Free/"Name Your Price" Bandcamp Album Compendium

This is good stuff -- recommended for fans of storm and stress, shipping news, june of 44, slint etc

http://lionshead.bandcamp.com/releases

New Radiator Hospital album!!!

http://radiatorhospital.bandcamp.com/

Also CRYING!! Fun chiptune punk! But not nearly as awful as that sounds!

An old recording I upped: http://leeshedden.bandcamp.com. It's an album of rocked-up old folk tunes. The price is right, tho.

My mostly-on-hiatus band (minus a show w/ Circulatory System this month) recently uploaded our 6 albums as pay-what-ya-want/free: http://everythingnowmusic.bandcamp.com/

RIYL: Psych-pop-garage a (Rolling) Stones' throw away from Elephant 6.

Peep that shit fo' free.

Which album would you recommend?

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a3523326471_2.jpg
http://thedustbunnies.bandcamp.com/album/night-terrors-hd

This is my stuff, first time doing a solo album of original material in a long time. I don't know how to describe it other than psychedelic. Some of it is punk/no wavey, some of it is more lofi pop.

I would recommend Bible Universe. A little more lo-fi aesthetic paired with some of the best songwriting: http://everythingnowmusic.bandcamp.com/album/bible-universe

since a lotta epoch stuff is bandcamp i guess this belongs

http://www.imposemagazine.com/features/the-epoch

forgot to mention this earlier but if you're hungry for a little droning/drumming/guitar playing this is a great and free (for today at least) option

http://kwaidanband.bandcamp.com

http://www.freaksvillerec.com/album/freaksville-mostla-tape

Worth it alone for the Laetitia Sadier / Loved Drones cover of "Contact"

heey Cuneiform records offering anniversary name your price "albums of 2014" comp, featuring tracks from Richard Pinhas, Mary Halvorson, Rob Mazurek and other fringe ppl!
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cuneiform-turns-30-the-albums-of-2014

Cuneiform – in 2014, its 30th year – features about 400 titles in its catalogue. These releases cover a broad stylistic range, from experimental rock to avant-progressive, avant-jazz and jazz improvisation, electronic/ambient/noise, and much much more. From classical minimalism to chamber rock, Rock in Opposition to Weird Americana, jazz/pop to jazztronica, Cuneiform has explored a wide world of cutting edge music and especially, music beyond genre and genres-yet-to-be-defined. The common denominator of all releases on this uncommon, artist-friendly label is the singularity and consistent high-quality of its artists. Cuneiform's innovative composers and improvisors create music true to their unique visions and their unfettered visions often defy, reshape, and transcend prior genre boundaries, transforming the musical landscape of jazz, or rock, or New Music/contemporary classical for generations to come.

Cuneiform released 20 albums of high-quality, genre-defiant music in 2014, the largest number of albums we’ve ever released in a single year! They range from jazz/post-jazz/beyond genre (Anthony Pirog; Dylan Ryan/Sand; Raoul Bjorkenheim/Ecstasy; The Microscopic Septet; Led Bib; Ideal Bread; Joel Harrison; The Ed Palermo Big Band; Thumbscrew[Halvorson/Formanek/Fujiwara]); to avant-rock/Rock in Opposition/electroc-ambient-noise (remastered reissues of Roger Trigaux’s Present; Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi; Richard Pinhas & Yoshida Tatsuya; Mats/Morgan; Sonar; Jonathan Badger; Happy Family).

Good new project with the vocalist of Marsh Hens, who I mentioned upthread

http://shinyslab.bandcamp.com/releases

https://velvetunderground.bandcamp.com/album/white-light-white-heat

http://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/mixtape-vol-2

http://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/mixtape-volume-3

xp wtf are those VU albums doing on bandcamp? For free?

oh goodie someone trying to cause legal trouble for bandcamp, nice one

u should listen to the albums before you judge

hmm nice remastering job

The clarity, my god!

Really digging this Aussie band, Dollar Bar, right now. RIYL GBV, and at first I thought they might be too Pollardy, but the more I listen, their own voice shines through. Great songwriting and fun slacker delivery: http://dollarbar.bandcamp.com

Blue Tapes sampler. You should get on this, BT were responsible for that first Katie Gately track I thrust upon you all, have put out Henry Plotnick etc...

https://bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-blue-three

wow, Bandcamp really laying on the guilt for streaming.

?

http://i.imgur.com/nZMJcwL.png

Hark milady, what?

i did hear something about limited streaming, i wonder what the limit is (apparently haven't hit it yet for anything).

Wondering how much these anti-streaming artists were making from radio airplay back in the day. I'd guess it was actually less.

Maybe this is inappropriate, but my band has a name-your-price mini album out ATM https://discozhivago.bandcamp.com/

The limit is for the mobile app only, no?

oh, that would make sense.

is there a good "beginner's guide to using bandcamp" tutorial out there for first-time users from the artist side? i have used bandcamp plenty as a consumer/listener but i don't know anything from the other side and i need to get the ball rolling.

it's super easy, you just upload wav files and artwork and type words. they walk you through it.

they have to be wav files? see i didn't know that.
i don't know anything!

any lossless format - wav, aif, flac. then they automatically encode the compression versions (mp3s etc).

their Help section seems comprehensive enough
https://bandcamp.com/help/

oh ok, i didn't realize that you can control/remove the streaming limit:

By default, fans can play tracks on Bandcamp only a few times in full, after which they get a dialog prompting them to buy. As the artist, you can up this limit, or remove it entirely, from your Profile page (you of course always get unlimited plays of your own tracks, but for the curious, here’s what the purchase prompt looks like). When a fan makes a purchase, they get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app for Android, iOS and Sonos, an optional download in a variety of high-quality formats including lossless, and of course the satisfaction of directly supporting an artist they love.

i'll gather my materials and see what i can get done by myself. ty!

The new Kult of the Wizard is out today. Really good retro stoner rock:

https://kultofthewizard.bandcamp.com/album/the-white-wizard

Full disclosure: my noise theremin squawks are the soundbed for track 3, "Plasma Pool"

I play in a band and while it's not free yet, all day tomorrow (3/17) can get our first record for free from Bandcamp cuz it's ten yrs old

http://stnnng.bandcamp.com/album/dignified-sissy-2

hey i've heard stnnng before - good stuff!

Ok now it's up and free for today

Just made this. Pretty psychedelic dudes.

https://thedustbunnies.bandcamp.com/track/food-for-the-moon

From March to December this year a new release each month and each is F/PWYW . Electronics, synths and things: templo.bandcamp.com

Swivs "Free Period Blood Money"
http://swivs.bandcamp.com/releases
catchy bedroom rock music with electronic flourishes

also has a pretty great cover

https://polvodisco.bandcamp.com/album/nostalgia-oceania

I enjoyed this – more so the second half – though I've not heard much indie-pop since the Mystery Jets went mediocre. Light-as-air sounds en español just in time for the southern summer [/reviewer]
(From Amplifier: "Polvo Disco is Alexander Longstaff's solo project. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, he became involved at young age in the local rock music scene, touring Chile and Argentina as a former member of pop band Alai. In 2007 he moved to New Zealand and started his solo music career")

here goes nothing

https://thesoftpinktruth.bandcamp.com/album/why-pay-more

My hero 😍

yessssss