Badgerland

03/05/2024

Bandcamp Friday is a great day to support independent music. I threw together a list for you of some great non-badgerland releases by friends and contributors of badgerland. Check it out at www.badgerland.ca
- Aaron

20/12/2023

Check out this incredible colouring page made by Half-handed Cloud. Perfect chill time fun for over the holidays!
Head over to https://badgerland.ca/2023/12/20/colouring-page/ to download and print your own copy, and to see/hear the song behind it. We'd love to see what you come up with, so be sure to send the finished page back to us!

20/12/2023

You'll be given love. You'll be taken care of.
You'll be given love. You have to trust this.

2 track album

20/12/2023

If you enjoyed Gregory Walker's track "Ponderosa Pine", you should know that it is also the title track of his most recent Christmas album, released in November:
https://gregwa8.bandcamp.com/album/ponderosa-pine
It's well worth taking the time to check this out! It's also well worth following Greg on Instagram if you don't already. --> https://www.instagram.com/minigregwalker/

7 track album

16/12/2023

PART 4 OF 4 - Now up (Link is in the comments)
Come on, everybody, to the Badgerland "Christmas Bazaar"!

Songs released today feature the BBC Orchestra (seriously!), Niki Paige, Aaron DeVries, Will Heikoop, fod, Joseph San Jose & David Lance Morgan, and Asher Graieg-Morrison.

Now that the final instalment is released, you can purchase/download the entire album (free/name your own price) through Bandcamp.

Merry Christmas, everyone!!

🎁 Part 1: December 10 🎁
🎄 Part 2: December 12 🎄
🔔 Part 3: December 14 🔔
🎅 Part 4: December 16 🎅👈 Now Available!

15/12/2023

🐔 If you are enjoying today's track, "MahmyTimahs" by The Knight and The Chicken, you have to check this out. Previously only available on cassette from 1998, these recordings will blow your mind. Also, be sure to give a follow to Corner Room Recordings for more of this greatness!

No way! An album that (in my opinion) is easily one of the very best self-recorded solo 4-track cassette releases ever, just got uploaded to Bandcamp for a FREE download--The Knight & The Chicken At The Great Wall Of China!

https://theknightandthechicken.bandcamp.com

Originally self-released as a cassette tape 25 years ago in 1998 on Chattanooga's Corner Room Recordings, Knight & The Chicken is/was the solo project of our good friend Eric Buckner (Title One/Season's Glreekins/Regal Beagles)--this album overflows with melody, experimentation, and seemingly on-the-fly arrangements--it's weird and funny and loads of fun!

I'm not on the recording at all, but I was present while it was being mixed, along with Eric's brother Brandon. The three of us toured behind these songs (along with Jim Tate) on the east coast, opening as The Knight & The Chicken for fellow Chattanooga band Title One (which was really just all of us + Kenny Burnap) in the summer of 1999, right when I was starting to make the first Half-handed Cloud album (which all of us are also on).

This picture here shows us performing as The Knight & The Chicken in 1999, Eric in a blue jumpsuit and helmet, me in an orange mummy sleeping bag, Jim in wig & false beard, and Brandon in a conquistador get-up, spontaneously fabricated from drum-kit travel padding.

This album has twenty songs about things like growing human organs on the backs of lab mice, wondering if hummingbirds need a prescription to Ritalin, heartbreak, annoying people, and scary chemical tankers on the freeway.

We love it, and urge you to download it ASAP and share it with your friends, just in case Eric changes his mind and takes it down. Hurry, lo-fi pop lovers everywhere!

15/12/2023

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15/12/2023

Kent Davies from CKUW in Winnipeg put together a Badgerland Christmas hour for listeners yesterday. Check it out 👇

Who are you calling amateur?! Posted bybadgerland December 14, 2023 Leave a comment on Who are you calling amateur?! Amateur Hour is a weekly radio show, hosted by Kent Davies, on CKUW in Winnipeg. Their tag line is “Where bad is good and worse is better. ” We’ll take it as a compliment, then,...

14/12/2023

PART 3 OF 4 - Now up (Link is in the comments)
Come on, everybody, to the Badgerland "Christmas Bazaar"!

Songs released today feature Quiet Aunt Zelda, Foli (feat. Raignfall), Toques and Canoes, The Knight and the Chicken, Greg Walker, Nederpunk, Daniel Sittler, and Dan Lerch

We are planning to release the album in four parts. Once the final instalment is released, you will be able to purchase/download the entire album (free/name your own price).

🎁 Part 1: December 10 🎁
🎄 Part 2: December 12 🎄
🔔 Part 3: December 14 🔔👈 Now Streaming!
🎅 Part 4: December 16 🎅

12/12/2023

PART 2 OF 4 - Now Streaming! (Link is in the comments)
Come on, everybody, to the Badgerland "Christmas Bazaar"!

Songs released today feature Bros. DeVries, Davey Von Stone, Mike Edel / Jordan Klassen, Harrison Lemke, Half-handed Cloud, Novice Chainbreaker, and Hank and His Friends

We are planning to release the album in four parts. Once the final instalment is released, you will be able to purchase/download the entire album (free/name your own price).

🎁 Part 1: December 10 🎁
🎄 Part 2: December 12 🎄👈 Now Streaming!
🔔 Part 3: December 14 🔔
🎅 Part 4: December 16 🎅

10/12/2023

PART 1 OF 4 - Now up at https://badgerland.ca/
Come on, everybody, to the Badgerland "Christmas Bazaar"!

Songs released today feature The Wuyz GuyZ, Sisters Brandenburg, Jared Both, Brandon Buckner, Asher Graieg​-​Morrison, and Cookie Forgettable.

We are planning to release the album in four parts. Once the final instalment is released, you will be able to download the entire album.
🎁 Part 1: December 10 🎁 👈 Now Streaming!
🎄 Part 2: December 12 🎄
🔔 Part 3: December 14 🔔
🎅 Part 4: December 16 🎅

06/12/2023

Our 15th annual festive compilation, "Christmas Bazaar" is on the way! We'll be releasing songs in 4 parts next week:
🎁 Part 1: December 10 🎁
🎄 Part 2: December 12 🎄
🔔 Part 3: December 14 🔔
🎅 Part 4: December 16 🎅
Keep an eye here for updates!

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28/11/2023

2012's Yuletide Entertainments opens with the greatest zombie holiday song since, well.. ever. "It's really tough to be undead, help them celebrate instead. At the holidays it's good to lend a hand!"

11 track album

23/11/2023

10 years ago we brought Glad Tidings. Have a listen!

15 track album

21/11/2023

A new contributor just showed up!

20/11/2023

🎶 It's the most wonderful time of the year! 🎶

30/08/2023

Getting ready to greet the season.
Who's excited?
We are.

19/12/2022

Thanks, Rebecca and CBC London for shining a spotlight on our odd little corner of the internet!

Aron DeVries out of St. Thomas tells London Morning about the online music community he curates called Badgerland. The 14th annual holiday album came out this week and it's full of unexpected musical gems written and produced by at-home music makers.

19/12/2022

Badgerland will be on CBC Radio London at around 8:15am this morning!
Tune in by visiting this site and setting your location to London, Ontario.

Radio One and CBC Music

18/12/2022

Merry Christmas! It's here!

We are pleased to present our 14th annual Christmas album, free to download and share.

This year we’ve got 22 tracks, recorded by contributors from across Canada, the United States, and as far away as Helsinki, Finland and Sydney, Australia!

Kim Phan Nguyen-Stone has once again provided the beautiful felt artwork, featuring Mariah Hairy, the Queen of Christmas.

https://badgerland.bandcamp.com/album/merry-christmas-2022

22 track album

14/12/2022

I just heard from Santa that there's a new album coming *very soon*! Grab yourself a cup of chicken milk and revisit our 13 previous Christmas albums while you wait!

Chicken Milk (2021):
https://badgerland.bandcamp.com/album/chicken-milk-2021

Previous years available here:
https://badgerland.bandcamp.com

30 track album

12/11/2022

After a couple of weeks of 17°C, the snow is finally falling in Southwestern Ontario. Buckle up, friends!

from the album Comfort & Joy (2016)

16/06/2022

We've been getting a lot of love for the new album. Thank you all for taking the time to listen! We thought we'd take a minute to share this beautiful reimagining of our album art, generated by a powerful and slightly unsettling artificial intelligence engine. Which version of the art do you think suits the songs better?
Listen here: www.badgerland.ca