nagoon tunes and videos, premiere the new one ~15 past the hour and the artist will be in chat for any questions and generally festive vibes ya'll usually bring.
The @negativeplayers "Consider the Birds" is warm, sunshiney indie pop that's a little bit folk, a little bit twee and a whole lot of pretty. Hints of Elliot Smith, Mercury Rev and the occasional flash of the chill side of Animal Collective are audible in the mix, but ultimately the song forges its own identity and welcomes you inside of its world.
ATTENTION: There are still 4 hours left for #BandcampFriday, where Bandcamp waives there 15% fee so that artists get mo' money!
Bandcamp goes by U.S. Pacific Coast Time, so even if it's already Caturday where you live, you can still purchase #music through Bandcamp and the artists will still get a bigger cut (minus taxes and PayPal/CC fees, ofc).
Oh, and by the way: My new single is out today. It’s called “It’s Not Me, It’s You” and I deem it a protest song, but you might deem as you please, of course :)
Still working on an accompanying video, but here’s a link to all the commercial streaming and buying platforms: https://listen.music-hub.com/xz9jCG
“Did You Listen to This?” part IV: Just now, I released my song “Time Out” (from the album “Make Me Do”) in a freshly mixed version. It is to remind us how important it is to relax, do nothing, watch the wandering clouds, simply exist in the Here and Now.
It's official. On May 1, we will go worldwide with the single "Theme to an Imaginary Spy Movie (Deceivers Die)" b/w "A Hard Land." I thought to myself, self, I want to do a spy movie theme. Then, I had to come up with a plausible spy movie title. For the B side, some artifice as a character in the last line of a verse appears in the first line of the next verse. It's set in the west and in the past.
🖤 🎶 💿 "Neues Album von Kle.ze: German Gothic - Seit 2017 fällt Kle.ze mit einer eigenwilligen Interpretation von Gestus und Habitus der Gothic-Band The Cure auf. Das trifft auch auf „Erregung“ zu." (taz)
"Konzept und Schaffen der Band Klez.e sind sehr interessant schon insofern, weil ihre Musik sich auf latent bizarre Weise eigensinnig anfühlt. Das Befremdliche rührt daher, dass das Originelle bei Klez.e das Plagiat ist (...)
Klez.e veröffentlichten „Desintegration“, das nicht nur, was den Albumtitel anging, an die britische Gothicpopband #TheCure erinnerte. Siebert baut sozusagen den Habitus von The Cures 1989 erschienenem #Disintegration -Album in behutsam entstellender Weise nach. Nicht etwa, indem hier direkt gecovert wurde, eher im Gestus. Und vor allem in den Tonalitäten von Stimme und Bass. Das latent Vernebelte, das auch das Cure-Album „Faith“ an sich hatte, war gleichfalls präsent. Nicht zuletzt die Robert-Smith-Gedenkfrisur Sieberts ist ein starkes Zeichen.
Klez.e haben einen im England der mittleren Achtziger entstandenen Soundkosmos ins Deutschland des Jahres 2024 transferiert und daraus etwas im ansonsten ja flächendeckend eher austauschbaren hiesigen #Indiepop -Zirkus Eigenständiges, Unverwechselbares entwickelt.
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Für das neue Werk „Erregung“ haben Klez.e sich sieben Jahre Zeit gelassen. Der Sound ist lichter als auf „Desintegration“, es gibt sozusagen mehr Platz zwischen den einzelnen Tönen und damit mehr Transparenz. Aber die Sonne scheint hier nach wie vor nirgends, dafür sorgt gleich der siebenminütige Titelsong, der triste, angstbesetzte Schulhoferinnerungen mit einem ganz großen Weltverzweiflungspanorama verbindet.
German #Gothic, Nebel der Enttäuschung, Depression als Realismus. Die Welt durch die milchig-graue Brille betrachtet, aber mit messerscharfem Blick."
A moving song about the endless-and-yet-ending relationship between child and parents, hugged by mellotron over a driving drum and tense saxophone. Merrill's incredible voice fills up everything.
"We all have doubts.
We all have rage.
We all have trouble being brave enough to turn the page.