Clean Nice Quiet: Bandcamp Remains Cool

Monday, December 4, 2017

Bandcamp Remains Cool

I've said before, when I first started this blog back in 2012, I wanted it to be like dear, departed Crud Crud - strictly obscure 45s and singles. Bandcamp had been founded in 2007, but, per Wikipedia, it didn't see it's rise in popularity until 2010-2011, and I wasn't a month into the blog before I was sharing Bandcamp links. That was followed by what were probably months of me sharing songs from Bandcamp and feeling guilty that I wasn't sticking to the original CNQ directive of only posting about obscure vinyl, but finally I got over that.

Bandcamp is really cool. I've always preferred it to Soundcloud.

From Austin:

<a href="http://fuckemos.bandcamp.com/album/lifestyles-of-the-drugged-and-homeless">Lifestyles Of The Drugged And Homeless by FuckEmos</a>

From Portland:

<a href="http://gutknife.bandcamp.com/album/drama-tv">Drama TV by Gut Knife</a>

From Louisville:

<a href="http://totaldud.bandcamp.com/album/temple-of-the-dud">temple of the dud by DUD</a>

CNQ favorite Boys Age, from Japan, has a new album out:

<a href="http://boysage.bandcamp.com/album/new-world-pregnancy">New World Pregnancy by Boys Age</a>

CNQ Submission Guidelines

All submissions considered, as long as the guidelines presented below are followed.
E-mail your rad tunes to: submissions (at) clean nice quiet (dot) (com).
In the body of the e-mail, please include a publicly available Bandcamp, Soundcloud, or Youtube link. If the link is not in the body of the e-mail, odds get low that I listen to it.
Bonus points if your EPK is in a link or separate file, and not in the body of the e-mail.
I may or may not get back to you, but feel free to reach out again with another release, or even the same release some time later, as I may have missed it the first time.
Spamming CNQ every day is inadvisable. In ten years I've never had an artist do this, only promoters. And it's a turn off, man.