Likely the youngest imprint on this list, the London-based label from Kamaal Williams is gradually building a collective of jazz and R&B futurists that is already shaping the next era of genre-blurring misfits.Īnother label that needs no intro, Brainfeeder has managed the miraculous in rallying the oddballs of jazz and electronic music under one roof. So if you’re feeling flush with whatever’s left of that stimulus check or just, you know, want to keep some of these institutions afloat while the world oscillates between slight nightmare and all-out apocalypse scenarios, there’s no time like now to let the dollars circulate, few as they may be. From reissue specialists to experimental jazz and electronic labs to trusted purveyors of underground rap and R&B, every corner of the independent music exchange is taking a hit.

Because even small-batch labels have expansive catalogs and even some of the biggest indie operations are in need of emergency assistance. But artists aren’t the only ones getting squeezed by shrunken profit margins and the overnight disappearance of venues to support their releases.įor this #BandcampFriday, we’re shifting focus, if only for a moment, to the bar-setting indie camps that have been engines for music discovery across a multitude of eras, genres, and geographies. And with it, artists are receiving the full brunt of today’s sales on the site, a Bandcamp initiative that went into place at the onset of the COVID crisis to help musicians recoup some of the income lost to a global health crisis. Photo Credit: Nick Hillier on Unsplash From reissue specialists to experimental jazz labs to trusted purveyors of underground rap, these are the indie labels to support on Bandcamp Friday.īandcamp Friday, seemingly the lone bright spot in our perpetually purgatory-ish pandemic state, is back.

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