Tracy Keats Wilson
@courtesydesk.bsky.social
In service to independent music from around the world for 35+ years. Courtesy Desk, Turntable Report, Outer World, writer, Dahlia Seed, Flipside (NJ), DJ, Record CollectHER, and hugger. Alcohol compliance specialist by day. RVA yay!
Reposted by Tracy Keats Wilson
Hark! The Quietus Albums of 2025 chart is here! Prepare to be astounded, thrilled and (potentially) perplexed. tQ subscribers can also dive into selections from all 100 albums in our bumper 9-hour playlist. #tQCharts
What have been your top picks of the year?
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What have been your top picks of the year?
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December 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Hark! The Quietus Albums of 2025 chart is here! Prepare to be astounded, thrilled and (potentially) perplexed. tQ subscribers can also dive into selections from all 100 albums in our bumper 9-hour playlist. #tQCharts
What have been your top picks of the year?
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What have been your top picks of the year?
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One last collection of Bandcamp favorites from November which includes: Thee Headcoatees (new record ?!?!), Anika, Yalla Miku (#bestof2025), Notwist, a run of great new dub music, and more. www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
CourtesyDesk - Courtesy Desk November 2025 Bandcamp Favorites Part 6
A website for curating and sharing lists of independent music downloads available on Bandcamp.
www.buymusic.club
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
One last collection of Bandcamp favorites from November which includes: Thee Headcoatees (new record ?!?!), Anika, Yalla Miku (#bestof2025), Notwist, a run of great new dub music, and more. www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
Each pulled forward LP is a rock double, meaning my husband owns a copy of it too. We will have a LOT of mind melting rarities to sell a week from today, considering this is just the first few letters of the alphabet. Wish us luck, this is gonna be a lot of work!
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Each pulled forward LP is a rock double, meaning my husband owns a copy of it too. We will have a LOT of mind melting rarities to sell a week from today, considering this is just the first few letters of the alphabet. Wish us luck, this is gonna be a lot of work!
Dear RVA record collectors. My husband and I are starting to sell off our doubles after nearly 20 years together. This will be your chance to buy all sorts of gems (some very rare) at fair prices.
November 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Dear RVA record collectors. My husband and I are starting to sell off our doubles after nearly 20 years together. This will be your chance to buy all sorts of gems (some very rare) at fair prices.
Nov has been a wild month for new music. Here is playlist #5 & there will likely still be one more before Dec! This week we have a familiar folks like Velocity Girl, Huggy Bear, and Wreckless Eric, but there are lots of newer favorites releasing new music like ... www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
CourtesyDesk - Courtesy Desk November 2025 Bandcamp Favorites Part 5
A website for curating and sharing lists of independent music downloads available on Bandcamp.
www.buymusic.club
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Nov has been a wild month for new music. Here is playlist #5 & there will likely still be one more before Dec! This week we have a familiar folks like Velocity Girl, Huggy Bear, and Wreckless Eric, but there are lots of newer favorites releasing new music like ... www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
Music to start your week off with a bang: More Maraudeur, Clickbait, Tony Molina, Sunny & the Sunsets, Miniskirt, Nusantara Beat, Via, and more!
www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
CourtesyDesk - Courtesy Desk November 2025 Bandcamp Favorites Part 4
A website for curating and sharing lists of independent music downloads available on Bandcamp.
www.buymusic.club
November 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Music to start your week off with a bang: More Maraudeur, Clickbait, Tony Molina, Sunny & the Sunsets, Miniskirt, Nusantara Beat, Via, and more!
www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
This week's playlist includes some highly recommended music including: Davin Shaffer (Vashti fans will LOVE this), Onyon _ Optic Sink (again because the life cycle of a new release should not be just a week, Vulture Feather (a personal...
www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
CourtesyDesk - Courtesy Desk November 2025 Bandcamp Favorites Part 3
A website for curating and sharing lists of independent music downloads available on Bandcamp.
www.buymusic.club
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This week's playlist includes some highly recommended music including: Davin Shaffer (Vashti fans will LOVE this), Onyon _ Optic Sink (again because the life cycle of a new release should not be just a week, Vulture Feather (a personal...
www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
Here are my favorite Maymont Garden Glow photos despite the crush of waaaay to many humans bottlenecked at every turn.
November 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Here are my favorite Maymont Garden Glow photos despite the crush of waaaay to many humans bottlenecked at every turn.
This Bandcamp playlist includes a lot of stuff the folks I follow on the platform have been buying recently, as well as a ton of new releases from TODAY. Hello two cups of coffee! www.buymusic.club/list/courtes... #newmusicfriday
CourtesyDesk - Courtesy Desk November 2025 Bandcamp Favorites Part 2
A website for curating and sharing lists of independent music downloads available on Bandcamp.
www.buymusic.club
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This Bandcamp playlist includes a lot of stuff the folks I follow on the platform have been buying recently, as well as a ton of new releases from TODAY. Hello two cups of coffee! www.buymusic.club/list/courtes... #newmusicfriday
Hello November! Here is a playlist of my current Bandcamp favorites that include many Courtesy Desk longtime crushes: KCIDY, Laura Ann Singh, Sunno))), Dalek, and Verity Den. www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
CourtesyDesk - Courtesy Desk November 2025 Bandcamp Favorites Part 1
A website for curating and sharing lists of independent music downloads available on Bandcamp.
www.buymusic.club
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Hello November! Here is a playlist of my current Bandcamp favorites that include many Courtesy Desk longtime crushes: KCIDY, Laura Ann Singh, Sunno))), Dalek, and Verity Den. www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
There will never be anyone more passionate and knowledgeable about global grooves as Bill Lupoletti. He helped to put WRIR on the international music map and he has been integral to so many of us falling in love with songs from all over the world.
We are gonna miss you Bill.
We are gonna miss you Bill.
November 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
There will never be anyone more passionate and knowledgeable about global grooves as Bill Lupoletti. He helped to put WRIR on the international music map and he has been integral to so many of us falling in love with songs from all over the world.
We are gonna miss you Bill.
We are gonna miss you Bill.
I dedicate this playlist to those of you who crave adventure through your ears. No two songs are alike! October keeps on delivering the goods. www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
CourtesyDesk - Courtesy Desk October 2025 Bandcamp Favorites Part 4
A website for curating and sharing lists of independent music downloads available on Bandcamp.
www.buymusic.club
October 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I dedicate this playlist to those of you who crave adventure through your ears. No two songs are alike! October keeps on delivering the goods. www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
I have been going to see bands play small clubs since 1987 and tonight was the first time ever I was charged tax at the door while paying cash. Is this a thing now?
October 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I have been going to see bands play small clubs since 1987 and tonight was the first time ever I was charged tax at the door while paying cash. Is this a thing now?
I finally caught up on creating playlists of new music I have been enjoying lately. Please enjoy not one, not two, but THREE Bandcamp collections for your listening pleasure. www.buymusic.club/my-lists
Buy Music Club
A website for curating and sharing lists of independent music downloads available on Bandcamp.
www.buymusic.club
October 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I finally caught up on creating playlists of new music I have been enjoying lately. Please enjoy not one, not two, but THREE Bandcamp collections for your listening pleasure. www.buymusic.club/my-lists
My brain is still woking on the David Byrne performance. It was so visually pleasing and thoughtful. Every moment was impactful and filled with intention.
October 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
My brain is still woking on the David Byrne performance. It was so visually pleasing and thoughtful. Every moment was impactful and filled with intention.
A great list!
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October 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A great list!
Good Morning. A few new releases worth noting, all Courtesy Desk favorite artists: KCIDY, Life Without Buildings, and Chocolate Billy! kcidy.bandcamp.com/album/l-imme...
L’immensité et l'immédiat, by KCIDY
10 track album
kcidy.bandcamp.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Good Morning. A few new releases worth noting, all Courtesy Desk favorite artists: KCIDY, Life Without Buildings, and Chocolate Billy! kcidy.bandcamp.com/album/l-imme...
Here is a new playlist for ya of Bandcamp new release favorites, mostly stuff that was released in September because I am a little behind. www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
CourtesyDesk - Courtesy Desk September 2025 Bandcamp Favorites Part 3
A website for curating and sharing lists of independent music downloads available on Bandcamp.
www.buymusic.club
October 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Here is a new playlist for ya of Bandcamp new release favorites, mostly stuff that was released in September because I am a little behind. www.buymusic.club/list/courtes...
#RVA PSA. Good news! Nape Neck (Leeds) has been added to the Gallery 5 show happening TONIGHT. YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THIS BAND.
RIYL: The Ex, Shellac, Am Rep if it wasn't a boys club, Love of Diagrams on steroids, and a buttoned up Crass.
napeneck.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
RIYL: The Ex, Shellac, Am Rep if it wasn't a boys club, Love of Diagrams on steroids, and a buttoned up Crass.
napeneck.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
The Shallowest End, by Nape Neck
10 track album
napeneck.bandcamp.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
#RVA PSA. Good news! Nape Neck (Leeds) has been added to the Gallery 5 show happening TONIGHT. YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THIS BAND.
RIYL: The Ex, Shellac, Am Rep if it wasn't a boys club, Love of Diagrams on steroids, and a buttoned up Crass.
napeneck.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
RIYL: The Ex, Shellac, Am Rep if it wasn't a boys club, Love of Diagrams on steroids, and a buttoned up Crass.
napeneck.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
Radar had been a great coach as we (Outer World) prep to play live as a two piece for the first time. Purring in place of applause is something I could get used to.
October 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Radar had been a great coach as we (Outer World) prep to play live as a two piece for the first time. Purring in place of applause is something I could get used to.
Kenny and I are playing as a duo tomorrow in NJ for the first time. We normally play as a 5 or soon to be 6 piece, so this is gonna be quite an exciting change up and challenge.
October 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Kenny and I are playing as a duo tomorrow in NJ for the first time. We normally play as a 5 or soon to be 6 piece, so this is gonna be quite an exciting change up and challenge.
Utter insanity and terrifying.
In addition to unloading on demonstrators in Broadview, ICE is now randomly gassing people going about their day on the streets of Chicago
Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.
"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...
"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...
October 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Utter insanity and terrifying.
Gonerfest 22! Here are a few favorite moments: Joel of Silkworm, Robyn Hitchcock who is also a master stortyteller, Sharp Pins who make it look like it wasn't a thousand degrees, and Twisted Teens - your new favorite band from NOLA.
September 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Gonerfest 22! Here are a few favorite moments: Joel of Silkworm, Robyn Hitchcock who is also a master stortyteller, Sharp Pins who make it look like it wasn't a thousand degrees, and Twisted Teens - your new favorite band from NOLA.
Less that 24 hours in on this trip and I am already missing our captain wiggle pants.
September 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Less that 24 hours in on this trip and I am already missing our captain wiggle pants.
Highly recommended! Ghostly experimental folk that makes me wonder if this is what the Sundays would have sounded like as a slowcore band. I also think Mark Lanegan would have really loved this. joannerobertson.bandcamp.com/album/blurrr
Blurrr, by Joanne Robertson
9 track album
joannerobertson.bandcamp.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Highly recommended! Ghostly experimental folk that makes me wonder if this is what the Sundays would have sounded like as a slowcore band. I also think Mark Lanegan would have really loved this. joannerobertson.bandcamp.com/album/blurrr