What's Good (Week of 9/29 - Bandcamp Friday Edition)
A couple of big firsts this week! First edition of What's Good since the closure of the beloved Cohost, and also it's the first Bandcamp Friday edition of What's Good that makes its home soley on my blog. If it's your first time with me, every week I gather up as much good music from the week as I can, collect it into a big ol' list of videos and playlists, then top it off with news and features from around the web. I'm slowly working on getting the archives up here, but until the end of the year when Cohost shuts down entirely, you can check out them out over there.
As far as specials for this particular Bandcamp Friday, the good brothers over at Three Dollar Pistol have some deals, including:
- PremRock's A Clean, Well-Lighted Place vinyl for $18
- A vinyl bundle of sleepingdogs' will we ever dance again and andrew's don't forget me, bluest for $40
- Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals Rhino XXL vinyl for $18
- Pay What You Want for The Ill Microphone Murder Vet, a "Best of Zilla Rocca mixtape for the day one's" collected from odds and ends by the Bourbon General himself.
As well as a new merch drop of the Sour Dub hoodie, celebrating Rich Jones' and Sleep Sinatra's LP.
Swimming Costume's entire discography is 25%-off for a total of $36, which gives you a perfect opportunity to cop andrew and Height Keech's can I write a requiem for you when you're dead? if you haven't already, and pre-order OKnice's upcoming Talking To My Dogs (first single featured in this week's haul) in one fell swoop.
Your Bandcamp Friday purchases also count toward pre-orders, like the just announced collab between Duncecap and steel tipped dove for the latter's Fused Arrow Records, The Need to Know.
And the brand new stuff from this week, including:
New Albums
- Jabee
- The Bug
- Jonah Yano
- Ohbliv
- Broadcast
- Shad & 14KT
- Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
New Singles
- Maria Somerville
- Nappy Nina & Swarvy
- Lunice
- Ela Minus
- Pivot Gang
- OKnice
- Faye Webster
And a whole lot more, but up first, some Bonus Beats.
Bonus Beats
Wednesday's YouTube channel posts short video montages each month of their performances, touring, and odd bits of their life as a band. This one's a little different than normal, as the band's home of Asheville has been devastated by Hurricane Helene, so along with their normal slices of life, you'll get footage of what things look like on the ground. Right at the top, they offer links for helping out via Beloved Asheville, Asheville Survival, and Pansy Collective. In addition to that, I'd also recommend tapping in with Mutual Aid Disaster Relief if you have the means:
- PayPal: [email protected]
- Venmo: MutualAidDisasterRelief
Ahead of Chamber Music II, Blueprint played a live beat set on his SP-404 mk2 in Columbus, OH's Schiller Park.
Jay Smooth's return to our algorithms has borne delicious fruit, this time in the form an examination of New York City's love affair with garbage mayoral candidates, with some bars for the recently indicted Eric Adams.
Black Ends blessed us with the full set of their live show at Neumos in Seattle, as a treat before next week's release of their debut Psychotic Spew.
Acantha Lang pays tribute to a soul legend with a set of five Donny Hathaway covers.
The Rap Music Plug podcast (with Dash Lewis stepping in as a co-host) sat down with three-fourth's of ØKSE to talk their self-titled album, the philosophy behind their music, their recording process, and more.
Music
Common & Pete Rock - When The Sun Shines Again (From The Auditorium Vol. 1, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Vinyl via Loma Vista Recordings, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Nappy Nina & Swarvy - Groundhog Day (From Nothing Is My Favorite Thing, out 10/23. Preorder: Vinyl exclusively via LucidHaus, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Jonah Yano - Snowpath feat. Clairo (From Jonah Yano & The Heavy Loop, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Maria Somerville - Projections (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
AKTHESAVIOR - Really Outside (From Album Title, out on date. Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Gabe 'Nandez - Stealth Freestyle (A loosie, for now.)
Curren$y & Dj.Fresh - Ultra Violet feat. T.F. (From *The Tonite Show The Sequel, out now. Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Joe Nora - Eldar feat. Sara Kawai From Parasol, out 10/30. Preorder: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify
Faye Webster - After The First Kiss (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Ela Minus - BROKEN (From DIA, out on 1/17. Preorder: Bandcamp | Vinyl via Domino, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Willie The Kid & V Don - Briefcase Raps feat. The Alchemist (From the upcoming Deutsche Marks IV. Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Buddy - Buddy A Fool (From Don't Forget To Breathe, out now. Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Hemlock Ernst & Icky Reels - Old Dead Dogs feat. Beans & Fatboi Sharif (From Studying Absence, out on 10/16. Preorder: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Ohbliv - The Lovers (From Slack, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify | YouTube)
Pivot Gang - Who At The Door? (Out now. Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Sideshow - RENEE (MAY DAY) (From F.U.N. T.O.Y., out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | 10k Global, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Broadcast - Distant Call [Demo] (From Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2006, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Warp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify))
Kembe X - INTROVERTED EXTROVERT (Out now. Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Kimbra - Stay Strong (From Idols and Vices Vol. 1, out now. Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Show Me The Body - Surround feat. VCR, Corbin, and Nick Hakim (From CORPUS II EP II, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
The Growth Eternal - Possibilities (Out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Camphor Freya - October Shark Hideaway (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
AshTreJinkins - Space Cadet (From Space Haunt Vol. 2, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
OKnice - Sobriety, Anxiety, and My Fear of Small Talk (From Talking To My Dogs, out 10/29. Preorder: Bandcamp)
Resavoir - Live Before (Out now, originally commissioned by Chicago's Public Media Institute for their 2020 real-time history-writing publication Quarantine Times. Preorder/Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Illingsworth - Save It (From BOID, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Q No Rap Name - ROSALIE (404 TAPE PT 1) (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp)
chiquitamagic & Henry Solomon - blast2 (From chiquita & henry vol. 1, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
toso toso - guardo (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Sleep Sinatra - Kayla Mae (From The Spirit of Baldwin Ave. Video release ahead of the album's deluxe edition hitting streaming on 10/28. Presave the deluxe edition here. Purchase and Stream the original: Bandcamp)
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - T.O.P. (From Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head), out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Vinyl and CDs available via Record Kicks, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
The Doppelgangaz - Airtight (From G Pack, Vol. 6, out on 10/25. Preorder: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Maral - retrofit feat. YATTA (From Patience (صبر), out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Lunice - Pull Up (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | LUCKYME, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Shad & 14KT - Hunting Goats (From Reel Speakers , out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Cruisic - Time Will Tell (Art Blakey cover) (From Euphoria, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Stefan Ringer - What's Your Sign (From Soulflow, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Denzel Curry - SET IT feat. Maxo Kream (From King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Physicals and Merch via Loma Vista Recordings, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
The Bug - Bodied (Send For The Hearse) (From Machine, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Machines I-V, a complete digital edition of all 5 Machine EP, also via Bandcamp | Merch and vinyl, including a limited 5 LP pressing of all 5 Machine EPs, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Leon Bridges - Panther City (From Album Title, out on date. Purchase: Vinyl & CD from Leon's Shop, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Rome Streetz & Daringer - Pro Tro feat. Conway The Machine (From Hatton Garden Holdup, out now. Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Bugseed - Mother (From Life Cycle, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal)
NAHreally & The Expert - Accumulation (From FLIP, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Buli & CeleraLogica - Staring At The Sun (From the Staring At The Sun / Chasing Sunsets split single, out now. Preorder/Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Weirddough - Clairvoyan7 (From Space Channel, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
CunninLynguists - Fading (Clock Struck Five) (From The Heartstring Theory [Part One], out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Moka Only - DADADOO (From Arbutus Canyon, out on 11/15. Preorder: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Kershawn Tha Don - Touch My Body (From In Between Time, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp)
TV-MA - Newly Strangers feat. mars kumari (From The Light at the End of Decay, out on date. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Spotify)
Dirty Art Club - Halcyon Curse (From b sides, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Serengeti - No Way Jose (From mixtape, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Nelson Bandela - 164 lets move (From 2024 / 25 Fall / Winter Jank City Jams, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp)
Dudley Perkins - Flowers blu (Out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Georgia Anne Muldrow - These Worlds (From Ms. One, out now (first time on Bandcamp, originally released in 2014). Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Couch Slut - Carpet Farmer (Remastered) (From My Life As A Woman (10th Anniversary Remaster), out 12/6. Preorder: Bandcamp | Brutal Panda Records (uncensored, NSFW cover art there, IYKYK), Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Drinking Boys and Girls Choir - Oh My California (Live) (From DBGC Live in Busan, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Spotify)
Jabee - Keep It Real (From The Spirit Is Willing But The Flesh Is Weak, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Spotify)
Playlists
TIDAL
BNCMPR
YouTube
That does it for this week. Be sure to share this with your folks, and don't hesitate to let me know what you're listening to this weekend down in the comments. Take care, and make good choices.
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