Free Music

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Free music is good.  This one is downloadable from their myspace.

Linky

Just solid, fun, indie-rock.  I think most here would enjoy it.

Radiohead is well-known - post other free discoveries (that won't get you or the website sued) in this thread if you wish.

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NPR's podcast "All Songs Considered" has Josh Ritter up now.  S poon and New Pornographers to follow.

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If you browse through the All Songs Considered podcasts, you'll see that they have an Iron & Wine concert.  It should be worth a listen.

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The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust, Saul Williams

You can choose to buy it for $5 (in flac, 320 kbps, or 192 kbps mp3s), or download it free (192 kbps).  I'm liking this trend.

FLAC!!!

[starhawk]

Download a free His Name Is Alive EP from their website.  The EP includes a song from their latest full length, and since it's one of the best songs off of that album, it's worth checking out just for that.

http://www.hisnameisalive.com/  (select the "sounds" tab, or the small link in blue at the very top right of the page)

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Plugging "All Songs Considered" podcast again.  This time, The New Pornographers Live!

Also, a few of you may have heard of Over the Rhine.

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Nickel Creek is up at "All Songs Considered", but they now have a separate podcast for live concerts.

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Art Brut up now, followed by an interview.

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Wilco is up, but it isn't podcast.  Streaming at All Song's Considered

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SXSW anyone?

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NPR's website has many SXSW concerts for streaming, including My Morning Jacket, R.E.M., and Yo La Tengo.

[Aaron]

NPR's website has many SXSW concerts for streaming, including My Morning Jacket, R.E.M., and Yo La Tengo.

I've been enjoying those concert podcasts.  Glorious stuff.

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I haven't gotten them to work yet, but I figured someone ought to enjoy them.  :-D

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The new Nine Inch Nails album is free to a good home, and is available in V0, flac, or 24/96 wav.  Dude is taking what Radiohead did last year for distribution to its logical extreme.

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Sigur Ros has Gobbledigook from their full-length due out later this month that I'm not even going to try to type out here.

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Hmm...looks familiar:

Pay What you want for Girl Talk's Feed the Animals

[dgp11776]

Katie Herzig's Apple Tree is now available either for free or you pay what you want.  Jump on this one, guys!  Start here:

http://www.katieherzig.com/

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I was just looking for that, and you go and take the work out of it.

[dgp11776]

I didn't want to see you barking up the wrong tree.

[murlough23]

I was just looking for that, and you go and take the work out of it.

I was just looking for that, found it on my own, came here to brag about it, and noticed I'd been beaten to the punch.

Either way, it'll be nice to finally have a chance to hear it.

(And I know this is cheating, but I put in my old Earthlink address and two syntactically valid variants of my work Email address as my three "friends". I don't want to forward people advertisements about music until I know for sure I like it. Once I do, I'll blog about it and I'll buy the physical CD.)

[murlough23]

I didn't want to see you barking up the wrong tree.

These puns are getting so predictable! You should leave those kinds of jokes alone for a while; branch out and try something different.

[NinjaRob17]

I only payed $1 for it and now I feel bad because it's really good.

[murlough23]

I only payed $1 for it and now I feel bad because it's really good.

Choosing what to pay after you've heard it would remedy situations like this; unfortunately, it would create many more situations in which people don't pay at all.

I'm sure you could always buy yourself a physical copy of the CD if your conscience is eating you up that much. Or hell, just send Katie a donation.

But yeah, that's why I went with the "tell a friend" approach.

Incidentally, she kinda sounds like Jewel, but with better songs.

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I heard "Hologram" on the last Paste mix CD, and liked it, so I paid $7.  If you feel that bad about it, I would just get the physical copy.  If I like it as much as dgp did, I just might do that.  I like supporting artists who do this sort of thing.

[dgp11776]

Since I already have the physical copy, I paid $2 for the two bonus tracks - seemed fair to me.

[dgp11776]

Now go back to Noisetrade.com - you'll find Sixpence None the Richer's brand new EP up for 'sale.'  Nice!

[murlough23]

Now go back to Noisetrade.com - you'll find Sixpence None the Richer's brand new EP up for 'sale.'  Nice!

Wow. I was wondering whether that would ever see the light of day.

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Back to work means back to a reasonably fast internet connection, so I've been checkout out what good ol' all songs has.  Under "concerts" they have quite a bit that is new, including Randy Newman, Fleet Foxes, and Tom Waits.  Apparently, they'll have a Radiohead concert up on Sept. 8.

*sigh*  It's good to be back.

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is up, but it's not available for podcast.

[enemy anemone]

I had downloaded the recording of Tom Waits' performance at the Fox Theatre but hadn't really listened till now. (I have no excuse for myself.) it is AMAZING.

[enemy anemone]

The Violet Burning is offering their new Christmas album for free on their site.

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Jay-Z must mix very well with other people's music (in this case, Radiohead's)

[Aaron]

The Violet Burning is offering their new Christmas album for free on their site.

Late on commenting, but this was an excellent little piece of work.

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Trent's at it again, this time with raw, HD concert footage.

http://download.nin.com/lightsinthesky/Nine_Inch_Nails_Live_Video_2008_12_05_Victoria_BC.torrent
http://download.nin.com/lightsinthesky/Nine_Inch_Nails_Live_Video_2008_12_07_Portland_OR.torrent
http://download.nin.com/lightsinthesky/Nine_Inch_Nails_Live_Video_2008_12_12_Sacramento_CA.torrent

BIG files - to the tune of >400 GB total.

[Ian]

Yikes.

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http://ironandwine.com/

Lower-right corner, 8 free, stripped-down versions of songs from his last album.  I think Josh, especially, would get something out of it.

[murlough23]

http://ironandwine.com/

Lower-right corner, 8 free, stripped-down versions of songs from his last album.  I think Josh, especially, would get something out of it.

These probably won't outdo the album versions for me, but I'm always interested in seeing how songs that obviously required careful construction and layering in the studio get reinterpreted in more of an off-the-cuff, casual, acoustic sort of atmosphere. So I'm downloading it.

Something seems unbelievably wrong about the movie Twilight being pimped on Iron & Wine's website.

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These probably won't outdo the album versions for me, but I'm always interested in seeing how songs that obviously required careful construction and layering in the studio get reinterpreted in more of an off-the-cuff, casual, acoustic sort of atmosphere. So I'm downloading it.

Nor for me, but the songs are good enough that I think they'd work in such a context, also.

Something seems unbelievably wrong about the movie Twilight being pimped on Iron & Wine's website.

The world has gone insane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_(soundtrack)

Kind of odd that "15 Step" isn't on it, given it's apparently prominent placement in the movie.

[murlough23]

The world has gone insane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_(soundtrack)

I knew it was on the soundtrack, and I guess it's exposure and all that. But Twilight is kind of "slumming it" for I&W.

Kind of odd that "15 Step" isn't on it, given it's apparently prominent placement in the movie.

One of many things that I hate about soundtrack CDs. There will likely be a "Volume 2" later, with the stuff they should have included but left out, and whole lot of "inspired by" material.

[spacebrat311]

Or Radiohead isn't allowing it on their CD release. Which would make sense to me.