25+ Artists and Labels Donating on Bandcamp Today

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For Juneteenth, Bandcamp—being the great people that they are—are donating all of their cut of all sales made on their site today to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (and will continue to do so for every Juneteenth going forward).

So whichever purchase you make today from Bandcamp, you’re helping fight for racial justice and social change. With that in mind, here are over 25 different artists and labels that are donating their portion of today’s sales to organizations that support social justice initiatives.

4AD
All of the label’s cut of profits will be divided and given to The Okra Project and Black Trans Circle via Transgender Law Center.
Aaron Dooley/Zuri Leigh/Osmium House
A new benefit single for the creation of the Elijah McClain memorial Foundation.
Artists for Black Lives
A benefit album for Afrorack, Black Lives Matter, Black Visions Collective, and Campaign Zero.
Black Light Animals
A benefit single with proceeds going to Campaign Zero, dedicated to coming up with solutions to end police brutality.
By Your Side
Benefit album for local Sacramento anti-racist relief and action, such as NorCal Resist.
Dead Oceans
All digital proceeds will be donated to a fund that benefits racial justice initiatives and organizations.
Eiderdown Records
100% of their digital sales today “go to Marcus Henderson and his crew of folks at the Seattle People’s Garden in the CHAZ/CHOP occupied zone in Seattle.”
Far Out Recordings
The label’s cut of all proceeds will be donated to the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust.
Feeding Tube Records
100% of all Bandcamp proceeds will be donated to NAACP LDF (+artist tips from tonight’s live Zoom session with Byron Coley and Eric Arn will also go towards NAACP LDF, see FeedingTube’s FB for more details).
Flower Room Records
100% of digital sales for the day will go to NAACP LDF.
Kaleta & Super Yamba Band
Benefit single for the NAACP.
Kevin McKay
Sales from both of his releases will be donated to Detroit Justice Center.
La Luz
Giving all of the band and label’s cut of the web sales to NACCP LDF.
Mexian Summer
Matching donations up to $10,000 to the NAACP LDF.
Nathan Salsburg & William Tyler, ft. Zak Riles
Between June 18 and Kentucky’s primary election day, June 23, all proceeds of this new benefit single will be donated to Charles Booker’s campaign for US Senate.
Nina Simone/James Baldwin (via Moochin’ Records)
Any proceeds from the sale of this album will go towards the Runnymede Trust, which is the UK’s leading independent race equality think tank.
Numero Group
All digital proceeds will be donated to a fund that benefits racial justice initiatives and organizations.
Palo Santo Records
100% of all proceeds, as well as up to $2,000 in matching donations from the label and two anonymous donors, will go to Color of Change and Black Lives Matter.
Rhyton
All proceeds from Krater’s Call, a new benefit album, will be donated to NAACP LDF.
Rough Trade
Label will donate all of their portion of sales to Atlanta Solidarity Fund.
Space Monk
100% of proceeds will be donated to the Watts Labor Action Committee.
Tara Jane O’Neil
Until the end of June, 100% of revenue from digital sales of the new album, Songs for Peacock, will be donated to The Audre Lorde Project, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing center, focusing on the New York City area.
Temporary Residence Ltd.
All revenue from digital purchased will be donated to The Black Art Futures, Black Girls Code and The Conscious Kid.
The Philadelphia Solidarity Project
A benefit album with proceeds going to Black Lives Matter, Justice for Breonna Taylor, Act Blue Civics, 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers.
Tompkins Square Records
Entire label’s share of profits will be donated to the NAACP LDF, (releasing new material by Josh Kimbrough, plus 4 deep-catalog titles available on Bandcamp for the first time).

Three Lobed Recordings
Will be making a donation to the Land Loss Prevention Project. “The LLPP, based in Durham NC, was founded in 1982 by the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers to curtail epidemic losses of Black owned land in North Carolina. LLPP’s work is to help mitigate and prevent the loss of generationally inherited real property (aka ‘heirs property’).”
trauma
Benefit album for the Elijah McClain foundation.
Yeah Right Records
New benefit album for Black Lives Matter and other organizations that empower Black Communities.

 

-KH

 

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Published by Record Crates United

Keith Hadad, the creator and manager of RCU, has been a contributing writer to Elmore Magazine and Thewaster.com and maintains a regular column, “Keith Hadad’s Choice,” in Blicker magazine. His writing has also appeared in the Smithsonian Folkways' Guest Blog and the Optical Sounds Fanzine. Also, please check out the blog's super-active Instagram account, @recordcratesunited for daily blurb-styled music reviews.

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