Deathbomb Arc Digital Singles Club starts in September with Foot Village, U.S. Girls, Modern Witch

Deathbomb Arc Digital Singles Club starts in September with Foot Village, U.S. Girls, Modern Witch

They always come back to digital. Or at least that’s how it seems. There was the Deathbomb Arc Tape Club, whose subscribers (limited to an extremely slim 100 per year) received cassette tapes per month with contributions from folks like Hawnay Troof, Lucky Dragons, and A++. “Cassettes are the new vinyl,” they said. Perhaps because it’s proven too hard to find good tape decks in the new rush for cassettes these days, this year Deathbomb is beginning its Deathbomb Digital Singles Club — no cheap plastic allowed.

Exclusivity is everything when coolness is involved (or making a living), so free download sites like RCRD LBL just won’t do anymore. K Records had the right idea when earlier this summer they made their time-honored singles club go digital. In similar fashion, subscribers to the Deathbomb Digital Singles Club will have two unreleased tracks at their disposal each week via clandestine links and passwords, with art by Modern Witch’s Mario Zoots. “But cassettes sound better!” you whine. Well, get off Facebook and go back to your analog, then. These tracks will be in both MP3 and hi-res quality, so no complaining about fidelity.

Subscriptions are only $10, the price of a new CD (depending) with a paltry 12 tracks (generally). It runs until September 2011 — that’s 104 songs for subscribers, plus bonus releases from time to time, and the guarantee of being cool.

Confirmed bands for the series:

Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk, Back to the Future the Ride, Batwings Catwings, BITCHES, Blackbird Blackbird, Blissed Out, Captain Ahab, Ear Pwr, Endless Endless Endless, Ghost Animal, Girls in the Eighties, Haunted Horses, IE, Jason Forrest, Juiceboxxx/Foot Village collaboration, Kevin Greenspon, Kiss Kiss Fantastic, Mickey Mickey Rourke, Modern Witch, Pariah Carey, Railcars, Rale, Saivus, Sickboy, Sister Fucker (members of Child Pornography, ex-Coughs), Teeth, Turbine, tik///tik, The Urxed (member of High Places), U.S. Girls, VNV.

Go here to set up your subscription and listen to an audio sample of a Ghost Animal contribution.

• Deathbomb Arc: http://www.deathbombarc.com

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