Imagine the tombstone reading "Trapper Radio Blog", and the hand holding a keyboard or a taco or something blogger-y. I promise that I'll make it work this time. Track list for April 20th, 2010:
- Cavaliers - Green Eyes (Cavaliers, ind)
- From Fiction - Terry (Bloodwork, Last Gang)
- Collective Efforts - In Your Mind (Medicine, ind)
- Bridge & Tunnel - Indoor Voices (Indoor Voices EP, No Idea) !
- Mantler - Fresh and Fair (Monody, Tomlab) !
- Jon Cleary - When You Get Back (And the Absolute Monster Gentleman, Basin Street)
- Ian La Rue & The Condor - A Crow's Flight (A History of Layers, ind) !
- Peter Karp & Sue Foley - Mm Hmm (He Said She Said, Stony Plain) !
- Clutch - Opossum Minister (From Beale Street to Oblivion, DRT)
- Orphan Choir - Parable (Orphan Choir, Art of the Underground) #
- Bruce Barth - I'm Old Fashioned (East and West, Maxjazz)
- Tin Kitchen - Archibald Alexander (Grace EP, ind)
- Guru - Transit Ride (Jazzmatazz Vol. 1, Virgin)
- Poirier - 90's Backyard (Running High, Ninja Tune) !
- Thom Swift - Killer (Blue Sky Day, Ground Swell) !
- Everyone Everywhere - Tiny Planet (Self-titled, Tiny Engine) !
- Shotgun Jimmie - Unlimited (Paint it Pink EP, Just Friends)
- Shotgun Jimmie - Drunkenness (Paint it Pink EP, Just Friends)
In addition to stuff from the new Bridge & Tunnel EP, I played the first track from Everyone Everywhere's impending full-length release. The band and their label, Tiny Engine, are going to be hosting a new song from the album for free download every day at a different music blog. The list of songs and where to find them can be found in this blog post. You can also pre-order a physical copy of the album here.
I'm really intrigued and impressed by the way this new wave of DIY punk bands are conducting their business. Traditionally, DIY punk has taken a staunch anti-corporate view to music by taking control of how it's bands create and distribute their music. By and large, the majority (although not all) of punk rock today is written about rebelling against the mainstream music business, rather than the old "Anarchy in the UK" anti-authority trope many people are used to. But while most fans discover and consume their music through their computers, the furthest that labels like No Idea, Plan-it-X, Suburban Home, Asian Man (and so on and so on) have delved are setting up websites and adapting their mail-orders to online stores. I love those labels, and I'm not suggesting they should do a thing to change their business models. Suburban Home in particular is at the forefront of creation regarding distribution of physical music. Many of them are very supportive of the bands I'm referring to, and do distro for many of the physical releases of the albums. I'm just saying that it is refreshing that a whole movement of bands have naturally come to a place that is really innovative and confident in a realm that is really uncertain and scary from a sustainability perspective.
These new bands, like EE and Bridge & Tunnel and many more who have become associated with DIY site If You Make It, are not only embracing the DIY ethic, but finding new ways to apply it to the changing methods of music distribution and consumption. They've found a way to please both the broke fans and the music purists by providing a large offering of free stuff with options to buy physical, namely on vinyl. It makes a lot more sense when you also consider how many punk bands release most of their music on small EPs and splits. Even if you doubt the practicality and sustainability of how they do things, you have to admire that they are at least embracing a reality of modern music (digital distribution) that the majority of bands and labels have been struggling with (or denying it's existence at all).
photo courtesy www.mitchclem.com, Nothing Nice to Say. Copyright 2005.
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