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Album of the Week: Zubatto Syndicate
With a stylish, fold-out image by science-fiction artist Franco Brambilla on the album cover, we are introduced to the world of Zubatto Syndicate – at once quaint, modern, post-modern, and...
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Album of the Week: Where are the Arms
Gabriel Kahane is often compared to Sufjan Stevens and Rufus Wainwright (both of whom he’s collaborated with in the past). It’s a lot to live up to, but to that already high bar I’ll add Ben Folds and...
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Album of the Week: S.P.T.A. Said Person of That Ability
Three great things about S.P.T.A. Said Person of That Ability are the intelligent rapping, the skilful scratching, and the superb production. Better than those is the fact that it’s just one person...
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Cheaper than Free
A few months ago, we began tracking the starting point of every sale that happens on Bandcamp. In the course of looking at the data (which we’re using to help us plan out what to do next), we’ve...
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Staff Picks
We’ve got a new staff picks section on the home page, you can check it out here. It’s updated daily with favorites from the Bandcamp crew, and covers a seriously wide range of musical taste. The...
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Behold the Glory of the Discoverinator!
Some things you may be wondering: Why? What? There are hundreds of thousands of albums on Bandcamp, but no easy way to browse through them and find your new favorite band. So we set out to build...
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Right Away, Great Captain!
Andy Hull, lead singer of Atlanta band Manchester Orchestra, has just finished the third in a trilogy of solo albums under the name Right Away, Great Captain! On May 17th, pre-orders opened on the $60...
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New Features Up!
We’re launching lots of new stuff today, let’s get right to it: New Album Editor We’ve dramatically streamlined the album creation and editing process. You can now modify an entire album’s worth of...
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Merch!
One of our most frequent feature requests is for a standalone merch section, so you can list t-shirts, posters and so on, independently of albums. Plenty of you have done clever things to work around...
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Every Bandcamp site is now an awesome mobile site
All artist sites on Bandcamp now work and look great on mobile. We’ve optimized everything for the smaller screen and touch interface, so your albums look fantastic, fans can browse through your merch...
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Great design: JP Haynie
Hi, this is Moni, I’m a designer here at Bandcamp. I frequently come across examples of fantastic design on the site (in the form of album art, page design, merch, bio photos, and so on) and share them...
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Bandcamp for Fans
Once more unto the mailbag: “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve randomly found new artists that I like but wasn’t ready to make a music purchase. If I had a fan account it would make it a heck of a...
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Bandcamp Thumbs Up For Innovative Bundling…
A couple of weeks ago we noticed that Denver-based My Body Sings Electric sold out of tickets to an upcoming show. Nothing new here. But, the band used their Bandcamp site to bundle $10 tickets with a...
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Laid Out After Bad Vibes
“Bad Vibes was maximal in terms of sound and that was something I needed to say then, but don’t necessarily need to say again. I wanted to really boil down Laid Out to be as simple as I could make it,...
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The New Bandcamp.com
Today we’re launching a brand new home page that’s focused on promoting all the incredible music on Bandcamp. The centerpiece is the Bandcamp Weekly show, hosted by Andrew Jervis. Andrew joins us from...
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Gangster Boogie
“To me, Twelve Reasons To Die actually represents a new direction. I want people to think of it as soul music – it’s very composed, and poignant. That, I think, is novel and different for hip hop.” A...
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We’ll Always Have Paris
“The labels I used to talk to would laugh and say, “Oh, here comes Mr. Internet,” says Lakshmanan. “How wrong they were!” The Paris DJs release a new single or album via Bandcamp each week, including...
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In At The Kill
“I was Googling Elliott Smith once and the suggestions from Google were rar, torrent, zip … but I think a lot of people who download just do it because it’s quicker than buying things, and now it’s...
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Rewind! The Cassette is Back.
“The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry released their report of 2 million cassette tapes sold worldwide… Sales in the UK alone tripled last year.” When I told my parents I was...
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