I've talked about Indianapolis' scuzz-punk kings BINGO BOYS before, but today I want to highlight their 2021 record 'More'. These songs are ALL bangers, as usual (fun fact about Bingo Boys, they don't even know how to write bad songs that aren't infectiously catchy).
I hope to someday be able to write a song that is as damn good as 'Glow' or 'Spidersac' here -- these tunes SMOKE. 🔥
The 4th Annual Fedivision Song Contest has concluded. What an incredible event, and indeed, an amazing achievement by the organisers of the event. 🎉
Shoutout to the face of Fedivision 2024, the winner of Fedivision 2023, @futzle for the incredible effort they’ve put into putting this together and keeping it running! 👏
Congratulations to every single person who entered their music! It’s been so much fun listening to your tracks. All of them!! 🫶
Shout out to Radio Free Fedi (@radiofreefedi) for hosting the pop-up channel for the event! They’ve done an amazing job! 👍
Congratulations to our winner, @keefmarshall for their incredible piece “Misaligned Aardvarks”! 🏆
Congrats to our runner up @negativeplayers for their amazing song “The New Rage”! ✌️
Big love to everyone who voted “All Zombies Go To Heaven” into 3rd place. Out of 72 entries, you humble me. Thank you. ☺️
I’m honoured to share the top ten with all the excellent artists who got a shoutout from the Fedivision Vote Bot. The entire selection is an amazing collection of impressive works!! 🥂
I want to thank my Wife, and Mom & Dad, and…
*#Dgar is forcibly escorted from the podium while continuously trying to thank everyone they can think of…
Has anyone got suggestions for a UK merch site that both manufactures the bits and sells them? I'd like to sell t shirts but also mugs, badges, bags etc?
I just tried teemill but the design software kept freezing / losing products so that was a wasted couple of hours.
I'm aware of Redbubble, Spreadshirt etc., what do you use?
🎉🎉🎉 The Cats & Coffee Cups album is now available for preorder!! 🥳🐈⬛☕️
With this preorder you get the songs that were previously released as singles plus two more!
The album is released on 21st of June this year!! Why not grab a book and a coffee while you wait? 📖☕️ Or find some peace & quiet? Or think about dreams that might not come true but still make you smile? And if all else fails go to the Café Of The Lost Dreams and find new horizons? And in case you didn’t know - it’s all okay. And maybe you have a friend who can make you a coffee or sing you a song! 🎶
In any case I hope you find comfort with these songs! 🫶
This morning I glanced at a list of albums Brooklyn Vegan posted about for 2024 records so far this year, and there's a new FOUR TET record from March I feel like I would've missed had I not seen it there-- I hadn't heard about it.
Four Tet is of course Kieran Hebden from London and is some wild, weird and beautiful electronic stuff. There's some great synth and ambient sounds (and beats!) on this one.
'Three' will most likely be among my favorite albums of 2024.
A new find for this week's #ThursDeath, another band I found via a flyer of a band I dig (I forget who) since both bands are playing together soon.
Chicago's VOIMATON play a great, chuggy mix of death doom that is infectious. It's tough to make a full length death metal album and make the whole thing damn great, but Voimaton definitely did with 2022's 'Profane Vestige'.
Listening to Jason Loewenstein's 2017 solo record Spooky Action again today as I often do, yknow, just because it's one of the greatest damn albums ever recorded
Add an e-commerce section on top of it using WooCommerce.
Build an e-commerce section for my music on my current Jekyll website, using #Shopify.
Then I'll decide which one's best, and potentially move on from Bandcamp. I'm not going to leave the platform, however I want to act on the principle of #BeYourOwnPlatform
For this week's #ThursDeath, a one-song slab of death I can't stop listening to from Kentucky's CELL INTRUDER. They just released this "Rapid Detorsoing" demo in January and it RIPS. Psyched to see what else these guys do.
Fluffy Audio makes excellent instruments for musicians making recordings of songs and compositions on DAW and other digital sound stages. #IndieMusic#SoundsForMusicMaking
As always, apologies to those who don't like gross death metal (keep scrolling!) but for those who DO like gross death metal, I somehow missed this LP from GORUPTED (a one man band/project from France) last year. No idea how.
This might've made my favorite albums list from last year, had I heard it. It's THAT good of gross death metal.
For #ThursDeath this week, something special I somehow missed from 2023.
Canada's COPROLITH (what's in the water up there in Canada?) released this grody, crushing, disgusting self-titled demo last year. It starts with this wall of sound type riff and then it devolves into this midtempo riff, and goes back and forth.. THIS is the shit I LOVE. And then 6 tracks of this. 🤯
Rotted Life Records have some INCREDIBLE bands on their roster.