Here’s our occasional reminder that Best Country Music on Bandcamp employs a big-tent definition of “country” that welcomes what we like to call “country-ish” music: bluegrass, folk, Americana, ...

The experimental rock trio led by Liz Harris (aka Grouper) resurfaces with their first album in more than a decade; expect swooning vocals and pillowy guitars galore.

The taxonomy of contemporary classical music—new music, contemporary music, whatever you want to call it—is a thorny issue. But every month, we’ll take a look at some of the best composer-driven music ...

It’s all about making it your own. Back in July we remarked on electronic producers using genre conventions to express complex emotions. But it’s more than that: Whether it’s house, jungle, gqom, ...

“IDM” or “intelligent dance music” was originally posited as a novel idea of taking club music and turning it into head music. But as it developed, its practitioners started taking it to an ...

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When it came time to select albums for this Big Ups, Toledo gravitated toward albums that, in some way, mirrored Making A Door Less Open —either in their use of alternate personas, or their focus on ...

September’s best new rap releases to hit Bandcamp includes a San Diego spitter’s rally for labor rights, a Santa Fe MC’s psychological journey through shadowy realms, and a Buffalo artist’s commentary ...

As the Bandcamp philosophy goes, we believe music is essential to humanity, and though these are the records we’ve deemed to be the year’s 25 most essential—the ones we couldn’t stop playing, that we ...