Good Music has announced a new compilation album to aid Los Angeles’ recovery from the devastating wildfires earlier this year – find out more below.
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Good Music’s ‘Good Music To Lift Up Los Angeles’ compilation album will feature 90 artists’ involvement, and will donate all of its net proceeds to the LA Food Bank and California Community Foundation’s Wildfire Recovery Fund.
The album will be available for 24 hours only starting on Friday (February 7) at 12am PT for US$20.25 exclusively on Bandcamp. Additionally, Bandcamp will be donating 100 per cent of its shares from the album’s sales to MusiCares to aid affected communities.
Among the 90 names contributing music to the massive compilation are R.E.M., Interpol, Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, Modest Mouse, Blondshell, The War On Drugs, MJ Lenderman, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Mac DeMarco and more. Also involved are Dawes, whose members have lost their homes to the wildfires.
A tracklist for the compilation has yet to be revealed, though Good Music has shared via a press release that the album will include previously unreleased recordings, new songs, live performances, demos and covers. The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie’s joint entry will be their live cover of ‘Enjoy The Silence’ by Depeche Mode.
To find out more about the compilation and purchase it on Friday, visit here.
The ‘Good Music To Lift Up Los Angeles’ line-up is:
Alycia Lang
Animal Collective
Annie Dirusso
The Armed
Bel
Blondshell
Brotherkenzie
Cassandra Jenkines
Centro-Matic ft. Jason Isbell & Salder Vaden
Chelsea Wolfe
Chris Cohen
Cold War Kids
Courtney Barnett
Cumgirl8
Cunningham Bird
Dawes
Death Cab for Cutie & The Postal Service
The Dip
Dirty Projectors & Stargaze
Dr. Dog
Eggy
Faye Webster
Fidlar
Flock Of Dimes
Friko
George Alice
Gustaf
HEALTH
The Heavy Heavy
Hippo Campus
The Hold Steady
Hotline TNT
Hurray For The Riff Raff
I’m With Her
Interpol
IRO
James Henry Jr.
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Jeff Tweedy
Josh Ritter
K.Flay
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
La Lom
Lala Lala
Little Dragon
Local Natives
Lucius
Mac DeMarco’s ‘Piece of the Fuck’
Madi Diaz
Manchester Orchestra
The Midnight
Miki Ratsula
Militarie Gun
Miya Folick
MJ Lenderman
Modest Mouse
Momma
Mudhoney
My Morning Jacket
Neal Francis
Neko Case
The New Pornographers
Nick Thune
pachyman
Perfume Genius
Pool Kids
Porches
PUP
Real Estate
R.E.M.
Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners
Ricky Montgomery
RY X
Shannon Lay
Silversun Pickups
Soccer Mommy
Soul Asylum
Spiritual Cramp
Sycco
SYML
Tenacious D
Theo Katzman
This Is Lorelei
Toro Y Moi
Tunde Adebimpe
TV on the Radio
Ty Segall
The War On Drugs
Water From Your Eyes
Watkins Family Hour ft. Gaby Moreno
‘Good Music To Lift Up Los Angeles’ is just one of several compilation albums announced so far in support of Los Angeles’ recovery. Last month, Leaving Records announced a compilation album to raise funds for people, artists and communities affected by the Californian catastrophe. The album is titled ‘Staying: Leaving Records Aid to Artists Impacted by the Los Angeles Wildfires’.
That album consists of 98 tracks, a total runtime of six hours and 51 minutes. It includes contributions from the likes of André 3000, Julia Holter, Reggie Watts, Laraaji, Baths & Rachika Nayar and more. Most of the tracks that feature in the compilation are unreleased songs. The compilation closes out with André 3000’s nearly nine-minute song ‘This Is Where My Room Used To Be.’ featuring Carlos Niño, Alex Cline and Pablo Calogero.
Several of the musicians involved in ‘Good Music To Lift Up Los Angeles’ have also contributed music to another compilation album, ‘Super Bloom: A Benefit For Los Angeles Fire Relief’, which contained 62 tracks.
Since the devastating wildfires hit Los Angeles in early January, some 29 people died in the fires, with thousands more homes and businesses destroyed. Many musicians stepped up to help out the affected communities in the aftermath of the fires. Beyoncé’s BeyGOOD foundation donated $2.5million to help to relief efforts. Paris Hilton also launched a fund for families displaced by the fires, pledging $100,000 and promised to match up to $100,000 in donations. Dave Grohl also spent his birthday making meals for families that had been effected.
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