Bandcamp Friday Roundup; February 2025
(Clockwise: Transceiver, The Beez, TheBusiness., Travis Orbin, Jeff Croce, and Garry And The Complainers)
The temperature is dipping below freezing and only hot new regional music will warm you up. Gather around your listening devices and prepare for a new batch of toasty tunes for this month's Bandcamp Friday Roundup where any purchases made go directly to the artist.
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Transceiver
Transceiver is an indie pop project from Delaware-based artist F.X. Patterson. Patterson wrote, performed, mixed and mastered their latest EP, Heart to Heart. The EP was self-released on Jan 16, 2025 and features 4 songs that range in mood and musical approach. The title track “Heart to Heart” is tender and vulnerable, giving the listener an emo-rock feeling with layered picking guitars and soft spoken lyrics. Patterson features both acoustic and electronic drums, spoken word, and ambient sounds throughout the collection of music.
The Beez
The Beez is a writer, rapper, and producer from Wilmington, Delaware. They’re latest release is a 4-song EP titled Delaware Dreaming. The music is a smooth blend of lofi melodies, boom-pap beats, and Delaware-inspired lyrics including a track titled “19805”, an obvious nod to the city of Wilmington’s area code. Self-released on January 8, this EP feels nostalgic and new all at once.
TheBusiness.
If anyone tells you there’s no Dub music scene in Delaware, kindly point them into the direction of Odessa-based producer, TheBusiness. Their latest release is a descent into textures, dancey beats, and atmospheric sounds titled Dub: Is This?. Check out their latest creations and their website to see where they’ll be performing next, here.
Travis Orbin
Travis Orbin is a multi-disciplinary musician whose creations are genre-bending and unique. Orbin’s latest release, Dotty Ditties, Volume 6: A Whole A$$-Record, is best described as experimental. He leans into jazz, funk, and metal with no particular reason other than serving what fits best for each song. Orbin brings others into the recording process but his credits on the album include drums, bass, synth, mandolin, santoor, and more.
Jeff Croce
Jeff Croce is an indie rock artist from Delaware. Croce’s double release, titled Fickle Question, is a combination of the names of the two featured songs “Fickle Soul”, a math rock tune, and “Only Question”, a slower singer-songwriter ballad. The songs were engineered and mixed by Eli Glovas-Kurtz at Dusted Audio and mastered by Adam Cichocki.
Garry Cogdell
Delaware’s own blues legend Garry Cogdell released The Bridge, a 10-song album on January 10. Often found leading the blues jams at St. George’s Country Store and known for being a mentor to one of Delaware’s most iconic rock stars George Thorogood, Cogdell is a master guitar player. Check out his latest collection of music and check out his page to see his performance schedule here.
