Dance Yrself Clean’s Favorite Bandcamp-ers of 2011…SO…I’ve compiled my favorite jams and favorite albums of the year lists and well this December would not be complete for this music whore unless it also included highlighting the titans of Bandcamp that have made my world a better place in 2011. Okay be warned I’m gonna get all sappy but it’s been a true pleasure getting to tweet or Tumblr ask box with so many of these artists. It’s just a splendid experience that always makes blogging that much more damn fun and fulfilling. I kind of feel like I’ve formed this supportive nurturing family bond with many Bandcamp artists. Having said that…I can’t wait to hear what they have in store for us in the new year! This list of 60 acts (keeping things simple is not in my Tumblr vocabulary) including Abadabad, Saskatchewan, Work Drugs, The New Division, North Highlands, Alligator Indian, Au Palais, Spanish Prisoners, Caged Animals etc is in alphabetical order because for me choosing to place one of these above another would just be a horrible Sophie’s Choice kind of thing that I’m not willing to make.
I hope you find at least one new artist to become an obsessed fan of! Click on each act (you will be referred to their Bandcamp page) to enter a world filled with delightful as fuck times!
Abadabad (must listen eargasm “Indiana”)
Alligator Indian (must listen eargasm “Honey Eye Bee Leave Ewe”)
Arrange (must listen eargasm “When’d You Find Me”)
Au Palais (must listen eargasm “Pathos”)
Bananaconda (must listen eargasm “Mexico”)
the bilinda butchers (must listen eargasm “Boyfriend”)
Blouse (must listen eargasm “Ghost Dream”)
Boy Friend (must listen eargasm “Egyptian Wrinkle”)
bye lai mar (must listen eargasm “Ungirthed”/Purity Ring cover)
Caged Animals (must listen eargasm “Somebody To Use”)
Chloe Sunshine (must listen eargasm “Hold Me”)
Chrome Sparks (must listen eargasm “All There Is” featuring Steffaloo)
Coasting (must listen eargasm “Delusions Of Grandeur”)
Crush (must listen eargasm “Everything To Lose”)
Datsyuk (must listen eargasm “Suicide Dreams”)
Die Jungen (must listen eargasm “I’ve Been Glad”)
Ducky (must listen eargasm “Killing Time”)
Esta Vivo (must listen eargasm “Wonder Away”)
Ex Cops (must listen eargasm “Broken Chinese Chairz”)
Fever Blanket (must listen eargasm “Daydream”)
Georgiaa (must listen eargasm “Georgia”)
Glowbug (must listen eargasm “Where Is My Mind”/Pixies cover)
Go Cozy (must listen eargasm “Silverlining”)
Gross Magic (must listen eargasm “We’re Awake Tonight”)
Guerre (must listen eargasm “Mazu Heart Sutra”)
Halls (must listen eargasm “I Am Not Who You Want”)
Happy Trendy (must listen eargasm “Sleep Now For A While”)
Hectic Zeniths (must listen eargasm “I Might Drown”)
How To Dress Well (must listen eargasm “Suicide Dream 3”)
Jewellers (must listen eargasm “Forward Life”)
Kitteh Fur (must listen eargasm “Winter Will Never Come”)
Made In Heights (must listen eargasm “Chatoyant/Beauty Bass”)
The New Division (must listen eargasm “Munich”)
Nite Jewel (must listen eargasm “Sister”)
North Highlands (must listen eargasm “Best Part”)
Oliver Tank (must listen eargasm “Grain Of Sand” featuring Fawn Meyers)
Orca Orca (must listen eargasm “Get Up/Get Out”)
Pajama People (must listen eargasm “They Keep Saying”)
pacificUV (must listen eargasm “Please Please Let Me Get What I Want”/The Smiths cover)
Phantasmagoria (must listen eargasm “Heart Of Gold”/Neil Young cover)
Pinemarten (must listen eargasm “I Want To Show You Loving”)
Porcelain Raft (must listen eargasm “Put Me To Sleep”)
Pyyramids (must listen eargasm “Don’t Go”)
Saskatchewan (must listen eargasm “Skinny Dipping”)
Slow Magic (must listen eargasm “Corvette Cassette”)
Spanish Prisoners (must listen eargasm “November Third”)
Sobrenadar (must listen eargasm “Peri Physeos”
Steffaloo (must listen eargasm “Believe”/Cher cover)
Stoner Showers (must listen eargasm “4EVER AND 4EVER”)
Summer Heart (must listen eargasm “It’s Been A While”)
Super VHS (must listen eargasm “Summer Vacation”)
Tapioca And The Flea (must listen eargasm “Georgia” featuring Marla Burke)
Tashaki Miyaki (must listen eargasm “Keep Me In Mind”)
Tearjerker (must listen eargasm “Word”)
Teen Daze (must listen eargasm “Watch Over Me”)
Top Girls (must listen eargasm “I Know You Suffer”)
Trails And Ways (must listen eargasm “Midnight City”/M83 cover)
Warm Speakers (must listen eargasm “The World Around You”)
Wealth (must listen eargasm “A Real Big Hero”/mash-up of College’s “A Real Hero” and Notorious B.I.G.’s “Dead Wrong”)
Work Drugs (must listen eargasm “Dirty Dreams”)
stormborns
turnnoffyourmind
germansingergirl
tangentwithtanner
titsay