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Free DL: experimental pop thingy [Egg&I]

Free DL: experimental pop thingy [Egg&I]

I admire things that are a bit raw or have a sense of unrest from being unfinished. The post-Replacements output from Paul Westerberg (which I’m a fan of) is chock-full of one-take fleeting moments captured in sound. And it occurs with live performances, tape recorders from someone’s basement, and when an underground artist throws his...
Smart Append to id3 tag in iTunes for Mac

Smart Append to id3 tag in iTunes for Mac

After searching for some multi-tagging solutions for iTunes, I was able to make my own script to get “smart” appends and prepend capabilities to any tags for selected mp3s in my library. My free applescript (download below) is based off of Doug’s basic append to tag feature, but is customized to add a tag only...
Top 15 Sources for Live Indie Sessions (mp3s + Videos)

Top 15 Sources for Live Indie Sessions (mp3s + Videos)

It’s a pleasure when artists give new treatments to their compositions, or a new setting reveals  surprising twist in a song. That’s the charm of following a band- admiring their writing as well as their performances. Besides concerts, that’s where ephemeral sessions come to play. You’ve come here because you need to download the best...
Hooray For Free Downloads from Hooray For Earth

Hooray For Free Downloads from Hooray For Earth

I’m really loving Hooray For Earth, so I was very excited to find some legal and free downloads of the band. Just click on the links below to get the downloads: Hooray For Earth- No Love Hooray For Earth- True Loves (The Wild Honey Pie Buzzsessions) This is the video for The Wild Honey Pie...

Enhance your Music Searching

Searching for free music – I’ve done it before, but things change and I get smarter (hopefully). Trying to get a digital copy of a song or album? Look no further. I’ve found the latest and best online tools to get you right to your goal. Instead of previewing 30 second samples or scrounging through...

The Walkmen vs Alicia Keys Mashup

I’ve always been fascinated with mashups. There are some wonderful songs that mix into an equal or better song than the original. There are also mash-ups that mix two already poor songs into a worse song. I attempted to contribute my remixing cents into the pot and I chose “No One” by Alicia Keys to...

Black Swans are the Forrest Gump of Tom Waits

That’s the only way I can describe the chillingly odd voice of Jerry DeCicca, the singer for The Black Swans. The Black Swans borrow some of the Midwestern folk style with some extraordinary additions that make me say “Interesting.” The voice is like nothing I’ve heard. It’s not that it is so deep, it manages...

Mixtape: August On a Wing

Kim Taylor is a better candidate for incessantly repeated airplay than Sara Bareilles. I wrote about this song over a year ago stating that I had heard it a year before that. Unfortunately, the studio mp3s are no longer hosted on her site, but I was lucky enough to catch her demo version when it...

Westerberg’s Stereo goes on Stereo

Stereo is one of my favorite dual albums, with its counterpart Mono, all of which comes from mastermind Paul Westerberg. I’ve come to realize that I get attached to music that has sentimental appeal, and even more so when it can hit the gut on a personal level as though the lyrics are being drawn...

Get a Year’s Dosage of Music [SXSW]

The yearly festival known as SXSW offers the universe at large the ability to download a slew of free mp3s in the form of a torrent. This year as well as most are full of indie noises and some of the more popular acts like Bloc Party and other recognizables. Some random stranger decided to...

Tucson’s Calexico has Crystal Clear Bootleg

Archivist Jim Blackwood has done an excellent job pulling off a quality matrix recording of Calexico, the indie/mariachi/alt. country rock band straight outta Tucson. The results can be downloaded for free at the always legal archive.org. The band has a few unique qualities, and their output is probably a preferred taste. I enjoy a handful...

5 Remixed Ways to Discover Free Audio

Some websites die, progress for the worse, or benefit for recreation. Ideas get recycled, reinvented, abused, and improved. So it goes with web-based audio technology. If you need a replacement site or are just looking for new ways to listen to free music without trouble, then read on. Albumbase is Dead There once was a...