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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@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...
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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
My takeaway from putting this together was that Joshua Hedley and Brennen Leigh just can't miss right now. A couple of real frickin' deals riding white-hot streaks for the past few years. The Vladdy and Shohei of country music. So dang good.
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 8:08 PM
My takeaway from putting this together was that Joshua Hedley and Brennen Leigh just can't miss right now. A couple of real frickin' deals riding white-hot streaks for the past few years. The Vladdy and Shohei of country music. So dang good.
Left Of The Dial // 10.30.25
📻: KPOV 88.9 FM #inBend, Oregon
👂: kpov.org/left-of-the-...
🎵: Arturas Bumšteinas, Huw Morgan, Rafael Toral, Robin Snasen Rengård, Claire M Singer, Nash To Stoudemire, Molly Raben and more.
📻: KPOV 88.9 FM #inBend, Oregon
👂: kpov.org/left-of-the-...
🎵: Arturas Bumšteinas, Huw Morgan, Rafael Toral, Robin Snasen Rengård, Claire M Singer, Nash To Stoudemire, Molly Raben and more.
November 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Left Of The Dial // 10.30.25
📻: KPOV 88.9 FM #inBend, Oregon
👂: kpov.org/left-of-the-...
🎵: Arturas Bumšteinas, Huw Morgan, Rafael Toral, Robin Snasen Rengård, Claire M Singer, Nash To Stoudemire, Molly Raben and more.
📻: KPOV 88.9 FM #inBend, Oregon
👂: kpov.org/left-of-the-...
🎵: Arturas Bumšteinas, Huw Morgan, Rafael Toral, Robin Snasen Rengård, Claire M Singer, Nash To Stoudemire, Molly Raben and more.
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I’m loving this album. Good-mood rockin’ indie pop that occasionally cracks me up.
Thanks to @pastemagazine.bsky.social for letting me review one of my favorite albums of the year, Good Flying Birds' Talulah's Tape.
RIYL Olivia Tremor Control and Apples In Stereo!
RIYL Olivia Tremor Control and Apples In Stereo!
Good Flying Birds, 'Talulah's Tape' Album Review
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I’m loving this album. Good-mood rockin’ indie pop that occasionally cracks me up.
I wrote about a great new(ish) noisy hardcore band, GASPACK, for their hometown newspaper and mine, The Bulletin in Bend, Oregon.
Their debut album is coming out in November and it RIPS.
Their debut album is coming out in November and it RIPS.
Gaspack one of 17 bands playing Punk-O-Ween Saturday in Bend
With a ferocious new album in hand, local hardcore heroes Gaspack are among 17 bands playing Punk-O-Ween Saturday in Bend
bendbulletin.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I wrote about a great new(ish) noisy hardcore band, GASPACK, for their hometown newspaper and mine, The Bulletin in Bend, Oregon.
Their debut album is coming out in November and it RIPS.
Their debut album is coming out in November and it RIPS.
For 1889 magazine, I wrote about the great Seattle dream-pop band Coral Grief, makers of one of my favorite albums of 2025.
Read it in print or don’t read it!
Read it in print or don’t read it!
October 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
For 1889 magazine, I wrote about the great Seattle dream-pop band Coral Grief, makers of one of my favorite albums of 2025.
Read it in print or don’t read it!
Read it in print or don’t read it!
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Anxious is one of the best and possibly my favorite melodic hardcore/emo band right now, and they need some help. They confirmed to me that everything on their website goes toward costs. You know what to do: somemerchco.com/collections/...
October 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Anxious is one of the best and possibly my favorite melodic hardcore/emo band right now, and they need some help. They confirmed to me that everything on their website goes toward costs. You know what to do: somemerchco.com/collections/...
exactly how long does Fletcher Loyer get to play college basketball
October 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
exactly how long does Fletcher Loyer get to play college basketball
"The choice is clear: GWAR or spreadsheets. That’s the world we live in."
Ahead of their show this weekend in Bend, Oregon, I talked with GWAR's lead vocalist, The Berserker Blóthar, about American theocracy, Generation Z, the scorching leather interior of a '92 Ford Taurus, and spreadsheets.
Ahead of their show this weekend in Bend, Oregon, I talked with GWAR's lead vocalist, The Berserker Blóthar, about American theocracy, Generation Z, the scorching leather interior of a '92 Ford Taurus, and spreadsheets.
Intergalactic metal band GWAR plays Sunday in Bend
Intergalactic heavy metal monsters of GWAR return to Bend's Midtown Ballroom Sunday with Helmet, Dwarves and Blood Vulture.
bendbulletin.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:56 AM
"The choice is clear: GWAR or spreadsheets. That’s the world we live in."
Ahead of their show this weekend in Bend, Oregon, I talked with GWAR's lead vocalist, The Berserker Blóthar, about American theocracy, Generation Z, the scorching leather interior of a '92 Ford Taurus, and spreadsheets.
Ahead of their show this weekend in Bend, Oregon, I talked with GWAR's lead vocalist, The Berserker Blóthar, about American theocracy, Generation Z, the scorching leather interior of a '92 Ford Taurus, and spreadsheets.
i cannot even fathom writing and then publishing the sentence "We can’t wait for your takes to be on our website."
October 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
i cannot even fathom writing and then publishing the sentence "We can’t wait for your takes to be on our website."
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we've lost a fair number of subscribers since moving to ghost (but are obviously still happy we did!) - as a reminder most of our content is free, and even being a free subscriber means a lot to us if you'd consider it www.dontrocktheinbox.com
Don't Rock The Inbox
A country music newsletter.
www.dontrocktheinbox.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
we've lost a fair number of subscribers since moving to ghost (but are obviously still happy we did!) - as a reminder most of our content is free, and even being a free subscriber means a lot to us if you'd consider it www.dontrocktheinbox.com
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The album's original label, Rotten Apple, releases lots of cool stuff. Def worth diving into rottenapplelabel.bandcamp.com
Rotten Apple
An apple can get you far in this world ......
rottenapplelabel.bandcamp.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The album's original label, Rotten Apple, releases lots of cool stuff. Def worth diving into rottenapplelabel.bandcamp.com
Thanks to @pastemagazine.bsky.social for letting me review one of my favorite albums of the year, Good Flying Birds' Talulah's Tape.
RIYL Olivia Tremor Control and Apples In Stereo!
RIYL Olivia Tremor Control and Apples In Stereo!
Good Flying Birds, 'Talulah's Tape' Album Review
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Thanks to @pastemagazine.bsky.social for letting me review one of my favorite albums of the year, Good Flying Birds' Talulah's Tape.
RIYL Olivia Tremor Control and Apples In Stereo!
RIYL Olivia Tremor Control and Apples In Stereo!