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- From: Ross Grady <ross AT rossgrady.org>
- To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: it is Bandcamp Friday
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 16:52:19 -0400
Now the real question is whether I / we / all of us can get over the sick social media “how do I star this email to show that I read & liked it, without otherwise engaging in any way” conditioned response.
Yo Evan, I read & liked this email!
Also since it is Bandcamp Friday, I bought the Austerity Program (hey look at that, people still find the basic Big Black formula to be artistically fruitful, this makes me happy) and the Nina Nastasia.
Don’t tell your friends that I didn’t buy their record as well. It’s just that I’ve bought like 20 things on Bandcamp this week & I gotta stop myself somehow.
Side note of interest to only some of you: Last year around this time I bought a Toyota Corolla Cross, after owning & driving Honda Fits for over 15 years. Last week Maggie borrowed my car for a road trip, so I drove her Fit for a couple of days. Sweet jesus those things are low to the ground!
Side note of interest to MOST of you: It’s strawberry season! The Parlour has strawberry ice cream. Your local ice cream shop probably does as well. It is really good.
xo
Ross
On May 2, 2025, at 3:26 PM, Evan Rowe <evankrowe AT gmail.com> wrote:Few things...
- The Austerity Program's Bible Songs 2 came out yesterday, complete with a Bandcamp listening party last night, a thing I did not know existed, but which was fun, because these two gentlemen are funny and smart (and full disclosure friends of mine) and pointed out some bits about the recording and I'm a nerd for that stuff. If you're looking to have your mellow harshed (and I mean who isn't?) or for music to match your mood when you read about the cancellation of $1B in grants for children's mental health, this punishing, precise, enormous-sounding record should fit the bill. https://austerityprogram.bandcamp.com/album/bible-songs-2
- Speaking of distant friends, once all hope has been wrung from you by the above-mentioned duo from Astoria, Future Living's Get Vasectomy, out earlier this year, will offer its hand to help you back up. Towering gorgeous vocals, intertwining guitars, and fantastic, creative drumming from Kalamazoo and Chicago. https://futurelivingkzoo.bandcamp.com/album/get-vasectomy
- Speaking of gorgeous voices, this came out more than two years ago, but I still listen to it constantly, and I don't know if everyone on earth knows about Nina Nastasia yet. So if not the very difficult and stunningly beautiful Riderless Horse is her most recent and first solo record, without a supporting cast of strings, horns, percussion, piano. Just her voice and guitar. It's an arresting and sometimes very hard record about a journey to hope and healing, the only way out having been through. Should you wish to start somewhere less raw, On Leaving includes perhaps my favorite song I've ever heard and I will never hear that record enough times. She has five others and they're all wonderful too.
- https://ninanastasia.bandcamp.com/album/riderless-horse
- https://ninanastasia.bandcamp.com/album/on-leaving
Also, I'm glad to see emails from ibiblio.org again.=EROn Fri, May 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM Ross Grady <ross AT rossgrady.org> wrote:Remember, on Bandcamp Friday (which is *not* every Friday — it’s like once a quarter nowadays), Bandcamp waives its cut, so artists/labels get 100% of what you pay.A few recommendations:The new Eli Winter is out today, and it cooks: https://eliwinter.bandcamp.com/album/a-trick-of-the-lightCloser to home, last year’s Old Ceremony album is well worth your time: https://theoldceremony.bandcamp.com/album/earthboundDjango is one of those ppl who works at such a consistently high level that it can start to get overlooked — what, another great Old Ceremony album?Been listening a lot to the debut full-length from Durham’s Trash Signal, which is snotty & punky w/synth lines threaded through it. Drummer Dave Yarwood has played in a bunch of other locals, including No Love, so this tracks. https://trashsignal.bandcamp.com/album/trash-signalMy other heavy rotation album this spring has been The Way Out of Easy, by the Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, who had a long-running Monday residency at a venue in LA called ETA. https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/the-way-out-of-easyYou rockers on this list might recognize Jeff’s name from his other band, Tortoise.xoRoss
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it is Bandcamp Friday,
Ross Grady, 05/02/2025
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Re: it is Bandcamp Friday,
Evan Rowe, 05/02/2025
- Re: it is Bandcamp Friday, Ross Grady, 05/02/2025
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Re: it is Bandcamp Friday,
Evan Rowe, 05/02/2025
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