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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Ben Salmon
@bcsalmon.bsky.social
· Apr 30
A Guide to the Peel Sessions on Bandcamp
The legendary radio show lives on in these genre-spanning collections.
daily.bandcamp.com
For Bandcamp Daily, I put together a guide to great Peel Sessions available on @bandcamp.com, in part to honor the 20th anniversary of John Peel's passing.
This was fun! I hope you'll take a look and listen. ⬇️
daily.bandcamp.com/lists/peel-s...
This was fun! I hope you'll take a look and listen. ⬇️
daily.bandcamp.com/lists/peel-s...
today I am thankful for the seasonal memes
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
today I am thankful for the seasonal memes
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Josh Martin’s Western Mind on the Bandcamp best country music of November!
🌲🏔️🍁🌞🪻
@eiderdownrecords.bsky.social
daily.bandcamp.com/best-country...
🌲🏔️🍁🌞🪻
@eiderdownrecords.bsky.social
daily.bandcamp.com/best-country...
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
Our monthly round-up of folk, bluegrass, roots rock, Americana, and all things country-ish.
daily.bandcamp.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Josh Martin’s Western Mind on the Bandcamp best country music of November!
🌲🏔️🍁🌞🪻
@eiderdownrecords.bsky.social
daily.bandcamp.com/best-country...
🌲🏔️🍁🌞🪻
@eiderdownrecords.bsky.social
daily.bandcamp.com/best-country...
Left Of The Dial // 11.20.25
📻: KPOV 88.9 FM #inBend, Oregon
👂: kpov.org/left-of-the-...
🎵: Yuhan Su, Nicole McCabe, zakè & Benoît Pioulard, Kyle Bobby Dunn, Takahiro Mukai, SML and more.
Play it during your Thanksgiving gathering!
📻: KPOV 88.9 FM #inBend, Oregon
👂: kpov.org/left-of-the-...
🎵: Yuhan Su, Nicole McCabe, zakè & Benoît Pioulard, Kyle Bobby Dunn, Takahiro Mukai, SML and more.
Play it during your Thanksgiving gathering!
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Left Of The Dial // 11.20.25
📻: KPOV 88.9 FM #inBend, Oregon
👂: kpov.org/left-of-the-...
🎵: Yuhan Su, Nicole McCabe, zakè & Benoît Pioulard, Kyle Bobby Dunn, Takahiro Mukai, SML and more.
Play it during your Thanksgiving gathering!
📻: KPOV 88.9 FM #inBend, Oregon
👂: kpov.org/left-of-the-...
🎵: Yuhan Su, Nicole McCabe, zakè & Benoît Pioulard, Kyle Bobby Dunn, Takahiro Mukai, SML and more.
Play it during your Thanksgiving gathering!
the guys don't know it yet, but this is gonna be our softball team's name next season
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
the guys don't know it yet, but this is gonna be our softball team's name next season
good record, killer first track ⬇️
Dogs, by Cash Langdon
10 track album
cashlangdon.bandcamp.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
good record, killer first track ⬇️
I'm at the sound bath. I'm at the reiki healing. I'm at the combination sound bath and reiki healing.
November 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I'm at the sound bath. I'm at the reiki healing. I'm at the combination sound bath and reiki healing.
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Huge thanks to @bcsalmon.bsky.social for putting Josh Martin's " Western Mind" album on Bandcamp's Best Country Music of November. Very thankful for folks who spread the word on this beautiful album 🙏
daily.bandcamp.com/best-country...
daily.bandcamp.com/best-country...
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
Our monthly round-up of folk, bluegrass, roots rock, Americana, and all things country-ish.
daily.bandcamp.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Huge thanks to @bcsalmon.bsky.social for putting Josh Martin's " Western Mind" album on Bandcamp's Best Country Music of November. Very thankful for folks who spread the word on this beautiful album 🙏
daily.bandcamp.com/best-country...
daily.bandcamp.com/best-country...
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The last few years I’ve rounded up some of the best indie pop into bouquets of jangles, in the tradition of Sarah Records comps, and this year proved more packed than most. Here’s just over 90 minutes of the best bittersweet moments from the last year or so. bit.ly/3MeP5Di
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The last few years I’ve rounded up some of the best indie pop into bouquets of jangles, in the tradition of Sarah Records comps, and this year proved more packed than most. Here’s just over 90 minutes of the best bittersweet moments from the last year or so. bit.ly/3MeP5Di
doing some year-end homework and man, i'd forgotten how good this Divorce album is. great songs, great sound.
Drive To Goldenhammer, by Divorce
12 track album
divorcehq.bandcamp.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
doing some year-end homework and man, i'd forgotten how good this Divorce album is. great songs, great sound.
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Peel Sessions are always just great even if you don't know the band
have so many tapes and computer boots of sessions
a cassette of Buzzcocks Peel Session was one of the first gifts for my life partner
have so many tapes and computer boots of sessions
a cassette of Buzzcocks Peel Session was one of the first gifts for my life partner
For Bandcamp Daily, I put together a guide to great Peel Sessions available on @bandcamp.com, in part to honor the 20th anniversary of John Peel's passing.
This was fun! I hope you'll take a look and listen. ⬇️
daily.bandcamp.com/lists/peel-s...
This was fun! I hope you'll take a look and listen. ⬇️
daily.bandcamp.com/lists/peel-s...
A Guide to the Peel Sessions on Bandcamp
The legendary radio show lives on in these genre-spanning collections.
daily.bandcamp.com
August 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Peel Sessions are always just great even if you don't know the band
have so many tapes and computer boots of sessions
a cassette of Buzzcocks Peel Session was one of the first gifts for my life partner
have so many tapes and computer boots of sessions
a cassette of Buzzcocks Peel Session was one of the first gifts for my life partner
Rolling on, on and on
It won't be long till we're gone
Turned to dust
In a baggie
It won't be long till we're gone
Turned to dust
In a baggie
I See a Jamgrass
Bonnie Prince Billy Strings
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Rolling on, on and on
It won't be long till we're gone
Turned to dust
In a baggie
It won't be long till we're gone
Turned to dust
In a baggie
Left Of The Dial // 11.13.25
📻: KPOV 88.9 FM #inBend, Oregon
👂: kpov.org/left-of-the-...
🎵: Josh Martin, Brighde Chaimbeul, Headroom, M. Sage, Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, the Brendan Eder Ensemble, The Necks and more.
📻: KPOV 88.9 FM #inBend, Oregon
👂: kpov.org/left-of-the-...
🎵: Josh Martin, Brighde Chaimbeul, Headroom, M. Sage, Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, the Brendan Eder Ensemble, The Necks and more.
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Left Of The Dial // 11.13.25
📻: KPOV 88.9 FM #inBend, Oregon
👂: kpov.org/left-of-the-...
🎵: Josh Martin, Brighde Chaimbeul, Headroom, M. Sage, Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, the Brendan Eder Ensemble, The Necks and more.
📻: KPOV 88.9 FM #inBend, Oregon
👂: kpov.org/left-of-the-...
🎵: Josh Martin, Brighde Chaimbeul, Headroom, M. Sage, Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, the Brendan Eder Ensemble, The Necks and more.
Cover art for Nick Shoulders' five full-length albums, drawn by Nick himself. Love stuff like this.
nickshoulders.bandcamp.com/music
nickshoulders.bandcamp.com/music
November 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Cover art for Nick Shoulders' five full-length albums, drawn by Nick himself. Love stuff like this.
nickshoulders.bandcamp.com/music
nickshoulders.bandcamp.com/music
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In the run-up to the release of SML's excellent new album How You Been, I interviewed the extraordinary Anna Butterss for @aquariumdrunkard.com, discussing their “foundational” role as a bass player, SML’s creative process, being a bandleader, and much more.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/11/a...
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/11/a...
Anna Butterss :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview - Aquarium Drunkard
What does it mean to be a season ticket holder for the music of bass player Anna Butterss? Reserved, front row seats to diverse and experimental music, whether as a founding member of improvisational ...
aquariumdrunkard.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In the run-up to the release of SML's excellent new album How You Been, I interviewed the extraordinary Anna Butterss for @aquariumdrunkard.com, discussing their “foundational” role as a bass player, SML’s creative process, being a bandleader, and much more.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/11/a...
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/11/a...
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worth noting that steve albini's gold disc award for the pixies' "surfer rosa" is currently up for auction. check it out.
www.stevealbiniscloset.com/auction
www.stevealbiniscloset.com/auction
Auction — Steve Albini's Closet
www.stevealbiniscloset.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
worth noting that steve albini's gold disc award for the pixies' "surfer rosa" is currently up for auction. check it out.
www.stevealbiniscloset.com/auction
www.stevealbiniscloset.com/auction
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One of the last Great Music Sites standing. Pay them money!
For years, advertising has been how Stereogum made money to pay its writers. While we made progress moving away from that model, Google AI search has decimated the business almost overnight. Today we relaunch with a greater focus on subscription. We’d love your support: stereogum.com/2478838/ster...
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
One of the last Great Music Sites standing. Pay them money!
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The latest edition of The Best Country Music on Bandcamp includes a tribute to a Texas songwriting legend and a boatload of Western swing, among other highlights.
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, October 2025
Our monthly round-up of folk, bluegrass, roots rock, Americana, and all things country-ish.
daily.bandcamp.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The latest edition of The Best Country Music on Bandcamp includes a tribute to a Texas songwriting legend and a boatload of Western swing, among other highlights.
Fred Cole died 8 years ago today. In August, I talked to his wife Toody about him.
“We had 50 years together and we did the most amazing things. When I tell the stories that I know are real, I’m thinking, ‘God, who would ever believe this?’" she said. "We crammed 10 lifetimes into that 50 years.”
“We had 50 years together and we did the most amazing things. When I tell the stories that I know are real, I’m thinking, ‘God, who would ever believe this?’" she said. "We crammed 10 lifetimes into that 50 years.”
Toody Cole and Friends Celebrate the Life, Music, and Birthday of Fred Cole
Depending on which source you believe, we are either approaching or have just passed the official 30th anniversary of the release of Nervous Sooner Changes, the all-killer-no-filler seventh studio alb...
www.portlandmercury.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Fred Cole died 8 years ago today. In August, I talked to his wife Toody about him.
“We had 50 years together and we did the most amazing things. When I tell the stories that I know are real, I’m thinking, ‘God, who would ever believe this?’" she said. "We crammed 10 lifetimes into that 50 years.”
“We had 50 years together and we did the most amazing things. When I tell the stories that I know are real, I’m thinking, ‘God, who would ever believe this?’" she said. "We crammed 10 lifetimes into that 50 years.”
SEC Network just left the studio and went back to Lexington for a post-game interview with an offensive lineman 👏👏👏
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
SEC Network just left the studio and went back to Lexington for a post-game interview with an offensive lineman 👏👏👏
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Jenny Holzer don't miss.
November 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Jenny Holzer don't miss.
surprise Pigeon Pit album!
Leash Aggression, by pigeon pit
10 track album
pigeonpit.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
surprise Pigeon Pit album!
Time for my monthly roundup of the best country-ISH music on @bandcamp.com for Bandcamp Daily.
October includes @marielbuckley.bsky.social, Joshua Hedley, Brennen Leigh, @greydelisle.bsky.social's wonderful Cindy Walker tribute + good stuff from @garholerecords.bsky.social & @appalshop.bsky.social.
October includes @marielbuckley.bsky.social, Joshua Hedley, Brennen Leigh, @greydelisle.bsky.social's wonderful Cindy Walker tribute + good stuff from @garholerecords.bsky.social & @appalshop.bsky.social.
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, October 2025
Our monthly round-up of folk, bluegrass, roots rock, Americana, and all things country-ish.
daily.bandcamp.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Time for my monthly roundup of the best country-ISH music on @bandcamp.com for Bandcamp Daily.
October includes @marielbuckley.bsky.social, Joshua Hedley, Brennen Leigh, @greydelisle.bsky.social's wonderful Cindy Walker tribute + good stuff from @garholerecords.bsky.social & @appalshop.bsky.social.
October includes @marielbuckley.bsky.social, Joshua Hedley, Brennen Leigh, @greydelisle.bsky.social's wonderful Cindy Walker tribute + good stuff from @garholerecords.bsky.social & @appalshop.bsky.social.
Across the Horizon, Volume I, by Northern Spy Records
24 track album
northernspyrecords.bandcamp.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
El Khat's tour across America begins tonight, powered by clattering noise-rock, DIY spirit and melodies rooted in traditional Yemeni music. So I interviewed and wrote about 'em for the newspaper in Bend, Oregon, where they're playing on Nov. 11.
El Khat's traditional Yemeni music, DIY style at Silver Moon in Bend - The Bulletin
The Tel Aviv-by-way-of-Berlin trio El Khat makes raw, percussive rock with homemade instruments, plays Silver Mon in Bend Tuesday.
bendbulletin.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
El Khat's tour across America begins tonight, powered by clattering noise-rock, DIY spirit and melodies rooted in traditional Yemeni music. So I interviewed and wrote about 'em for the newspaper in Bend, Oregon, where they're playing on Nov. 11.
the name Scowl is already taken, fellas
Hardcore Legends Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye Team Up on New Music Project
Hardcore icons Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye have joined forces for a new music project, recently hitting the studio to record four songs.
consequence.net
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
the name Scowl is already taken, fellas