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Bandcamp Donating Juneteenth Proceeds to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund: 17 New Releases to Listen and Buy

Bandcamp Support Racial Justice By Donating Juneteenth Proceeds to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Always taking a positive lead in the underground music community, Bandcamp recently made a statement pledging it’s support for racial justice, equality and change, opting to donate 100 % of profits this Juneteenth (and every following Juneteenth) to the NAACP Legal...

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It Started With GWAR: Multiple Petitions Spring up to Replace Torn Down Statues With Popular Music Figures

  [metaslider id=14750] It Started With GWAR: Multiple Petitions Spring up to Replace Torn Down Statues With Popular Music Figures Last week the collateral damage from the country-wide protests in the US over George Floyd’s murder took an interesting turn. As part of the protests, statues in multiple cities that many considered to be landmarks...

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New Gorillaz Song Machine Track ‘Friday 13th’ Feat. Octavian a Beautiful Support Anthem for BLM

New Gorillaz Song Machine Track ‘Friday 13th’ Feat. Octavian a Beautiful Support Anthem for BLM One really has to wonder how quickly Gorillaz are making these Song Machine tracks and animations because they’re becoming more and more poignant and germane to the current times that it almost feels like they can’t have been made too long...

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Watch: D&B Artists Camo & Krooked Made an Album With a Classical Orchestra and Then Performed It Live and on Instagram

If you know anything about the drum & bass world, you’ll know that Austrian duo Camo & Krooked are almost always at the forefront of pushing the genre’s boundaries. From their groundbreaking 2017 mega album Mosaik on RAM Recordings (WMG) which changed every producer and fan’s idea of what D&B could sound like, this duo...

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Industry News: The Music Industry and Other Media Outlets Will Stage a ‘Blackout’ Tuesday

By now, most people in the music industry as well as fans have heard about the music industry’s plans to stage a digital protest, a “blackout” of music and entertainment media in solidarity with the #blacklivesmatter movement and protesters marching about recent events. On May 25, 2020, a video was released of a white police...

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Watch: Billie Eilish Releases a Powerful Video Statement About Women as Objects

Since she exploded onto the indie pop scene in 2017, talk about Billie Eilish‘s clothes, body, style and sexuality has been so prevalent and loud that it almost eclipsed her extraordinary talent. Images of her body in a tank top were leaked and discussed at length while she was simultaneously called “not feminine” because of...

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The Emotional Legacy of Kraftwerk – Why Florian Schneider’s Passing Has Hit So Hard [Video retrospective]

[metaslider id=14443] Earlier this week, it was announced that founding member Florian Schneider of the legendary krautrock group Kraftwerk passed away after a long battle with cancer. Since his passing, fans and media alike have been taking time to examine the work of one of the progenitors of modern electronic music and their influence on...

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Lockdown Get-Down Week 5: Festivals Continue Online To Keep the Summer Bright

[metaslider id=14386] Lockdown Get-Down Week 5: Festivals Continue Online To Keep the Summer Bright Well, it’s officially festival season but most of the world is, unfortunately, still in quarantine season. But for a few possibilities in Europe, projections in the US say huge gatherings may not get going again until fall 2021. While no actual...

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Here Are The Best New Bandcamp Albums.

Bandcamp waive their revenue share on a monthly basis now to help musicians and labels. Here Are The Best New Bandcamp Albums. They have certainly been doing their part to support musicians during this pandemic. A statement from Bandcamp: A few Fridays ago, we waived our revenue share to help musicians impacted by the Covid-19...

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Lockdown Get-Down Week 4: Get Your Online Fun for the Last Week of April Here!

[metaslider id=14323] Lockdown Get-Down Week 4: Get Your Online Fun for the Last Week of April Here! For most of us in the western world, the quarantine has been in effect for at least six weeks, and unfortunately more and more festivals and events have had to postpone or cancel. Some bands and promoters are...

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Patrick Ames Takes You On A Musical Napa Valley Vineyard Tour In “Liveness in Quarantine” Livestream Series

Liveness in Quarantine. Recorded during the Covid-19 Pandemic, April 2020. LIVE in the Vineyard.  The wineries of Napa Valley and wine county are closed but the vineyards are alive during April’s Pandemic. Join @PatrickAmes for tours and new music for your sheltering in place. Bring your wine glass because it’s always Happy Hour in this...

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REVIEW: “Miss Anthropocene” by GRIMES

By ELI JACE > Grimes shoots for high concept but never gets past the D n B. Miss Anthropocene is the wily-eyed singer’s fifth album and finds her kicking her sound further out. It’s a party album for the fall of man, something to dance on the ashes of yesteryear to while Gaia chokes on...

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