Ben Walker
@ihatemornings.com
1980-2002: young and foolish 2002-2012: played in bands 2012-2025: worked at bandcamp 2025- : makes synths i guess @audiocomputer.bsky.social
Best guitarists of 2026: 1. Slash Guns (Guns & Roses) 2. David Mustang 3. the Oasis brothers (tie) 4. Geese 5. Avril Lavigne 6. Belle (Belle and Sebastian) 7. Ringo Star (Rolling Stones) 8. Eminem 9. Taylor Swift 10. the trapezoid one from Angine de Poitrine 11. Joe Satriani 12. Sting 13. Bucketman
the Suno hack "reveals"/reminds that these companies do not give a shit about artists, people, culture, their customers, or one God damned thing besides making money off other people's work they are as festering rot on a wet board, and of equivalent value
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3w agoCustomer emails/phone numbers & Stripe payment details were also hacked; no one was ever notified because the company deemed it wasn't important to
Not surprising but the stealing is depressingly brazen.
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3w agoScoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
OH IS THE REF AWAKE NOW, HAS HE AWOKEN FROM HIS 37 MINUTE NAP AT A CONVENIENT TIME FOR THE NATION OF ARGENTINA
Another day, another email from a small label jacking it in because no one buys music anymore. We really need to find a way to communicate to the masses that culture will only survive if they invest in it.
I have made a little gig guide for Oxford and the surrounding area, in lieu of the @nightshiftmag.bsky.social (RIP) one. it's very simple atm but I'd love for more people to get involved and for us to expand it and maybe have some print copies one day oxfordgigguide.com
Oxford Gig Guide – A Gig Guide for Oxford
oxfordgigguide.com
We had so many good times and nurtured a truly good corner of the internet, but what a shitty fizzling ending for the folks who got laid off today (and many more a couple of years ago).
drew@grmnygrmny.bsky.social · last mo.my 13 years at bandcamp are coming to an end - i’ve been laid off along with most of the remaining engineers. best job i’ve ever had, working with the best people you could ever work with. unceremonious end to quite a ride.
I am absolutely gutted to learn that the Oxford music magazine Nightshift is shutting after all these years. It was my bible in the late 90s/early 00s, and I still checked in with it long after I moved away from the area. Here's a link to a PDF of the last issue: nightshiftmag.co.uk/2026/jun.pdf
nightshiftmag.co.uk
A lot of “preppers” just stick weird shit between the strings in their piano to make them sound funny, and that’s important work too.
Good to see him actually stomping the Nazis, rather than only getting in on a split Nazi vote!
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 2mo agoAh, Andy Burnham has won the by-election in Manchester, beating Reform with some ease after all. That puts him in the position he wanted to be to challenge and replace Starmer. www.bbc.com/news/live/c3...
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Bluesky, is in fact, ATproto/Bluesky, or as I've recently taken to calling it, AT Protocol plus Bluesky. Bluesky is not a platform for misunderstanding jokes unto itself, but rather an AppView of a fully functional ATProto system w
Materialist Gnostic@walmsley.bsky.social · 2mo agoanother sad example of government failing to understand technology. Bluesky is a user-to-user platform whose purpose is to enable misunderstanding jokes.
My friend took his family to see the Michael Jackson movie and his son claimed it was the greatest movie he’d ever seen but I’m a real MJ fan so I don’t believe the accounts of little boys
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Whichever of the purple dots you look at turns more purple.
For the 12 people on here and the three who might care, June's Nightshift is online now at nightshiftmag.co.uk/2026/jun.pdf Last one, may feature teary-eyed nostalgia.
Cool to see that integrated shipping has landed on Bandcamp. Maybe not full support outside US/Canada but what the hell I have a tape to ship and I’m going to try it anyway. 🤞 blog.bandcamp.com/2026/04/27/1...
Bandcamp Shipping Labels: Print Discounted Labels In-Platform
Bandcamp now lets sellers buy and print discounted shipping labels in-platform with EasyPost. Streamline fulfillment from the Merch Orders page.
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social media was a wonderful brain toilet for every random half thought you didn't want to bother real people with before they decided to move all of society and infrastructure and government inside of the toilet
TRUMP, throwing insults at Pope Leo: “weak on crime” “terrible for foreign policy” “catering to the Radical Left” “owes his position to me” “sit down and mind your own business” POPE LEO, unbothered: “We are called to love.”
Cool to see another Oxford act get a Bandcamp shout out. @chollymusic.bsky.social is great!
Bandcamp@bandcamp.com · 4mo agoNew & Notable: The UK artist drapes layered vocal harmonies and art-rock instrumentation in wistful lo-fi synths to moody, mesmerizing results.
Ok if any of the UK SF writers I follow or anyone else knows anyone involved in the film world who could throw a bit of weight behind this it would be great Community owned cinema in Oxford threatened by a greedy redevelopment c.org/ZCtqx4ktK8
Save the Ultimate Picture Palace
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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Electronic music is a genre that was started and shaped by women, so on International Women's Day, here are some Bandcamp recommendations for women making some of the best electronic music you can get today. 🧵
