If you haven’t figured it out based on your email inbox bursting at the seams, It Is Bandcamp Friday.
Before we all head out for the weekend, real quick let me call your attention to two releases (one from early last year and one from early this year) by Pittsburgh’s Coffin Womb, self-described as “A bunch of losers who just want to ruin your day.”
Dear gentlepersons of the internet: once more I bid you hello and good day. Things have been pretty quiet around here for a bit, which has been (as per usual) the result of extensive craziness happening BTS IRL. So much, in fact, that I’ve missed the year-end deadline for compiling my year-end list by a couple of weeks now. I’ve got it narrowed down to a manageable collection of contenders, just need to revisit them to cut that number in half and then put them in order — which I’ll hopefully accomplish in the near future, now that I’ve finally emptied my inbox of everything from 2024.
Speaking of which, over the past two months we’ve been dormant here, Food Desert Recordings put out another of their esteemed fundraising compilations, which I’ll take a rare minute of downtime to bring to your attention. Welcome to the Spectrum benefits The Autistic Self Advocacy Network, a very worthy cause, since unlike some other well-known organizations, it does not view Autism as a disease to be cured or eradicated…
Hey folks. We’ve talked about our “woke, broke” Canadian friends at Syrup Moose Records a few times over the past couple of years, and if real-life bullshit wasn’t such overwhelmingly real-life bullshit every day, and if I had more time to spend writing about music and sharing it with all you nice people, I can guarantee we’d be talking about our favorite sticky cervids far more often.
But I wanted to let you all know that this week only, they’re running a special summer sale on nearly all the physical releases currently available in their store, also including pre-orders. Better hurry, though – the sale only lasts through this weekend!
Valley of Steel 