Empowering the independent music industry, with bandcamp Editorial Director J Edward Keyes
- Author
- bandcamp, J Edward Keyes, Aaron Shafer-Haiss, Michaela Anne
- Published
- Wed 02 Jul 2025
- Episode Link
- https://www.theother22hours.com/episodes/bandcamp-B_6GS_gk
J Edward Keyes is a journalist with bylines in Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, SPIN, Entertainment Weekly, Village Voice, and who is now the Editorial Director at bandcamp. As an online record store, and music magazine (bandcamp daily), bandcamp is a central hub to the independent music industry (they pay out 82% of their revenue, versus less than 70% at Spotify, et al). We talk with J Edward about sustain, advocating, and growing a vibrant independent music industry and the unique lane bandcamp has carved, "record store" trends, the role of journalism and music advocates, we as the question - do artist's even need a publicist?? And a whole lot more.
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Links:
- Bandcamp
- Bandcamp Daily
- Berlin R&B Scene
- Experimental Italian Pop Scene
- Word Bookstore (Brooklyn)
- WXPN
- “The Song Machine - Inside the Hit Factory”
- Ace of Base
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All music written, performed, and produced by Aaron Shafer-Haiss.
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