Candy Blame is a band from Rochester New York. Brittle, rousing, grinning, pessimistic, the songs kind of find that bit of light between the Feelies and Flipper records on your shelf? Made in advance of the band’s show at the Carbon Records Fest, the CANDY BLAME MIXTAPE is a 60 minute tape with 2 songs by the band and 19 songs selected by the band. It’s not a literal HERE-ARE-THE-INFLUENCES selection but maybe illuminates a way of song making that feels relevant to Candy Blame or just to being alive and distressed and also happy to be in the same room as your friends circa 2026.

Candy Blame is Heather Anderson, Joe Tunis, John Schoen, and Ethan Swan