Blondie, Mac DeMarco and extra for first Band Shirt Day fundraiser
Blondie, Mac DeMarco and Tori Amos are among the many artists set to participate within the first ever Band Shirt Day subsequent month.
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The brand new fundraising occasion will maintain its first version on September 16, bringing artists collectively to donate proceeds from their merchandise gross sales to charities of their selection.
Different artists participating embody King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, with charities chosen together with Youngsters of Ukraine, MusiCares and Deliberate Parenthood.
An announcement on the occasion’s web site reads: “Band Shirt Day is a worldwide fundraising initiative, the place artists come collectively for a single day to promote merchandise on their official gross sales channels and donate proceeds to charitable organisations of their selection.”
For a full checklist of taking part artists and their charities, head here.
Elsewhere, Blondie not too long ago launched a rediscovered dwelling recording of a music referred to as ‘Mr Sightseer’. The unearthed dwelling recording from 1978 had beforehand by no means made it out of the band’s bed room however has now been newly mastered by Michael Graves for the band’s first ever authorised and in-depth field set archive, ‘Blondie: In opposition to The Odds 1974-1982’.
‘Mr Sightseer’ serves because the B-side to the field set’s different not too long ago rediscovered rarity, Blondie’s cowl of The Doorways’ ‘Moonlight Drive’.
A press launch states: “On the time of recording in 1978, the addition of the TEAC TCA-43 4 monitor reel-to-reel to [guitarist] Chris Stein and [singer] Debbie Harry’s dwelling allowed the duo to chase each thought to its logistical or inconsequential conclusion.”