Author Archives: Editorial

With seven hours still remaining in our fundraiser for the Voting Rights Project, we wanted to pause to thank everyone who stood with Bandcamp to help ensure the right to a safe, fair vote for all—with no obstacles, hassles, or threat of intimidation. The live sales feed on Bandcamp’s home page, at around noon today. WeContinue reading “An Update on Today’s Fundraiser for the Voting Rights Project”

In just seven weeks, the United States will hold its midterm elections—a vitally important moment that will determine whether the country stays on its current path, or renews its commitment to democracy. As a community built around the idea of empowering and amplifying individual voices, Bandcamp is doing two things to bolster the democratic processContinue reading “Today, Stand with Bandcamp to Protect Voting Rights for All”

Bandcamp is a platform for artistic expression, and all manner of variance in experience and identity, including gender and sexuality, is welcome here. We support our LGBT+ users and staff, and we stand against any person or group that would see them further marginalized. This includes the current U.S. administration, and its recent capricious declarationContinue reading “Today, Stand With Bandcamp in Support of Trans Rights”

Over 400 artists and labels have joined us in donating their Bandcamp profits today to the ACLU and other organizations in support of immigrants and refugees. We’ve done our best to list them all here, but if you’re a label or artist who will be making a donation, you can let people know by sharingContinue reading “#NoBanNoWall: Over 400 Labels & Artists Join Us in Donating Today’s Profits to the ACLU”

Like 98% of U.S. citizens (including the President), I am the descendant of immigrants—my great-grandparents came to America from Russia and Lithuania as teenagers and worked in sweatshops until they were able to afford to bring the rest of their families over. Most everyone you speak to in this country has a similar story toContinue reading “Today, Stand with Bandcamp in Support of Immigrants/Basic Human Values”