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BANDCAMP Bans AI Music

Posted on by JL

14 January 2026

Very popular American online music platform BANDCAMP
founded in 2008, is determined to ban all AI-fabricated music.

For months, they chase those kinds of songs. At one point, the
estimation was that more than 50.000 AI-produced tracks had
been posted.

The organisation shared this message to motivate their
decision. (I wonder how you recognise AI music).

“Bandcamp’s mission is to help spread the healing power of music
by building a community where artists thrive through the direct
support of their fans.

We believe that the human connection found through music is a vital part of our society and culture, and that music is much more than a product to be consumed. It’s the result of a human cultural dialog stretching back before the written word.

Similarly, musicians are more than mere producers of sound. They are vital members of our communities, our culture, and our social fabric. Bandcamp was built to directly connect artists and their fans, and to make it easy for fans to support artists equitably so that they can keep making music.

Today we are fortifying our mission by articulating our policy on generative AI, so that musicians can keep making music, and so that fans have confidence that the music they
find on Bandcamp was created by humans.

Our guidelines for generative AI in music and audio are as follows:

Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI
is not permitted on Bandcamp. Any use of AI tools to impersonate other
artists or styles is strictly prohibited in accordance with our existing policies
prohibiting impersonation and intellectual property infringement.

If you encounter music or audio that appears to be made entirely or with heavy
reliance on generative AI, please use our reporting tools to flag the content for
review by our team. We reserve the right to remove any music on suspicion of
being AI-generated.

With this policy, we’re putting human creativity first, and we will be sure to
communicate any updates to the policy as the rapidly changing generative
AI space.

Bandcamp Website

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – Their 27 Albums Are Now Available For ‘NAME YOUR PRICE’ On BANDCAMP

Posted on by JL

11 September 2025


Photo by Maclay Heriot

Unbelievably productive Australian psych-prog-rockers KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD are one of many popular bands who left Spotify following the news that CEO Daniel Ek had invested over half a billion dollars in AI military drone technology.

The band said afterward that they’ve had a bone to pick with the streaming platform
for a long time, and that removing their music from it was just a natural step.

And now they announced that all of their 27 albums are available for “name your price”
on Bandcamp. It will probably more profitable than Spotify ever was for them.

Shop HERE

DEUX FURIEUSES Share Magnificent DIY Lyric Clip For ‘WORDS OF WARNING’

Posted on by JL

Clips that will have an impact on your eyes and your ears…

1 May 2020

Despite the spooky lockdown days London’s socially engaged post-punk duo DEUX FURIEUSES keeps actively busy. Early last month the pair released affecting reverie ISOLATION DAYS with all proceeds going to UK’s National Health Secure. You can still
buy the track for only 1 pound and contribute to a great cause. If all major acts around
the world would do the very same thing the global health secure organizations and its fantastic workers would get a tremendously well-deserved boost.

And today the wonderful tandem of Vas & Ros shared a pretty impressive lyric video
for WORDS OF WARNING, a stirring highlight of their second longplayer MY WAR IS
YOUR WAR. The ladies show how you can make something special and eye-catching without outrageously high budgets. This is solid proof that inventiveness, creativity
and most of all the confident will to make something truly worthwhile with little
means is actually possible.

Here’s why…

PS: Alternative music platform Bandcamp is helping out tons of artists again. As the ongoing corona pandemic still has a devastating impact on the indie music community Bandcamp waives their revenue shares for all sales, from midnight to midnight PDT today, 1st May. Don’t hesitate and buy one or both excellent Deux Furieuses albums
right here. Trust me, it’s high-quality stuff!

BANDCAMP: Website

BANDCAMP Will Donate All Proceeds From This Friday’s (February 3) Sales To The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Posted on by JL

This action deserves a very loud…

shoutout

Ethan Diamond founder & CEO of Bandcamp, the American online music store,
released this press message today (31 January)…

“Like 98% of U.S. citizens (including the President), I am the descendant of immigrants—my great-grandparents came to America from Russia and Lithuania as teenagers and worked in sweatshops until they were able to afford to bring the rest of their families over. Most everyone you speak to in this country has a similar story to tell, because we are, in fact, a nation of immigrants, bound together by a shared belief in justice, equality, and the freedom to pursue
a better life. In this context, last week’s Executive Order barring immigrants and refugees from seven Middle Eastern countries from entering the United States is not simply immoral, it violates the very spirit and foundation of America.

Contrary to the assertions of the current administration, the order will not make us safer (an opinion shared by the State Department and many members of Congress including prominent Republicans). Christian religious leaders have denounced both the ban, as well as the exception prioritizing Christian immigrants, as inhumane. It is an unequivocal moral wrong, a cynical attempt to sow division among the American people, and is in direct opposition to the principles of a country where the tenet of religious freedom is written directly into the Constitution. This
is not who we are, and it is not what we believe in. We at Bandcamp oppose the ban wholeheartedly, and extend our support to those whose lives have been upended.

And so all day this Friday, February 3rd (starting at 12:01am Pacific Time), for any purchase
you make on Bandcamp, we will be donating 100% of our share of the proceeds to the American Civil Liberties Union, who are working tirelessly to combat these discriminatory
and unconstitutional actions.

As another way of showing solidarity with the immigrants and refugees from the seven banned countries—as well as those impacted by the construction of the Mexican border wall—we’ve compiled a list of albums made by artists from the affected countries (Bandcamp may be incorporated in the United States, but we host artists from every corner of the world). We believe that knowledge and empathy are crucial weapons against fear and intolerance. We hope that, as you listen to these albums, you’ll not only discover some great new artists, but will also gain
a further appreciation and understanding for the way music transcends all borders, and remember that, even in the darkest of times, there is more that unites us than divides us.”

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