The Just Joans

Name: The Just Joans
Website: https://www.thejustjoans.co.uk/
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Witching Waves

Name: Witching Waves

Website: http://shop.specialistsubjectrecords.co.uk/products/636329-witching-waves-persistence-lp-cd

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Homecomings

Name: Homecomings
Website: http://homecomings.jp/
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Carsmile Steve

Name: CarsmileSteve
Website: https://twitter.com/carsmilesteve
bandcamp collection: https://bandcamp.com/carsmilesteve

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So, I've been listening to a lot of Very Loud music on bandcamp recently, mainly due to a bunch of wrestling-adjacent zinesters from America who keep recommending stuff on twitter that ends up in my wishlist. As usual, I'm a complete dilettante when it comes to this stuff, absolutely not claiming any deep knowledge at all into these scenes, but hey, it's never stopped me liking music before!

SØØN are Hawaiian femme-fronted hardcore and this is GET ØUT from what appears to be their first long-player, WHAT THE FUCK DID WE DØ TØ THE EARTH (long-player being relative here, 12 tracks in a shade under 15 minutes). I'm not sure if "Ø" is a legitimate letter in the Hawaiian alphabet, but I am sure that they make a bloody racket and don't hang about whilst they do it!

It seems that LARMA are somewhat of a Swedish Hardcore Supergroup, according to their bio. To me, there's definitely a line back to '77 (carefully avoiding the p-word) here, there's even, almost, gtr solos, or, at least, hints of where they should be. Apparently this is KANGPUNK which, I am assured by wikipedia, traces its roots back through Discharge to Motorhead and Buzzcocks, so there we go. Avståndets Psykologi is "Psychology of Distance".

VITAL FORCE (and, please, please, click through and have a look at the cover for this split release) are Russian and what I'd call Proper Metal, and yet they still zip through this in just under three minutes. I particularly like the pointy guitar bits.

Funny how sometimes you can picture exactly where you were when you first heard a particular song, isn't it? For FINAL STRUGGLE OF SELVES by TOMB MOLD (!T!O!M!B! !M!O!L!D!), I was listening to Nathan's always excellent Hot Dog Days Radio (which doesn't often go *this* hard) whilst walking down Holdenhurst Road in Bournemouth, my only ever visit to the town, walking past slightly sad looking student bars at ten in the morning...

I had quite a bit of difficulty picking a track from the CLOUD RAT album because it's banger after banger (the weird goth-piano opener excepted), but I think ROSEMARY is as good a choice as any! Hard grindcore stuff but not the overly guttural vocals that sometimes get A Bit Much...

I mean, you can't argue with a band called WEAPONIZED FLESH, can you? I wish I still made actual real mixtapes because a 53 second song called FUCK XMAS FEAR would be just the thing for that tricky end of side one gap. The rest of the EP is actually great, it's just this made me do a proper laugh out loud the first time I heard it, for which I do not apologise.  Feels like it might sneak into the lower reaches of a mid-90s Festive Fifty.

Also, I'm going to cheat and recommend Something Entirely Different as well, viz The North East Ska Jazz Orchestra, brought to my attention from Robert Newsome's excellent Navigator column, where he jumps from tag to tag around the world of Bandcamp. Italian Big Band Ska for the win! Would sound perfect on the West Holts field at Glastonbury, about half three on a sunny Saturday afternoon, I can smell the suntan lotion and taste the perry (but you can see why it doesn't fit in with the other six!).

Marianthi

we're back to normal after that indietracks interlude - hi to anyone new who popped by over the weekend

Name: Marianthi
Website: hmmm, don't really have one anymore - twitter handle maybe? @rainforatime and @skepwordsmusic
Bandcamp collection: https://bandcamp.com/rainforatime

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indietracks virtual merch tent - Sunday, Main Stage

this weekend should have been Indietracks, a celebration of independent, creative and DIY pop music, taking place at a steam railway in the Derbyshire countryside.

over the next few days Carry On Bandcamping will be your one-stop-shop for the bands that were due to play the 2020 festival, and the labels that were to have tables in the merch tent - and keep an eye on the hashtag #IndietracksMerchTent for any announcements

i hope you have been enjoying this year's virtual festival, Indietracks At Home

indietracks virtual merch tent - Sunday, Indoor Stage

and SUDS' website, and shop is here

indietracks virtual merch tent - Sunday, Church Stage

indietracks virtual merch tent - Sunday, Train

and Pete Green's website is here

indietracks virtual merch tent - Saturday, Main Stage

this weekend should have been Indietracks, a celebration of independent, creative and DIY pop music, taking place at a steam railway in the Derbyshire countryside.

over the next few days Carry On Bandcamping will be your one-stop-shop for the bands that were due to play the 2020 festival, and the labels that were to have tables in the merch tent - and keep an eye on the hashtag #IndietracksMerchTent for any announcements

and you can find out more about this year's virtual festival, Indietracks At Home, here

indietracks virtual merch tent - Saturday, Indoor Stage

Josie Long's Website

indietracks virtual merch tent - Saturday, Church Stage

indietracks virtual merch tent - Saturday, Train

indietracks virtual merch tent - Friday, Main Stage

this weekend should have been Indietracks, a celebration of independent, creative and DIY pop music, taking place at a steam railway in the Derbyshire countryside.

over the next few days Carry On Bandcamping will be your one-stop-shop for the bands that were due to play the 2020 festival, and the labels that were to have tables in the merch tent - and keep an eye on the hashtag #IndietracksMerchTent for any announcements

and you can enjoy this year's virtual festival here: Indietracks At Home

indietracks virtual merch tent - Specialist Subject

this weekend should have been Indietracks, a celebration of independent, creative and DIY pop music, taking place at a steam railway in the Derbyshire countryside.

over the next few days Carry On Bandcamping will be your one-stop-shop for the bands that were due to play the 2020 festival, and the labels that were to have tables in the merch tent - and keep an eye on the hashtag #IndietracksMerchTent for any announcements

and you can find out more about this year's virtual festival, Indietracks At Home, here

next up - Specialist Subject who are kindly giving you a 20% discount if you use the code "indietracks" when you buy from the Bandcamp page
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ig @specialistsubject
https://shop.specialistsubjectrecords.co.uk/

indietracks virtual merch tent - Breaking Down Recordings

this weekend should have been Indietracks, a celebration of independent, creative and DIY pop music, taking place at a steam railway in the Derbyshire countryside.

over the next few days Carry On Bandcamping will be your one-stop-shop for the bands that were due to play the 2020 festival, and the labels that were to have tables in the merch tent - and keep an eye on the hashtag #IndietracksMerchTent for any announcements

and you can find out more about this year's virtual festival, Indietracks At Home, here

label name - BREAKING DOWN RECORDS
twitter - N/A
website - WWW.BREAKINGDOWNRECORDINGS.COM
https://www.facebook.com/breakingdownrecordings/

indietracks virtual merch tent - Fika

this weekend should have been Indietracks, a celebration of independent, creative and DIY pop music, taking place at a steam railway in the Derbyshire countryside.

over the next few days Carry On Bandcamping will be your one-stop-shop for the bands that were due to play the 2020 festival, and the labels that were to have tables in the merch tent - and keep an eye on the hashtag #IndietracksMerchTent for any announcements

and you can find out more about this year's virtual festival, Indietracks At Home, here

today's merch table label is Fika, who have also released the latest from Emma Kupa and the Just Joans, but more on that later

Dr. Craig Hamilton, doctor in popular music studies

Name: Dr. Craig Hamilton
Website: https://www.popmusicresearch.org/
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about Harkive:

Global listening habits explored in a time of pandemic and live music shutdown

Global research project Harkive returns 21st July 2020 to explore music listening in a time of pandemic.

The annual online music listening research project Harkive returns on Tuesday 21 July 2020 to take another look at the popular music listening experiences from around the world.

Now in its eighth year, Harkive will once again invite music fans to describe how, where and why they listen to music across a single day as the project continues to chart the everyday popular music experience of ordinary listeners.

This year, however, the everyday is far from ordinary as the world is gripped by a global health crisis. In addition, the ensuing lockdown has led to an abrupt suspension of the live music offering, potentially driving fans to reconnect with artists, songs, albums, playlists and live recordings of concerts and performances online.

“In previous years, Harkive has shown how people integrate music and technology into their everyday routine such as the commute to work, or the gym workout”, says Harkive founder Dr Craig Hamilton, research fellow at Birmingham City University, “This year, many of those familiar routines have been altered. It will be fascinating to see how music plays a role in peoples’ new reality, and how music finds a place in busy households, where it has to compete with other media forms.”

Since launching in 2013 the project has collected over 13,000 unique stories from around the globe. That figure is set to grow again on 21st July, and amongst the stories of pandemic listening this year, the project also expects to see reflections from fans on their pre-COVID listening, thanks to the recently launched MyHarkive web app.

Dr Hamilton continues, saying, “The MyHarkive app allows people who have taken part in previous years to revisit their stories. I wanted people to be able to look back at the way they used technologies in 2013, or to look back at the music they were sharing in 2017. I think those stories will take on an extra significance this year as people compare them to their 2020 experience.”

The MyHarkive web app is available at: https://popmusicresearch.online/myharkive/. Visitors enter the social media username they posted from in previous years and are presented with a timeline visualisation of their past posts, even showing them the time of day they posted. A database view also allows users to read their past text, and follow links to music they shared.

●     In previous year the project has featured extensively across BBC Radio, with pre-recorded packages and live interviews airing on BBC 4 Today Programme, 5Live Drive, The World Service, BBC Radio Scotland and BBC local radio. The project has also received coverage from a diverse range of online and print media outlets, including NME, Popjustice, The 405, Hypebot and LouderThanWar. In each year the project has run the #harkive hashtag has been a top trending topic on UK Twitter.
●     Harkive was developed by Dr. Craig Hamilton, a research fellow in the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research at Birmingham City University.  His research explores contemporary popular music reception practices and the role of digital, data and Internet technologies on the business and cultural environments of music consumption. Prior to entering academia, Craig spent 20 years working in the music industries, in retail, the live sector and in digital distribution, as well as working as a musician and songwriter, most notably recording two BBC Radio 1 sessions for the late John Peel.
Music lovers will be able to contribute their stories on Tuesday 21 July, either by posting to social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr using the #harkive hashtag, or by emailing the project directly. A full list of available methods can be found on the project website www.harkive.org

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This is a mixed bag in terms of genres, but probably a pretty good indication what my favourite kinds of music are. Kosmischer Laufer is dreamy Krautrock and presented as the official music of the East German Olympic training programme from the early 1970s, something I’m prepared to suspend my disbelief about. Swampmeat Family Band are a garage/country outfit from here in Birmingham. My own band, Independent Country (https://independentcountry.bandcamp.com), play with them regularly and they are just great. The new album, Muck!, is their best one yet. Another Brummie is James Summerfield, who is just an incredible songwriter who over the last 15 years or so has released a bunch of great records. I’m convinced that - one day - the world is going to come around to my way of thinking on this. Posthuman scratches my acid house itch with his Bandcamp releases, but also makes great playlists of new and old Acid elsewhere online. The Memory Band are one of my very favourites – a mixture of folk, field recordings, and found sounds played by a rolling cast of insultingly talented musicians. And talking of insultingly talented, Dorian Wood is simply a one-off. An incredible singer who makes beautiful records.

Pete Fowler

Name: Pete Fowler
Website: https://petefowler.tumblr.com
Link to complete bandcamp collection: https://bandcamp.com/petefowler

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Pictish Trail

Name: PICTISH TRAIL
Website: http://lostmap.bandcamp.com / http://pictishtrail.co.uk
Link to complete bandcamp collection: https://bandcamp.com/lostmap

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