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After more than a year in lockdown, little in the music industry is certain. But in the near-absence of live shows, Bandcamp Friday has become a rare constant. The monthly tradition — a digital holiday of sorts, during which Bandcamp waives its revenue share, channeling all proceeds directly to artists and labels who sell their music through the service — brought in a whopping $40 million for creators throughout 2020. It continued in February and March, and is scheduled to run through May. In honor of today’s edition, here are a bunch of recommendations from Rolling Stone staffers for albums you might want to add to your Bandcamp Friday shopping cart. Adult Mom , Driver Adult Mom’s Stevie Knipe has been out here for years as one of indie rock ’s great bedroom storytellers, with gems like Sometimes Bad Happens and Momentary Lapse of Happily . But ever since the 2017 breakthrough Soft Spots , with seething love-into-hate ballads like “Same,” Adult Mom has been … [Read more...] about Bandcamp Friday, April 2021 Edition: Support Artists by Buying This Music

T he phone rings at 4:48 in the morning. “Hi, it’s Prince ,” says the wide-awake voice calling from a room several yards down the hallway of this London hotel. “Did I wake you up?” Though it’s assumed that Prince does in fact sleep, no one on his summer European Nude Tour can pinpoint precisely when. Prince seems to relish the aura of night stalker; his vampire hours have been a part of his mad-genius myth ever since he was waging junior-high-school band battles on Minneapolis’s mostly black North Side. “Anyone who was around back then knew what was happening,” Prince had said two days earlier, reminiscing. “I was working. When they were sleeping, I was jamming. When they woke up, I had another groove. I’m as insane that way now as I was back then.” For proof, he’d produced a crinkled dime-store notebook that he carries with him like Linus’s blanket. Empty when his tour started in May, the book is nearly full, with twenty-one new songs scripted in perfect grammar-school … [Read more...] about Prince Talks

Jessica Walter shone in every role she took on , from Malory Archer on Archer to the mom on Dinosaurs . But if one gig forever endeared her to audiences, it was her turn as Lucille Bluth on the Ron Howard–narrated cult favorite, Arrested Development . Lucille was the scary mom you never had. She was mean and usually drunk, and sure, she might drug you and frame you as the driver after she wrecks the family car, but she was also there during tough times, to squeeze you with her body when you needed a mother’s embrace. For more than 80 episodes, she was an anchor of the dysfunctional Bluth family. Viewers saw Lucille’s endless struggles, losing her (lightly) treasonous husband to prison, managing her codependent relationship with her man-child son Buster, and striving at every turn to one-up her rival socialite Lucille Austero, vicious one-liners and backhanded compliments always at the ready. But we also watched Lucille grow; she learned to revel in her solitude with her … [Read more...] about The Tao of Lucille Bluth

Though he’s known for a gliding voice that’s brought him to the top of the Latin music industry, the Panamanian singer Sech has always been a writer. He started scribbling in journals and putting together ideas for songs when he was a kid growing up in Río Abajo, a township of Panama City known for producing music legends such as the reggae en español icon El General. “When I was in class, I’d do that — I’d start writing songs and things that happened to me,” Sech, whose real name is Carlos Isaías Morales Williams, remembers. He didn’t save those journals, and many of them have been lost by now. However, one surfaced recently during the pandemic. “My brother found it,” Sech, 27, says during a recent call in Spanish from Panama City, where he lives. It was a tattered thing that his mom had kept for the last seven years, and Sech began flipping through it. He laughed at old memories, poems, and lyrics he’d scrawled down about friends, relationships, and things he’d … [Read more...] about From Panama With Love: Sech Reinterprets Reggaeton’s Roots for the World