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>

Somewhat Snide Submission Guidelines

1. Submit a Bandcamp, Soundclound, or Youtube link to matt at clean nice quiet dot com. All genres considered, but feel free to take a look at previous posts to get a feel for what I generally feature. That being said, I've got a wide palette and will give anything a chance, if properly presented (see #2 below).
2. Moving forward, CNQ will mostly only post music that is publicly streaming and easily embeddable. A download or private stream is nice, but if it's not easily sharable, or not ready for release, I probably won't post about it. If your single or album does not release until December 31, 2027, then please let me know at the beginning of your long ass e-mail. If you don't at least have an easily embeddable link to a previous work for me to share along with the news about your brilliant new forthcoming release, then just get back to me when the release is out and you have something to present to the class. No one wants to read me ramble about a single or an album that they can't immediately click on and decide for themselves if they like it or not.
3. The more concise the e-mail, the more likely I'll be to listen to the music. Band or artist name, location, *brief* background info, genre, and name of the single/album is all I need. A quote or two from a critic about how brilliant the songs are is fine, but that press packet you made is ridiculous. I never open that file, gang. Maybe somebody else besides your mom does, but I don't.
4. 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, I may have missed it the first time. However, spamming CNQ every day is inadvisable.