Rolling Stone Bandcamp Friday, May 2021 Edition: Support Artists by Buying This Music
The music platform is waiving its revenue share for all purchases made on May 7th. Here are some recommendations from our staff to guide your browsing
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The statistics of Bandcamp Friday speak for themselves: In the year-plus since the launch of the campaign, during which the platform has waived its revenue share for music purchased on the first Friday of each month, fans have paid artists more than $50 million dollars. “Bandcamp is like my life source,” metal auteur Trevor William Church told
Rolling Stone in 2019, no doubt speaking for many creators in the age of meager streaming royalties. Bandcamp Friday continues on May 7th read on for a slew of recommendations from
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Life sucks. Origami Angel use this indisputable fact as justification not to take it so seriously.
Gami Gang, the double LP that the Washington, D.C. emo-punk duo completed during the pandemic, is an ambitious ode to making the best of unfathomable doom. âThis world is such a dead end/I know weâll make it perfect while we still can,â vocalist/guitarist Ryland Heagy sings on â/trust.â Across
Gami Gangâtitled after fansâ social media Bat-SignalâHeagy and drummer Pat Doherty capture that ambition by way of expansive emo-pop embellished with screamo, post-rock, and electronic experimentation.
Like their contemporaries Dogleg or Home Is Where, Origami Angel are products of a recent crop of emo bands whose style is more in line with Joyce Manor or Jeff Rosenstock circa
7
Now that the cult fandom of Origami Angel s breakout debut,
Somewhere City, has positioned them as a leading emissary in the fifth wave of emo, the Washington, D.C.-based band has more than enough good will to go big on their second record. So that s what they ve done.
With a title that affectionately nods to their fans,
GAMI GANG is a bold move. It s a 20-track double album that mostly abides by the Barney Stinson philosophy on mixtapes: get psyched. Almost all of the record s 50 minutes are dedicated to super-charged pop-punk ragers. While
Somewhere City mixed youthful fun with wistful yearning,
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