With the latest Bandcamp Friday hitting on Feb. 6, the time is right to melt the ice of winter 2026 with some fresh and far out sounds. Discover some recent/recommended tunes below.
Shintaro Noguchi & The Roadhouse Band. Nailah Hunter & Alia. Zander Raymond. Hans Chew, Old Saw. Jessica Williams. Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington. The Far Sound. Malombo. Joe Harvey-Whyte & Paul Cousins.
Hark, the snow is falling! At least in some places of the world it is. As winter descends, we’ve got some recent/recommended records to soundtrack the chillier months. Fill up your cart for the latest Bandcamp Friday on Dec. 5.
Here we go again, spiraling into another autumn. The best season? Yeah, maybe. The original Goth Queen Emily Brontë knew: “Every leaf speaks bliss to me / Fluttering from the autumn tree.” So as the days shorten and shadows lengthen, take some time to check out some recent/recommended tunes.
Could this summer get any weirder? Things are tumbling forward in 2025, with the future as unsteady and uncertain as can be. But the great music keeps on coming somehow, making the weirdness more tolerable. For your further explorations (and continued sanity), check out a handful of recent releases that we’re putting on repeat as the mercury rises.
We’re somehow barreling our way through 2025, time speeding up as spring’s renewal comes around again. The future is unknown, but music keeps us sane, humanity at its best. With another Bandcamp Friday hitting on May 2, check out a few recent recommendations below. Fill up your cart and keep on dreaming.
With the promise of spring still a long way off, we’re finding solace in sound. From ambient excursions to garage rock raveups, check out a few recent/recommended releases that will heat up even the chilliest of winter nights.
As 2024 draws to a close, the darkness encroaches … in more ways than one! Some welcome light can be found in the following recommended records. Bandcamp Friday hits again on December 6, but wherever you get your music, make sure your cash is making its way to the artists — we need their work now more than ever.
An autumnal soundtrack, filled with ambient jazz, cosmic drifts, adventurous improvisatory situations and one hell of a Sonic Youth cover. Fill up your Bandcamp (or other digital service) cart and watch the leaves start to fall.
We’re back in the thick of another wild summer — political unrest, insanely high temperatures, shark attacks, etc. For some aural AC, dig into a selection of highly recommended recent releases that run the gamut: private press folk from the 1980s to acoustic guitar Kraftwerk to sweet sounds from Senegal.
There’s another Bandcamp Friday on the horizon (April 5, to be exact) — so if you’re in need of some recommendations, we’ve got ‘em. Dig into fresh sounds and put some well-deserved cash in the pocket of these artists and labels.
New tunes for a new year! While the status / coolness of Bandcamp as a corporate entity is in flux, the platform itself remains in fine form for the time being — even Bandcamp Fridays seem to be rolling forward in 2024 (the next one hits on Feb. 2). Wherever you get your music and however you choose to support artists, dig in here for some recent / recommended zones.
There are plenty of bigger things to be depressed about these days, but for a certain stripe of music fan, the recent Bandcamp news was a particular bummer. If you haven’t heard, the platform was sold to Songtradr, a B2B music licensing service, who promptly laid off a healthy chunk of the workforce. While the ultimate fate of Bandcamp remains unclear, the future looks bleak.
What’s next? We’re not sure. But for the moment, we’ll continue sharing music via our Bandcamping column — especially as Bandcamp Fridays stay in place, offering artists a more-than-decent lifeline.
You’ve probably seen the headlines — this summer is the hottest summer … ever. As we all wilt beneath 2023’s scorching heat, music is a good way to chill out, figuratively if not literally. And with another Bandcamp Friday (Aug. 4) upon us, we’ve got a few recommendations for the dog days.
Summer is rapidly approaching — and if you need some fresh tunes to soundtrack the next few months, we’ve got recommendations, from Ethiopian pop to well-tuned piano minimalism. Be aware: there’s no Bandcamp Friday this month; the next one hits Aug. 4, 2023. But hey, any day can be Bandcamp Friday if you toss a couple extra dollars onto the asking price of any release on the platform.
Just in time for another Bandcamp Friday on April 7, we’ve got another selection of recent/recommended releases for your listening pleasure ranging from Agharta-damaged workouts to homemade minimalism. Fill up your cart and hit that “Buy” button.