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Big Ups: Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale Picks His Bandcamp Favorites
Brian Chippendale can’t stop buying his son Matchbox cars. The Providence, RI drummer, who was dubbed by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest drummers of all time in 2016, is one-half of the enigmatic...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: The Bedroom Witch, “Diaspora”
How does a person construct a sense of self in a culture that doesn’t offer them representation? Multimedia artist Sepehr Mashiahof uses dark, direct synth-pop vocabulary to address that question,...
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Dyson Stringer Cloher Are A Songwriters’ Supergroup
Longtime fans of Australian music are in for a delightful surprise the minute they press play on the new album from the Melbourne trio Dyson Stringer Cloher. Just a few minutes into the first song,...
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Lifetime Achievement: Mono En Stereo
“I don’t think I’ve ever told this to anybody before, but the first beat I ever did was influenced by DJ Premier’s production for the Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘Ten Crack Commandments,’ where he’s cutting up...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Bill Orcutt, “Odds Against Tomorrow”
When guitarist Bill Orcutt returned to music at the end of the last decade, he reframed his distinctive style to fit a new context. In the experimental post-hardcore outfit Harry Pussy, his playing...
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Ciénaga and Recluso Made Albums That Capture the Sound of Hurricane María
For survivors of Hurricane María—the category five natural disaster that ravaged the island of Puerto Rico in September 2017—memories of the event have become a blur. Looking back at a time when the...
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Hidden Gems: Angdad Berar, “Elephants on the Beach”
In our series Hidden Gems, writers share their favorite Bandcamp discoveries. Anjuna, the coastal town etched into Goa’s hippie history for its parties since the ‘60s, has a sort of primal power over...
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Corridor Are Ready to Take Québécois Indie Rock Worldwide
In the early days of 2019, the Montreal-based Corridor became the first Francophone act ever to sign to Sub Pop. For an independent institution known for its wide-ranging roster, an indie rock band...
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Konradsen’s Folk Songs Flourish With a Little Help From Their Friends
Before Eirik Vildgren and Jenny Marie Sabel were Konradsen, they were high school classmates in northern Norway. Both spent their adolescence tinkering on their family’s pianos. When they relocated to...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Bokoya, “Introducing”
The German jazz quartet Bokoya likes to say they create music as if each musician “grew up inside a drum machine.” In practice, the crew from Cologne—which includes keys, trumpet, bass and...
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Special Request Is The Hardest-Working Artist in Techno
Photo by James Edson All it comes down to really is this: I make tons of music. If I think it’s strong enough, I’ll release it. And sometimes I make that decision years later,” explains Paul Woolford,...
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Blacker Face’s Radical and Inventive Avant-Punk
Photos by Samantha Callahan “That’s why I like working with Black children,” says Jolene Whatevr, vocalist of Chicago art punk quintet Blacker Face, who sports black and neon blue hair. She’s laughing...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Floating Points, “Crush”
British producer Sam Shepherd’s last project as Floating Points, REFLECTIONS, was recorded in the Mojave Desert, and was full of spacey, sunbaked psych jams worthy of Pink Floyd. He’d journeyed well...
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Italian Label Presto!? Operates At The Edges of Electronic Music
For the Italian producer Lorenzo Senni, founding the label Presto!? provided more than just an education in how to get the music he loved out into the world—it also helped him learn to speak English....
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The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp: October 2019
All kinds of experimental music can be found on Bandcamp: free jazz, avant-rock, dense noise, outer-limits electronics, deconstructed folk, abstract spoken word, and so much more. If an artist is...
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Rediscover Ernest Hood’s Ambient Music on “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods, the lone private press LP from Portland, Oregon musician Ernest Hood is a curious piece of work. For one thing the album, which was released in 1975, is an almost ambient blend of...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Larry Gus, “Subservient”
Greek producer Panagiotis Melidis has always known his way around a sample. As Larry Gus, he spent the first half of the decade weaving colorful, dense collages incorporating everything from Afrobeat...
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Ana Mazzotti’s Smooth Samba-Jazz is Rescued From Obscurity
The musical career of Brazilian artist Ana Mazzotti culminated in just two albums: 1974’s Ninguem Vai Me Segurar, and a self-titled release in 1977. In a country that’s famous for the style of samba,...
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The Best Punk on Bandcamp: October 2019
Bandcamp has long been a home for DIY punk and hardcore from around the world, touching all of the myriad subgenre styles and helping to translate the simple effectiveness of cut-and-paste to the...
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On “Orificial Purge,” Vastum Plumb Death Metal’s Most Unsettling Depths
[Note: This story contains content dealing with sexual assault.] Autophagia. Molestation. Perversion. These are just a few of the unnerving topics that Bay Area death-metal squad Vastum tackle on...
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