Alternative Rock artists on Bandcamp

50 independent artists in this guide.

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Machines, darkness, and atmospheric rock collide: Dino DiMuro's MACHINE embraces drum machines, loops, and samples in a seductive, beat-driven rock odyssey where repetition becomes revelation. Jacob's Fall's Lost In Silence channels melancholy, inner struggle, and the darker sides of human existence into powerfully atmospheric German rock. D3void 3D33's Lilith blurs the line between lullaby and nightmare, drawing from ancient Hebrew folklore with haunting, eerie atmosphere. phoneswithchords' The Speed of Time sounds like Brian Wilson and the Dandy Warhols making a record in your mom's spare bedroom — gorgeous, introspective, and gloriously hard to define.

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    DESCIENDA

    DESCIENDA invites us on an introspective journey that explores cycles of descent and redemption, seeking a connection with the deepest parts o...

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    Supermarket Parking Lot

    The brainchild of New York City native Marco Tewlow, Supermarket Parking Lot has been dazzling the greater Boston area with a genre-bending fu...

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    The Blackburns

    Delaware Valley rock band. One of us is a B-list* local vegan celebrity. One of us was in a B-list local pop punk band. All of us are A-list s...

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    Coma Beach

    Coma Beach is a punk rock/alternative rock band from Würzburg, Germany. The band was formed in 1993 by singer B. Kafka, guitarist Captain A. F...

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    Stress Dolls

    Stress Dolls is the moniker of Chelsea O'Donnell, a songwriter from Buffalo, NY. In early 2022 she was invited to work with producer Jim Wirt...

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    Guild Theory

    Guild Theory is a British alternative rock band duo consisting of Matt Smith (vocals and lyrics, synths) and Rob Lewis (music, multi-instrumen...

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    Jacob's Fall

    Jacob's Fall's music has an often dark and always melodic aura, even in its sonically heaviest moments. It's a sound you won't forget once you...

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    I Ya Toyah

    I Ya Toyah is not a musical act; she’s a movement. When spoken out loud in her native Polish, the words “I Ya Toyah” translate to “It’s just m...

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    Fragile Creatures

    Combining rock, grunge, pop and catchy melodies, Fragile Creatures evoke the spirit of great musical innovators of the past, from Bowie to Blu...

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    Eversame

    Eversame is a young band from Bratislava/Žilina, Slovakia. Their music resembles a mix of alternative rock, indie, midwest emo, shoegaze, etc....

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    The City Gates

    Hailing from Montreal, The City Gates blend post-punk, shoegaze, and darkwave into a reverb-heavy, atmospheric sound driven by pulsing basslin...

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    TANGIENTS

    TANGIENTS are a Los Angeles-based duo comprised of multi-instrumentalists Chelsea Ray and Be Hussey, who craft modern nu-gaze gems inspired by...

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    Dino DiMuro with Darren Lee Richardson

    Dino has been self-producing CDs and cassettes since the mid-80’s. After a short career as a rock guitarist in a band for hire (once opening f...

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    Sparky Bosque

    Sparky Bosque is the alter ego of UK-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Peter Woods, whose songs have drawn admiring glanc...

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    Whiskey General

    Rockrs + Rebels. I'm Whiskey General, aka Jay Serrao. A Brit, now forging music that hits like a punch to the gut. I've shared stages with Idl...

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    Various Artists (I Heart Noise)

    Skyjelly - Skyjelly is a band from Fall River that plays in a scary old mill – one floor up from a mean Southern Rock band who wondered if the...

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    La Mano de Cervantes

    Indie pop, bedroom jangle pop band from Spain. Catchy tunes, we only want to have some fun.

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    Mario de Sa

    Portuguese-South African alternative rock artist with 4 albums released on major labels including Universal Music and 1000+ live performances ...

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    Smokin' Cola

    Music for music's sake. Genre means nothing. Get yer groove on.

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    Casper Heyzeus

    Slightly oddball song lyrics and topics jumping from genre to genre. influenced by bands like devo, ween, julian cope and captain beefheart

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    Publicity Department

    Publicity Department is the solo project of Sean Brook, singer and primary songwriter from London's alt-rock triers Brunch (“the lost middle g...

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    Rare Kreature

    Rare Kreature is a solo project that started in 2016 in San Diego, CA. Blending moody soundscapes with dark themes, founder Adrian Kreature cr...

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    Seraphlesh

    An independent, Solo, Melodic Death Metal project. Based in the Seattle area.

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    som som

    indie for introverts

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    phoneswithchords

    historically quiet, increasingly loud

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    Jeremy Abrams

    New Jersey's Jeremy Abrams introduces a fresh wave of sad boi tunes, inspired by his pop-punk, emo, and alt-rock favorites. Transitioning from...

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    Kid Lightbulbs

    Kid Lightbulbs is Brandon Lucas Green. Brandon's music blends an intriguing mix of influences, evoking Nine Inch Nails, piano rock a la Ben Fo...

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    Blackwater Lightship

    Blackwater Lightship are Tom Roberts and Leon Lockley. A duo who’s sound ranges from delicate folk rock acoustic arrangements to a full on gru...

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    GUTMANN

    Gutmann is an alternative rock project blending familiar and unexpected sounds into melodies that feel new yet instantly memorable. Shrine, th...

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    William Carlos Whitten / Bill Whitten

    Bill Whitten is an American musician and writer. He was the founding member, principal songwriter and singer/guitarist for St. Johnny He was ...

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    Haggari Nakashe

    A maverick sound artist, dealing with the experimental and extreme.

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    Inside Of Me

    Due to a health issue, I had to give up my bands & live shows. Faced with these circumstances & taking advantage of my home studio is ...

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    Lozenges

    jangly indie tunes made with love and a little too much coffee. from ontario, canada

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    Plains of Silence

    Post Rock and heartfelt Instrumental and Alternative Rock

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    Palila

    Palila is a Hamburg-based indie rock band that blends 90s alternative grit with melodic storytelling, drawing inspiration from acts like Dinos...

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    Buzzard (Doom Folk Metal)

    What if Bob Dylan listened to Black Sabbath and read H.P. Lovecraft? The bleak brainchild of singer/songwriter Christopher Thomas Elliott, Buz...

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    Alt+LeftClique

    Alt-rockers against zionism, also known as white-settler colonialism, and its sinister brutality across the land of Palestine. ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿✊🍉

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    SparraLIMB

    My name is Rick Whitehead and I write and record Alternative rock/Metal/Prog rock music under the name SparraLIMB.

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    strangedream

    Three childhood friends creating music to ease their lives.

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    The Hypnatwists

    We are The Hypnatwists, a dynamic three-piece band hailing from a garage in Salem, Oregon. Comprising Ruby on vocals and guitar, Tony on bass,...

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    beneathwaves

    Post-Rock/Alt Rock band from Northern England. Channeling inspiration from Radiohead, This Will Destroy You and Sigur Ros amongst more.

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    Big Fella Thanks

    Jangly, dreamy south London indie music.

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    The Blackburns

    The Blackburns collectively found their way during the 1990s, and as such, the Philadelphia based alternative band have a sound that any 90s k...

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    Deskjobs

    Influenced by the poppier side of 2nd wave emo and 90s rock, Deskjobs brings a guitar-driven, lyrically irreverent blend of indie and emo rock...