Bandcamp is like the proverbial hometown girlfriend. So easy, and so eager, that often when bands get ‘real’ they stop honoring it with their presence. Bandcamp doesn’t have a playlist feature, and they make you hold the music you buy in weird places (on their site or on your hard drive), and their internal search engine is dreadful. However, the beauty of Bandcamp is its inherent friendliness (much more to artists than to consumers). They make it really, really easy for bands to upload music — the hardest thing you have to figure out is how do an aiff format — and as such, it’s a democratic and a really nice place, for established and especially for unestablished musicians. Bands, don’t forget your roots! One-man-bands, your stuff doesn’t have to stay on Soundcloud! Yes, put your stuff on the big platforms, but don’t forget about who made you, and who taught you to do a 1440×1440 jpg. Bandcamp.