Tag Archive for the term: free music

The songs are drama pretty, and sad like after all those years. Also the bandcamp player is snazzy, so here you go folks; enjoy the building piano and thoughtful electric guitar of this EP from Sacramento indie, pretty antipop pop band Tin Can Notes; and the pained and painted hollar that still stays sandy [...]

Moby’s right, I was just kitchen grooving yesterday and thinking about it: Beyonce’s Single Ladies is the best pop song in ages, perhaps eva, and the choreography is aggressive, brilliant, hilarious and sexy in an empowering way.
Even if you’re not interested in rings or being called “it” – as in “ïf you like it [...]

First of all, Zebra Pants is an excellent band name and Barton Fink is very good as well with it’s formidable nod to the Cohenesque artist stuck looking for stories and finding B-movie murder, so kudos to both the sparkly darlings, and thanks for the free album sharing!
A firstish album is a very logical [...]

Venus Zine just posted their suggestions for Lollapalooza‘ing, includes gems like:
Neko Case puts her fangs into Vampire Weekend and Lou Reed pretty much beats everyone else on Day Three.
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And as for Snoop Dogg, well, we prefer our rap stars relevant.
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In a weekend rather lacking in rock, the Pickups will bring the bite back [...]

If there’s one thing I love it’s good live music and inexpensive beers in the sunny summertime and today Montreal offers an amazing opportunity to devote yourself to both for a long, inspiring haul. At Green Room on St Laurent, south of St Viateur, this Easter Sunday will be celebrated by 24 musicians each playing [...]

Masterful 20 instrument free jazz fused with careful composition from an album called The Gift Economy (the sexiest economy of all ;) is enough to make me squirm with glee. Free music can go good or ghastly, a necessary danger when working with an emphasis on process and improvisation, but when it’s good it’s liquid [...]

UK Indie label Lojinx released a mini album of Christams songs this week for free, legal download by acts representing the label’s international ear:
Featuring new and current artists from the Lojinx roster, the Mini-Album consists of tracks from international acts including Nate Campany (Brooklyn, USA) and The Wellingtons (Melbourne, Australia), as well as British pop [...]

Halifax psychfolk duo Omon Ra bring in different friends to play with them at every show, making each performance a unique event, showcasing their acoustic melodies, living room jams, psychadelic encantations, tripped-out electric spirals, or no wave cave echoes, depending on the show.
They also record almost every show they play. Lately, they’ve been putting these [...]

This Seattle weekly article provides numbers and musicians personal experiences to make the economic case for giving music away (AND selling it.) I’ve quoted a bit from the piece here for you:
“If you look at the numbers from traditional record contracts, only the elite of the elite, the top 1 to 5 percent, would make [...]