Synopsis
Welcome to Fanboys! Each week, Hard Times contributors Edgar, Ty, and Diego listen to YOUR music. Their mission: say something nice about it. Do they have what it takes?
Episodes
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Intro to Punk Music Theory
13/04/2021 Duration: 48minOn this week’s episode of Fanboys, the boys discuss music theory (incorrectly), dunk on some art nerds, and begrudgingly accept the straight edge lifestyle. If you want to hear them finally gang up on one of their own, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: We Never Settled (https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Hq8SjswDv4dNlDcxHPiCO), Blends (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2kj5H3eeBw), Madhappy (https://madhappy.bandcamp.com/album/s-t), Brian Revels and the Heat Lightning (https://open.spotify.com/album/3OhewJtlbnlqmUcibjKgis?si=jJL_XlE8So-NyzHG0vJydA&nd=1), Via Ripa (https://open.spotify.com/album/2UpsuR4HpoSNQ9jOiG25wj?si=7QLSv2czQpq2Y4WRtbCIPg&nd=1), and Matlock Expressway (https://matlockexpressway.bandcamp.com/track/meanwhile)
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Lucky Number 500
06/04/2021 Duration: 40minOn this week’s episode of Fanboys, the boys hesitantly celebrate an anniversary, slap corpse paint on a trombone, and smash some taint. If you want to hear them cry cry cry cry, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: Trauma UKBM (https://www.bandlab.com/trauma_trombone/nightfalls-in-the-hammer-smashed-wind-8c62bb36?revId=7526537f-2aa0-ea11-96d2-0003ffd1fc09), TheAwkwardOne (https://theawkwardone.bandcamp.com/album/love-goblin-deluxe), Taintsmasher (https://open.spotify.com/album/6CX0NBMayRL0ajC8KhnUpo?highlight=spotify:track:6kErwG0O30NWbkagA0JF0M), Michael Guy Bowman (https://open.spotify.com/album/7A2RBttEdkFWRdu82XXosz?si=dwnBjiT6SBmDCoEljCv9rA&utm_source=copy-link&nd=1), The New Adventures (https://thenewadventures.bandcamp.com/), and Sam A
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Yes, You’re in Quarantine, We Get It
30/03/2021 Duration: 45minOn this week’s episode of Fanboys, the boys get swimmy, lament how covid has made music boring, and get a lesson in comparative literature. If you want to hear more, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: HollowBoy (https://h0ll0wb0y.bandcamp.com/album/love-end-of-days), Peter Faragasso (https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=H7cq9GNUdj0&feature=youtu.be), Mint Club (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7CsYIZ2s4gTx34sWyMEc3P?si=FT3BPKESTue9XXV6D5m6Tw&utm_source=copy-link&nd=1), Matt_Geary_Music (https://soundcloud.com/mattgearymusic/ascend-into-obscurity-sampler/s-e8j8BJQPeZL?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1), Together on Two (https://togetherontwo.bandcamp.com/album/humble-exile), and Beth Kinderman (https://bethkinderman.bandcamp.com/
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Professional* Music Critics**
23/03/2021 Duration: 54minOn this week’s episode of Fanboys, the boys wrestle with the blues, listen to some porn, and heroically refrain from killing each other. If you want to hear them embark on a space opera, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: Xander Deacons (https://xanderdeacons.bandcamp.com/album/pariah), Of Fallen Kings (https://soundcloud.com/offallenkings/thirst), knuckleduster feat. lydiangel (https://soundcloud.com/knucklduster/girlboss-moments-ft-lydiangel), Catfish Blue (https://catfishblue.bandcamp.com/), Dead Style (https://open.spotify.com/album/4o27Ijugs3zxGb4FHYSiw5?si=tPQZyqRUS9SrXn2x_uPGuw&nd=1), and Captain Gelato and the Supersonic Cosmonaut (https://cgnthesc.bandcamp.com/album/captain-gelato-and-the-supersonic-cosmonauts-vs-maxwell-demon)
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The Redemption Episode
16/03/2021 Duration: 46minOn this week’s episode of Fanboys, the boys revisit some previously-featured bands to see if they ever got around to sucking less. If you want to hear them nuke the mooks, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: Double Fisted (https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/doublefisted/the-first-seven-inches), Why Dogs Why (https://whydogswhy.bandcamp.com/track/t-o-c), The Safest Ledge (https://open.spotify.com/album/6A2SWo59BUKexvgqRDUIet?highlight=spotify:track:3oXOZhEgHf4pkmBdjsnPPu), Forest Hills Project (https://open.spotify.com/album/4BlqbbBROUsgYPr5xY2CZt?highlight=spotify:track:5S3lf8pMh6MgdjJwXuLa6C), The Nukeproofs (https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/thenukeproofs/mooklord), and Magnolia Drive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_7uvtVoZcs)
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Taste the Nectar™
09/03/2021 Duration: 52minOn this week’s episode of Fanboys, the boys suck down some nectar, explore international releases of classic sitcoms, and check in on Gen Z. If you want to hear them mug buskers and hurt Edgar’s feelings, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: White Lighter (https://open.spotify.com/album/69n2jvwTzYIoKEo6TH895b?si=L_onpJHhRhSf8m-QTGK3Yg&nd=1), Papa Dunka (https://open.spotify.com/album/3z5Wdu8As7b9PPG8wA3tkA), Birches (https://brchs.bandcamp.com/album/ii), Darling, Lightkeeper (https://darlinglightkeeper.bandcamp.com/), Nusagi (https://soundcloud.com/nusagi/razor-blades), and TV’s NORM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3iIH9XN2Oo)
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Like Ted Dansen But With Cyanide
02/03/2021 Duration: 46minOn this week’s episode of Fanboys, the boys meet Ted Dansen like five times, thrash the bowling alley, and noise rock noise rock noise rock. If you want to hear them learn to swear backwards, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: Cyanide Dansen (https://cyanidedansen.bandcamp.com/album/do-no-harm), Key of Solomon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTALeEvAT-Y&feature=youtu.be), Gaytheist (https://hexrecords.bandcamp.com/album/Gaytheist-how-long-have-I-been-on-fire), Actionesse (https://actionesse.bandcamp.com/), Caliphobia (https://caliphobia.bandcamp.com/album/tenderize-2), and The Burst and Bloom (https://theburstandbloom.bandcamp.com/track/over-over-3)
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Orangejuicebacon (feat. John Danek)
23/02/2021 Duration: 53minThis week, the Fanboys are joined by Hard Times contributor John Danek to talk about finally forgiving Dad, descriptive breakfast foods, and drinking for Dilla. If you want to hear them teach Danek the proper pronunciation of ukulele and how to score a skate video, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: Pontius Pilates (https://denizenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/speed-up-for-la), The Nukeproofs (https://linktr.ee/Thenukeproofs), Deaddigital, Inc. (https://deaddigital.bandcamp.com/album/art-wont-save-you-ep), The Freedos (https://thefreedos.bandcamp.com/track/incandescent), vera, etc. (https://soundcloud.com/veratridine/field-mouse), and Brett Vee (https://brettvee.bandcamp.com/album/real-soon)
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Self-Abuse at the Skate Park
16/02/2021 Duration: 46minOn this week’s episode of Fanboys, the boys get bored of breakdowns, lock the doors to the Hall of Fame, and soak up the last days of summer vacay. If you want to hear them fail to catch a pun once again, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: Last Sun (https://open.spotify.com/album/6PlfwUa9eq97a5IOuJO6ZW?si=k3xdNS7FR2u7L6pa0RfHPQ&nd=1), FUDGY (https://fudgy.bandcamp.com/album/reference-library), G2KMS (https://open.spotify.com/album/0DRlmXZsqafPUoJowF7WEl?highlight=spotify:track:5UAqRK6rmP129MNvrxBvr4), Plasma Cutter (https://plasmacutter.bandcamp.com/), Molly Rhythm (https://mrlrr.bandcamp.com/album/dark-matters), and Duncan Jewett (https://www.strangefamousrecords.com/artists/duncan-jewett/)
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This Is Just Like the Album 1984
09/02/2021 Duration: 44minOn this week’s nostalgic episode of Fanboys, the boys trip some sick hop, try out drag, debut the long-awaited theme song to Stranger Things. If you want to hear them get dragged kicking and screaming back to the 80s, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: Death Animation (https://soundcloud.com/deathanimation/fire-feat-sasha-washington), TRASHPOP (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVIFFkbI0JE), They Drove Us From the Garden (https://theydroveusfromthegarden.bandcamp.com/releases), Ding Dong Probably (https://open.spotify.com/album/3yIIYQYKr4Gk14lIyvgGkm?highlight=spotify:track:4sWZ550GDE02DjPmWsE666), Rad Max (https://radmaxrocks.bandcamp.com/), and BORIS BECKER (https://borisbeckerband.bandcamp.com/releases)
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Djent: A Literature Review
26/01/2021 Duration: 48minOn this week’s highly academic and polyrhythmic episode of Fanboys, the boys discuss new frontiers in nerd metal, wade through some swampy indie, and do some pills. If you want to hear them brace for another drone strike, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: Nobody, No One (https://open.spotify.com/album/5YTRZ6YxaPuiIMQ0QRbl72?highlight=spotify:track:71L3NdU26Sm2WoEc0IXgcU), GOODGIRL (https://goodgirlusa.bandcamp.com/album/poor-habits), Pill Squad (https://pillsquad.bandcamp.com/track/hell-look-better-when-hes-dead), malmen & xyce (https://xyce.bandcamp.com/track/malmen-xyce-papillons), The Fatherless & the Widow (https://thefatherlessandthewidow.bandcamp.com/), and KoeeoaddiThere (https://soundcloud.com/koeeoaddithere/outwardness-to-grow)
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Transatlantic Cannibalcore
19/01/2021 Duration: 49minOn this week’s jet-setting and people-eating episode of Fanboys, the boys get fonky, hit up an 8-bit dance hall, and listen to Deathcab! You Black Cutie. If you want to hear them splatter America across the pavement, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: Jhariah (https://jhariah.bandcamp.com/releases), Bit Shifter (https://bit-shifter.bandcamp.com/track/rough-weather), The Reveling (https://open.spotify.com/album/4lmaFam1R5ICdYEUNfQjcN?si=2tfPjjzMSAahCPWcP9t9WA), Broken Dreams Club (https://dreamsclub.bandcamp.com/), Lizard Hands (https://lizardhands.bandcamp.com/album/this-complex-machine), and American Nosebleed (https://open.spotify.com/album/7ko4Wm8mZ9Izs7aHPdeUlz?si=LJltQtanTp-iQhS0qWDs9A)
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Relax Your Butt Immediately
12/01/2021 Duration: 48minOn this week’s fully-puckered episode of Fanboys, the boys represent the SLC scene, seduce some gorillas, and kick Diego’s dog. If you want to hear them do some math and jam some thrash, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: The Butts (https://thebutts.bandcamp.com/album/nightmare-at-area-51), The Relax (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x5w5RSpvBg), Milpool (https://lemontreerecords.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-all-weve-got), Drag Me Under (https://dragmeunder.bandcamp.com/album/moon-ripper), Rival Hive (https://rivalhive.bandcamp.com/), and Stray Rebel Bullet (https://open.spotify.com/artist/25HmxCgI1mXpRLnz30s05z?si=lLkeSjywQCGREzUHjDo1sw)
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Noise Wars Episode II: Attack of the Drones
05/01/2021 Duration: 44minOn this week’s definitely very haunted episode of Fanboys, battle-rap the frat house, pop down to the shops innit, and become mercenaries in an age-old ambient feud. If you want to hear them beat the cyberpunk horse to death and embrace their inner darkness (again), grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: Emery Charles (https://soundcloud.com/emery-hajdu/8-ball-prod-mxtro-1st-verse), DEAFDEAFDEAF (https://soundcloud.com/user-587832510/vanilla), FiFac (https://fifac.bandcamp.com/track/jakes-trash-ambient-diss), Trashbriokids (https://soundcloud.com/trashbriokids/igotacondition5untreatedundiagnosedmix), Foam Swords (https://soundcloud.com/foamswords/sets/actual-songs), and Lovechild of Melancholy (https://open.spotify.com/album/5WbGduMxtzJo3zjw5nqsN1?high
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The Haunting of Cry Manor
29/12/2020 Duration: 44minOn this week’s definitely very haunted episode of Fanboys, the boys cock-punch the patriarchy, show feet, and discover a lost Lennon-McCartney joint. If you want to hear them outrun the nightcall again, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: All Thicc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80wN7qsOWfM&feature=youtu.be), Ever (https://open.spotify.com/album/1jgDeyu6g4GO79nAv4zBBv?si=_hafKL6oTHGSnITz373lJA), Divine Feed (https://soundcloud.com/user-892729640/heaven-from-here), Full Volume Only (https://open.spotify.com/album/354wqB8V9byhUfZiYaanoF?highlight=spotify:track:6kd7qRZI9kwtxsLjxnHD9H), Nine Necks (https://ninenecks.bandcamp.com/album/nine-necks), and Late Drifter (https://open.spotify.com/album/5WbGduMxtzJo3zjw5nqsN1?highlight=spotify:track:4B2eh
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Season’s Screamings
22/12/2020 Duration: 42minOn this week’s holly-jolly episode of Fanboys, the boys bring you some vaguely manipulative, minor-key Christmas cheer before immediately running out of Christmas songs. If you want to hear them get patronizing around a campfire and fill the Hard Times-mandated indie quota, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: Scott Making Cents (https://scottmakingcents.bandcamp.com/track/a-peloton-for-xmas-a-christmas-song-for-totally-happy-people), Thirsty Curses (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0I6Id7cn3o), Bather (https://open.spotify.com/album/67tWkC61v5OdtzWwBHV8Ku?si=Cb9y2PlcQQWc4OPYSWiWeg), Gone Wrong (https://gonewrong.bandcamp.com/album/all-your-rage), Rona (https://open.spotify.com/album/6TSWlo7UM4qVQXNobJjz8V?si=h9zppchcQAmYHjXHCMCa-w), and Woodson (htt
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Do Fanboys Dream of Electric Beats?
15/12/2020 Duration: 47minOn this week’s cybernetically enhanced episode of Fanboys, the boys get utterly and immediately fail to be cyberpunk, storyboard a music video extravaganza, and get sudsy with a miniboss. If you want to hear them get a lesson in punk history and dunk on the Strokes (again), grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: Loyalty to Me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B7CdGOSvSU&feature=youtu.be), Brown Stratos (https://brownstratos.bandcamp.com/), Shower Days (https://showerdays.bandcamp.com/), Kizuna Beef (https://crybabydeathmatch.bandcamp.com/track/yearning-never-sleeps), Suicide Helpline (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqeQmSpNWGY&feature=youtu.be), and Hotel Casino (https://open.spotify.com/album/5huRSM4EBm6AFBjPgrO5wH?si=Qp6RNHnhSHeBcQgfxaMirA)
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The Last Noisebender
08/12/2020 Duration: 45minOn this week’s episode of Fanboys, the boys get blueballed by a wet crocodile, follow a manic pixie dream girl around Coney Island, and play Hardcore Guitar Hero. If you want to hear them wage holy war on goths and noise music once again, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: markmuffins (https://markmuffins.bandcamp.com/album/iwishmyhousewasbythewater), SELVEDGE (https://selvedge-000.bandcamp.com/album/hunger-stones), Best Ex (https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=jiWSzNuHF8w), Bazookatooth (https://open.spotify.com/artist/34lAvISXYzgAqAd5AXOr9T?si=MhvU966ORjG2xFy1CoHpWw), Lead Blocks (https://labelofgoods.bandcamp.com/album/lead), and earliestsunsets (https://soundcloud.com/earliestsunsets/soldered-to-the-bed)
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Nancy Reagan and the Wall of Death
01/12/2020 Duration: 48minOn this week’s episode of Fanboys, the boys ruin the episode before it starts, check out Colombian Deftones, and shout out the punkest First Lady in American history. If you want to hear them get schooled on rap again, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: Mechanical Canine (https://open.spotify.com/album/7vmECLjmzEYsZaObvw2rsP?si=j8_5lyfzRUG1Axx5VD2XFA), Bañista Lunar (https://open.spotify.com/album/0BjZLciIcVrH3kwYpwD9yu?t=&tto=fedffd42), Reagan Era Rejects (https://reaganerarejects.bandcamp.com/album/rer-ep), Another Hospital (https://open.spotify.com/album/2qeNAC0lLYEgpaKQjki2JS?highlight=spotify:track:1B8qBzuCmPCiAqbsIXozkA), WesTheFitting (https://soundcloud.com/westhefitting/disregarded), and Max Knightly (https://pastelhandgrenade.bandcamp
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Featuring Emo Legend Karl Marx
24/11/2020 Duration: 45minOn this week’s episode of Fanboys, the boys get schooled on Appalachian Materialism, remember that post-rock is a thing, and roll in the trash with some capitalists. If you want to hear them engage in some mutual melodization and do coke off a trombone, grab the full episode on The Hard Times’ Patreon! (https://patreon.com/thehardtimes) ALSO: are you in a shitty band? Want to hear the Fanboys try to say something nice about it? Submit your music to Edgar’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/EdgarTowner)! Be sure to check out this week’s featured artists: Mountain Party (https://mountainparty.bandcamp.com/album/proletariat), Ilapso (https://open.spotify.com/artist/4j2AGVhqfzCLqbbx3f5qgB?si=WoG4MIasTbu-eq7OQGk4aQ), Demonia (https://open.spotify.com/album/5o8kDWrIVVOuYWaJT6EI9o?si=nUQml9TkTNWKQ78YG1mgpQ), Bitr. (https://bitr.bandcamp.com/releases), Foreverless (https://open.spotify.com/album/6ayviSm8mlIPpcamg9W7Mg?highlight=spotify:track:0erKgGsXEgLxfO6xI9v1Q7), and Mala Vibra (https://open.spotify.com/album/3ZUyZQ4ZW