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Genre As Method: The Vaporwave Family Tree, From Eccojams to Hardvapour
Vaporwave isn’t just a genre; it’s an approach and an attitude—not just to music, but to popular culture. Vaporwave is often identified with particular sounds and stylings—slowed arown hits and muzak...
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Five Flawless Punk Sets Live on the Radio
What is the best way to experience music: live or recorded? It’s an age-old question with a multitude of different defenses, explanations, and rationalizations. A live band is more visceral and...
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Artists Launch Fundraisers to Benefit Human Rights and Civil Liberties...
After the U.S. presidential election results were announced early in the morning on November 9th donations started pouring in to social justice and human rights organizations like Planned Parenthood,...
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Album of the Day: Reginald Omas Mamode IV, “Reginald Omas Mamode IV”
There’s a rich, organic quality to the music of half-Mauritian/half-English musician Reginald Omas Mamode IV; the South London composer’s tracks come off as breathing lifeforms that are equally...
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Get to Know Paul White, Your Favorite Rapper’s Favorite Producer
Paul White. Photo by Owen Richards. If you’ve been following rap from 2011 to now, chances are very likely you’ve heard the work of Paul White. The London producer’s name has been attached to several...
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“Dada Distractions” is Aan’s Comeback From a Very Difficult Year
Everyone loves music borne of tragedy: mortal, romantic or otherwise. Alas, in these circumstances, the listener’s gain is inevitably a product of the artist’s loss—which Bud Wilson, linchpin and...
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Split Single’s Jason Narducy and the Rock n’Roll Hall of Mirrors
Jason Narducy. Photo by James Richards IV. If a career in music hadn’t worked out, and you didn’t know him, you could imagine Split Single’s Jason Narducy would have one great rock story to share at...
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Jensen Ward on Iron Lung: Band, Label, and Worldview
Illustration from the cover of Iron Lung Mixtape I. Iron Lung is a band, a label—and, for better or worse—a worldview. The label was founded in 2007 by Jensen Ward and Jon Kortland, the two men who...
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Album of the Day, Carla dal Forno, “You Know What It’s Like”
Much like her friends and countrymen in Standish/Carlyon, Total Control, and HTRK, Carla dal Forno casts her shadows on the gloomier side of Australia’s music scene—one that stands in stark contrast...
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Tredici Bacci Blend Bacharach, Morricone, and French Pop to Make Orchestral...
Simon Hanes, leader of Tredici Bacci. Photo by Monika Rivard. Tredici Bacci, a group made up of New England Conservatory students, write songs that channel the ambitious orchestral pop of Mid-Century...
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High Scores: Jim Guthrie on His Indie Rock Past and Epic Game Soundtracks
High Scores is a monthly column in which Bandcamp profiles a video game soundtrack composer. This month, Casey Jarman talks to Jim Guthrie about his latest game soundtrack for “Planet Coaster.”...
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Digging Up Rap History: The Story of Chopped Herring Records
Some of the titles from Chopped Herring Records. The U.K.-based Chopped Herring Records is one of the world’s most prominent archival indie hip-hop labels. Its founder, a Manchester DJ named Bob...
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Hi Bias: Notable Cassette Releases on Bandcamp, November 2016
Welcome to Hi Bias, a monthly column highlighting recent cassette releases on Bandcamp, and exploring the ideas behind them with the artists who made them. Rather than making sweeping generalizations...
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Album of the Day: Various Artists, “Desire Will Set You Free (Music from the...
Like so many other Western cities, Berlin is haunted by ghosts. Over by the Reich Chancellery hangs the specter of fascism, looming in the shadows of the Führerbunker (and, if recent geopolitical...
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Islet Build “Utopian Gnome Sanctuaries” With Jagged, Mystic Post-Punk
When Islet arrived in 2010, it would have been easy to view the defiantly DIY Welsh quartet as a bit of a gimmick. No member of the band held a fixed role. Live, they frequently switched instruments...
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Daniel Bachman Is Looking To Settle Down As He Gets Older
Daniel Bachman @ Paradox 2014. Photo by Incubate Tilburg. “I’m in a weird place right now,” says Daniel Bachman, a 26-year-old experimental finger-style guitar player. “I’m trying a bunch of new stuff...
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Portland Popstar Natasha Kmeto is Tough to Put in a Box
b “I’m kind of a tough artist to put in a box,” Natasha Kmeto admits on a spotty cell phone call from Los Angeles, where she’s just arrived on tour. “And right now, I feel like I’m in a rebuilding...
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Terminal Consumption: The Best Punk on Bandcamp, November 2016 (II)
In this second November installment of Terminal Consumption, our usually-monthly reviews column focused on the margins of punk and hardcore, Sam Lefebvre examines the stirring presence of London...
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Album of the Day: Oneida & Rhys Chatham, “What’s Your Sign?”
Considering Rhys Chatham once wrote a seminal 400-guitar symphony and starred in the No Wave scene that gave us arty and angular post-punk acts like Mars, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, and DNA, it’s no...
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Illum Sphere Pares Down His Sound On a Record About Detachment
Illum Sphere. Photo by Vivek Vadoliya. There’s nothing that strikes fear in a musician’s heart quite like the dreaded sophomore slump. For artists who make electronic music, in particular, the desire...
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