CNQ 30 Minute Mixcloud Show

I was inspired to do a quick show on Mixcloud tonight so here's the playlist and the show: 

1

Saints

The Breeders

2

Sura Sura

The Muslims

3

Type A Girl

Dogatech (feat. Bunny Mayhem)

4

Let's Not Go Back To Normal

Santa Sprees

5

Gimme Mine Feat. 80's Babies

Tall Black Guy Productions

6

Perfect Time To Die

The Bordellos

7

Zoomorphic Kingdom

Damien Youth

8

Light Rose

4:44

9

Public Enemy Number One

The Sid Presley Experience

Your First Purchase for 2020: Timmy Trampeater: "Any Rubbish Will Do"

Author, historian, and Professor of History at Boston College Heather Cox Richardson is doing excellent work with her daily series, Letters From An American, and I recommend everyone subscribe to her daily e-newsletter, or follow her on social media. I found out about her on Facebook.

I was going to do Part 2 of my best of the decade but Jesus, who gives a shit. Let's look forward instead.

I'm aiming to use Fantasy Grounds on Steam to play some 5e D&D with a couple of buddies, and meanwhile looking for a game I can get in on, maybe every other weekend, or once a month, as a player character. On the off-chance a reader here is interested, HMU -- matt at clean nice quiet dot com.

I got a new computer keyboard for Christmas and I'm just a-klack klack klackin' away, lovin' it. But like I sed, who gives a shit, let's rock! I recently got a new cassette player component for my stereo so I'm back in the cassette game.

For your first musical purchase of 2020, I recommend, from Viral Age Records, Any Rubbish Will Do, by Timmy Trampeater. Seems both artist and label are from Nottingham, UK. Any Rubbish Will Do is limited to 50 copies on yellow cassette. 20 songs, all under a minute. Stripped down electric folk punk, nothing but electric guitar and vox. Released on December 29, 2019. Funny little ditties -- interesting choice to not do this with an acoustic guitar. $5 and change USD + $5 and change USD shipping, and you can pay what you will for the digital.

OSR Tapes

I only recently learned about OSR Tapes, a New York based non-profit label that's been putting out cool lo-fi, avant garde type of rock'n'roll since 2007, and no sooner had I learned about them than I learned they were closing. You can currently get the OSR digital catalog on bandcamp for $25 -- or order cassettes and albums from their webpage osr-tapes.com. They're shipping through June 17 and then that's it, so check em out while they're still around. Here's a sampling of the catalog, go over to the OSR bandcamp page and delve deeper.

What I Listened To Today

This is the first track off a new digital album called "Work Ethic" by Respect the God, out of Brooklyn, put out on Creative Juices Music. 16 tracks of more or less solid hip-hop, with a few skits. Shake It Up is a rad single:

This is the lead track off Damien Youth's 2011 10 song album The Citizen, also available on bandcamp as a digital album. Lo-fi freak-folk from New Orleans. Damien Youth's been at this a while, check out his catalog on bandcamp if you dig this:

New from the UK, "Twitch" by James Kruman is an interesting album in the same lo-fi/bedroom psych/freak-folk vein as Damien Youth. Put out back in December, "Twitch" is a 10 song album you can buy digital or on CD:

Usually I don't go in for anything that sounds like Social Distortion, but I wound up listening to all 8 songs on "Verne" today, by New Zealand's Liberated Squid, and hey, I enjoyed it. Besides "The Spirit of a Union Man," stand-out tracks were "Gabba Gabba Hey (Pinhead mix)" and "Verne's A Cunt." Believe it or not it's clever, fun stuff. Digital album is available on bandcamp for pay what thou wilt: