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Credit Card Support!
Over the years, eight or nine (thousand) people have written to us asking for more ways to pay artists on Bandcamp. We’re pleased to announce that starting today, you have the option to use a credit...
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Album of the Day: Murcof x Vanessa Wagner, “Statea”
Ambient and classical music have a lot in common and a vast chasm between them. Both have texture, tone, and tests of patience that promise certain rewards. But the making of each—one usually by means...
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Space Jazz, Electrocution Crackle, and Hints of Italo-Disco on the Latest...
We seem to be living through one of dance music’s introspective periods. In the absence of any dramatic new genres—the mainstream purgatory of “tropical house” notwithstanding—or stylistic shifts,...
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What’s Your Day Job?: John Sharkey
John Sharkey III in his screenprinting studio. Playing music comes as naturally as breathing to some people. It’s a mechanical action—an instinct. The subconscious, in concert with the rest of the...
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Scene Report: Rock in Cleveland, Ohio
Grog Shop, prominent venue in Cleveland’s scene. Photo by Ken Blaze My introduction to the Cleveland rock scene came over hot dogs and cheap beer, and was shepherded by scene torchbearer Sean Kilbane....
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Hannah Epperson Claims Center Stage
Hannah Epperson. Photo by Elissa Crowe. In the first stages of Hannah Epperson’s career, she found herself in the background. “My early musical collaborations were always solely as a violinist...
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Toronto’s Greys Premiere a New Track, “Fresh Hell”
After a summer of touring with the likes of White Lung and Bully, Greys share a new track, “Fresh Hell.” Following the release of Outer Heaven (which we named as one of the Best Albums of 2016 So Far)...
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Album of the Day: Jose Mauro, “Obnóxius”
Brazilian record producer Roberto Quartin established the highly successful Forma record label in 1963, releasing important samba albums like Baden Powell & Vinicius De Moraës’s early fusion of...
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Former Yumi Zouma Frontwoman Kim Pflaum Finds New Life as Madeira
Madeira is Kim Pflaum. On Bad Humors, her first EP as Madeira, Kim Pflaum fills her songs with funk-inspired bass lines and bantamweight synths, formusic that sits halfway between disco and pop. The...
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Daytripper: Taking LVL UP to Coney Island
LVL UP. Photo by Elyssa Goodman for Bandcamp. Coney Island may be the home of the Cyclone and the Freakshow, but the members of LVL UP have only one goal: cheese fries and Buck Hunter. Our three-hour...
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Frank McGinnis is Still Here
To be a kid in a small town means music comes to you with the power of revelation—a thing that speaks to you alone, and provides a vision of an outside world full of infinite possibilities. And even...
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Fan Interview: AJJ
AJJ. Photo by Nancy Walters. [This piece is part of our Fan Interview series, where fans get to interview their favorite artists. Email us at writers@bandcamp.com if you’d like to interview your...
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New Directions in Acoustic Guitar: Dylan Golden Aycock, Ignatz, & Norberto Lobo
Dylan Golden Aycock, Bram Devens, and Norberto Lobo. Picking up an acoustic guitar seems like one of the simplest musical gestures, but it can also be one of the most intimidating. If you’re inclined...
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Bon Iver Makes A Ghostly Return on “22, A Million”
Justin Vernon is Bon Iver. Photos by Cameron Wittig & Crystal Quinn. An often-repeated detail in Bon Iver’s backstory is that Justin Vernon recorded his mostly acoustic debut in a Wisconsin cabin...
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Scene Report: Folk in Buenos Aires
Open Folk Night, Tuesday folk nights organized by Fede Petro and Martin Grossman. In the residential architecture of Buenos Aires, many of the most intriguing buildings are invisible to passersby,...
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Premiere: Shana Falana’s Gauzy “Cloudbeats” is a Reflection of Dark Times
Shana Falana. Photo by Sheri Giblin. “I was pretty lost in addiction, living in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in 2006.” That’s how Shana Falana sets up “Cloudbeats,” the mist-wreathed new single from her...
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Album of the Day: Ultimate Painting, “Dusk”
Over the past two years, Jack Cooper and James Hoare have pressed pause on their previous engagements (Mazes and Veronica Falls, respectively) to reinvent themselves as a duo of guitar-pop troubadours...
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Skyzoo and Apollo Brown’s “The Easy Truth” is a Labor of Love
Skyzoo & Apollo Brown. Photo by Robert Adam Mayer. Having released more than 20 LPs between them since 2010, it’s safe to say rapper Skyzoo and producer Apollo Brown are proficient musicians. The...
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WIFE Explores Humanity Through Machinery
James Kelly is WIFE. Photos by Camillie-Blake. WIFE is the solo moniker of James Kelly, an Irish-born musician currently residing in Berlin who is better known to metalheads as the guitarist of Altar...
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Talking With a GosT: The Synthwave Producer Opens Up
Like many other synthwave artists, GosT’s songs are cut from the same blood-soaked cloth as horror greats like John Carpenter. His songs don’t just set the mood for movies, though—they’re the feature...
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