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Album of the Day: So Stressed, “Please Let Me Know”
One of the larger tensions that exists between artists and critics is the latter’s insistence on taking the work of the former to be strict autobiography, but the pain that courses through the third...
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The Best Albums of Winter 2017
Welcome to the first of our seasonal round-ups of the best albums on Bandcamp! Every three months, the Bandcamp Daily editorial staff will be combing through the stacks to present our favorite records...
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The Merch Table: March 2017
Illustration by Paul Grelet. Every month, The Merch Table brings you the best and most bonkers merchandise you can find on Bandcamp. We commend bands and labels that get a little creative and think...
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A Brief Guide to the Music of Lil Ugly Mane
Lil Ugly Mane. Source. At first, there was mystique. Lil Ugly Mane started generating attention six years ago via his work with Raider Klan, the youthful Miami rap collective that helped make ’90s...
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Hundreds of Artists Help Launch ‘Bands Take A Stand’ to Combat Sexual Assault
Three years ago Jake McElfresh, who records under the musical moniker Front Porch Step, was accused of sexual harassment by several young women, a handful of which were teenagers. In 2015, a petition...
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Album of the Day: Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble, “Find Me Finding You”
Protest music doesn’t have to be angry. Dark times call for all kinds of political art, and if anyone can make calls to action both soothing and effective, it’s Laetitia Sadier. Find Me Finding You,...
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On “Contact,” Pharmakon’s Bracing Noise is a Vehicle for Self-Discovery
The Greek word ‘pharmakon,’ riddled with bizarre contradiction, refers to both a poison and a medicine. In ancient times, the related term ‘pharmakos’ was used to refer to a criminal, slave or...
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The New Sound of Norway
Anna of the North With all due respect to the nation’s strong metal tradition (see: Mayhem’s creepy pig-head-featuring live shows or the 1990s string of church burnings), Norway’s recent musical export...
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The “Tough Pop” of Australia’s Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Photos by Rubin Utama. If you were one of the (too few) lucky people to be turned onto Australian guitar pop quintet Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s debut EP Talk Tight last year, there’s a good...
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Album of the Day: Pallbearer, “Heartless”
A sense of foreboding gravity is an essential part of doom, and on their first two albums, 2012’s Sorrow and Extinction and 2014’s Foundations of Burden, Pallbearer mostly embraced that...
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Seven Artists Who Are at the Cutting Edge of Hi-Fi Techno
Volte Face In recent years, techno has turned to a rather dark place. Tastemakers such as Rødhåd have favoured bleak and brutal sounds, and labels like Perc and Ron Morelli’s L.I.E.S. have been in a...
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Twenty-Five Years of the Brain-Melting Sounds of SKiN Graft Records
U.S. Maple In 2016, the St.Louis-based label SKiN GRAFT quietly celebrated its 25th anniversary. To commemorate the milestone, the label re-released the very first full-length LP it issued back in...
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Christian Scott’s “Ruler Rebel” Honors The History of Jazz While Pushing The...
Jazz has been up front in the struggle for social justice since the early 20th century, when Louis Armstrong turned Fats Waller’s “(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue” into a cry of pain. Nearly a...
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Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical: March 2017
Metronome photo by nigel_appleton The taxonomy of contemporary classical music—new music, contemporary music, whatever you want to call it—is a thorny issue. But every two months, we’ll take a look at...
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Album of the Day: Century Palm, “Meet You”
Toronto’s Century Palm could have only been born in a blistering Canadian winter. Dark, taut, icy and slick, their debut album Meet You is a crash course in post-punk—there’s some Krautrock influence,...
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The Best Metal on Bandcamp: March 2017
A major stumbling block for many would-be converts to underground metal is the tendency of the vocals to veer toward the harsher end of the spectrum—”Cookie Monster vocals,” as they’re often...
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Two Dragons, Estonia, and a New Solo Project for Erki Pärnoja
Erki Parnoja by Tonu Tunnel There aren’t many “big” Estonian bands. A nation of just over one million people with limited large cities can’t sustain many full-time musicians. (On the flip side, in a...
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Beijing’s Do Hits Label is Forging China’s New Club Sound
Veeeky The classical strains of the two-stringed erhu set to a downtempo bass beat; chopped and screwed samples from CCTV’s New Year’s Gala; the most viewed television program on Earth; cut, copied and...
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The Muscle Shoals Country-Soul of Emily Duff
“The place is spooky and full of ghosts,” says Emily Duff of the studio where she cut her new album, Maybe in the Morning. That seems about right, considering that the New York City singer/songwriter...
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Album of the Day: lojii & Swarvy, “Due Rent”
On Christmas Day, while many of us were opening gifts and spending time with loved ones, rapper lojii and producer Swarvy were in a living room somewhere in Los Angeles, quietly compiling their...
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