Bandcamp
Latest
Bandcamp loses half its staff after being bought by Songtradr
Songtradr spokesperson Lindsay Nahmiache has admitted to SFGate that only 58 of Bandcamp's 118 employees received an offer during the transition.
Bandcamp's workers are forming a union
Workers at Bandcamp are forming a union called Bandcamp United.
Bandcamp Fridays are back again
The music marketplace will waive its fees on the first Friday of each month through December.
Epic's lawsuit against Google won't stop Bandcamp's in-app payments
Bandcamp has struck a deal that will let it keep its in-app payment system while Epic's lawsuit against Google continues.
Epic asks court to stop Google's removal of Bandcamp from the Play Store (updated)
Epic Games has filed to stop Google from pulling Bandcamp from the Play Store due to its third-party billing.
Epic Games is acquiring music marketplace Bandcamp
Epic Games is acquiring Bandcamp to help create a 'fair and open' creator marketplace.
Bandcamp's mobile app now supports song and album queuing
Bandcamp has addressed one of the shortcomings of its mobile app.
Bandcamp is bringing back monthly commission-free Fridays
For 2022, Bandcamp is bringing back its once-a-month commission-free sales days starting on February 4th.
Bandcamp will keep waiving its fees one day a month through the end of 2021
Artists and labels have earned $56 million from Bandcamp Fridays.
Streaming music made up 83 percent of the record industry's revenue in 2020
According to the RIAA’s annual year-end report, overall recorded music revenue increased by 9.2 percent to $12.2 billion in 2020.
Bandcamp finally gets in on livestreaming music
But as much as I miss live music, the musicians who actually play live music, miss it even more.
Bandcamp will make annual Juneteenth donations to the NAACP
Bandcamp has announced that this Friday, June 19, it will donate 100 percent of its share of sales to the NAACP legal defense fund -- and that it will do so annually. In its announcement, the music publishing platform cited the killings of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Sean Reed, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and “ongoing state-sanctioned violence against Black people in the US” as the impetus for the move. In addition to making donations every Juneteenth, Bandcamp said it’s allocating an additional $30,000 per year “to partner with organizations that fight for racial justice and create opportunities for people of color.”
Bandcamp got me back into buying music
Buying music again helped me appreciate some of the things that get lost when you exclusively stream songs and albums.
Stream Dischord Records’ entire discography for free on Bandcamp
Dischord is one of the most prolific independent music labels. You can now stream its entire discography for free on Bandcamp.
Bandcamp will waive its fees every first Friday of the month until July
If you want to support independent musicians, Bandcamp isn't taking a cut of sales today and on the first Friday of June and July.
Bandcamp will waive its fees to help musicians affected by coronavirus
Tours and concerts are being cancelled left and right due to the coronavirus pandemic. This is taking a toll on musicians who rely on income from live shows to pay the bills -- most artists only take home about 10% of their record sales, so the majority of their revenue has to come from ticket sales and merchandise. To give bands and artists a small boost in sales, Bandcamp is waiving its commission fees on Friday, March 20th. Hopefully this will help musicians weather the storm while venues across the country are closed.
Bandcamp's new service is like Kickstarter for vinyl
Bandcamp is launching a Kickstarter-style vinyl crowdfunding service for artists. Once a musician's campaign hits its funding goal, Bandcamp will press the records, print the packaging, and handle shipping to boot. Artists will be able to set the price of their release and have full control of its design.
Bandcamp will open its first record store in California next month
Bands and indie artists using Bandcamp to sell their music and merchandise might soon see their creations sold in the service's first brick-and-mortar location. The online platform, known for providing musicians an online portal where they can sell direct to consumers, is opening a physical store in Oakland California on February 1st. Bandcamp says it's featuring records that can showcase its platform's diversity, but the selection will be nowhere near as broad as what it offers online.
Bandcamp lets artists create their own music subscriptions
Thanks to Ms. Swift's recent actions, artist compensation from music streaming is quite the hot topic, and one company has a new option to lend a hand. Bandcamp has been a choice for musicians to sell their music and merchandise for years, and now it's looking to help sort streaming subscriptions as well. Each artist will be able to create a subscription-based plan for their music, allowing fans to access new tunes as they become available through the Bandcamp app. Listeners can download the tracks too, and acts can decide to offer parts of their existing catalog as a perk for opting in. New albums or songs can be released to subscribers only for a certain amount of time or remain exclusive, and the musicians themselves can set the cost of the plan. For its efforts, Bandcamp takes the same 15 percent cut that it does for regular sales -- a fee that drops to 10 percent once the $5,000 sales mark is reached. "The whole motivation here is that when you get to a point that you love an artist -- when you go from liking them to being a real true fan of theirs -- at some point you just want everything they make," the company's chief executive Ethan Diamond told The Guardian. [Photo credit: Shutterstock]
Bandcamp is an invaluable music resource, but you wouldn't know it from their iOS app
Bandcamp is a revolutionary service that has helped break down the barriers for self-released music across every genre of music. If you like music, they have you covered. Utilizing deep fan integration and tags the site allows you to search by genres, country, your friends recommendations, record labels, and any other odd metadata you can imagine. Tagging goes beyond those basic identifiers. Search the tag "Slayer" and you will find hundreds of bands that aren't Slayer who may be in your wheelhouse. Then when you find what you're looking for you are provided the option to stream songs for free, or buy a download in a wide range of formats from lossless options to simple MP3s. Discovering music with Bandcamp is a joy. Unless you use their iOS app. For reasons I cannot understand the iOS app for Bandcamp's app only allows you to fully stream albums you've already purchased from the service. Which is a nice basic feature that should be included, but given that the company has built its reputation on discovery this is crushing oversight. The app does allow you to choose how much audio data you want to cache on your device for offline listening, but if you wanted to listen offline you'll already have the files on your computer. Beyond listening to the albums you already own you can use the app to stream Bandcamp's podcast orfind music by getting recommendations from other fans. Which should be amazing right? It's not the full searching options available on the site but at least it's something. You can see what people are listening to and then stream it. Except you can only stream one song from these recommendations. It's incredibly frustrating to see a service this great have such a weak, featureless iOS app. Especially because their mobile website is an absolute joy to use on your iOS device. Visiting Bandcamp in your mobile web browser allows you to utilize the full range of Bandcamp's services. Do you want to stream records? You got it. Do you want to download and discover new albums? You got it. Do you want to search artists or tags? Boy howdy does Bandcamp.com have you covered. Streams from the website keep playing even if you switch to another app and can even be paused using the control center when you're outside your browser. At the top of the page you can see a screen shot of what the app looks like. To your right is what the web interface looks like on iOS Safari. Notice the lack of search options? It's a massive oversight if your mobile website is more full featured than your app. The lack of options and features in Bandcamp's app is disappointing, but the service is still well worth checking out for iOS users hunting for new tunes. Sadly, at the moment at least, we recommend you just use the service's website on your phone. Bandcamp's app left us wanting to write our Moms asking if we could come home early. We hope its next update gives us something happy to write home about.
