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Ben Salmon

@bcsalmon.bsky.social

bylines at Bandcamp Daily, SPIN, Paste, Aquarium Drunkard, the Portland Mercury and elsewhere. radio show at KPOV 88.9 FM #inBend, Oregon.

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Country Universe@countryuniverse.net · last wk.

Creekbed Carter Hogan, Peasants Revolt (****1/2): Another 2026 album that raises the bar for what we can and should expect from modern protest music, this record is a marvel of moral clarity and conviction, with wordplays that are as lacerating as they are clever. The best tracks here feel like...

Creekbed Carter Hogan's "Peasants Revolt" album cover.
Country Universe@countryuniverse.net · last wk.

Silverada, Living Proof (***1/2): They remain entirely too talented to put out a truly bad record, but at what point is it fair to say that this has been less of a rebranding and more of a full-on identity crisis? This continues to diverge from the aesthetic and quality control that made them great.

Ben Salmon@bcsalmon.bsky.social · last wk.

I went over to The Other Place yesterday to see what people were saying about the Brooklyn Vegan news and there are a whole bunch of great music writers and critics over there who I wish were over here instead.

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

image of a gold record superimposed on part of Vaughan Oliver's iconic cover for the Mountain Goats' "Tallahassee" album, with a banner beneath it showing the entire album cover, an RIAA seal, and the text: Presented to THE MOUNTAIN GOATS to commemorate the RIAA Gold certification of more than 500,000 copies of the 4AD single "No Children"
Ben Salmon@bcsalmon.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Death Chat — solid young poppy punk band. I thought dude sounded kind of like Billie Joe Armstrong … sat down, looked ‘em up, turns out it’s his youngest son. 🎯

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S P I N S T E R@spinstersounds.bsky.social · last mo.

Thx @bandcamp.com for including Leah Senior's Pt. Roadknight in this Best Country Music round-up! "Across a dozen delicately buzzy, psych-folk tracks, she sings about isolation, impermanence, changing seasons, and feeling out of place in the modern world" daily.bandcamp.com/best-country...

The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, June 2026

Our monthly round-up of folk, bluegrass, roots rock, Americana, and all things country-ish.

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