Free/"Name Your Price" Bandcamp Album Compendium

Teenage Strangler!
http://teenagestrangler.bandcamp.com/album/dark-sun

great album, a little garage, a little like if you wished 90s GBV was more like Superchuck or vice versa

great thread btw

my two favorite brooklyn bands at the moment:
http://diehard.bandcamp.com/ archers of loaf/sloan sounding stuff
http://passengerperu.bandcamp.com/ pinback/modest mouse sounding stuff

my two favorite boston bands at the moment:
http://grassisgreen.bandcamp.com/ progressive hardcore
http://fathistorymonth.bandcamp.com/ garage stuff

my fav philly band at the moment:
http://petmilk.bandcamp.com/ dreamy jangly shoegaze pop

http://brokenwatermusic.bandcamp.com/ - olympia band sounds like sonic youth & mbv

Ga'an is sick

This isn't on bandcamp but it is free and also AWESOME

The Runnies are a rock'n roll organ trio hailing from Chicago. Fronted by vocal extraordinaire Mary McKane. Their sound is gnarly, the beats are totally slammin, and the leads are freaky-deaky.

The Runnies - http://www.candydinner.com/album/the-runnies-you-cant-win/

that glitch piano one is actually kinda dope

Non-bandcamp free downloads are also welcome, as long as they are AWESOME.

nice shoegazey stuff from the Bilinda Butchers: http://thebilindabutchers.bandcamp.com/album/regret-love-guilt-dreams

http://cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/album/beacons
Ambient metal with electronic touches!

http://axxicorn.bandcamp.com/album/war-of-the-giants
Mythological proto-metal!

http://icedragon.bandcamp.com/album/the-burl-the-earth-the-aether
Garage doom metal!

http://airs.bandcamp.com/album/gloomlights
Shoegaze with black metal touches!

http://ktroneb.bandcamp.com/
Ridiculously prolific Tangerine Dream-style electronic guy! My favorites of the many, many albums he has available are Game over and Tiresias Show, but if you find any other good ones, let us know!

ooh that last one sounds good!!

i like Cloudkicker

Uruguayan psych rock, in my top 10 for the year: http://ufesas.bandcamp.com/

Every album that's available at Bandcamp on this list is linked! http://www.fastnbulbous.com/2011-stoner-doom-psych-metal-rock.htm

Sleestak - Altrusian Moon - A Lo​-​Fi Collection Of Psychedelia and Space Rock
http://sleestak.bandcamp.com/album/altrusian-moon-a-lo-fi-collection-of-psychedelia-and-space-rock

You can get it free, but if enough people pay something, it will fund their recording of a new album this year.

http://fofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/pop-massacre-2

free comp of pop covers by electronic musicians from a dope label

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/8743-you-can-find-this-on-the-internet-mixtapes-you-might-have-missed/

^^^this, co-written by a certain ilxor, is a v. good guide to hip-hop stuff on bandcamp/similar websites from last year.

I made this
http://themartialarts.bandcamp.com/
it's power pop

this SEDAN record is v. pretty, ty jeff

Kevin Bewersdorf - Slow Dudes
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_Bewersdorf/Slow_Dudes/

A friend of mine's RISD classmate (please don't let this repel anyone). Glitchy, cheesy, MIDI pop goodness. Favorites: "Hi Hi Hello" "The Last Seinfeld" and "1989 Toyota Camry"

really like this album reviewed on pitchfork today:

Household - Items
http://household.bandcamp.com/
(free to stream, $3 to download)

female postpunk with short catchy songs

That thing I linked to is a 'spoof' of some sort apparently. I thought it was pretty good to be honest.

great instrumental beat record:

http://manmantis.bandcamp.com/album/cities-without-houses

sample-heavy but very musical, tracks go places.

been listening to this constantly since @mountain_goats linked to it on twitter yesterday. it is lovely!

http://veryfresh.bandcamp.com/album/2011-demos

http://battlecircus.bandcamp.com/
Epic prog rock lock Muse (don't run away)!

http://c-jeff.bandcamp.com/album/preschtale
Chiptune prog metal (?) concept album!

http://cosmonautsday.bandcamp.com/album/paths-of-the-restless
Russian post-space sludge! Maybe.

http://eyemusic.bandcamp.com/album/center-of-the-sun
Heavy space rock from Ohio!

http://sanangelus.bandcamp.com/album/soon-well-all-be-ghosts
Post-hardcore from members of Pelican and These Arms Are Snakes!

http://cosmonautsday.bandcamp.com/album/paths-of-the-restless
Russian post-space sludge! Maybe.

i played tracks from that in outloud a few months ago

This thread is the bizness.

The band just told me they have their page up now. They are something special. My #6 album of 2011!

Ever crave a band that's so downtuned that you can actually track the motion of the strings and feel the vibrations in your internal organs? Chile's At Devil Dirt has a doozy for you. It's hard to believe it's just two guys, as their debut self-titled album has a mammoth sludgy fuzz sound worthy of Electric Wizard, Goatsnake, Kyuss and Floor/Torche, with some pretty inventive psychedelic vocals with harmonies. On "Rocknrolla" they even bring to mind T. Rex!

At Devil Dirt (Corvus Discos)
http://atdevildirt.bandcamp.com/

This band from Argentina (instrumental stoner/psych) is a late discovery:
Poseidótica - Cronicas del Futuro (Aquatalan)
http://poseidotica.bandcamp.com/album/cronicas-del-futuro

http://thetelewire.bandcamp.com/album/the-telewire
Spacegaze!

http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/album/first-matter
Dronegaze!

http://viaticum.bandcamp.com/
Noisy space rock!

http://compilationforacat.bandcamp.com/album/compilation-for-a-cat

Charity drone/ambient/goth thing! For a cat! (Cool background story, actually -- poor kitty.)

Greg Ginn would approve.

I upload stuff to bandcamp. Older stuff - guitar based sadcore or jangle pop. Newer stuff - more new wave. Most of it is free if you want it.

http://lingereffect.bandcamp.com/

Some great Kraut-ish jams from Indirect:

http://indirect.bandcamp.com/album/2010-direct-from-w-k-a-f-compilation

(They aren't free/name your price so I won't link them, but Fang Wizard has a fun album from TeenBeat available for download on bandcamp, and there are a couple of great post-punk-type singles by Friends for dirt cheap from the Lucky Number label on the site as well.)

http://worstward.bandcamp.com
This being the hub for all things Steven R. Smith (formerly of Mirza, Thuja, Hala Straana and solo artist). His latest OLD SKETE is a must-listen for rustic drone types.

And thanks for the kind words WRT The Rowell Incident upthread. There will probably be some more solo synth/drone stuff going up in the nearish future.

http://tendernessmusic.com/track/sing-in-the-fire
http://tendernessmusic.com/track/we-lay-our-broken-world-in-sorrow-at-your-feet

Solex + liturgical texts (?) it's really good

http://blackaciddevil.bandcamp.com/
Stoner/Sludge Metal, came out December 12.

i contributed a track to this (#8), pretty happy with how it came out:

http://worldaround.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-world-around-vol-2

I'm listening to the Airs record that I linked to up above as "shoegaze with black metal elements." There is no black metal in this that I can ascertain. So if that scared you off, have no fear – this is pretty straight up staring at footwear.

James Murphy's nephew does electro shocka:

http://m-o-o-n.bandcamp.com/

Pretty friggin' good, actually.

http://heavystrife.bandcamp.com/album/synth-tiseur
80s-style Blade Runner synthpop!

http://lecouleurmusic.bandcamp.com/album/origami
French (Canadian) synthpop!

http://giraffage.bandcamp.com/
Chill glitch pop!

Thanks for the Sedan and Witch Mountain shout out, J3ff!

Yeah, that Sedan record you recommended is great, I've been introducing a bunch of people to it.

http://uncertain.bandcamp.com/album/aether-musick-for-moths
Deeply unsettling ambient music for moths! Also in the same series: grief and seahorses.

http://lematos.bandcamp.com/album/coming-soon
80s-style synth dance!

http://donovancoreylyons.bandcamp.com/album/0b11111011011demos
Ambient psych from a member of the metal band Millions!

Those were all good, thanks Jeff!!

http://hesperpayne.bandcamp.com/album/the-strange-tale-of-samuel-gonzalez
Hesper Payne, pretty solid death droom from the north of England.

haha @ "death droom", "death doom" i meant

drooooooooom

I think I need to go record an album so I can make the ultimate droom album that all others will be judged by.

hit those drooms

droom = dream in Dutch, makes total sense to me

I had too much to droom last night

the moth music was hella creepy. scott walker should get with whoever did it.

droom a little droom for me

new waldorf and statler experience out a day early! soulful true school chicago hiphop with a sense of humor by two guys who just love making music.

(full disclosure: i'm friends with treblefree and have collaborated with him in the past. doesn't change the fact that he's an excellent producer and dvs is one of the most charismatic rappers i've ever heard.)

Some folks chaff, some folks wheat... But my music is all free/name-your-price on Bandcamp. If anyone pays anything, it gets donated on.

https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/

Farewell compilation from my longtime electronic music label just came out for free/nyp:
https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/astraltopia

Happy birthday to the Late, Great Montana Elliot of Sharpless. She would have been 31 today. New Sharpless for u:

https://music.sharpless.life/track/people-in-love

georgie gould, aka bulldog eyes, is one of the best songwriters alive.

to tell you the truth, i can't get into her new stuff. it's too impenetrable, both in terms of structure and production. a lot of people seem to like it though.

her old stuff, though - there's almost nothing that isn't gold before late 2016. i've still never heard anything like it. she takes these disparate sounds and textures - jazzy nylon-string, raspy electric guitar, clipped-to-death drum samples, feedback, midi keyboards and soft, buried-in-the-mix vocals - and fashions them into something totally unique, catchy, cohesive and very beautiful.

she's been having financial trouble for a long time, so i'm sure buying her stuff would help her out - everthing's name-your-price.

i'm just gonna post every album i love (apart from the ones she's deleted) here:
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/shame
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/you-have-fun
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/landes
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/seeya
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/thanks
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/asleep
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/yukon-bulldog-eyes-split
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/gross
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/b-sides

This is pretty great- a gig Ben Goldberg did at The Stone in 2014. I can't improve on his description so here it is:

In February/March 2014 I had a one week residency at The Stone in New York -- 12 sets in 6 days. For the last set of the last night I assembled some of my favorite musicians -- Liberty Ellman, Steve Cardenas, Trevor Dunn, Ches Smith, and Rob Sudduth -- and we performed one of my favorite songs, "Let's Cool One" by Thelonious Monk. Fatigue had set in but the mind was open, and we played at the slowest tempo I could imagine, right around quarter note = 13 seconds. I had a feeling that something would take over sooner or later, and I think I was right. The song lasted 44 minutes. Luckily it was recorded. Now I give it to you and hope you get something from it. Love to all.

https://ben-goldberg--bag-production-records.bandcamp.com/album/ben-goldberg-at-the-stone-february-march-2014-lets-cool-one

hell yes

https://weedian420.bandcamp.com/album/the-100-best-releases-of-2024

There really are a lot of bands making stoner psych, aren't there? Amazed that they can come up with 100 releases in a given year of similar-sounding bands that I've never heard of.

you should dig through Weedian's page ... there are like 1000 more of these bands just on their comps

I wonder how many are AI generated.

I don't think any of them are on Weedian.

I think it’s generally not that difficult to play so the bands proliferate.

My controversial opinion is that stoner doom, alongside ambient / drone and guitar soli, is one of the easiest genres to passably imitate with very little practice or skill, which is why there is so much of it

There's probably lots of demand for them at dive bars and the like, as well.

Paul P you rephrased my post that was right above your! This stuff does seem to just proliferate with relatively little effort

Yours

I wonder how many of these "bands" are actually bedroom/studio projects from solo artists, as opposed to a group doing live shows #rockism

this pedal steel cover of eno's "discreet music" is lovely: https://jimwallis.bandcamp.com/album/discreet-music

I just nominated that in the EOY poll thanks to you!

Paul P you rephrased my post that was right above your! This stuff does seem to just proliferate with relatively little effort

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, December 16, 2024 4:33 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I know, I was agreeing! Sorry that wasn't clear. I just wanted to piggyback and add in a few shots at two of my other favorite targets.

For the record there is, historically anyway, plenty of stoner doom, ambient and guitar soli I like. I think I'm just at the "enough already" point

What is guitar soli?

fingerstyle guitar music inspired by John Fahey

Ok, thanks.
I think of that as much more technically demanding than a lot of stonerdoom/ambient/drone...