Acoustic Demo for Twilight Evenings [free download]
Artnoc Repus offers an album length of demos for downloading via open source audio. Staying Here Forever draws from an arsenal of softer compositions as well as rompin’ selections that are pulled off well despite the lack of a complete backing band. Heres a play by play with your songcaster, liquid parallax: Track 1. “San...
Amazon.com Free Music DL [Old & New]
Amazon.com has had free mp3s for a least a few years. I remember discovering they had a “free downloads” section and I was able to find some stuff that interested me. There was even recognizable stuff (I can’t remember all of them, but I do recall seeing Yo La Tengo, popular Christmas tunes, and some...
Patriotic, Christmas, and Other Tracks from US Air Force
From my previous post I found “Miserlou” played by the Air Force. I managed to find some others that are pretty interesting. Some for the Christmas season, some patriotic songs, and a few hymns and ceremonials. Usually everything produced by the government is public domain, but things become tricky if they borrowed or used copyright...
Misirlou’s Origins as Folk Song
Most people know the guitar driven riff of “Misirlou” from Pulp Fiction, and others know it as being a song played by all the hot surf bands with Dick Dale being the first in the wave of ’60s bands. The truth is it goes way back at least to the 1920s. Michalis Patrinos is said...
Easy batch download for mp3s (betterPropaganda)
Instead of wasting time downloading things by hand, page by page, clicking links generated from javascript, right clicking to save or waiting for each save dialog box, you could be using a download manager to automatically grab certain files from links off of a page. DownThemAll is my choice for Firefox. Let’s say you want...
Thin Lizzy Meets Sex Pistols for Christmas Season
I never would have thought of such a link, but it exists! The Greedies, as they were called, had a Merry Christmas in 1979 and it featured drums and guitar from Sex Pistols members and all of Thin Lizzy. It’s a rocking little number anticipating the New Year nice and early. Now we all know...
Tucsonan Country Surf Rocker Al Perry @Last.fm
Al Perry is an older musician with an alt. country sound, and some mp3s are available at last.fm. Out of the 4 available for download, “Abnormall” seems like a nice one. If you are adventurous or like your music loaded with electronic psychedelia, you might like the other free mp3s.
Database of Recorded American Music
I don’t know why I’m posting this other than the potential this could have. DRAM looks like an awesome resource for any fan of American music. Listen to unlimited CD quality recordings, view complete liner notes, and educate yourself on lesser known music that is largely ignored by the commercial recording companies from Earl Hines...
More Early Folk + Jazz Music
About 20 mp3s are offered at Tuneresource.com supplying ancient folk, jazz, and blues before your day. If you can get past the annoying flash sound that loads on every page, you should see downward on the page (below the search box in the center) a drop down menu titled Free MP3 Tunes! with jazz and...
Elliott Smith: Demos + B-sides
A friend of mine pointed me to a site of underground songs of Elliott Smith. As some unreleased tracks later came out on official products, some other rarities have been cut to stay out of RIAA’s way. There is a heaping helping of mp3s waiting for enthusiasts of this guy all for free. I admit...
Year: A Music Tagging Pet Peeve
Being a slightly picky person when it comes to music tag metadata in my files, I haven’t found a great way to original release year OR recorded year for a compilation or non-standard album. For instance, I got a Sufer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim combo disc and it was fairly easy to figure out the original...
