Flush It Friday: MusiCares, Bandcamp, and Your Wallet
A love triangle.
Today, until midnight PST (Poseur Standard Time), Bandcamp is donating 100% of their collected fees from all purchase to MusiCares, an organization that “provides critical support to the music community, offering mental health counseling, addiction recovery, health services, housing assistance, and more during times of crisis.” It’s not quite Bandcamp Friday, but it is quite the injunction to clear out that Wish List. You can also access Mutual Aid LA’s resource catalogue here.
What are some things you could buy? So glad you asked.
Guilt Dispenser – Detonation
Independent | January 1, 2025
I’m sorry. That should read GUILT DISPENSER – DETONATION. We’re in all-caps territory here. Hardcore/fastcore/grindcore from Los Angeles that more or less explodes through 18 tracks in around 9 minutes. This album is a blast. I hope the band blows up. You could say they’ve really burst onto the scene. Album closer “Surrender” goes out with a bang and not a whimper. More like Banjo-Kablooey!, am I right? I’d like to formally apologize to GUILT DISPENSER for this ridiculous “review.” I hope all the band members are safe. Buy this record. It’ll fracture your stupid skull and rupture your medulla oblongata.
School Drugs – Disposition
Indecision records | June 14, 2024
The final installment of a four-EP set, Disposition is melodic hardcore punk from New Jersey that sounds like Dag Nasty and Poison Idea and Black Flag-era Ceremony and Garden State shoutout to Get Real’s Shore Style LP while we’re at it. “Feel Like Shit” is the obvious standout here. “I feel like fuckin’ shit / Like livin’ ain’t even worth it / Like fuckin’ failure’s the purpose / Like everyone makes me nervous / Like I’m less of a person.” Are you goin’ to mob the stage to sing along or hit in the pit to skank with extra stank?
Rwake – If You Walk Before You Crawl, You Crawl Before You Die
At A Loss | August 6, 2004 (Original Version)
Dead Media Tapes | December 2, 2019 (This Version)
The greatest band to ever crawl out of fucking anywhere announced their first new record since 2011’s Rest. We’ll talk more about that when it’s released. If You Walk Before You Crawl is the best sludge record of the 00s and might be the band’s magnum opus. (We can have that debate later.) A couple years ago, Dead Media Tapes made an 8-track format of the album. It’s $35, and I think someone should buy it for me for my birthday, which is this weekend. “My first instinct was to beat the hell out of ya. You know that, don’tcha?”
American Football – American Football (Live in Los Angeles)
Independent & Polyvinyl | February 7, 2025 (and then later)
I’m a broken record about perfect records. Here’s a live version of a perfect record recorded across two shows in Los Angeles last October. It’ll get the proper treatment later, but the band is putting it out digitally through Sunday. “For the entire weekend 100% of Polyvinyl & American Football’s proceeds from American Football (Live in Los Angeles) will be donated to the California Community Fund.” Donations on donations on donations. They even got some of the artists that were on the tribute album to play with them live. I need those songs and you do, too. Champaign, I love you.
Snawfuss – Quiet Season
Fiadh Productions | Today | Frosted-shell cassette (naturally)
We’re playin’ all the hits today: hardcore bands, Rwake, American Football, and Fiadh Productions. One of my Fiadh beloveds Snawfuss has blessed us, on a 70-degree day in Atlanta in early February, with a new dazzling of snowflakes to plant in the rime-enchanted soil to grow fields of snowy blankets that will keep you warm when you turn off the heat bill to save a little extra money to buy all these tapes. Title track “Quiet Season” returns to the delicate post-rock of last year’s Six-Petal Rosette. Stay still. No need to disrupt the fragile grace of it all.
Do what you can. That’s all that matters. Except… the flush!
Stick Pressed our Monday. Roldy This’d our Tuesday. We love them and thank them for their efforts.
Remember when DeAndre Jordan ended Brandon Knight’s life? Brock did something similar here.
Toilet Radio 542 with Joe n Jordan talkin’ about smelly dudes and their AI cologne, huge fucking dorks, and legitimately bad people.
Stevo gave 3 Toilets to the latest effort from Raging Speedhorn. Can’t help but hear “New Hampshire’s All Right if You Like Fighting” when reading this review.
It’s Friday, y’all. The weekend is here. I’m turning an age. I love celebrations. I hope you have the loveliest of times till Monday and then after Monday and forever. Read through the posts, make some comments, support our contributors, and slap your GBUs down below. Hell, I might even read ’em! <3<3<3
