Alternative Rock artists on Bandcamp

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Confrontation, resistance, and refusal to be controlled: I Ya Toyah's FEELINGS is a hard-edged industrial statement that turns the mirror on modern humanity and doesn't look away, while Apology blurs the line between justified pain and entitlement with crushing riffs and hypnotic industrial grooves. Montreal's The City Gates' Chimera unfolds like a nocturnal landscape — brooding post-punk rhythms meeting shimmering shoegaze walls of sound. Coma Beach's Passion/Bliss closes their Beckett-fueled triptych in a five-track fever dream caught between punk abrasion and post-punk hallucination, and som som's safe space offers lo-fi but lush introspection on loss, moss, and coming to terms with yourself.

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Seraphlesh

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

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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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    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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    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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    Jacobs'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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    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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    som som

    indie for introverts

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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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    Dubbsy

    Trippy Vibes, Good or Bad. Check out my music. You Might be glad you had.

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    Haggari Nakashe

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

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    Almost Honest

    Coughed up from a smoke filled corner deep in the Central Pennsylvania rock scene in 2012, Almost Honest is a four-piece riff conspiracy dippe...

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    Lozenges

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

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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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    phoneswithchords

    historically quiet, increasingly loud

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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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    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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    Big Fella Thanks

    Jangly, dreamy south London indie music.

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    Plains of Silence

    Post Rock and heartfelt Instrumental and Alternative Rock

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    strangedream

    Three childhood friends creating music to ease their lives.

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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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    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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    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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    beneathwaves

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