Monthly Archives: October 2023

Cycles Per Second 10/25/23: Bandcamp, etc. Links

On this week’s show: Fresh North American jangle, from SF (The Umbrellas) to Toronto (Ducks Ltd.), shoegaze from LA (Mo Dotti). Indie pop from Portugal (Pega Monstro), Brazil (A Última Peça), the UK (The Bug Club) and the Netherlands (Lewsberg). Punk from Chicago (Body Shop) to the UK (Witching Waves, VIRVON VARVON). Plus awesome weirdness fresh from Sydney (The Lewers) and recently unearthed from SF (Thinking Fellers Union Local 282).

Hear more from every artist featured in this week’s show…

PLAYLIST:

The Umbrellas – Three Cheers!
https://theumbrellasca.bandcamp.com/album/fairweather-friend

Pega Monstro – Willkommen
https://pegamonstro.bandcamp.com/track/willkommen

The Bug Club – The Loudest Violin
https://thebugclub.bandcamp.com/album/rare-birds-hour-of-song

A Última Peça – Sess​ã​o das cinco
https://midsummermadness.bandcamp.com/album/ato-ii

Lewsberg – A Different View
https://lewsberg12xu.bandcamp.com/album/out-and-about

Ducks Ltd. – The Main Thing
https://ducksltdband.bandcamp.com/album/the-main-thing

Mo Dotti – For Anyone And You
Link TK

Checkpoint – Break
https://erstetheketontraeger.bandcamp.com/album/ett-109-checkpoint-drift-lp

No Drama – MFNM
https://hiddenbayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-drama

Rat Columns – Life In The Jungle
https://ratcolumnsband.bandcamp.com/album/babydoll

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – Strange Mail
https://tful282.bandcamp.com/album/these-things-remain-unassigned-singles-compilation-tracks-rarities-unreleased-recordings

Witching Waves – Vessel
https://witchingwaves.bandcamp.com/album/streams-and-waterways

VIRVON VARVON – VOICES
https://girlsville.bandcamp.com/album/virvon-varvon-voices-ep

Body Shop – Fractal
https://riprecords.bandcamp.com/album/secret-third-thing

The Lewers – O Karina
https://thelewers.bandcamp.com/album/518a

Cycles Per Second 10/18/23: Bandcamp, etc. Links

On the show this week: From New Zealand: new lo-fi indie (Cuticles) and an 80s-vintage lost gem (Vibraslaps). Shades of punk from Germany (Berliner Doom), Australia (Gyrate), and the USA (Hard Copy, CHERRY CHEEKS). Shimmering and crashing pop from Japan (kinoue64) to LA (Cupid & Psyche), jangle from NYC (The Woods) and SF (HELPFUL PEOPLE) to the UK (Ruth’s Refrigerator), and an orchestral Scottish pop blast from the past (Starless / Friends Again).

Want to know how to hear more? Visit the artists’ Bandcamps, below…

PLAYLIST:

Parlor Hour – Black and Blue
https://parlorhour.bandcamp.com/album/personal-best-club

kinoue64 – 問う
https://kinoue64.bandcamp.com/album/–36

HELPFUL PEOPLE – Bugs From Below
https://fwymusic.bandcamp.com/album/brokenblossom-threats

The Woods – So Long Before Now
https://woodsmodernharmonic.bandcamp.com/album/so-long-before-now

Ruth’s Refrigerator – Your Dog is Rich and Your Cat is Good Looking
https://alanjenkins.bandcamp.com/album/suddenly-a-disfigured-head-parachuted

Vibraslaps – Le Bomb
https://vibraslaps.bandcamp.com/album/vibraslaps-3

Berliner Doom – Veganer Softrock
https://berlinerdoom.bandcamp.com/album/wer-das-h-rt-ist-doom

Hard Copy – Chew
https://hardcopyincorporated.bandcamp.com/album/12-shots-of-nature

CHERRY CHEEKS – Switch
https://totalpunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cclpii

Gyrate – Collision
https://gyrate.bandcamp.com/album/negative-excess

Cuticles – Know Not What
https://siltbreeze.bandcamp.com/album/cuticles-major-works-lp

Rachel Love – Beautiful
https://thecatcollects.bandcamp.com/album/the-cat-collects-seasons

Starless / Friends Again – State of Art (live, 2017)
https://starless1.bandcamp.com/track/state-of-art-live-at-celtic-connections-2017

Cupid & Psyche – Datura Sketch
https://cupidandpsyche.bandcamp.com/album/romantic-music

GURL – Silly Dreams
https://leceperecords.bandcamp.com/album/maybe-were-not-kids-anymore