What's Good (1/5/25)
It's a new year, and despite the numerous encroaching horrors, What's Good shall continue. If I don't do nothing else, I'm going to help you put together your personal soundtrack for getting through this mess.
If this is your first time visiting, What's Good is my weekly new music blog, where I give you a big list of new music, along with playlists for your convenience, and a few bits of music news and writing in a section called Bonus Beats. Sound cool? Then join me for the new drops, including:
New Albums
- doseone & Steel Tipped Dove
- Ethel Cain
- Matthewdavid
- miles cooke
- NAHreally
- Satchel Brown
- Sleep Sinatra & August Fanon
New Singles
- Boldy James
- clipping.
- Deep Sea Diver
- Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek
- Ghais Guevara
- Japanese Breakfast
- SPELLLING
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Bonus Beats
Anthony Obi is organizing this fundraiser.
Los Angeles is under siege from multiple fires, destroying thousands of homes, businesses and uprooting many people's lives. Among those affected is Anthony Obi, better known to most as Fat Tony, who lost his Altadena home in the Eaton Fire on Wednesday. The above Go Fund Me will go toward helping him and his family recover, and anything in excess will go toward the Pasadena Humane Society.
If you're looking for other ways to help in LA in general:
- Mutual Aid LA
- The Pasadena Humane Society
- Watch Duty: The non-profit app that's been helping people keep track of the wildfires and efforts to fight them in real time.
- Direct Relief
- Regularly updating list of affeced muscial community members with crowdfunding efforts
- Seconds Market is running a donation match program to get clothing to fire victims: Details | Form
- The following Mutual Aid Organizations Venmos (via KTown For All):
- @peoplesstruglesfv - Supplies and distribution in the SFV
- @sundays-1312 - Delivering supplies to unhoused encampments
- @ktownforall - Emergency supply distribution for the unhoused
- @jtownaction - Mutual Aid for unhoused in Little Tokyo
- @aetnastreetsolidarity - Direct relief for the unhoused in SFV
- @dykesarekosher - East Side and Skid Row with 3+ drivers
- @FTSLA - Making meals for firefighters (DO NOT Venmo "@FTSLA-")
- @allpowerbooks - Community bookstore distributing supplies
- @seventhstcollective - Long Beach Emergency Response Prepartion
And Secret Los Angeles has an extensive list of evacuation centers, animal shelters, and general resources for those in need.
Music
This is a video for the entire album. If the timestamp doesn't work, "Lotus" starts at around 14:25.
Satchel Brown - Lotus (From Fortune Baby. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Sleep Sinatra & August Fanon - ZootGeist feat. Brian Ennals (From Hero's Journey, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Matthewdavid - 100% Zithertronics (Full LP, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Ghais Guevara - The Old Guard Is Dead (From Goyard Ibn Said, out 1/24/25. Purchase: Bandcamp | Fat Possum, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Vic Spencer - Lupe Fiasco's Weed Stash (From Being The Bigger Person Sucks, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Rob Cave - Cave Canem (From Books of the Living Vol 2: Kairos, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
AKAI SOLO - Stormin' Norm (From Verticality///Singularity, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Deep Sea Diver - Shovel (From Billboard Heart, out 1/10/25. Preorder: Bandcamp | Sub Pop, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Japanese Breakfast - Orlando In Love (From For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), out 3/2/25. Preorder: Bandcamp | Japanese Breakfast Official Store, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Darko The Super & steel tipped dove - You Don't Know Me And You Don't Know My Style (From Darko Cheats Death, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
clipping. - Change The Channel (From Dead Channel Sky, out 1/10/25. Preorder: Bandcamp | Sub Pop, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
TOKiMONSTA - Feel It feat. grouptherapy (From Eternal Reverie, out on 3/7/25. Preorder: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Hop Bico (From Yarın Yoksa, out on 3/14/25. Preorder: Bandcamp | Big Crown Records, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Eiko Ishibashi - Coma (From Antigone, out on 3/28/25. Preorder: Bandcamp | Drag City, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Case Arnold - From Here On Out Freestyle (YouTube loosie for now.)
The Doppelgangaz - Belong 2 Tha Streets (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Ethel Cain - Vacillator (From Perverts, out now. Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
SPELLLING - Portrait of My Heart (From Portrait of My Heart, out 3/28/25. Preorder: Bandcamp | Sacred Bones | Hello Merch, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
doseone & Steel Tipped Dove - Restaurant Not (From All Portrait, No Chorus, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Backwoodz Studioz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Juicy J - Fit The Mode feat. Project Pat (From Ravenite Social Club (Deluxe) out now. Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
NAHreally - Onions (From Secret Pancake, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify | YouTube)
Boldy James - Single File Line (From Permanent Ink, out 1/24/25. Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
DARKSIDE - S.N.C (From Nothing, out 2/28/25. Purchase: Bandcamp | Darkside's Official Site | Matador, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Sleepdealer - Parasomnia (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Jansport J - Verily (From The Weight Of The World, out now. (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 19, 2024
Kershawn Tha Don - I Luhh Him! (From Wabi⚡Sabi, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Scippio As Usual...
Low Key - hidden specter (From Phantom Riot, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Ol' Burger Beats - Same Time feat. MoRuf (From 74: Out of Time Reimagined, out on 2/14/25. Purchase: "Same Time" on Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Brigid Mae Power - You Don't Know Me (Eddy Arnold & Cindy Walker cover) (From Songs for You, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
miles cooke - The Devil Part Didn't Change feat. SKECH185 (From ceci n'est pas un portrait, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Playlists
Editor's Note: No BNCMPR playlist for this week, since its creator Lon Beshiri is under the weather. If anybody reading this has experience with React framework, reach out to them on Twitter.
Tidal
What's Good Tidal Playlist - Week of 1/5/2025
YouTube
That does it for this week, friends. Be sure to share this with your friends, family, and other folks. Don't hesitate to reach out to let me know what you're feeling this week, and as always, take care and make good choices.
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