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Twelve Metal Bands That Put the Emphasis on Shredding
Axe Crazy Guitar heroics have been a key part of rock music since Chuck Berry first touched the instrument, but heavy metal took fretboard pyrotechnics to the extreme. Ritchie Blackmore built bombastic...
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Yang Haisong Is Producing a New Generation of Underground Chinese Rock
Photo by Nevin Domer. Ask any Chinese indie band formed in the last decade about their influences, odds are they’ll mention P.K.14. Originally from Nanjing, P.K.14 set root in Beijing in 2001, at a...
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The All-Metal Merch Table: May 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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Terminal Consumption: The Best Punk on Bandcamp, May 2017
In this installment of Terminal Consumption, our monthly reviews column focused on the margins of punk and hardcore, Sam Lefebvre considers Kaleidoscope’s lovely hostility and Anxiety’s anticipated...
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Album of the Day: Vincent Ahehehinnou, “Best Woman”
Vincent Ahehehinnou pitched up in Nigeria with something to prove. It was 1978 and he’d been ousted from popular Benin band the Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou at the height of their powers, ending...
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Big Ups: Sondre Lerche
Photo by Isabell N Wedin. Sondre Lerche has been pegged a guitar-pop artist since his 2001 debut Faces Down. But his newest album, Pleasure, employs electronic elements liberally—particularly on...
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This Week’s Essential Releases: Psych-Doom, Rampaging Pogo-Punk, & More
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. Drew...
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Ten Modern Shoegaze Bands: A Primer
Rev Rev Rev Given the recent reunions of Ride, Slowdive, Lush, Telescopes, and Swervedriver, collective interest in shoegaze appears to be approaching another peak. For the uninitiated: “shoegazers”...
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The Tanzania Albinism Collective Turn Personal Pain Into Emotional Soul
Photo by Marilena Delli. A delicate, hypnotic voice opens White African Power, the first album by Tanzania Albinism Collective, setting the tone for a record built equally on raw vocals, and lyrics...
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The Unorthodox Violin Work of Darragh Morgan
Photo by Frances Marshall. Though he first picked up the violin in the context of Irish traditional music, and undertook classical music studies at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London,...
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Album of the Day: Como Mamas, “Move Upstairs”
Ester Mae Smith, Angela Taylor, and Della Daniels grew up together in the segregated town of Como, Mississippi, in the 1950s. In the half-century since, the three have remained best friends and Como...
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The Best Metal on Bandcamp: May 2017
Pride in one’s local music scene is something that unites fans of all genres and all backgrounds. Any time a band who is important to you gains national attention, it feels special. Kenoma is one of...
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Better Know a College Radio Station: West Virginia University’s WWVU
Illustration by George Greaves For many obsessive fans who grew up in the pre-Internet era, a passion for music was sparked in the dingy basements and dark booths of college radio stations. Despite...
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Hi Bias: Notable Cassette Releases on Bandcamp, May 2017
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: Jaimie Branch, “Fly or Die”
“I’ve never been very good at playing what I’m supposed to play,” jazz trumpeter Jaimie Branch says in a mini-documentary about her debut album, Fly or Die. “I can only do what I feel at that moment…...
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The Best Jazz on Bandcamp: May 2017
Illustration by Clay Hickson It’s a globetrotting edition of Best of Bandcamp Jazz. This month’s column features stopovers in Iceland, Barcelona, the Twin Cities, Paris, London, Lebanon, New Jersey,...
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The Best New Soul on Bandcamp: May 2017
Charlie Curtis-Beard. Illustration by Gabriel Alcala. Each month, we bring you the best new soul music on Bandcamp. Here, Skullkid and brandon* usher you into the summer, and Mel Alston Jr. and Emilee...
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Keeping the Flame Alive: The World of Deep Funk Archival Compilations
“‘Deep funk’ was really just a name I came up with for my club night,” remembers Keb Darge, a DJ and devoted 45s collector. “The rare groove scene had played funk, but I wanted to get it across to the...
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ShitKid Might Be The Weirdest Musician In Sweden Right Now
Photo by Arvid Sjoo. In 2015, Sweden’s Åsa Söderqvist was nervous about what people would think of her music. She uploaded her self-titled solo debut EP (under the potentially off-putting moniker...
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Album of the Day: Jane Weaver, “Modern Kosmology”
It’s taken the better part of two decades to bring U.K. songwriter Jane Weaver into the limelight. Though much of her work as a solo artist has been critically regarded, it wasn’t until 2014’s The...
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