bandcamp’s the only remotely-ethical online platform for buying music––even after processing fees it’s waaay more reasonable than zilch-artist-profit things like spotify––so pay some people for their soundwork // i rotate musics in & out of this page, w/ the “full”-ish MASSIVE roundup here; no embedded players on that page for ease of loading // my collection here, if you’re curious // SUBMIT YR RELEASE (&& doesn’t need to be bandcamp, just a link to buy record!)
NYC Liminal Series
Vol.3: DRUMS ($7+) // from Chaikin Records!! legit af, ft. Susie Ibarra, Ches Smith, Tomas Fujiwara, Brian Chase
NYC Noise STUFF I LIKE
STUFF I LIKE VOL.3: FOR COVID BAIL OUT NYC ($8+) // ft. Jay Campbell, Brian Chase, Next Bus Pls (Sam Hafferty & Kwami Winfield), Patrick Higgins, Brandon Lopez, Samara Lubelski, Joanna Mattrey, Manami Mizumoto & J, Aquiles Navarro, Jessica Pavone, Samantha Riott & Chris Pitsiokos, Mariel Roberts, Tyshawn Sorey, Luke Stewart +++ Sunk Heaven (Austin Sley Julian), Elliott Sharp, Parasite Nurse (Samantha Hernandez) // 100% proceeds from STUFF I LIKE #1-3 to COVID Bail Out NYC
3afak: Love to NYC Compilation
3afak: Love to NYC ($15) // ft. Sadaf, Bookworms, Kush Jones, King Vision Ultra, Bergsonist, & many more // 50% of proceeds to The Okra Project
AMANI + King Vision Ultra
An Unknown Infinite ($12+)
Blacks’ Myths
Blacks’ Myths ($7+) // “lower south”: loud enough when you can feel the bass in yr throat
Leila Bordreuil
not an elegy ($7+)
Centennial Gardens (King Vision Ultra x Dreamcrusher)
SPLIT 2 ($8.88+)
CHAMA
CHAMA ($7+) // violin/viola + guitar + drums occasionally latin-metal-adjacent trio of Leonor Falcón, Juanma Trujillo, Arturo García—angly & absurdly underrated, check f’real
Abhilasha Chebolu & Ishmael Ali
Many Calmly Ordered Rules Of Death ($6+)
Crazy Doberman
Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey
Invisible Ritual ($10+) // tyshawn piano life <3
dreamcrusher
Panopticon! ($11+) // still maintain that Rarities (2003–2016) is *essential* dreamcrusher but this is what’s been roiling lately… churn bb churn
fluke-mogul / Liberatore / Mattrey / Mendoza
Death In the Gilded Age ($8+) // other new them-things!!: gabby fluke-mogul: threshold ($10+); matteo liberatore: Solos (ok not his newest, but my fave); joanna mattrey: Dirge ($8+); ava mendoza: SOON GET EXCITED
The Flying Luttenbachers
Negative Infinity ($7-24) // f*ckin BONKERS; i LAUGHED the first time i listened, like an *extremely pleased* laugh // lineup = Weasel Walter, Matt Nelson, Katie Battistoni, Tim Dahl, Sam Ospovat
GENG PTP
Slowness as the Vehicle III (archive 0828121) ($10.11+) // proceeds of this mix will go to cover admission / registration for learners who are people of the global majority (“BIPOC”) … for GENG PTP’s Fall classes: ‘FOUND SOUND (a history of sampling)’ + ‘Rap Linguistics and World Building’ // i was v stressed / scattered today & then the first track of this made me no lie literally cry lol; highly recommend in general & esp if you think heartbreaking beauty would be a good perspective check for you
glass salt
greetings ($7+) // glass salt = Caylie Staples & Johann Diedrick; this is beautiful :’)
GODLESS (OHYUNG & Matt Evans)
GODLESS EP ($7+) // IT GOES HARD
GRID
Decomposing Force ($9+) // deep heart love, favorite doom sludge, matt nelson “saxophone” + tim dahl bass + nick podgurski drums
L’Rain
Fatigue ($10+) // i have MANY THOUGHTS about this album!!! i’ll tell you later but for now def get, && the vinyl’s gorgeous
M Lamar
The Berlin Sessions ($7+)
Charmaine Lee
KNVF ($8+)
Liturgy
Origin of the Alimonies ($7+) // SWOON
Cecilia Lopez
RED (db) ($10+) // for the scale of this project, see (note: vid does NOT have album-quality sound!!): https://youtu.be/BB5N629C8L0
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma
Notes Above Land ($12+)
Ava Mendoza
New Spells ($8+, various) // split between relative pitch records (cd release, $15) & astral spirits (cassette release, $8)
Heritage of the Invisible II ($9+, various)
William Parker
Mayan Space Station w/ Ava Mendoza & Gerald Cleaver ($11+)
NOMON
Card II ($4+) // NOMON = Shayna Dunkelman & Nava Dunkelman POWER SIBS
Parasite Nurse
Deprivation (name your price)
Jessica Pavone
Lull ($7+) // Pavone Octet with Aimée Niemann, Charlotte Munn-Wood, Abby Swidler, Christopher Hoffman, Meaghan Burke, Shayna Dulberger, Nicholas Jozwiak; ft. Brian Chase, Nate Wooley
Tomeka Reid
Tomeka Reid Quartet, Old New ($10+)
Mariel Roberts
Armament ($7+) // *stupid* beautiful, some deep dark churn, the noise-iest & heart-rendery-est & widest-ranging work i’ve heard from roberts // consider this the heaviest vouch, you’ll love it hard
Salenta + Topu
Moon Set, Moon Rise ($15–$27.77) // this really caught me
Luke Stewart
Works For Electric Bass Guitar ($8+)
Sunk Heaven
THE FVCKHEAѪTED LVNG ($10+; various, editions w/ artwork, zine)
C. Spencer Yeh
Transitions ($6+) // NOT WHAT I EXPECTED