Gail O'Hara from Chickfactor

Name: Gail O’Hara
Website: chickfactor.com

Link to Bandcamp collection https://bandcamp.com/gailcf

recommendations:

I tend to buy my very favorite records on vinyl but I use Bandcamp for research and keeping up with music. I recognize it as the best digital platform for musicians there is. 

1. Black Tambourine were a D.C. band that featured Pam Berry, who cofounded chickfactor zine with me in 1992. Their noisy pop was influenced by Jesus & Mary Chain, the Shangri-La’s and the Shop Assistants and you should own every song they ever made! 

2. During these super-stressful and difficult times, there is no better tonic for your soul than the Clientele, originally from Hampshire and now North London. This is their early singles and it’s like a gentle antidepressant.

3. Joe Pernice is one of North America’s best songwriters; I love everything he’s ever done, including the Pernice Brothers, the Scud Mountain Boys, Chappaquiddick Skyline, the New Mendicants (with Norman Blake) and his solo work. He’s about to drop a brand-new solo LP called Richard on June 1! I will preorder the vinyl but I’ll be listening to it on Bandcamp that day. 

4. Golden-voiced pop goddess Erin Moran is also known as A Girl Called Eddy: She released a new LP in January and it’s absolute dynamite. 

5. Wonderful Spanish band Melenas just put out their second album in May and sounds excellent. 

6. Louis Philippe is a great musician living in London who was on the legendary El Records. He just recently added his catalog to Bandcamp; this is my favorite of his: "She Means Everything To Me"

— Bonus links:

Wilco’s great new timely tune “Tell Your Friends” is a fund-raiser for World Central Kitchen:
https://wilcohq.bandcamp.com

This is the best album of the 21st century:
https://purplemountains.bandcamp.com/album/purple-mountains

Great new stuff from Good Dog:
https://gooddoggo.bandcamp.com/releases

Have you heard Rose Melberg’s covers record? Damn, so good:
https://lostsoundtapes.bandcamp.com/album/september

This Rose M tribute is a benefit for MS Canada:
https://februaryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/constant-and-true-a-tribute-to-the-songs-of-rose-melberg

New Edith Frost!
https://edithfrost.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-comes-around