Midwest label
Suburban Sprawl puts out a CD of X-Mas music every winter. They've collected the last eight years of them
here. Highlights include The High Strung, The Hard Lessons, and the common lament, "Santa Just Crashed Into My House and He's Drunk as Fuck."
posted by klangklangston
on Dec 1, 2010 -
16 comments
Thought Audio is a small, simple and likable
free library of classic literature and philosophy MP3 audio downloads.
posted by nickyskye
on Sep 27, 2010 -
21 comments
Shareese Renée Ballard, or
Res, put out an album in 2001 titled
How I Do. Santi White, a.k.a.
Santigold (formerly
Santogold) helped out with the lyrics. A mix of R&B and rock,
How I Do scored one hit single, "
They Say Vision". Label politics stalled the release of her second album, so Res was let go from her contract. After touring with Gnarls Barkley and forming Idle Warship with Talib Kweli, Res continued to write and record. Putting together new songs with material from her unreleased album, she posted
Black.Girls.Rock! on her website for free. (
MP3 ZIP,
PDF Booklet.)
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posted by NemesisVex
on Dec 18, 2009 -
7 comments
Music is good. Free is good. So
free music must be double good. With over 1000 albums listed from netlabels and other sources,
Free Albums Galore (mentioned a
while ago) is a well-curated collection of links to some of the best free full-length releases on the 'net. Of course, there are a lot more netlabel resources out there.
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posted by Shepherd
on Apr 8, 2008 -
9 comments
Anglo-Finnish artist
Sanna Annukka's vibrant, flat design work (especially her
Icons series) got me curious about her, well, iconography.
She mentioned
The Kalevala previously, the Finnish national epic poem (
in Finnish here), a tale of creation and heroism that arguably spurred the Finns to independence from the Russians.
Like so much else epic and awesome, it spawned a '70s prog band, with
three albums.
posted by klangklangston
on Feb 25, 2008 -
23 comments
Indiana's Sardina. The New Pornographers of the '90s, the Sardinas released two fantastic albums full of mixtape fodder. Now everything they've got, including some live gems, is up online.
posted by klangklangston
on Sep 25, 2007 -
21 comments
Fuck Yuo I Am a Robot are offering their album Compensator for the Accelerator for free download from their site. Infectious ass-shakin' Estonian electro-pop. Lyrics to track 2 NSFW, likewise sleeve art jpgs if you opt for the .zip download. You can sample one of the tracks,
Hydraulic, on YouTube if you don't know them and would like to check them out first, though personally I can't get enough of
Zukunft (direct mp3 link).
posted by nthdegx
on Jul 12, 2007 -
18 comments
OK X - Radiohead's
OK Computer covered by 12 modern artists. Free download.
posted by puddleglum
on Jul 11, 2007 -
50 comments
music files is a neat site I found while looking for information on a classical piece I'm learning on guitar. It seems to predominantly cover classical music but also covers other genres. It has biographies, mp3s, sheet music and so on.
posted by substrate
on Feb 21, 2007 -
4 comments
OH NO! THERE GOES TOKYO! GO GO
GODZILLA!
(Nearly) every Godzilla soundtrack.
(Thanks to my girlfriend for hipping me to this)
posted by klangklangston
on Oct 10, 2006 -
28 comments
Blogmusik is just what it says it is: a free internet virtual ipod. Search, find, play, save, make playlists. So good I feel like I am missing something.
posted by BrodieShadeTree
on Sep 9, 2006 -
35 comments
50FootWave is seeking new earballs. "We thought it'd be interesting to ask for your energy & enthusiasm rather than your money and see what happens. To that end, please share this music in any and every way you see fit. Burn CDs, post the mp3s, seed Torrents -- whatever's comfortable for you. It's an experiment. Who knows how it will go? Wheee!"
[via]
posted by YurikoKinje
on Dec 16, 2005 -
45 comments
Vinyl Sharity There's a lot of
exotic*,
odd†,
thrilling‡, and
strangely catchy° music out there on the net. Through
Weirdo Music and Record Brother, I've begun to touch the tip...
And while there's a fairly proscribed etiquette regarding the sharity sites (limited time for downloads, out-of-print only, desisting when asked), I find that
Free Albums and
Strange Reaction have put me off of buying new RIAA albums more than Napster or Kazaa ever did.
(Well, there is
Regnyouth, but the downloading is such a pain in the ass for most of it that I only ever really bother with things that I own on a format that I can't convert like cassette, or that I listen to once and delete, like Interpol).
But where do you go for weirdo music? Anything you've found in digging through these sites that's struck your fancy?
(And if you have sharities to, well, share:
You Send It,
Rapidshare and
MegaUpload are pretty much the gold standard.)
*
From Bellybongo
†
From WM
‡
From Basic Hip
°
From Comfort Stand
posted by klangklangston
on Sep 21, 2005 -
5 comments
Classic Cat describes itself as "the free classical music directory," and offers links to 3rd-party-hosted downloadable recordings, sliced and diced by
hits,
composer,
performer, and
more. There are active
fora. Given the old-school look of the site, I was surprised not to find it in my repost search.
posted by mwhybark
on Feb 13, 2005 -
13 comments
3 Hive This is a great source for free, legal and cool mp3's. The folks at
3hive have put together a great collection of links to bands and the free mp3's they have available, including a short description/bio of each artist. New posts appear almost every day making this an excellent source for new music. Radio who needs it!
posted by mule
on Jan 16, 2005 -
8 comments
Psst! Wanna download some mp3s? Now you can do so without looking over your shoulder to see who is watching.
Creative Commons has compiled a
selection of tracks utilising their licensing system for free download. The ability to create derivative works and share them around has resulting in some interesting
remixes of one of the original tracks, also.
via A Whole Lotta Nothing
posted by dg
on Oct 22, 2003 -
10 comments
Staggeringly weird MP3 collection over at April Winchell's blog. Everything from Hindi ABBA covers to hideous celebrity sing alongs from the likes of Hulk Hogan and Catherine "Daisy Duke" Bach. My favorite so far is the german cover of the theme music from Bonanza.
fromCKB's blog.
posted by jonson
on Apr 7, 2003 -
25 comments
Def Leppard , the reason why
Q Prime came into existence, are offering a live mp3 for download on their official website. It's ironic, that their mangement Q Prime, are the same people who are helping their other clients like Metallica sue
Napster.
posted by riffola
on Aug 19, 2000 -
2 comments
