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Bandcamp's Best Music Releases for March 2026
Bandcamp has released its curated guide to the essential music releases across multiple genres for March 2026. The coll…
Horse Lords Unveil Vocal-Driven Album, Share New Tracks
Experimental rock band Horse Lords have announced their new album ‘Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!’ set for release…
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Rocketship: A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
The American band’s 1996 debut spun indie pop gold from heartache and secondhand Hammond organ. A n…
Shinichi Atobe: Silent Way
On his first album for his own Plastic & Sounds label, the Japanese producer sounds pricklier t…
Deep Dive: Any Guy, Strawberry Skies, African Grooves, and a Lo-fi Hip-Hop Vibe - The Static Dive
The Deep Dive playlists feature new releases across multiple genres including indie pop, classical,…
Delete Everything! - MSD73 - DA1 (DE04) - F*ck AI sh*t and listen to these three techno bangers!
Delete Everything releases MSD73 - DA1 (DE04), a three-track techno EP featuring jet engine-inspire…
Experimental keyboardist and composer Kelly Moran gives you something to reflect on with Don’t Trust Mirrors - Chicago Reader
Kelly Moran is an experimental keyboardist and composer who has released an album called Don't Trus…
I Went to a Hip-Hop Streamer Convention and All I Got Was This Piece of Content
Alphonse Pierre's Off the Dome column covers a wide range of hip-hop culture topics. This week's pi…
Parlor Greens, “Emeralds”
Parlor Greens releases ‘Emeralds’, their latest album showcasing instrumental jazz-funk performed b…
Ana Tijoux / DJ Dacel: 97 EP
The Franco-Chilean conscious hip-hop icon reunites with collaborator DJ Dacel for a mixtape-inspire…
Experimental bass clarinetist Emily Rach Beisel drops a new album of heavy winds - Chicago Reader
Emily Rach Beisel has released a new album that showcases her experimental bass clarinet work, blen…
21st Century Archetype - Unplugging - Futuristic bass boosted Rapcore/Nu Metal from the gloomy East-European slums
21st Century Archetype's album ‘Unplugging’ is a 40-minute exploration blending 90s nu-metal, 2000s…
New Release ‘Electric Rebound’ from Ricardo Formoso
Ricardo Formoso's ‘Electric Rebound’ is a jazz rock fusion album that combines the improvisational …
Fire-Toolz – “Balam =^..^= Says IPv09082024 Strawberry Head”
Fire-Toolz, a Chicago-based experimental electronic producer, has released a lead single titled ‘Ba…
Something We All Got by Cootie Catcher
Cootie Catcher releases their album ‘Something We All Got’ on Carpark Records on February 27, 2026.…
Healing and Peace — A Treatise (Self-Release)
Healing and Peace's latest self-released album ‘A Treatise’ delivers minimalist guitar pop with scr…
Hip-Hop Rapper HotelEarth Releases Empowering New Single “Divine Feminine”
Hip-hop artist HotelEarth has released a new single titled ‘Divine Feminine’ across all streaming p…
The New Ways Drops The Danceables Collection on Dysfunct
The New Ways has released The Danceables Collection on Dysfunct, an underground House and Techno al…
Juanma Trujillo — A Cantaclaro in Barcelona | The Tonearm
Venezuelan guitarist Juanma Trujillo's album ‘Música Para Quinteto: Live at Jazz Cava’ showcases hi…
Djembe Funk - $20 Mic - This song only needed one 20 dollar mic. All instruments played into same mic, vocals too. 20 bucks.
An artist created a complete song called ‘Djembe Funk’ using only a $20 GLS ES57 microphone to reco…
On Their Own Terms: How the AACM Built a New American Music
The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) has spent 50 years redefining jazz…
Preserving the French Underground: A Guide to Souffle Continu
Souffle Continu is a record label dedicated to preserving and spotlighting visionary French undergr…
billy woods and Mickey Diamond Take a Bite Out of “Peter and the Wolf” » PopMatters
billy woods and Mickey Diamond collaborate on ‘Peter and the Wolf’, creating an underground hip-hop…
Kim Gordon Is at the Height of Her Powers on ‘Play Me’ » PopMatters
Indie rock icon Kim Gordon releases ‘Play Me’, an album where she confronts contemporary world issu…