Bandcamp

Probably only of interest to Justin

Bulk Download Your Entire Bandcamp Collection with Batchcamp Chrome Extension

https://howtohifi.com/bulk-download-your-entire-bandcamp-collection-with-batchcamp-chrome-extension/

Oh and apparently they got rid of the team that took care of handling reports and then removing neo nazi bands.  So of course that shit will proliferate now.

“Bandcamp earned a reputation for good moderation. Reports were acted on quickly and effectively, by people who knew their way around the symbols and dogwhistles of white supremacist music subgenres. Whatever comes next will probably not match that, with real consequences for funding of these scenes.”

As will people running scams by uploading albums that aren’t theirs

kosmo wrote:
Probably only of interest to Justin

Bulk Download Your Entire Bandcamp Collection with Batchcamp Chrome Extension

https://howtohifi.com/bulk-download-your-entire-bandcamp-collection-with-batchcamp-chrome-extension/

Thanks for the tip, but out of more than 500 purchases I only have a handful not downloaded. Probably some avant-garde guitar thing, which narrows it down….

hey kosmo, you like the listening party thing right?

TVD Radar: Sonic Youth announces listening party for the 2LP reissue of Walls Have Ears
To celebrate the release of their long out-of-print bootleg from 1986, Walls Have Ears, Sonic Youth announces a Bandcamp Listening Party. Join hosts Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Steve Shelley on Feb. 8th at 2:30 pm ET, for an advance listen to the full album and chat with the artists about Sonic Youth and this legendary live release. Walls Have Ears is officially out February 9.

Another one of those monster charity collections has been added to Bandcamp to raise money for Flood Relief in Western North Carolina

I spy amongst this 136 tracks !?!? several forum favorites including this

The Hold Steady - Certain Songs (Live at 9​:​30 Club) June 21, 2024


https://cardinalsatthewindow.bandcamp.com/album/cardinals-at-the-window-2

bunch of live stuff, etc here

Not to out done by the previous monster  charity collection for Western North Carolina flood relief there is now a 19 Hour 278 track one which features a diverse lineup of musicians from Western North Carolina and beyond.  Obligatory live R.E.M. track included.  Not as many recognizable by me artist on this one as the Cardinals In The Window collection.

https://cavernsofgold.bandcamp.com/album/caverns-of-gold-a-benefit-for-wnc-hurricane-relief

I did work my through the other 10 hour collection and while a good listen, a bit to much folk and jammy for my ears…

I think I might have been at this show

Tommy Keene - Rockin’ The Iota

https://tommykeene.bandcamp.com/album/rockin-the-iota

Tommy Keene live soundboard recording from August 23, 2002 at the Iota in Arlington, VA.

it's bandcamp friday!




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oh look, it's yet another monster charity collection - this time for LA.  lineup is kinda bonkers… unreleased REM??

R.E.M., War on Drugs, King Gizzard, Jason Isbell, My Morning Jacket, MJ Lenderman & more contributing unreleased tracks for new LA wildfire benefit comp
Good Music To Lift Los Angeles is a new charity benefit compilation and latest in the Good Music series that was created by Dave Eggers and Jordan Kurland It will be released this Friday, February 7 via Bandcamp with proceeds benefiting LA wildfire relief via the California Community Foundation’s Wildfire Recovery Fund and the LA Food Bank.

There are 90 artists who contributed unreleased tracks for the compilation including: R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, Jeff Tweedy, The War on Drugs, My Morning Jacket, Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, Interpol, Cassandra Jenkins, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Courtney Barnett, MJ Lenderman, Ty Segall, Animal Collective, The Hold Steady, TV on the Radio, Modest Mouse, Toro Y Moi, Militarie Gun, Manchester Orchestra, The New Pornographers, Neko Case, Perfume Genius, Real Estate, Soccer Mommy, Tenacious D, This is Lorelei, Blondshell, Dawes, Faye Webster, Mudhoney, and more.

https://goodmusiccomp.bandcamp.com/

It’s almost a guarantee that with any of these monster benefit compilations there is an unreleased live R.E.M. track

Another Benefit Compilation has been released

LOS ANGELES RISING

https://losangelesrising.bandcamp.com/album/los-angeles-rising

hutch and loveandrocketshatch might want to sit down as there is a collaboration that might do their heads in :)

A compilation of music benefitting the SWEET RELIEF Musicians Fund and their work supporting artists and music professionals who have lost their homes and instruments in the Los Angeles fires.

Musician Kevin Haskins (Love and Rockets, Bauhaus), Record producer Nick Launay (Nick Cave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, IDLES) came together after witnessing the destruction of the homes and livelihoods of not only fellow artists but also of their support structure of crew, publicists, marketing teams and of their collaborators, producers, recording and mastering engineers.

Digging into their own archives for unheard gems, they decided to reach out to like minded artists for their own contributions, and the response was overwhelming!

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Trigger Warning

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FLEA FRUSCIANTE HASKINS and DEANGELIS - A System For Shutting Everything Out

The Flea/Frusciante song was recorded on the fly in 2002, when the musicians were all rehearsing at the same L.A. studio. “I was so excited and nervous to work with them, and when we got together, I realized it was the same for them too,” Haskins recalls. “It has a very post-punk kind of vibe. It was very spontaneous and we made it up instantly. When we had the music, Flea said, ‘John, go and sing.’ He was a little reticent, but Flea said, ‘you can do this. Go. Get your [lyric] book.’ He sang this amazing vocal performance on the first take. A couple days later, I realized we didn’t have a title, so I called up John and said, ‘you came up the lyrics. Could you give me a title?’ There was a pause and he said, ‘A System for Shutting Everything Out,’ which just made me laugh. I’ve had some pivotal moments of working with other artists where I’ve had to pinch myself, and this was another one of them.”

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There was supposed to be another Haskin's contribution on it but it must have been dropped from the final release a cover of Bauhaus’ “All We Ever Wanted Was Everything” with Hannah Vandermolen, Nine Inch Nails’ Danny Lohner and harpist Mary Lattimore

https://www.spin.com/2025/02/los-angeles-rising-compilation/

looks very interesting, although it has been rare that I have actually enjoyed any of these collaboration efforts from any artist

I can't think of a single compilation that there is a song where all these greats get together and make something amazing

can you name a few?

A.I.hatch wrote:
looks very interesting, although it has been rare that I have actually enjoyed any of these collaboration efforts from any artist

I can't think of a single compilation that there is a song where all these greats get together and make something amazing

can you name a few?

The Red Hot series has some great great CDs like red hot Rio, red hot riot, red hot Gershwin, red hot Rio 2 etc

It’s rare though….

hutch wrote:


The Red Hot series has some great great CDs like red hot Rio, red hot riot, red hot Gershwin, red hot Rio 2 etc

Red hot rio is great…but some incredible source material to build on

I'm going to check out that RedHot+riot Fela one, sounds cool

to be fair most of the monster compilations are always going to be mixed bag…

But this one is of the very best

Saving for a Custom Van which is tribute to Adam Schlesinger so the songs are already going be great.  Been thinking about re-listening to this recently

https://fatherdaughterrecords.bandcamp.com/album/saving-for-a-custom-van

The Red Hot Org compilations are always well thought out

There was the "Going To Georgia" compilation that Merge pulled together which their artists doing covers of  Georgia-centric songs. But, it's no longer available for purchase.

I think in general the more focused the compilation is the likely of it getting repeat listens are likely greater.  I'm sure they put out those 90 tracks ones out so as to pickup as many hardcore fans of the bands/artists who are liable to buy it for the one track they are likely interested in.

kosmo wrote:
There was the "Going To Georgia" compilation that Merge pulled together which their artists doing covers of  Georgia-centric songs.

I find this interesting they took the title of one of my favorite TMG songs
TMG is on the compliation and doesn't do this song

and he even retired this song

Going to Georgia …is one of the most popular Mountain Goats songs from the lo-fi era, John Darnielle has disavowed it, believing it is misogynistic and romanticizes gun violence. the song was 'retired' in 2012


"I honestly don't want to play 'Going to Georgia' ever again. I really confronted my old catalog because I began getting more and more engaged with my feminism, and I think 'Going to Georgia' is a bullshit song. Bottom line: I know it's got a nice melody, and it's got a cool vibe, but that dude is bullshit and I don't want to be involved with him anymore. I'm not saying I'll never play it, I probably will, especially when the three of us are playing it kind of rocks, but I wish its lyrics were different, I don't know what to do with that. I don't like what's going on in that song. It seems daring and edgy to a 26-year-old dude to have a guy who goes down with a gun for unknown purposes to see somebody he claims to love, but to my present self, that guy is a fucking asshole. I don't like to celebrate things like that. I'm not ashamed of the song, the song has a vibe, I can't deny it, and I listen to Cannibal Corpse, you know. The song 'Fucked with a Knife,'there aren't multiple readings of that song. That song is a terrible, horrible song but you know, my own part in that stuff, I don't know. I have complex feelings about it." – 2012-06-22 - Rio Theater - Vancouver, British Columbia

It’s a real shame how John has disavowed and run from an entire period of songwriting.

Imagine if Bob Dylan turned his back on anything before the motorcycle crash.

I was really passionate about Mountain Goats for a while. I even hosted fans from other states when they came into DC to see him at the Black Cat. It was an interesting community. I remember we went backstage at his Black Cat show and hung out.

Then it just felt like he disavowed that and started anew. I can understand he felt boxed in and how many “Going to….”  Songs can you write? Also the lyrics in those years tapped into some highly personal and deep romanticism that invariably he and his fanbase would outgrow. I get that… but the way he went about it seemed like an almost violent rejection.

I used to listen to him so much. I never listen to him anymore and I haven’t had any desire to see him live in 25 years. I outgrew him, he outgrew himself or both?

I mean John’s attitude about his 1990s stuff is literally to suppress it! Most of it has never been reissued or a one time 1000 copy pressing 20 years ago. It’s very extreme and for those of us whom that stuff mattered so much for…so deeply and personally….it’s perplexing and even troubling.

But you do you John.

hutch wrote:

A.I.hatch wrote:
looks very interesting, although it has been rare that I have actually enjoyed any of these collaboration efforts from any artist

I can't think of a single compilation that there is a song where all these greats get together and make something amazing

can you name a few?

The Red Hot series has some great great CDs like red hot Rio, red hot riot, red hot Gershwin, red hot Rio 2 etc

It’s rare though….

4,000

I tend to agree…i think it's pretty lame when bands disavow older material, whether due to lyrical content or just stylistic changes.  Say what you want, but it's one of the things I love about Ween…they still play a bunch of amateur songs written in their teen years that don't exactly hold-up culturally. 

But i also get it, especially if it came from a dark place, misogynistically speaking.  Not exactly the same, but it's like the Beastie Boys pretty much only performing one song from License to Ill in their later years (blanking on which one…Slow and Low maybe?).  I'm guessing it's hard for some performs to dig into songs like that as you get older.

But am I wrong in thinking he just played this one out a year or two back?  I feel like i saw videos from an outdoor NYC show.

hutch wrote:
I mean John’s attitude about his 1990s stuff is literally to suppress it! Most of it has never been reissued or a one time 1000 copy pressing 20 years ago. It’s very extreme and for those of us whom that stuff mattered so much for…so deeply and personally….it’s perplexing and even troubling.

But you do you John.