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Extensive list compiled of black producers, artists and black-owned labels

List circulates widely on the day Bandcamp waives its fees

A major list of black producers and black-owned label pages on Bandcamp has been compiled and circulated. Administered by a group of volunteers, at the time of writing the list already contains over 1300 links, and is growing by the hour.

“This sheet is a work in progress (non exhaustive),” it says, encouraging visitors to get in touch with new submissions. Edits, feedback and comments can be e-mailed to collectivedatavol.

The list comes in time for the latest round of Bandcamp's new fee-waiving initiative which is held on the first Friday of every month, midnight to midnight Pacific Time (8am-8am BST), which allows all revenues from sales to go directly to artists. Many artists, labels and commentators have suggested that music fans purchase music specifically from black musicians and labels today, in response to the ongoing violence against the Black Lives Matters protest movement in the US.

Earlier this week, the online music retail platform announced that on 19 June (and continuing on the same date annually) it will donate all of their share of sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. “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,” they say.

You can browse, link and buy via the full list here.