What better way to end 2025 but with a Bandcamp episode!

If you are a serious music lover and have not created a Bandcamp fan account, I highly recommend you do so. You can follow artists, record labels, and other music fans. When you follow indie record labels, your inbox will get slammed with new releases. It can be overwhelming to follow more than 5 indie record labels, but I assure you, it is worth it. You will no longer be the music fan stuck in your nostalgia, as it’s a great way to keep up with the music that is out there.

The track list with hyperlinks!

1. Your Country Needs You - H.R. Frank
2. Hella Tight- Jesse Lebourdais
3. Spirit Adapter - YÏN YÏN
4. Lonely For You Baby- Sam Dees
5. I Believe in You - Ladytron
6. The Pit - Soft Moon
7. Teenage Spaceship - Thrashpalace
8. Too Much Tension - Mystery Lights
9. Sun Youth - DATES
10. Her Jazz - Huggy Bear
11. Memory - FEATURE
12. Losing Battle - Adolescents
13. Someone I Can Talk To - The Limps

New to bandcamp?

Check out my Substack for a crash course in how to use Bandcamp as a music fan

Do you even bandcamp - the crash course for the music fan

There Will Be Clash and Joe Strummer

Over the past decade yours truly would often do a Joe Strummer special once or twice a year.

I am not sure if I will do any more Joe Strummer specials, there is that possibility but I think I really want to unarchive my older specials so that they can exist.

Long time music pals of EatKS Christian D the frontman of Christian D and the Sinners and Adam Sewell frontman of Monster Voodoo Machine, Def Con Sound System, artist manager and writer joined me derailing conversations about The Clash and Joe Strummer.

We only had scratched the surface with talking about Joe Strummer, The Clash when it comes to the albums, the demos, the bootlegs, the boxset, our personal stories about the songs we love, some of the best books to read.

We didn’t talk about all the albums, all the bootlegs, all the books or all the boxsets.

What I hope that people will get from this is that Clash fans are unique because The Clash was one of the very few bands that could pull pub rock, reggae, first wave ska, dub, rockabilly, and even some new wave music fans. Is there one Clash fan that is right and another Clash fan that is wrong?

Listen to the show and you’ll see for yourself that The Clash, and Joe Strummer hit differently for some Clash/Strummer fans. Check out EatKS.com or my Subtstack Nikki EatKS for the links to the books, and the interviews we talked about in the show.

Track List

1. Know Your Rights - The Clash - Combat Rock
2. Straight To Hell - The Clash - Combat Rock
3. Tommy Gun - The Clash - Give Em Enough Rope
4. What’s My Name - The Clash - The Clash (UK version)
5. This Is England - The Clash - Out of Control Demos
6. Love Kills - Joe Strummer - Sid and Nancy Movie
7. V. Thirteen - Big Audio Dynamite (Written by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones)
8. Police On My Back* - The Clash - Sandinista!
9. The Call Up - The Clash - Sandinista!!
10. Washington Bullets - The Clash - Sandinista!
11. Naughty Christmas - Fat Les and Joe Strummer
12. Trash City - Joe Strummer and Latino Rockabilly War
13. Turkish Song of The Damned - Joe Strummer and the Pogues
14. Ramshackle Day Parade - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros- Streetcore
15. Burning Streets -Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros- Streetcore
16. Arms Aloft - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros- Streetcore
17. Glue Zombie - The Clash - Out of Control Demos
18. Galleani - The Clash - Out of Control Demos

Another EatKS show for you, if you missed the show I did a couple of weeks ago, do check it out as I had some great guest on my show and it was so much fun to talk about their fundraiser for Community Music Schools of Toronto and play some tunes that might end up on their playlist as well as music from the musicians themselves. Check out the playlist and show notes on my substack page or my website page, and yes as always I give you ALL the hyperlinks. This episode of EatKS, I have 15 tracks mostly inspired by putting my music library on shuffle. I listen to my music mostly when I'm traveling, writing, cleaning the house etc,

As much as people love their record collections, are you really going to walk over to the record player and switch records when cleaning your place? Don’t lie to me and say you do!

The best part of having your music digitally is that you can be surprised, take a trip down memory lane, and be amused with what nonsense will happen when you put you music library on shuffle.

When I say music library, I mean your CD’s you ripped, the digital download codes from the records you bought, the digital tracks you bought from Bandcamp or maybe you did the dropbox thingy with your music pals and swapped music.

Track List:

Fall From Grace - Babyshambles

So Far Away - Social Distortion

Twenty Four Hours - Joy Division

Lagartija - Bauhaus

Radio Silence - Bastard Child Death Cult

Blew - Nirvana

Janice Graham Band - No Money Honey

Bankrupt - Naked Aggression

Upon Yesterday - Ian Blurton

Clouds of Saint Marie - Ride

Dreams of Children - The Jam

Out of Sight - James Brown

Platico Chino - Afrosound

Swing Baby! - Big Rude Jake

Out of Many - Audioweb

Armagideon Time - The Clash

A start of a new series perhaps? I do love Bandcamp and Bandcamp has done so much for artists during these trying times with COVID. Each month this year they waived their fees on a Friday so that the artists and labels get 100% of the money. They plan to continue this through 2021.

With my grassroots word of mouth #NoPantsRecordStoreShopping hashtag a very tiny community of music junkies post their favourite bands that they have found and it is a great rabbit hole of music genres. Hashtags aren’t just about trends, they are also search engines.

A lot of these picks are from 2020 so despite 2020 being a crappy year for everything else, some killer music was still put out. You might say that is a glass half full, I see a glass that can always be filled. Thanks for listening and once again thanks to Bombshell Radio for their continuing support in airing my shows no matter how infrequent they are.

You can stream the show via Mixcloud here. The show is also available where you can get your podcasts except Spotify. Sorry music nerds, Nikki don’t do Spotify.

This is an EatKS show that solely focuses on bands that have a bandcamp page for music fans to get their music from whether it be in a digital or physical form is not the point. Its that music fans have access to a better way to support a band/artist/record label.

Sure it's been a while but good music come to those that wait! Or something like that. This episode features tracks from two fantastic compilations as well as a TON of music from bands all over the world and lots of genres.

The show is called Everything and the Kitchen Sink for a reason ;)

You can stream the show via Mixcloud here. The show is also available where you can get your podcasts except Spotify. Sorry music nerds, Nikki don’t do Spotify.

EatKS (Everything and the Kitchen Sink) shows are a mix of old, new, global, and Bandcamp music all across the genres, sub-genres, and weird fusions. Do You Even Bandcamp Bro is a series where I solely focus on Bandcamp artists. I have dabbled with the idea of other themed shows, such as deeper cuts, which focus on less well-known songs from an album. (that is still a possibility)

I am so excited to finally take a moment, reflect, regroup and realize that this show, EatKS (the short form for Everything and the Kitchen Sink), needed to see the light of day again. For new listeners, this show started back in 2011, and it’s been a roller coaster of a ride. Even in the DIY scene, gatekeeping has always been a reality. I am a person who believes that you don’t stay quiet when there is xenophobia in the DIY circles. I will call out microaggressions and misogyny, sometimes publicly and sometimes behind closed doors, but when you do that, it means you also have to burn those bridges/connections.

I do realize that in 2020, I burned many bridges with other radio hosts, music bloggers, music sites and musicians because their allyship with certain marginalized groups or causes was just mere social bandwagoning only when it didn’t affect them, their friends, their networks were comfortable to speak out.

EatKS has been 100% DIY with a few kind supporters to help offset some of the costs to keep the lights on this nonsense. I am forever grateful to those supporters and also the supporters that share the show on their social media platforms. I can’t quit this because I love music and I love sharing my love of music with you. It’s like me creating a mixtape of bands for you.

I finally got to chat with the organizer of Ceol Kids (a music crowd-funding event) for Community Music Schools of Toronto.

Check out EatKS.com or EatKS on Substack for the show notes and groovy hyper links.

Track List

The Cranberries - Dreams

The Tragically Hip - Fireworks

Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills

Joan and The Jane Does - Drown A Goat

Christian and The Sinners - Monday Feels Like A Week

Track Listing:

En Passent - Dub Trio

Birds of Prey - Hether Fortune

Grab Your Cloak We Are Going Haunting - Fatal Obelisk

Slithering Friends - Heart Attack Kids

Mrs. Piss - Mrs. Piss

Nostalgia Road - Christian and The Sinners

End of the World - JAWS

Love Song - The Peacocks

The Call - SPECTRES

Not On Loop- KILL BELL

She Breathes - Dead Leaf Echo

Let Me Have Some - GLOO

Kuin Öinen Meri - Havukruunu

Cause Unknown - HIMKO

Between The Badges - Now You Are Smiling But We Have All Turned Into Demons