Happy Bandcamp Day! Today Bandcamp is once again waiving its revenue share and passing along all proceeds to artists and labels. For the occasion, we are celebrating the music of The Weather Station, with a very limited translucent clear white vinyl edition of their gorgeous self-titled 2017 record, available while supplies last. The first 50 orders get a copy autographed by Tamara Lindeman.
Mike Polizze’s bittersweet and sunny debut solo album (featuring Kurt Vile)—Uncut’s Album of the Month (“the songs themselves gleam like diamonds”)—is in shops and streaming today. Get lost in what Pitchfork calls “the sonic equivalent of a beer on the beach at sunset.”
Mike Polizze shares the Philadelphia story behind his upcoming solo album Long Lost Solace Find (out July 31), along with new song “Wishing Well” (again feat. Kurt Vile), with American Songwriter, who describe it as “a breezy folk number that has the wondrous, enveloping quality of a daydream.”
It’s Bandcamp Friday, and we have five new surprise songs for you, in the form of two digital singles from Red River Dialect (Overabundance) and James Elkington (Beechwood Park/Corridor Country). Bandcamp is once again waiving its revenue share today, July 3, and we will do the same for all other digital Bandcamp sales, passing proceeds along to artists.
Today, Friday, June 19th—Juneteenth—we will join Bandcamp by matching all our revenue from digital sales with a donation to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. If you’re able to buy something, read on on for some links to inform your decisions and discovery of new music.
Today marks the release of “Cheewawa,” the second single from Long Lost Solace Find, the debut solo album from Mike Polizze, due for release on July 31st. The release is accompanied by a meditative DIY video filmed and edited by Polizze himself while in quarantine outside Philadelphia.
This Friday, June 5th the righteous people Bandcamp are once again waiving their revenue share of all sales. We will be matching our proceeds from all digital PoB Bandcamp sales with donations to benefit local bail funds in our communities and Black Lives Matter. Please join us in supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and protecting our Constitutional right to protest police brutality and murder.
The debut solo album by Mike Polizze finds the Purling Hiss frontman stepping out from behind the wall of guitar noise into the bright sunshine. Performed entirely by Polizze with longtime friend Kurt Vile (largely live and acoustic), this intimate Philadelphia affair clarifies the bittersweet earworm melodicism of Dizzy Polizzy’s songwriting, revealing bona fide folk-pop chops. It finally harvests the wild local honey from the buzzing hive of Hiss.
Today, Ever-Roving Eye, the great new record by James Elkington (and Uncut’s Album of the Month, “an outstanding record from a humble collaborator”), is available digitally and via direct orders from our webstore and Bandcamp. The physical album will be out in record stores and via other mailorders on May 22.
Today—which is just another day and also, somehow, the edge of a dark precipice—Nap Eyes release their beautiful new record Snapshot of a Beginner into the world. It’s a record that asks deceptively big questions in deceptively small ways, which is a scale we need now.
