This coming Wednesday night I’ll be doing a livestream to talk about the new record. The great
@ghstmnthrd
will be there along with the one & only
@nickwebbr
. Maybe even
@Devlmaker
will show up too. Gonna be fun! Stream available right here via StreamYard. Hope you’ll tune in.
Wish I could look musicians in their eyes and say with my chest that I know shit is horrible for a lot of you right now but y’all stay keeping my ass alive. You don’t know the impact some chords, notes, lyrics have on a person sometimes. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. ✨
My middle child has been hospitalized all week with some complications from her Crohn’s disease so I stayed away from this place out of necessity for most of the week. Still made y’all a mix. It’s mostly for me and my momma. Wishing y’all health and happy in the new year. ❤️
Begging any artist to give more of a damn about that kid to whom your record means the world to than any kind of incorporated good job sticker. That shit is cool and can feel alluring, but that kid singing your record back to you at a show .. that’s timeless
Remember around this time of Spotify Wrapped season. The music business fu**ed you, the people in love with your music did not.
Always know the difference.
To smaller artists. There are people out there like me who still just love music, I promise. You don’t have to be the coolest, cleverest, prettiest, or the best on Twitter. Be true to your art and make people feel something. It still matters. I know it did to me.
None of this is the internet’s business but I’m like y’all and I work my shit out here as well. I lost my brother towards the end of April 2020 and today is his birthday. When I say there are no small artists or I support good people no matter the label or acronym you throw on
If I’m naming at least one of my favorite records from this year it’s the
@xgregmendezx
self titled. Greg is one of my OG pals here. Being able to experience this record early on and through the process was the ultimate gift from one of the coolest and kindest humans ever.
As this new Bandcamp Friday happens I’m either going to be celebrating your music, buying your music, or bringing other people to your music. You’re the engine. You make it all go. Let’s get this first one off to a great start.
If I’m RT’ng it’s as good as a formal suggestion.
Tomorrow is a bandcamp Friday (finally)! They are my favorite kind of Fridays, because it’s a chance to support artists in a more direct manner. Gonna drop a thread and I’ll add to it later and tomorrow of artists in my collection. They are all worth of your attention.
Hey
@mo_troper
get your friends cuz I’m either the nicest guy you ever met or an older much less considerate version of myself.
The only warning any of y’all get!
Yo I am not at Fauxchella. It’s important that diy knows there is so much diversity at LGR and in your scene at large.
Not every black guy is Curtis. I promise. They are most likely way more talented and way more lit than I am. Y’all better than that.
I just want everyone to know when I listen to music it’s not really diy and major artists to me. It’s music that I really enjoy, period. While I know they exist, I don’t see the divisions. You’re all stars to me. In my heart, there are no small artists. Keep the art coming y’all
I have felt bad about using Spotify but keep trying to do the most good I can with it. I gotta chill tf and kill my dumbass ego. I literally just got offended by someone comparing Spotify users to scabs. Like I have a one of one Swim Camp hoodie. I know I’m not the problem.
Couldn’t let today go by without saying this one serious thing. Today was two years since I lost one of my brothers (cancer). Couldn’t say goodbye cuz of Covid. As a reckless youth I was invincible, got older and didn’t want to live. Now I wanna keep everyone as long as possible
There’s gonna be so much cool stuff happening in music in the next few months and I hope to be around to celebrate with y’all. For now I have to tell you that I’m taking a break from everything until I feel I can fully be me me in every capacity. This is hard but necessary. ❤️
Looking to put my feet back into this celebration of music thing. Missed y’all. My neurosis is very much mine no matter how much it might seem that I share. So shout out to humans just trying to be alive and solve problems and be a parent and a partner and so on.
U R loved
This is very much the entire plot. If it’s not this type of energy what are you even here for?? I am a fan of music, a friend to humans who create all kinds of art and one of the most passionate cheerleaders of all of it. Nothing else makes a ton of sense to me.
A lot of people in the music industry are about to tell y’all to ramp down. That whole “quiet end of the year time”. I personally think that’s when those of us who care about music and musicians should be making the most noise. It would be worth you time to 1/3
A really good friend said something to me about believing in restorative justice that doesn’t involve someone being able to just grab their platform back. You can make mistakes but that shouldn’t lead to you just easily getting it all back. I feel like that’s fair.
Trans Day of Visibility is important to me because my friends are important to me. Genuinely caring about someone means you want all the best possibilities for their life. I love you and constantly wish for all the love, safety and consideration you deserve.
I’ve begun to feel like the way I digest and love music is in itself a privilege. As a music fan I feel so far away from most of my peers. Like I’m still that weird dude who was way too into cheering. Y’all, I was an actual cheerleader irl. Yet still I can’t help but 1/4
I must admit I sometimes wonder what’s the point? Why spend so much time and energy to make music and put it out into the world? Then I remember how much joy it gives me just to make something I’m proud of and how the process of making makes me a better a human. This is my why.
Update on mercy: she’s still admitted there were talks of transfers to a different facility. She has to have more drains placed. They want to handle things that way versus a more intense surgery due to her Crohn’s. 9days in she just wants to go home Thanks again for the kindness
When we talk about restorative justice , in this manner, we are speaking of the persons ability to grow and become a better version of themselves. Not an equally or more financially lucrative version of themselves. Some of y’all are promoting impunity not mercy!
Pro tip: if you have limited resources for
@Bandcamp
Friday. Look for Comps you can support, people who offer a reduced price for purchasing their entire catalog, and also name your own price releases. You may not always be able to do tons but can show love in your own way. 🙏🏾
This was hands down one of the most affecting conversations I’ve had. We celebrate the power of art, resilience, and allowing yourself love and permission to be who you are, bravely. This record is special and I’m beyond honored to be a part of this added piece of it. ❤️❤️
This morning I had the pleasure of talking with Curtis the Great
@ghstmnthrd
about my new album. For everyone who buys the new record on Bandcamp you’ll get access to this one off podcast. Consider it a companion piece to the record. Pre-orders are still up at
@totallyrealrecs
TODAY IS BANDCAMP FRIDAY
AND ITS BLACK HISTORY MONTH
SUPPORT BLACK ARTISTS
STOP SLEEPING ON INCREDIBLY TALENTED BANDS BECAUSE YOU ACTIVELY GIVE THEM LESS OF YOUR ATTENTION
.
@Bartees_Strange
's uncontainable ambitions have made him one of the fastest-rising stars in indie rock and beyond.
Now, with a new album poised to make him even bigger, he wants to open doors for other Black and brown artists.
Couple of things:
I Love everyone at Lonely Ghost so much. That’s family.
I’ll be back to this diy stuff soon.
Stop making fantano famous. Y’all are all the best choosers of great music. You’re the algorithm.
Follow the list!!
Love y’all,
Curtis
Today was sincerely a Jas sort of day. There will be more music tomorrow.
I’ll drop my weekly mix then.
Want to say a big congrats to Ratboys, Skatune Network, and Spanish Love Songs. Some solid releases today. Today was a happy I’m alive, enjoying art day. See ya tomorrow!!
Take care of your health where you can. Be good to yourselves and others, as hard as that can be sometimes. Get your cancer screenings if you’re at that point in life. Listen to good music, eat good food. Mostly love yourself because you’re worth it. It’s all too short not to.
I have always admired
@Foxing
for doing whatever the hell they wanted. Yet there’s always something for me in the music. I feel like the band grew with me. This album had a way to address my brothers death on it and also a way for me to settle my unease with the world at large.
Hope this person has a super chill day. At least I get to ascribe macho to my name for being LGR-pilled. Miss the days where people just called me a nigger and moved on.
Thinking happy thoughts of my brother that passed and how he helped foster my belief in my musical tastes when I was younger:
“That’s just Curtis, he likes his acid rock”. Meanwhile I’m listening to The Cure or something. Lol.
Miss you Leon. 💕
I’d like to believe it’s how I’ve kept him with me. For every person my life touches his gets to keep doing the same. So to my friends and followers alike. For me and my brother, love yourselves and let that create a ripple that travels throughout everyone you meet. ❤️🙏🏾✌🏾
If y’all weren’t listening to me talk all year, that’s on y’all. This is my brother from another and he didn’t know it was happening. You saved me this year fam. That’s on everything. You are appreciated. 🙏🏾
If I could tell one or one million artists something, it would be to continue to persevere if possible. The different artists over the last few years who have helped me, even through their own times of struggle, is immeasurable. I can’t be the only one. Y’all really do matter!!
Some days even most days the suffering present in this world is so prevalent and overwhelming that I feel completely lost. Writing music helps me find my way. The whole creative process is a light itself. I think that’s why I keep coming back…for some sort of light.
Count me as one of the people who will never tell someone how to navigate their pain. I’ve made this mistake before in close friendships because I was trying to “help” them. Turns out I was just trying to make me feel like I could help. Helping is offering what’s asked for.
Thoughts:
Praise in public, counsel in private.
Accountability is a weird thing to be put on display to be torn apart by a supposed empathetic community?
Be careful with the dunks. Keep dunking and someone who really needs to come clean with some shit, will never do it.
Fear mongering and litigious threats I think I hit a nerve and I never even used MO’s name.
I think doth dost Di*k ride too much.
@mo_troper
for the last time call your dogs inside cuz I’m built differently then all of you.
If I hear people say, there’s nothing special happening in music anymore, I will know they aren’t listening, aren’t being honest, or are just chasing some negative Ned clout. They are the proverbial opp.
This is a subtweet to the absolute heat that’s going down in my DMs.IYKYK
Feel like more people should be unabashedly effusive about the things they love. Don’t save that for a rainy day because it rains here all the time.
Happy Bandcamp Friday!!
Maybe people stop fawning over this guy who you probably have better taste than tbh. I mean he never took me up on listening to CHEEM. How much can he truly be trusted?!
I’m extra salty cuz this is one of my favorite songs off of the new record. The baldacity, smh!
Crazy how some of these people in my neighborhood would be the first to say shit like inflation this, economy that and it sounds like a fucking war zone outside right now. Trust me when I say I’ve never been THIS proud of ANYTHING. It’s just too damn much!
These are people that I look up to in this “scene” . Always full-throated cheerleaders for this community. Today is a great day to return some of that love in a more tangible way. ❤️
Our new EP, "Chaos Magick" is now out everywhere on
@skapunkintl
!
We are so proud of these songs and are so happy to share them with you. Full EP streaming everywhere, 10'' vinyl pre orders and new merch designs available now at the SPI website
From the moment
@PhonesWithChrds
told me that there was something special in the works with
@bensooy
I knew it would find a real place in my heart/life. The themes on this record resonate so much 4 me right now. Add getting a king from the king of diy
@filip_zemcik
, I’m floating.
Thank you middle of the night Distrokid alert and thank you Will. This is a musical famous first. You know like the first time you heard Dookie, or Tell All Your Friends. I think the entire world could relate to this epic piece of art. On repeat.
Moved and changed,
Curtis
Surprise!
MOLLIFY IS HERE.
Didn’t want my USA peeps to have to wait while Australia & the UK got it early, so…
My debut LP is FINALLY here!
Go listen NOW & spread the word EVERYWHERE for me homies.
Welcome to the beginning of the end.
One of the best parts of knowing
@Superdestroyed
is to see the passion he has for the diy community. Here’s a reminder to like/follow the 365 Days of Diy Support playlist. A home for songs from the artists he features daily on his page.
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