Monthly Archives: June 2020

Cycles Per Second 06/10/20: Bandcamp, etc. Links

Links to purchase, listen, learn more about each of the bands played on this week’s show, below…

PLAYLIST:

Kiwis – Fer
https://youtu.be/icJwKR0KSZs

The Slow Summits – Safe and Sorry
https://theslowsummits.bandcamp.com/track/safe-and-sorry

Clever Square – Avocado Phishing
https://cleversquare.bandcamp.com

The New Existentialists – Didn’t Have Time
https://thenewexistentialists.bandcamp.com/album/didnt-have-time

Initiates – Minotaure
https://initiatesofficial.bandcamp.com/album/esoteric-pop-lp

No Age – Head Sport Full Face
https://noage.bandcamp.com/album/goons-be-gone

Cloud Factory – Amnesia
https://cloud-factory.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-factory-1

SAVAK – Feel What You Feel
https://savak.bandcamp.com/album/feel-what-you-feel-b-w-access-egress

Omni – Constant Reminder
https://www.adultswim.com/music/singles/31

Shark Toys – Out Of Time
https://chunklet.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-time-b-w-advice-on-arrest

The Clientele – Closer
https://theclientele.bandcamp.com/album/closer

Modern Nature – Harvest
https://modernnature.bandcamp.com/album/annual

The Cakekitchen – Trouble Again In This Town
https://allyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/trouble-again-in-this-town

Pale Lights – Say You’ll Be the One
https://palelights.bandcamp.com/album/you-and-i

Thibault – Centrelink
https://thibaultband.bandcamp.com/album/or-not-thibault

Cycles Per Second 06/03/20: Bandcamp, etc. Links

Given the current state of our country, I wanted to feature, on this week’s show, bands and labels that are directly supporting – via direct donations or portions of sales – anti-racism, police reform and bail fund orgs.

Support the bands and, by extension, the referenced organizations noted in the playlist. (NOTE: I have not personally vetted the organizations listed below. Links to web sites are provided so you can learn more about each.)

PLAYLIST:

Strawberry Generation – Afloat
https://strawberrygeneration.bandcamp.com/album/afloat

  • 100% of the band’s Bandcamp sales the week of June 1st will be donated to Reclaim the Block.

My Favorite – The Black Cassette https://myfavorite.bandcamp.com/album/the-happiest-days-of-our-lives-expanded-edition

  • Proceeds from the everything on the band’s Bandcamp page sold June 5th to be donated to Black Lives Matter.

The Berries – Sci-Fi Racer
https://theberrieswa.bandcamp.com/track/sci-fi-racer

Cabana Wear – West Palm
https://cabanawear.bandcamp.com/album/cape-weather

The Ex-optimists – Remembering Six
https://ballofwax.bandcamp.com/album/ball-of-wax-volume-60-60-x-60-60

Anna Burch – Ask Me To
https://annaburch.bandcamp.com/album/if-youre-dreaming

Etxera – Posos
https://etxera.bandcamp.com/album/pozos

  • Money from all sales on their Bandcamp on June 5th will be donated to Don’t Shoot PDX: “citizen advocates united in protest against racism, police brutality and state violence.”

Great Grandpa – Human Condition
https://greatgrandpa.bandcamp.com/album/four-of-arrows

  • For the month of June they are making all of their albums “pay what you want” on Bandcamp, and all proceeds will benefit the Minneapolis-based Black Visions Collective and the Northwest Community Bail Fund here in Seattle. Plus, the band will be matching donations up to $1000.

Secret Shame – Dissolve
https://secretshame.bandcamp.com/album/dissolve-b-w-pure

  • The band will donating 100% of Bandcamp sales on June 5th to “localized bail and mutual aid funds,” prioritizing allocating donations to black and POC orgs.

DRY SPELLS – Quarantine Dream
https://dryspellsla.bandcamp.com/releases

  • All this week thru June 7th, 100% of proceeds from The Love Language’s online store, including this Dry Spells record, will be donated to Showing Up for Racial Justice, “a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice.”

Lithics – Tower of Age
https://lithics.bandcamp.com/album/tower-of-age

  • The band tweeted on Monday: “We stand in solidarity with black lives and the protesters in the streets,” noting that 100% of tote band sales on their Bandcamp page will be donated to Don’t Shoot PDX.

Keith Ival – Tool Box
https://discontinuousinnovationinc.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-e-p

The Snogs – Red Wheelbarrow
https://discontinuousinnovationinc.bandcamp.com/album/charmless

window seat – mean
https://windowseatks.bandcamp.com/track/mean

  • The artist recently tweeted that 100% of the money spent on their Bandcamp page will go to Black Lives Matter.

Youth Team – Setting Eno on Fire
https://youthteam.bandcamp.com

  • They will have 26 new tracks out on Friday, with proceeds from those split between The Trussell Trust (supporting food banks across the UK) and Act Blue’s bail funds, providing bail for protestors here in the USA.

Nothing – The Dead are Dumb (live on Part Time Punks)
https://nothing.bandcamp.com/album/george-a-live-part-time-punks-session-los-angeles-12072019

  • This EP is “pay what you want”; 100% of proceeds will be donated to “ACT BLUES COMMUNITY BAIL OUT. A SPLIT DONATION BETWEEN 38 DIFFERENT COMMUNITY BAIL FUNDS.”

Mint Field – Natural
https://mintfield.bandcamp.com/track/natural

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ORGANIZATIONS:

Reclaim the Block
https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/

Black Lives Matter
https://blacklivesmatter.com/

The BLM Seattle Freedom Fund
https://blacklivesseattle.org/bail-fund/

BLM Philly
http://www.blmphilly.com/

National Bail Out
http://nationalbailout.org/

NAACP Legal Defense Fund
https://www.naacpldf.org/

Don’t Shoot PDX
https://www.dontshootpdx.org/

Black Visions Collective
https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/

Northwest Community Bail Fund
https://www.nwcombailfund.org/

Bay Area Anti-Repression Committee Bail Fund
https://rally.org/ARCbailfund

The Trussell Trust
https://www.trusselltrust.org/

Act Blue Bail Funds
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bailfunds

Showing Up for Racial Justice
https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/

BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity)
https://boldorganizing.org/

Ella Baker Center
https://ellabakercenter.org/

The Center for Policing Equity
https://www.policingequity.org/