As promised, the Dalai Lama’s debut album is here, right in time for His Holiness’ 85th birthday. Inner World collects chants and mantras from the Tibetan spiritual leader and sets his words against music that was recorded by New Zealand musicians Junelle and Abraham Kunin, practicing Buddhists. “I’d never heard him speak like this,” Junelle […]
Bill Callahan's "Another Song" Is Not Just Another Song
Bill Callahan is releasing one song from his new album Gold Record each Monday until the whole thing drops in September. Last Monday he shared the first one, “Pigeons,” which we ranked as the week’s very best song. Today he has shared another song. Quite literally, he has shared “Another Song.” That’s what the second […]
Tunde Adebimpe – “ReelFeel”
On Juneteenth, when Bandcamp was donating its share of sales revenue to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, TV On The Radio singer Tunde Adebimpe shared the impassioned new protest song “People.” Yesterday, Bandcamp once again waived its share of the revenue, and Adebimpe shared another new song, a synthpop jam with an infectious falsetto chorus […]
Superchunk – “Can’t Stop The World” (The Go-Go’s Cover)
North Carolina artists are banding together to raise money for the beloved Carrboro venue Cat’s Cradle. Superchunk, the Mountain Goats, Iron & Wine, Hiss Golden Messenger, and more are covering some of their favorite songs for the upcoming compilation Cover Charge: NC Artists Go Under Cover To Benefit Cat’s Cradle, with all proceeds going directly […]
Thurston Moore – “Cantaloupe”
After spending most of quarantine throwing various outtakes and rarities up on Bandcamp, Thurston Moore is now getting ready to hit us with a proper solo album. The former Sonic Youth co-leader announced By The Fire a couple weeks ago with the lead single “HASHISH.” And now he’s followed it up with another new track, […]
Stream NNAMDÏ's Wild New Album 'KRAZY KARL'
Even beyond his work with artists like Ratboys, Vagabon, Lala Lala, and Spencer Tweedy, Chicago musician Nnamdi Ogbonnaya is one of the most versatile and exciting artists going right now. In the past month alone he’s followed up April’s genre-defiant BRAT with a pair of genuinely experimental rap tracks called “Impatient” and “Stressed Out” and […]
Gemma – “Keepsake”
In addition to her work with Ava Luna and recent-vintage Dirty Projectors, Felicia Douglass fronts Gemma, her project with producer and multi-instrumentalist Erik Gundel. They released their sophomore album Feeling’s Not A Tempo last year, and today, they’re back to celebrate Bandcamp’s latest revenue share-waiving day with the release of the sleek, futuristic new pop […]
Geld Release Ugly, Disgusting New Hardcore Punk Album 'Beyond The Floor': Stream
Melbourne’s Geld play an ugly, discordant, feverish form of hardcore punk. They’ve clearly studied the wildest and most chaotic forms of hardcore that the genre’s history has to offer; there’s a lot of Cleveland and Japan in their sound. But Geld’s music isn’t pastiche. Instead, it’s an urgent scramble, a messy bloodletting. Two years ago, […]
Jason Isbell Shares Original Demo For The 'A Star Is Born' Song "Maybe It's Time": Listen
In the 2018 movie A Star Is Born, Bradley Cooper plays Jackson Maine, an alcoholic rock star on the declining side of his career. A few times in the film, Cooper sings “Maybe It’s Time,” a lovely and contemplative acoustic country-rock song. Jason Isbell wrote “Maybe It’s Time” for the movie. Today, he’s released his […]
Stream UK Hardcore Band Glorious’ Absolutely Kickass Debut EP Unashamed
There’s this feeling that we all get sometimes, when we first hear new records from bands that we didn’t even know about, records that suddenly mash all our pleasure centers and give us exactly what we didn’t even know we wanted. It’s the best feeling. It’s a total dizzy serotonin flood. It’s that sense of […]