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Six Halifax acts to support on Bandcamp today
The streaming and download service is holding the fees until midnight tonight so buy a local album or 12.
by Morgan Mullin on March 20, 2020 at 6:20PM
The Bandcamp versus Spotify debate is one that's rolled on for years now in musician circles: Spotify is slick and user-friendly (and hence, more popular) but Bandcamp? Well, in the streaming age, it's the site where the (little) money is at, with fewer operating fees for artists and the option for people to pay artists directly for their work.
Now, Bandcamp has upped its game for one day only in the face of COVID-19, pressing pause on all fees so that more of your purchasing dollar lands in the pockets of musicians (which is especially needed as the number of cancelled concerts and tours leaves the live arts reeling). It's the excuse you need to download new albums, buy merch and rock out. And while there are hundreds of deserving, talented acts to choose from on the site, we're shouting out a few of our favourites who've recently released new tunes onto their profiles:
1Jennah Barry's folk-pop dreamland is the sort of music the world needs now more than ever. While we wait for the Mahone Bay-area singer's new record—out March 27—her single "Big Universe" has our toes tapping. Read more on Barry here.
2 Last week, Nomadic Homes—the bedroom recording project of Chris Rayner—sat down with The Coast to chat about its debut LP, a fuzzed-out, nostalgic bit of rock. Read—and listen—here.
3 One of the best EPs of 2019 was the Weezer-influenced Arrangements by Ashley Pringle. Last fall, Pringle showed us around the basement where he recorded the record. Take the tour here.
4 While we tide ourselves over until the spring release of neo-soul superstar-in-the-making Aquakultre's latest record, we're jamming hard to his collaboration with OG Halifax MC Ghettosocks.
