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Eight Indigenous Artists Keeping Tradition Alive in Australia
Bobby Bununggur is a Yolngu Songman from Ramingining in northeast Arnhem Land, the ‘Top End’ of Australia. Yolngu are one of the largest Indigenous groups in Australia, and their home in Arnhem Land is...
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Jamael Dean’s Spiritual Jazz
Photos by Sam LeeTalking to pianist, producer, and rapper Jamael Dean is like talking to a wise elder. It’s a cold, rainy Sunday, and the 21-year-old is in his apartment in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn,...
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Ten Latinx Bands Riding Screamo’s New Wave
Satón Screamo, emo’s slightly more ferocious outgrowth, might not be quite as big as it was around the turn of the millennium, but the subgenre still thrives in the underground; young artists still...
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Peter Gabriel’s Solo Discography Comes to Bandcamp
Today, Bandcamp is thrilled to announce the arrival of the full catalog of art-pop iconoclast Peter Gabriel, beginning with his 1977 solo debut. Gabriel built a career on fusing high aesthetics with...
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This Week’s Essential Releases: Experimental Percussion, New Jack Swing,...
Welcome to Essential Releases, our weekly roundup of the best music on Bandcamp. Each week, we’ll recommend crucial new albums that were released between last Friday and this Friday, plus pick an...
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Certified: From Sunny Beaches to Dark Clubs, Jubilee’s Rave Never Stops
“Jubilee has been staying up all night since as long as anyone can remember.” These are the words that accompany the second album from Jessica Gentile, the Miami-born, Brooklyn-based DJ and producer...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Arthur Russell, “Iowa Dream”
Avant-garde New York City musician and composer Arthur Russell, known to many as the mastermind behind Dinosaur L’s simmering underground disco gem “Go Bang,” died in 1992. However, Iowa Dream—which...
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Lifetime Achievement: A Guide to William Basinski’s Avant-Garde Ambient
September 11, 2001 may be a hackneyed jumping-off point for personal biographical change, but it really was a pivotal day for avant-garde composer William Basinski. When he awoke that morning, broke...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: KVL, “Volume 1”
Volume 1, the debut album from Chicago’s KVL—the trio of percussionist Quin Kirchner, keyboardist Daniel Van Duerm, and bassist Matthew Lux—is a thoughtful mix of ambient jazz that carefully unfolds...
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Issam Hajali’s Arabic Jazz LP Was Written Against the Backdrop of Civil War
It was the mid ’70s, and Issam Hajali’s world was changing quickly. Hajali was a 19-year-old on the rise: a singer and guitarist in the Beirut progressive rock band Rainbow Bridge, whose first record...
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The Story of Orindal Records, Family Label-Turned Folk Utopia
Orindal Records has always been a family affair. After retiring his longtime project, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, in 2010, Owen Ashworth started the label with the sole intention of releasing...
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Six Contemporary Acts Keeping Mexican Black Metal Inventive
Center image – The Depressick Nearly 50 years (!) into its existence, metal has spread to almost every corner of the globe, with unique takes on generic conventions emerging from every corner. One such...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Meemo Comma, “Sleepmoss”
On UK producer Lara Rix-Martin’s second album as Meemo Comma, the English countryside comes alive. On Sleepmoss, Rix-Martin builds an ecosystem that connects field recordings with ambient textures and...
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Experimental Singer Kesswa Merges Disparate Influences on “Soften”
Experimental Detroit singer and songwriter Kesswa’s journey to her debut EP, Soften, began with an interest in DJing. “I started getting into all the electronic music and techno in Detroit....
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Inside Yetee Records, Video-Game Music’s Most Inventive Label
The astronomical success of titles like Celeste, Dead Cells, and Untitled Goose Game, the prominence of DIY-enabling platforms like Steam and Kickstarter, the rise of streaming—if ever there existed...
View ArticleOver 200 Labels & Artists Join Us in Donating Friday’s Profits to the...
These artists and labels are donating their share of Friday’s sales to the Transgender Law Center.
View ArticleAn Update on Friday’s Fundraiser for the Transgender Law Center
We want to thank everyone who participated in today’s fundraiser for the Transgender Law Center. Bandcamp’s community of artists, fans, and labels once again stood with us to enthusiastically voice a...
View ArticleAnnouncing Bulk Edit
As discographies on Bandcamp continue to grow (we’re now home to over 22 million tracks and 4 million albums), we know that artists and labels need a faster and more efficient means of managing their...
View ArticleIntroducing the Bandcamp App for Artists and Labels
The Bandcamp App for Artists and Labels is here! It gives you a real-time mobile view into your stats, helps you manage and fulfill your merch, and lets you directly message your fans, even targeting...
View ArticleThe Bandcamp 2017 Year in Review
2017 was another stellar year for Bandcamp, with double digit growth in every aspect of the business.
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