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Link Session: Benefit compilations and related items

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A compendium of benefit compilations and related items recently noted and received:

    Benefit Compilations

  • Coming Together For A Cure, Vol. 2, featuring songs from Thee Oh Sees, Cave Singers, Elf Power and many more, to support adult stem cell therapy and research.
  • Posting this one again because when it comes to noonday demons and black dogs run amok, April is not the cruelest month, September is: Country Fried Rock Vol. 2 for Nuci’s Space, featuring songs from Drivin n Cryin, the District Attorneys, Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy, Michelle Malone Banned and many more, to support Nuci’s Space, a non-profit health and music resource center in Athens, GA.

    The aim of the organization is to prevent suicide by providing obstacle free treatment for musicians suffering from depression and other such disorders as well as to assist in the emotional, physical and professional well-being of musicians.

  • National Endowment for the Brents, featuring songs from a broad variety of Chicago and Los Angeles musicians, including JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, Bumpus, Terrible Spaceship, and Rachael Yamagata, to help “sexy sax man” Brent Puls pay for some recent life-saving surgery.

    • Related Items

  • Brown Bird is still on hiatus while Dave Lamb does battle with leukemia. They have a donate button on their homepage, if the spirit moves you that way, but you can also buy their tunes from Bandcamp.

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  • Jon Walker is also temporarily out of commission following hand surgery. Folk song enthusiasts, head over there and see if anything strikes your fancy.

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  • Tom Oakes of More Amor is selling some amazing paintings and picture remixes to help pay for repairs done to one of his knees. Copy of More Amore’s Gracias? (combination of In Spanish and Thanks? EPs plus two additional songs) and poem included with each work!
     
    I’m particularly fond of this one, which is called Party Catz:
     
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Link Session: Hurricane Sandy Relief Edition v. 2

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Revised and expanded from last week, but by no means complete.
 
Studios and Labels in Need of Assistance:

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Link Session: Hurricane Sandy Relief Edition

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I’ve seen a lot of music and music-related hurricane relief efforts in my various feeds in the last week; I’ve gathered a bunch of them here for quick reference.

  • Web Aid is a benefit album assembled at lightening speed and featuring a wide variety of electronic music artists, including Staten Island native Udachi, Kicks n’ Licks, Disco Fries and Mic the Drums. Their goal is to raise at least $5,000 for the Carl V. Bini Fund.

    [Ed note: The Bini Fund is based on Staten Island, New York City’s smallest borough, and as all of you have probably seen on the news, they took quite a beating. What the news may not have mentioned is that Staten Island is also home to many, many of the first responders – police, fire, sanitation, etc – who were out in the howling wind and rain taking care of the rest of the city, and will be up to their necks in the wreckage for weeks and months to come.]

  • Portions of the proceeds for the NYC premiere of the Bobby Bare Jr. documentary Don’t Follow Me (I’m Lost) on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012, will be donated to the relief efforts; email the filmmakers for more information.
  • Bayside, who are collectively Manhattan/Long Island/Queens natives, have benefit shirts available; proceeds to the Greater New York Red Cross.
  • Taking Back Sunday, collectively from Long Island, have adjusted their current Tell All Your Friends tour to include some benefit shows. Proceeds will go to the Toms River Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund (New Jersey) and also relief efforts in Long Beach, NY.
  • Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi) will be donating all of the profits from his upcoming solo show at the Fonda Theater in LA to the Red Cross Hurricane Sandy Fund. He’s also added some special ticket packages.
  • Bands on a Budget, Humble Humans and CoWerks, all Jersey Shore businesses, have joined together to create the Restore the Shore campaign and create benefit shirts/hoodies. Proceeds are currently going the Red Cross but other beneficiaries/partners are in the works. They are temporarily sold out of merchandise but there is a waiting list!
  • Un-Flood BK Music is taking donations to help rebuild studios and practice spaces destroyed by the storm, including Translator Audio.
  • And finally, Candidate is offering a free copy of their new record to anyone who has contributed to hurricane relief who sends them an email with the subject line “I donated.” They solemnly swear no spam shall be forthcoming, only delicious music.