![]() They’ve also announced the initiative, which supports businesses in the music industry to create more equitable workspaces, and the site’s exclusive mix series “B.A.D.mix.” This month’s series will feature an exclusive mix from Detroit Techno pioneer Eddie Fowlkes. It even includes “professionals in publishing, visual and digital art, media production, curation, and discourse.” They are taking submissions for their database, which are now open and you can apply for here. now lists over 3,500 profiles of black musicians and artists of all genres from all over the world. In the press release, the Black Artist Database expressed their purpose “to bring the richness of creative talent from the global Black diaspora to the surface, in pursuit of wage equity, transparency, and stable employment for our communities.” B.A.D. This is all to preface the good work of the community-based platform Black Bandcamp, which has now officially relaunched as Black Artist Database, or B.A.D. Not only has the past year made clear how unprepared people were for a plague (I mean, who is?), more importantly it revealed the growing inequity in the world and how racism, sexism, and other intersectional factors are at play. With musicians at a major loss of income without live performances, Bandcamp has scheduled specific days where 100 percent of proceeds go toward the artist, waiving the site’s revenue share. ![]() Bandcamp Fridays have become sort of a musical holiday amidst the pandemic.
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