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Self-Love and Solidarity with Punk Trio Cayetana
Photo by Emily Dubin. One of the valuable upsides of our modern times is an expansive toolkit of self-actualization and empowerment that’s readily more available than ever, whether it’s a forum for...
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Album of the Day: The New Year, “Snow”
On the New Year’s first record in nine years, songwriter/guitarists Matt and Bubba Kadane coax out a series of low-key indie rock songs that tend toward the contemplative. That’s not necessarily out...
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Big Ups: Ceremony Pick Their Favorite Bands on Bandcamp
The California group Ceremony underwent a massive stylistic transition between their 2012 album Zoo and 2015’s The L-Shaped Man. Where the former favored gnarled, roiling, punk-informed songs, the...
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Nite Jewel on the Highs and Lows of Being a Woman in the Music Industry
Nite Jewel. Photos by Patrick Gookin. Ramona Gonzalez’s third album as Nite Jewel plays like a chilled-out tribute to ‘90s Top 40 R&B artists like Janet Jackson and Aaliyah. Gonzalez freely admits...
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Vibesounds Wants To Be Detroit’s Next Great Hip-Hop Producer
Detroit is the historical and present home to some of hip-hop’s greatest producers: J Dilla, Karriem Riggins, Black Milk, 14KT, and Apollo Brown. While he’s just starting to come into his own as a...
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Diamanda Galás on Criticism and Context
Photo by Austin Young. Avant-garde composer and performer Diamanda Galás occupies a distinct place in history; her work is aesthetically unique, situated at the nexus of contemporary classical...
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Album of the Day: Skyway Man, “Seen Comin’ From a Mighty Eye”
“Someday, you’ll wake up from a dream,” singer James Wallace croons on “Someday,” the first track from his recent LP as Skyway Man. This album, Seen Comin’ From A Mighty Eye, has a hazy quality, and...
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A Guide Through the Haunting World of “Folk Horror”
Comus by Mike Rose Folk horror is a contemporary term coined to describe a cultural strand running through film, art, literature, and music. Appropriately though, its origins are as old as the hills....
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Ill Camille on Her New Album and Why the Term ‘Woman MC’ is a Diss
Ill Camille comes from a long line of blue-collar workers and jazz musicians, all of whom make up her essence as an MC. A product of Los Angeles’ historic View Park/Leimert Park—black communities with...
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Radioactive Man and the New School of Electro
Electro has an odd place in the pantheon of electronic sounds. The music that crystalized at the start of the 1980s, when New York b-boys and Detroit sci-fi lovers repurposed the sounds of Kraftwerk,...
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Naomi Wachira’s “Song of Lament” is an Ode to Resilience
Photo by Janell Kallender. Some albums communicate a truth, urgency, and humanity so profound that it resonates long after it ends; singer-songwriter Naomi Wachira’s Song of Lament is one of those...
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Album of the Day: Delia Gonzalez, “Horse Follows Darkness”
The backstory behind Delia Gonzalez’s riveting, moving Horse Follows Darkness is almost as rich as the album itself: the album is a kind of soundtrack to Gonzalez’s return to America after a sojourn...
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This Week’s Essential Releases: Mystical Folk, Spiritual Jazz, & Ambient
Welcome to Seven Essential Releases, our weekly roundup of the best music on Bandcamp. Each week, we’ll recommend six new albums, plus pick an older LP from the stacks that you may have missed. Alice...
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The Return of Slowdive
Photo by Ingrid Pop. When UK shoegaze legends Slowdive reunited in 2014, the group witnessed firsthand what many older-generation artists have discovered in recent years: Breaking up and getting back...
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Anni Rossi Makes a Mixtape
In 2011, Minnesota songwriter Anni Rossi disappeared. By the time it happened, her career read like a highlight reel from indie music’s peak period of folk-rock-meets-classical-pop, which fell out of...
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Carl Craig Infuses Techno with the High Drama of an Orchestra
Photo by Pierre Terdjman. The idea of fusing electronic and orchestral music isn’t new—especially not to Carl Craig. The Detroit musician is well-known for his place in the international house and...
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Album of the Day: Mac DeMarco, “This Old Dog”
At 26, Mac DeMarco seems too young for nostalgia, but there’s a pronounced wistful streak running through his latest album. Here, the singer contemplates getting older, could-have-beens, and the...
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The Halo Effect: Juana Molina on Superstition and Her New Recording Process
Photo by Alejandro Ros. When Juana Molina speaks about her music, she peppers the conversation with rich metaphors, referencing caves and conversations between intimate objects. It’s a linguistic move...
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Chris Pitsiokos Makes His Home Between Free Jazz and Noise
Photo by Anna Ekros. On any given night, at one of the many venues favored by New York City’s vibrant DIY experimental jazz scene, chances are good that firebrand saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos will be on...
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The Artful Dissonance of Chino Amobi
Chino Amobi used to “mess around with music.” When he was in elementary school, the Richmond-based producer and his brother would record songs off the radio, creating “radio shows” with a mix of their...
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