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Free Deerhunter

You Should See the Other Guy — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:44:12 -0800

Bradford Cox of Atlas Sound and Deerhunter posts Deerhunter's 2005 album, Carve Your Initials Into the Walls of the Night, for free download.

bluestab's blog meets AfricanAfrican aka NegroArtist.com

y2karl — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:20:15 -0800

Chanteur puissant à la voix rocailleuse. And here is bluestab's blog And here, via Babelfish is bluestab's blog in an English of sorts. Then, while, looking for mp3s to match the tabs, I came across the universe of African American history and culture that is AfricanAfrican aka NegroArtist.com, a site so big it has two URLs. [Billy Mays] But, wait--that's not all! [/Billy Mays] Then, while looking for in the commons mp3s for any of the titles in bluestab's blog , I stumble upon a treasure trove of such in the 5000 series pages at Document Records. , the completist's completist pre-war jazz and blues label, And found even more even more in the Rare Recordings and Video page of AfricanAfrican, a small universe of texts, music and motion pictures of and on the African American experience. I am overwhelmed. Yoda says I: Truly a Labor of Love this is. And between the two--voila! We have a post!

Free Tom Waits

You Should See the Other Guy — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:58:18 -0800

Tom Waits has a new live album coming out. You can get 8 full length tracks--just under 40 minutes--from the forthcoming release for free on his site. Requires you surrender a valid email address, however.

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

Artw — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:13:08 -0800

Home taping didn’t kill music, says Ben Goldacre - but where did all the money go?

A touching song about gay trees.

shadytrees — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:11:10 -0800

Paul Ford is back with six-word reviews of SxSW 2009 music (previously in 2008). Also be sure to check out Paul's (another Paul's) SxSW Artist Catalog (previously) for further SxSW music metadata goodness.

The sonic experiences of Low Light Mixes

colinmarshall — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:53:20 -0800

Dave of Low Light Mixes spins together all manner of textural musical goodness into solid, themed sonic experiences. Component parts include but are not limited to ambient, jazz, "jazz", noise, field recordings and one hell of a lot of Brian Eno.

SXSW 2009 music

Pronoiac — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:44:41 -0800

If you're interested in the bands playing at SXSW this year, you have more to draw on than the blurbs in the schedule. First, the 2009 collection of mp3s from showcased bands is up - like last year, as unofficial fanmade torrents - offering samples of a thousand bands in five gigabytes. Second, there's Paul's SXSW Artist Catalog, an excellent catalog of artists. It provides links to Last.fm & Youtube for each artist, & many tags to follow sounds you like. (Previously: my 2008 post, & 2007.)

Is it because I'm an auto-pirate?

acb — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:26:51 -0800

In the 1980s, songwriter, artist and cultural critic Momus recorded a number of albums for the legendary indie label Creation Records, combining influences as diverse as Jacques Brel, Serge Gainsbourg, Pet Shop Boys-style synthpop and Balearic acid-house. These have largely languished in Sony Music's vaults over the past few years, occasionally fetching hefty prices on eBay. Now, Momus has taken the step to commit auto-piracy and release his Creation albums online, for free; over December, he will post MP3s of all six albums to his LiveJournal blog, each with freshly written liner notes. The first one, 1987's The Poison Boyfriend, is here. Momus explains his decision: "Six Momus albums -- the ones I recorded for Alan McGee's Creation label between 1987 and 1993 -- are out of print. Creation doesn't exist any more, and in theory Sony owns the rights to these albums, but isn't doing anything with them and probably never will. In the meantime, only Russian pirates are profiting, charging punters for illegal downloads. "So, during the rest of December, I've decided to release mp3s of my six Creation albums here on Click Opera, for free. Think of it as a sort of Creation Advent Calendar, with a new old Momus album every couple of days. If you're the sort of person who likes to donate to the artist when you download, do it here. But it's not really necessary; these albums paid for themselves long ago. Think of this as a Christmas present. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!"

Heareasy

Korou — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:42:19 -0800

While Muxtape is temporarily down, Opentape has come to fill in. More RIAA bait:

Mixwit, which uses SeeqPod and SkreemR to find music online; there is an option to link directly to any online mp3 file.
8tracks, where music can be uploaded or selected from the 8tracks library.

Radiodiffusion Internasionaal -- popular world music of the 60's and 70's

cog_nate — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:51:05 -0800

"Radiodiffusion Internasionaal is devoted to the evolution of popular music from Africa, the Middle East, India and Asia and the proliferation of Western influences on these non-Western cultures. The focus is primarily the music from the mid 60's to the mid 70's." (Description from the front page of the site.) Slightly differently formatted version of the website here. Nice set of links, too (scroll down to the Words and Pictures section).

Muxfind

Korou — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:40:20 -0800

Looking for a song online? Use Muxfind to search Muxtape (previously) for tracks.

Online Mixtapes For Friends & Awkward Crushes

jonson — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:34:08 -0800

Have a crush on someone you only know online? Want to make them a mixtape but you don't have their physical address? Not a problem, thanks to Muxtape, an online mixtape manager. Just upload up to 12 tracks, and a custom URL is provided.Via.

Great free album

dobbs — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:23:18 -0800

One of my favorite albums of recent years is now available for the first time. And, it's free. You Are Not Dead: A Guide to Modern Living by MeFi's own Fake. {embedded Flash player and link to zipped mp3s} {torrent of better quality mp3s} {via mefi projects}

SXSW 2008 showcased artists

Pronoiac — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:23:10 -0800

Each year since 2005, SXSW released a torrent of songs for people to sample their showcased artists. It's a terrific source of new, eclectic music. This year, a fan found out they weren't planning to do this, so he took matters into his own hands: here's the torrent, with "764 different artists... almost 3.5 GB of new music, for free." (previously in 2007)

John Wesley Harding Meets Lord Tennyson - Bob Dylan at the Isle of Wight August 31st, 1969

y2karl — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:27:45 -0800

At the Isle of Wight Festival, Dylan was the only monster on the bill capable of attracting a monster of an audience. In refusing to play the Woodstock Festival and in then letting himself be talked into playing the Isle of Wight, Dylan in effect was telling England's counterculture: ''C'mon. Let's hold our own Woodstock.'' And so, on the Isle of Wight, a dot of land that certainly wasn't the easiest place in the world to get to, Dylan almost single-handedly proved an enticing enough attraction to collect an audience sometimes estimated to be as few as a 125,000 and sometimes as many as 250,000.

My Dylan Papers: Part 2 The Isle of Wight

Another scrap from the late Al Aronowitz, the self-styled Blacklisted Journalist, and former Dylan courtier, recalling the only full concert Dylan gave solo or with the Band between 1967 and 1973 and sung in his Nashville Skyline voice, to boot, no less. And now you can have it all to yourself.... So, I decided to put the real meat of the post within for obvious reasons. There is now available online the entire concert in mp3 format, big fat files at that, free and suited to burning to CD or Ipod, I would assume. Free. I have Coralized it all below out of a perhaps misplaced sense of decorum. And here, Coralized is the entire concert: [or not... Heck! I went to all that work while waiting to post again to Coralize every mp3 file and all for naught. They won't download from here... Ah, well, it worked from this end.] ~~And~~ Well, here, un-Coralized, is John Wesley Harding Meets Lord Tennyson, the page from whence all these delights come. Which is but one item on the left hand side bar of the home page of Big O World Wide, a magazine from Singapore of which I had never heard until tonight. Where someone has a monster collection of Recordings Of Indeterminate Origin indeed. And several are still up and open. The mind reels, the intellect stands abashed. Well, it's all there and then more... Look around. For instance, among many things, I saw Tombstone, an unreleased post Rock-of-Ages, post Robbie Robertson, post Richard Manuel, 1980s studio Band album done with Jules Shear for instance, still available upon request, or the whole Lou Reed/Zeitkratzer live Metal Machine Music concert in 2002, no longer available at all as there will be a commercial recording soon. So, the Big O Audio Archives is a site on which to keep an eye. Ah, and now, I see that Punkfloyd has previously posted concerning the Stones from Big O only two days before This Christmas past, so this is not entirely new here... Well, I sure don't understand how they can afford to put all this stuff up. So hence the no trapeze without a .nyud.net attitude... And, for further Dylanesque revelations, see-- Bob Dylan, Isle of Wight Festival, 08-31-69 Electric atmosphere The Mystery Dream of Nashville Skyline That voice reappeared on Self-Portrait and then, having taken up smoking again, disappeared from his public singing--I have heard anecdotes that, alone, at home or backstage, he could sing in that voice still years later. One wonders how much of it he has left. Not much I suspect. Years of touring and screaming and not taking care of his vocal chords have left him with barely any voice at all. Or so it has sounded the last few times I have heard him in concert. It is painful and sad to hear him now and one almost needs subtitles to even tell which song he is singing sometimes, at least until he hits the chorus. As for the Bootleg, I had it on vinyl by 1970 and it is interesting, if only for historical reasons. I had issues with the whole Nashville Skline voice. Ah, but I was so much older then... And for sure, the best songs have been put out by Columbia--including Minstrel Boy and the Mighty Quinn. But I do remember liking his take on The Wild Mountain Thyme and imagine my surprise when another take appeared on Bob Dylan 1965 Revisited, the new Pennebaker movie of outtakes on a second DVD that comes with the deluxe 40th aniiversary box set of Don't Look Back, that comes with book and a flip book of of the Subterranean Homesick Blues cue card outtake. That is a film well worth seeing. Dylan sings Wild Mountain Thyme in a hotel room with Joan Baez and, as it turns out, it was a number they had done their tour of England only two weeks before the tour of Don't Look Back. And it's the same arrangement that Baez uses on Farewell, Angelina. As for the Columbia recordings of the concert, Dylan was not so enthused with the results and called off a planned tour for later that year, or so some have asserted. Sitll, it has its moments. And here are some videos:
Bob Dylan & the Band - Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan & the Band - I Threw It All Away Bob Dylan & the Band - One Too Many Mornings Bob Dylan & the Band - I Pity The Poor Immigrant John Lennon and Ringo Starr in the crowd Well, I do try to set a lavish buffet sometimes...

music for films

vronsky — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:35:34 -0800

Wes Anderson mp3s and David Lynch mp3s

Tom Smith's Free Music.

Effigy2000 — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:13:05 -0800

Tom Smith is your average guy who likes comic books, Harlan Ellison short stories and Julie Newmar in a Catwoman suit (who dosen't?). Except the thing is, the guy can sing and write music too. And he releases a free song every week at his iTom page. Like most artists his music can be hit and miss, but there's some great free music to be found there such as Contessa and the awesome Jim Henson tribute A Boy and His Frog. Oh, and he also runs the 'Digital Acoustic' livejournal, where he discusses all manner of things such as comics, politics and of course, music. Sure, he's no cortex, but he's pretty damn good and well worth a listen.

I've got a new partner now...

dobbs — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:50:15 -0800

DayTrotter is a music site I'd never heard of before today. I haven't explored all of their free mp3 offerings yet, but this 4-song set of Bonnie "Prince" Billy tracks is lovely. Three of the tracks are from the Strange Form of Life EP and the fourth, to my knowledge, is previously unreleased. If you want the missing track, emusic (my via) sells it.

New blog by emusic employees.

dobbs — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:47:27 -0800

17 Dots is a new blog by employees of emusic. Not much there yet but for MeFites who use the service, this looks like it could prove handy for keeping on top of what's worth checking out.

Free music - SXSW 2007 artists

dobbs — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:30:36 -0800

Tons of bands playing at this year's SXSW. Not going or going and don't know what to check out? They've put up a torrent of 739 MP3s by 739 artists. The organization also has plans for an upcoming torrent of trailers for scheduled films. {via waxy}

Find out when your fave bands are playing your town.

dobbs — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:21:19 -0800

iConcertCal - The most awesomest iTunes plugin ever--tells you when bands you have MP3s for are playing your town. {via an email from this dude.}

History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man

klangklangston — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:22:13 -0800

OH NO! THERE GOES TOKYO! GO GO GODZILLA! (Nearly) every Godzilla soundtrack. (Thanks to my girlfriend for hipping me to this)

When Buttrock ruled Detroit

klangklangston — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:14:47 -0800

Motor City Rock 1980-1990 A great archive of Detroit's most overlooked and ignoble musical era. Highlights include Bittersweet Alley, The Trash Brats, Vertical Pillows, The Dick the Bruiser Band, and many more. Great to listen to while you read the relauched (and vaguely sad) Creem.

Noises for ears

klangklangston — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:38:40 -0800

Mish Mash Mush A series of mixes from Providence eclectic label Fort Thunder, home of Ninja Versus Wrestler and Forcefield. As part of an aplty amorphous and chaotic "noise" scene, the mixes contain otherwise unreleased music from bands like Lightning Bolt, Mindflayer, 25 Suave, and a bevy of other bands from labels like Load, Animal Disguise and Bulb. Good music with a dirt-simple interface.

Live MP3s. Free. Good quality, too.

dobbs — Tue, 09 May 2006 16:08:07 -0800

A nice mixed bag of live mp3s.