if you don’t use bandcamp, i’d really encourage you to spend some time there. there’s millions of artists on there putting out great material, a lot of which never even makes 1 sale, or breaks 10 plays
if you’re new to the site, the front page is a good place to start. you can pick a genre and scroll thru it. by default it puts popular stuff up front, but i’d suggest looking at new releases
most albums have a “music you’ll also love” section at the bottom of the page, so you can start from one thing and go down a rabbit hole. you can find whole scenes this way
or look at the genre tags that don’t show up on the front page! find a sub-subgenre and explore something you’ve definitely never heard before. what’s furrycore? dreamcore? post-hyperpop? progressive extreme metal? melodic juke?
bandcamp also tags music by location. what are ppl in your city making?
going out of your way to find new music can make an artist’s day, or turn you on to something you wouldn’t normally go for. think about it
i didnt mention one of the site’s biggest selling points, which is that the money u spend on there goes directly to the artist. bandcamp gets a 30% cut, which is beyter than any other deal out there. definitely better than the 99.99% cut spotify takes.
but that was on purpose. i wanna let ppl know that bandcamp is the place to be, as a music fan, if you want to hear underground independent music
bandcamp is kinda in danger of being only used by musicians. like an extension of the joke abt irl music gigs: it’s just a bunch of musicians handing each other 20 dollar bills.
to me, as someone who loves the wierd, edgy side of electronic music, bandcamp is more than that. it’s where u go to be part of music scenes in the internet era. especially post 2020
indie musicians and laptop musicians and garage musicians and local musicians are making the best damn songs youve never heard rn
people will say they aren’t attractive and then go create art and then go write beautiful poetry and then go bake a cake for a friend and then go spread positivity and then go write a novel and then continue to say they aren’t attractive, as if everything they do doesn’t count or doesn’t matter, as if societal expectations somehow decide their worth and fate.
