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New episode of Jenny Beth’s (Savages vocalist) Echoes is online ft Beak, King Krule and Nilufer Yanya. I have a slight vested interest but I really do think this is a great format
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I'll be listening to Diet Cig and will likely give Car Seat Headrest a go, too. Also going to catch up on Moaning from last week.
Surfer Blood have pushed their new one out from early May to the summer. Throwing Muses have announced a new album but it's not out physically until early September (I think it's digitally available in June).
Much-maligned era, but one of my favorite BritPop albums, The Sun Is Often Out by Longpigs, gets its first proper vinyl release next week. Really thought they had something about them, then a poor second album and Richard Hawley was the only one left standing. So much for my judgment!
I have to admit to liking The Sun Is Often Out a lot as well.
I'll give that a go as well - I have one of their earlier ones on your rec and liked it. The "coming out" pic I saw with the announcement earlier this week looked interesting!
Looks like it's an Italian crime series that's being broadcast on their version of Sky Atlantic.
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A good time to buy shares in Bandcamp (if you can).
Oh and Miles Hunt had some new, non-Wonder Stuff, stuff out today - working with the Vent 414 lads again (Pete Howard of Clash/Eat/Stuffies and Morgan Nicholls of Senseless Things/Muse/Gorillaz) and another bloke whose name escapes. The Lockdown Demo Society. It's on Bandcamp
They're waving their revenue share on all sales on the first Friday of each month currently:
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There's also a link there to a list of labels and artists doing things tomorrow. In a lot of cases, labels are donating all they get from Bandcamp sales to the artists and a lot of more established artists (well Sufjan and Caribou) are donating all revenue to charities. Other artists have exclusive releases or new merch etc.
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School Of Language put out a Prince inspired 5 track E.P. last week on Bandcamp. I think that was pay what you want too. With the downloads I've bought, I've always burned them as an audio CD (even if it's a one track single). I only feel like I own it then and that's important to me. I'll be in for Mogwai tomorrow too if no physical release is planned.
Moral dilemma today. A few weeks back, I shelled out some decent cash ($130) to order some stuff from my local record shop. It wasn't stuff I absolutely wanted and probably wouldn't have typically bought - but they'd just had to shut their doors and we were concerned for them and wanted to help out, so I went onto their Discogs page and loaded up. The tracked package was doing ok and then got stuck somewhere April 10 and never arrived - the tracking still says in transit April 10. We've been in touch a couple of times and I said I was happy to wait it out. He issued me a full refund today because it's obviously lost - I didn't ask for it. Now I didn't get my stuff, so that's a bit shit, but I'm also aware that not only is he probably struggling he's now also lost the inventory that he's refunded me for. Thoughts?
Was the stuff lost between the distributor and him or him and you? If the latter, assuming local is comfortably local, contact them and see whether they can deliver directly rather than using a postal/courier service? It's more reliable. Not heard of it done for vinyl or CDs but a lot of other businesses are now doing this (sometimes for a fee, sometimes not).
They're great, two solid records so far and I expect the same again with the new one. The drummer Ash has now come out as gay and does every gig in drag. It's quite the vibe!
Really enjoyed that as well. Not sure the concept album worked too well though.
The Crush Club podcast are doing weekly episodes at the min. Maybe 10 tracks per pod, play around half a song, discuss it, play another. It's well worth a listen. Couple of short interviews on there now and again, and in non virus times they do gig recommendations as well.
He would likely be insured I would I have thought
Lost in the mail to me - he had the physical inventory in his shop and shipped it to me using US mail with tracking. We've both been watching it for a couple of weeks and communicating about it - it tracked to a couple of places after leaving him, sorting offices or whatever, and then got stuck "in transit to next facility" and never budged again. I feel a bit awkward taking the refund, even though I didn't get the goods, because I did it to help and he's almost worse off now than he was before my order!
But, he's factoring in customer goodwill. Is there no comeback from US mail given that it's tracked? Presumably, they've at least refunded him the postage fee for shipping a tracked parcel which disappeared? That doesn't cover the value of the item being posted, of course.
As Chunky says, maybe he has insurance for the actual goods.
Actually, update, I just checked the dialogue on Discogs and he has put an insurance claim in with USPS, so I guess he doesn't have his own insurance for his goods. Hopefully they pay up promptly vs saying to wait and see if they turn up
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