Bandcamp have recently made some default pricing changes and based on their reasoning I have opted to change my own pricing strategy (as hinted at previously). Previously I had a kind of complicated and largely vibes-based approach to pricing, but it was doing me no favors. From now on, all of my albums will be $1/track up to $9, and individual songs will be $1.50/track, with occasional exceptions for certain considerations.
Anyway, for this Bandcamp Friday, you can get 25% off anything in my catalog (including my full discography, which is also always discounted) with the discount code “MAYDAY25.”
Also, as usual, here’s some of the stuff I’ll be buying this month:
And here’s some of my other recommendations for things I already own:
#Bandcamp #BandcampFriday #Recommendations #Discounts ]]>My album Transitions (and its companion Deadnames) are perhaps the most obviously on-the-nose trans-related albums of mine, but it’s woven into the DNA of so much of my music. The songs All Tan, Adding Up to Nothing, Hypnagogic, Material Change, and Fool in the Middle are all quite specifically about gender feels, but being trans has informed everything about my life and my existence.
Here are some other lesser-known trans musicians of note (in no particular order):
There are of course many, many more out there; I put out a call for recommendations and was absolutely overwhelmed by the number of trans artists I was pointed to! It was super difficult to pick just a few to showcase here, and it would be a disservice to let them go without further mention. Thank you so much to everyone who shared their own picks.
Also, please check out the Seattle Trans and Nonbinary Choral Ensemble, a choir I am extremely proud to be a part of.
#Music #Trans #Transgender #Recommendations #LGBTQIA ]]>To that end, I have a new album out, which you might be interested in if you’re seeing this post.
Other than that, there’s what I’ll be buying today:
Sharing is caring!
#BandcampFriday #Recommendations ]]>Sometimes I just gotta give my ears a break, I guess.
#Listening #Recommendations ]]>Also, I’ve gone ahead and enabled webmention on this site in lieu of comments. The layout is just the defaults from webmention.js. Someday I’ll get around to building a proper comment system instead.
#Listening #Recommendations ]]>Also, I want to ramble a little bit about the Last.fm yearly wrapup. It’s cool that it tells me my top listens in terms of artists and albums, but it’s a bit annoying that it doesn’t do anything to normalize albums based on their track count. Like, yes, I listened to all 100 tracks from Song Fight!’s A Grand Parade but that doesn’t mean I listened to it 100 times. There’s just 100 scrobbles from it due to my single listen of it.
I wish I could get counts of just albums, not individual tracks, so that I could better figure out which artists I listened to.
I definitely listened to a lot of Green Day, ambienteer, Benn Jordan (particularly the stuff he put in his massive Gumroad drop), and Jeremy Blake. But that’s also because those are artists I happen to own a lot of music of.
For much of the year I didn’t have AudioScrobbler running or forgot to sync play stats from my phone before they got lost forever (although now that I use PlexAmp as my primary mobile player that shouldn’t be a concern going forward), but I also know that I didn’t listen to music for much of it because I was so busy making it. For me, music has historically been what I listen to while working on other things, but since I’m basically full-time as a musician now, that doesn’t leave me a lot of time to listen to stuff, and after a day of working in the studio the last thing my ears need is to keep the fatigue going. So as of late I mostly just listen to music when I’m driving, and I don’t do a lot of that either.
It’s also a shame that the amazing music I heard on the now-departed Radio Free Fedi didn’t make it into AudioScrobbler either. There were some absolute bangers there. RFF was also a great place to get discovered in general. I hope more projects like it emerge and find a more sustainable path forward.
But in the meantime, sharing music discoveries is a big part of why I blog about what I listen to.
#Listening #Recommendations ]]>Here’s some musical-listening highlights since the last one:
My scrobbles don’t reflect all of this, unfortunately, as I have upgraded my office computer and the last.fm scrobbler wasn’t properly autostarting. I’ve (hopefully) fixed it going forward, at least.
#Listening #Recommendations ]]>Anyway, while tagging music, I’ve been spending some quality time just listening to other peoples' music. Here’s a few things that I’ve enjoyed recently.
I of course have my latest album, Transitions, and quite a few other albums available, including with a deep discount if you opt to buy my entire discography all at once.
There are also a lot of other artists that I think you should consider supporting!
Here are the things I’m planning on buying this month:
46bliss is one of those bands that I learned about in the early days of CDBaby, and I loved their original album, “Pistachio Home.” They’re a band I lost track of after that release, and I’m surprised to learn they’re still around! Several of the songs on The Recollection are remixes or remasters of songs from Pistachio Home but there’s also a lot of new-to-me songs on it as well.
They have a bunch of other albums that have come out in the interim but they don’t appear to be available anywhere at the moment.
err:Rawr’s latest releases
He has released a bunch of stuff since the last time I updated my collection of his work. He’s a good bean and a fellow member of the Red Means Recording Patreon Discord.
Astronomy Nights by Whispering Cosmos
I don’t know a lot about this artist and I’m not sure how it ended up on my list, but that’s fine. I could always use more chill ambient music in my life.
This artist is a friend of mine who is always the first to support others, and they are, again, a good bean. Their music is also great, with these fun lush soundscapes that are also full of delicious dissonance and weird processed vocals that give it an uncanny feeling of being music from another universe.
Another good bean, who I also know from the Red Means Recording community. I always especially love supporting people who produce music for Novembeat, especially when it’s as high-quality as this.
This is aggressively minimal beat-based music, and it’s also Novembeat, one of only two submissions this year.
moult’s discography
Hey look, it’s another furry musician who refuses to stick to a single genre. I especially like Cupples.
I also have plenty of other recommendations from months past (I will eventually backfill them onto this site), and for even more independent music, you could just look at my Bandcamp collection. Which is, uh, quite large.
#Bandcamp #BandcampFriday #Recommendations ]]>