Chris Griffy

I don't back all of the albums I feature in this space. If I did, I'd be writing for negative money. But I do back quite a few, and recently one I featured a while back (Lady Moon) sent my reward: a digital copy of the

In case you haven't heard the news, Bandcamp Fridays are back for the remainder of the year. For those unfamiliar, Bandcamp is a site that caters to independent and small-label artists, and Bandcamp Friday is an idea that began early in the pandemic. On the first Friday of

Most weeks, this column has a theme. It isn't always meant to. It just happens that I look at the dozen or so albums I've got bookmarked for consideration and similarities come out. Not this week. So I'm taking a cue from Monty Python,

What is roots music? You would think that No Depression, of all places, could answer that question unanimously. But conversations with my fellow writers and columnists over the years have confirmed that while there is a basic thread of agreement, even people passionate enough about roots music to spend their

For most of 2020 and all of 2021, independent artist-oriented site Bandcamp ran its “Bandcamp Fridays,” where they waived their fees on the first Friday of the month, sending approximately 93% of the money spent at the site to artists (payment processors were not on the fee-waiving bandwagon). At the

While the majority of crowdfunding campaigns you see on sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo are true funding campaigns, there are also a significant minority that are more like pre-orders with perks. It's true that crowdfunding fees aren't cheap, but they're often cheaper and easier