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Industrial garden of forking paths: Local musics at Lose Yr Mind

Matthew Neil Andrews — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 22:04:11 +0000

Industrial garden of forking paths: Local musics at Lose Yr Mind Matthew Neil Andrews

Choose your own adventure with a walking tour of Southeast Portland’s two-night music festival.

Now Hear This: Juneteenth edition

Matthew Neil Andrews — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:00:00 +0000

Now Hear This: Juneteenth edition Matthew Neil Andrews

Black Bandcamp Matters: A wealth of sounds, from JxJURY to Darrell Grant.

Now Hear This: May 2022 edition

Robert Ham — Thu, 05 May 2022 19:23:24 +0000

Now Hear This: May 2022 edition Robert Ham

Soothing experimental music; distressing black metal; heartfelt folk-pop; nasty, brutish, and short punk rock.

Now Hear This: April 2022 edition

Robert Ham — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 20:31:34 +0000

Now Hear This: April 2022 edition Robert Ham

Faded, worn-in roots-pop; bubbly synths; brutal noise-punk; emotionally charged player piano; deluxe hip-hop.

Now Hear This: March 2022 edition

Robert Ham — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 12:30:00 +0000

Now Hear This: March 2022 edition Robert Ham

Psych-pop, smoldering jazzy backbeats, hellgrazing black metal, exploratory rap, Kulululu.

Now Hear This: February 2022 edition

Robert Ham — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 18:15:41 +0000

Now Hear This: February 2022 edition Robert Ham

Heartfelt quirkiness, affirmational hip-hop, perfectly balanced post-bop, sparkling Mellotronica, de-Vocodered Air covers, and more.

Now Hear This: December 2021 edition

Robert Ham — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 17:29:16 +0000

Now Hear This: December 2021 edition Robert Ham

Working class jazz, mountainous ambient, heavy electronica, psychedelic New Age, lo-fi Puntera, Sonic Meditations, molasses-slow hip-hop, delectable weird-angled pop

Now Hear This: November 2021 edition

Robert Ham — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:38:18 +0000

Now Hear This: November 2021 edition Robert Ham

Robert Ham's monthly scouring of Bandcamp to find good new stuff by Oregon musicians to add to your digital library.

Now Hear This: October 2021 edition

Robert Ham — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 01:05:02 +0000

Now Hear This: October 2021 edition Robert Ham

New this month from local artists: darkwave, splashy psych-pop, mental cinematheque, jazz for fly fishing, a griot tape & more–just in time for Bandcamp’s Fee Free First Friday.

Now Hear This: September 2021 edition

Robert Ham — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:09:08 +0000

Now Hear This: September 2021 edition Robert Ham

Now Hear This scours Bandcamp for new work from local artists. This time around: lowkey collaborations, Gothic chamber-folk, Neo-psychedelia, and plenty more–just in time for Bandcamp’s next Fee Free First Friday.

Now Hear This: August 2021 edition

Robert Ham — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Now Hear This: August 2021 edition Robert Ham

Now Hear This is a monthly column that scours the pages of music distributor Bandcamp, looking for new work from local artists that would make fine additions to your digital library. This time around, that includes smoldering hip-hop, unaffected bluegrass, experimental music inspired by obscure paintings, and plenty more–just in time for the return of […]

Now Hear This: July edition

Robert Ham — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 02:30:51 +0000

Now Hear This: July edition Robert Ham

Now Hear This scours Bandcamp for new work from local artists that would make fine additions to your digital library. Normally, you’d have one of Bandcamp’s Fee Free First Fridays to look forward to....

Now Hear This: June edition

Robert Ham — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 02:56:34 +0000

Now Hear This: June edition Robert Ham

Now Hear This scours Bandcamp for new work from local artists. This time around, that includes surprisingly polished folk demos, “rock music?”, propulsive punk for smashing stuff, and plenty more–just in time for Bandcamp’s next Fee Free First Friday.

Now Hear This: May edition

Robert Ham — Thu, 06 May 2021 00:05:29 +0000

Now Hear This: May edition Robert Ham

Robert Ham's monthly cruise through Bandcamp's catalog unearths some good new local sounds.

Now Hear This: April edition

Robert Ham — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 22:35:19 +0000

Now Hear This: April edition Robert Ham

Robert Ham scours Bandcamp for new local sounds and discovers multilingual hip-hop, bludgeoning metal, electronic improv & more.

Now Hear This: March edition

Robert Ham — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:07:57 +0000

Now Hear This: March edition Robert Ham

New and local on Bandcamp: Lizzy “Cardioid” Ellison and George “Theoretical Planets” Colligan, Mo Troper's audacious Beatles covers, epic from The Decemberists’ vault. Plus, fee free Friday!

Now Hear This: February edition

Robert Ham — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 21:33:26 +0000

Now Hear This: February edition Robert Ham

Now Hear This scours Bandcamp for new work from local artists. This time around: Quadraphonnes and quarantined overdubs, delicate synths and deconstructed metal, moody rap and all-ages kids music.

Now Hear This: January edition

Robert Ham — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 22:17:23 +0000

Now Hear This: January edition Robert Ham

Robert Ham's monthly Bandcamp search finds metal, meditative music, hip-hop, and more for your digital library.

Now Hear This: December edition

Robert Ham — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:29:29 +0000

Now Hear This: December edition Robert Ham

Scouring Bandcamp in time for Free First Friday: ambient metal, spaced-out hip-hop, Holiday and Young covers, a Nigerian comp, plenty more.

Now Hear This: November edition

Robert Ham — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:25:18 +0000

Now Hear This: November edition Robert Ham

Lo-fi, death metal, slowcore, millennial punk, pop and jazz: new sounds from local artists on Bandcamp.

Now Hear This: October edition

Robert Ham — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 18:10:26 +0000

Now Hear This: October edition Robert Ham

Digital roundup: powerful electronic pop, future folk birthday celebration, live sounds from one of the city’s best experimental artists.

Now Hear This: September edition

Robert Ham — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 18:17:33 +0000

Now Hear This: September edition Robert Ham

Robert Ham scours the pages of music distributor Bandcamp for local artists and finds rock lifers, dynamic compilations, and urgent hip-hop.

Now Hear This: August edition

Robert Ham — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 17:09:18 +0000

Now Hear This: August edition Robert Ham

Now Hear This is a monthly column that scours the pages of music distributor Bandcamp, looking for new work from local artists that would make fine additions to your digital library. This time around, that includes some vibrant hip-hop, contemporary classical vocal pieces, and experimental work inspired by a score made up of reams of […]