New From Bandcamp: Electro-Brut from Texas; a Spooky Track from Chicago; and a Comp of Professional Women Whistlers from the early 20th Century

A couple of weeks ago I'd started an essay on PC culture and punk rock, but never got around to finishing it. The point of that essay was, if you think PC culture is infringing on your punk rock good time, you're probably just being a dick and don't realize it. Then this past Friday I started work on a Bauhaus retrospective, which I also didn't complete. Such is life, ya know. Maybe I'll finish those at a later date -- maybe I won't. If I do, you'll be the first to know! (Assuming you follow the blog.)

Love that Freddie Gibbs album "Freddie."

I should have a new show out this weekend -- it'll feature Freak Genes, because their new album Qwak Qwak is great stuff, and we got our record vault semi-organizized, so there should be some fun vinyl obscurities on the show, plus a lot of stuff familiar to loyal CNQers, as CNQ faves The Bordellos, Doctor Nod, Violence Creeps, Simo Soo, Custom Made Music, and Candy and the Suckers have all released new material since the last time I did a show.

The Candy and the Suckers track is awesome -- it's def what I'm trying to do with the electro-brut parts of Occult Character, only a million times better:

The Sexy Turtle Doves from Chicago put out /a lot/ of material, to the point where I don't check out everything they release. This is a cool, spooky track though:

When I first started doing "New From Bandcamp" posts, I was in a heavy phase, having just discovered grindcore and extreme metal. You don't see that from me too much these days -- not because I don't like that type of music anymore, but just because my music taste is relatively fluid. Here's something odd from Canary Records, a compilation of tracks by professional women whistlers, from 1917 to 1927:

CNQ 2015 Retrospective

I'll be coming up with faves from the year's posts here shortly. Meanwhile, I had a lot of favorite other things this year, and this 30 Rock clip sums them up.

Bully's Feels Like is my favorite album of the year.

I became openly reggae and got big into dub and rocksteady. Check out The Upsetters' "Super Ape." Totally rad.

I discovered 19th-early 20th century composer Erik Satie's Gymnopédies.

I loved Tom Holkenborg's Mad Max: Fury Road score. I listened to his Black Mass score the other night and it's also good. Music scores in general are a new thing for me. I have never had a taste for them until recently.

The new Faith No More, Sol Invictus, was really good.

I like the Leon Bridges album.

The Lil Bub album "Science and Magic" might be the last great album of 2015.

Protomartyr's The Agent Intellect is top notch.

I recently discovered these next few. Johnny Burnette is amazing o.g. rockabilly. Some really raw, rockin' songs. This one is a little more kitschy:

The Vibrators are amazing o.g. punk. Here's the complete Peel Sessions.

Bluesman Tommy Johnson. The band Canned Heat got their name from this song:

Hollywood session man/jazz guitarist Howard Roberts. This is a cut from his excellent 1959 album, Good Pickin's.

Blind Blake: Police Dog Blues (1929)

From archives.org.

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