For Juneteenth, Bandcamp is donating their share of sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Earlier this week Bandcamp announced that for Juneteenth 100% of their share of any sales will be donated to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (full statement below):

The recent killings of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Sean Reed, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and the ongoing state-sanctioned violence against black people in the US and around the world are horrific tragedies. We stand with those rightfully demanding justice, equality, and change, and people of color everywhere who live with racism every single day, including many of our fellow employees and artists and fans in the Bandcamp community.

So today, Juneteenth, from midnight to midnight PDT, and every Juneteenth hereafter, for any purchase you make on Bandcamp, we will be donating 100% of our share of sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, a national organization that has a long history of effectively enacting racial justice and change through litigation, advocacy, and public education. We’re also allocating an additional $30,000 per year to partner with organizations that fight for racial justice and create opportunities for people of color.

The current moment is part of a long-standing, widespread, and entrenched system of structural oppression of people of color, and real progress requires a sustained and sincere commitment to political, social, and economic racial justice and change. We’ll continue to promote diversity and opportunity through our mission to support artists, the products we build to empower them, who we promote through the Bandcamp Daily, our relationships with local artists and organizations through our Oakland space, how we operate as a team, and who and how we hire.

Beyond that, we encourage everyone in the Bandcamp community to look for ways to support racial equality in your own local community, and as a company we’ll continue to look for more opportunities to support racial justice, equality and change.

And if you’re looking to help support, dB contributors have included a few picks to help make the decision.

Nahadoth – Dispossession

Alekhine’s Gun – “21”

After six long years Alekhine’s Gun — fronted by Jessica Pimentel of Orange is the New Black and Brujeria fame — returns with “21,” a roiling, expansive, white-hot track of blackened death-trad metal fury inspired by a Tibetan Buddhist prayer. A welcome and brutal return. —Shawn Macomber

Corn on Macabre – Discographic Violence

Here’s what I wrote about this stellar collection back in 2013: “There has never been a shortage of bands in extreme music eager to wed horror cinema imagery to brutal riffage, but few have ever managed to do so with as much skill, class, or cleverness as avant grinders Corn on Macabre.” And if you get on the blood train today, not only will you be helping the NAACP via Bandcamp, but the band is donating its proceeds to the National Alliance On Mental Illness, “who have also shown a strong initiative toward helping communities in need amidst trauma.” Don’t blow it again! —Shawn Macomber

Warzone – Open Your Eyes/Don’t Forget the Struggle, Don’t Forget the Streets

If these two tracks/albums don’t speak to our current moment, I don’t know what does. Anthems for a world, hopefully, to come. —Shawn Macomber

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