Free Music Archive

[Black Majik]

^ Thanks for that, twas good stuff.

I Fight Dragons.com

I Fight Dragons is a chiptune/NES-rock band from Chicago. They released their debut EP, Cool Is Just A Number on February 6, 2009, and have since experienced an explosion in the growth of their fan base, recently hitting over 2000 fans on their mailing list from everywhere around the globe.

In May 2009, they won the annual Chicago Metromix Rock 'n' Vote contest, garnering over 50% of the votes.

Their Mailing Service is currently sending out their debut EP (Cool Is Just A Number) for free (Not sure for how long, but...), and also sending out random songs, covers and remixes all the time.

Not sure if anybody else posted about it, but eh. ^^;

Edited July 15, 2009 by Black Majik

[tristy]

A few months ago, NIN released 400 gigs of HD footage from the final 3 concerts of the Lights in the Sky tour. They also allowed people to bring HD recording equipment and record the shows for themselves.

This is (ONE) of the final products of months of laboring, editing, and mastering the audio from those shows. Some fans over at Echoing the Sound have been working on loads of projects like this, and this is the best one I've heard so far. It sounds like a professional, officially released NIN live album. But it's a bootleg. And completely legal!

This is a 2-Disc collection of SEAMLESS audio that compiles the best NIN performances from all three the dates of the LiTS tour, of course it uses the same setlist. These are cleaned audio files that will include the breaks, intermissions, and encore breaks so that you can truly *feel* the concert.

http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?t=46419

[L.O.N.D.O.N]

http://usershare.net/darxkvk2zwz1

XV-Everybodys Nobody

Hip Hop with a techno influence on some tracks, one of the younger guys coming out now.

http://www.mediafire.com/?gkijxzzznhv

QuEsT-Broken Headphones

[New Damage]

Some classic (and probably unheard of) grunge from as early as 1991 from Truly. Yeah, them. Well, they had a song on the Singles soundtrack, released some stuff on Sub Pop and apparently had the former Soundgarden bassist Hiro Yamamoto.

http://www.robertrothmusic.com/

Edited August 4, 2009 by TheModernWay

[racoonie]

www.fuse.tv has a whole bunch of free music-mainly alternative stuff.

[NM!]

Fuse.tv has a couple song downloads because of Lollapalooza. Here's the link.

http://fuse.tv/tours/lollapalooza2009/downloads.html

[LittleDaniel]

http://www.suburbanhomerecords.com/freealbum/

Suburban Home Records is giving everyone a free CD to celebrate their 14th anniversary. There's 42 CDs to choose from, not sure what I'll be getting yet...

[NM!]

Any word on who from that list is any good? I haven't heard of a single one of them.

[K]

SFR’s Brooklyn homies Metermaids have delivered a FREE 5-song EP called “Smash Smash Bang” featuring Prayers For Atheists‘ frontman Jared Paul!

Metermaids’ new EP “Smash Smash Bang” sounds exactly like its titleimplies: It’s five songs and fifteen minutes of smash-mouth,heart-on-your-sleeve release, the music landing somewhere between hiphop and garage rock.

Metermaids have made their name with the raw energy of their liveshow, including an eye-opening performance at the 2009 Brooklyn Hip HopFestival (among the likes of Smif and Wessun, Dead Prez, DJ Premier,and Pharoahe Monche), and “Smash Smash Bang” looks to capture thatenergy on record.

The EP is Metermaids’ first release since their critically acclaimedmash-up album “Nightlife in Illinoise,” which combined their 2008 album“Nightlife” with Sufjan Steven’s classic “Illinoise,” and landedMetermaids in the pages of The Village Voice and Playboy Magazine, aswell as on influential websites like Spin.Com and Wired.Com, all whilereceiving over 10,000 downloads in two months.

Tracklisting:

1. Blackout Baby

2. Planes Down

3. Shades Off (Featuring Jared Paul of Prayers For Atheists)

4. Matchbooks

5. Ghosts in the Radio

Metermaids’ 2008 LP “Nightlife” is also available at SFRstore.com on CD and as a Digital Download.

DJ Jester the Filipino Fist manned the turntables for the SFR Showcase at SXSW 2009, and now brings you The Inside Story,a 40-minute mix of under-and-overground hip hop, rock, and pop classicsblended in his own signature style, available now for FREE DOWNLOAD!

Click here for your FREE DOWNLOAD courtesy of URB Magazine!

[K]

^I listened to both of those this morning, and they're both fantastic.

[noblefreakv2]

This guy does Heavy Metal covers of some TV and movie themes.

[K]

Lupe dropped a new mixtape yesterday. I've not listened to it yet, but my mate just text me to say it's the best hip-hop release this year

http://www.ballerstatus.com/2009/11/27/lupe-fiasco-drops-new-mixtape-on-thanksgiving-readies-next-one-for-christmas/

[LittleDaniel]

I'm not sure if I'd label it hip-hop release of the year, I've got to listen to it some more before saying that, but I will say it's pretty fucking good.

[Dynamite]

Listened to it today. Really enjoyed it. It's a bit short but he's got another mixtape coming out soon before the album so it's enough to keep me hyped for now.

[K]

http://virb.com/mimickingbirds

Recently supported Modest Mouse, have uploaded all their songs for you to download

http://www.maudlinofthewell.net/downloads.html

maudlin of the Well (commonly abbreviated as motW) is an avant-garde metal band from Boston, Massachusetts. Their music contains elements from many different genres including doom metal, indie rock, jazz, progressive rock, post rock, progressive metal and death metal. After a five year hiatus, the band has recently re-united to record their latest album, Part the Second, which was funded by fan donations and released online May 14, 2009 for free.

Grim Empire - "The Future" MIXTAPE NOW AVAILABLE!!

(prod. by Sonik)

Download it FREE Exclusively @ http://www.firmmag.com

Download Link:

http://www.firmmag.com/zips/Grim_Em...d.by_Sonik_.zip

Unholy Baptism has its CD up on Amie Street for free download.

http://amiestreet.com/music/unholy-baptism/unholy-baptism-ep/

"a contemporary look at mid-90's black metal. Fans of Carpathian Forest, God Dethroned, Deicide, and Lord Belial may enjoy it"

"THE ARMED just put their entire debut full-length up for freedownload for everyone, forever. sort of sound like The DillingerEscape Plan / Converge / Every Time I Die."

http://www.thesearelights.com

Fall of Efrafa relased their new album INLE some days ago.

They play crust punk with post-rock influences meaning all of their songs are

around 20 minutes long.Their lyrics focus on atheism and animal right , so you

guys will dig it.

Their other albums are also available as downloads.

http://www.fallofefrafa.com/music.html

Metermaids - Nightlife in Illinoise

Up-and-coming rap duo remixes Sufjan Steven's Illinois in the same ilkas Danger Mouse's The Grey Album. One of my favorite downloads yet thisyear. Strongly recommended for Sufjan and rap fans alike.

[noblefreakv2]

It looks like Datpiff is letting all free members download 99,999 mixtapes today. And you don't have to wait the usual 15 minutes between tapes.

Also, here are the songs from the Loincoln commercials (like Shiny Toy Guns cover of Major Tom) for free.

Edited February 25, 2010 by noblefreakv2

[New Damage]

British band Arthur. Fronted by a female vocalist (which is unusual for me). The woman was apparently on Reuben's "Good Luck" from the In Nothing We Trust album.

There's a link to their Mediafire account on their MySpace.

[Cactus Drags]

She was, and she was wonderful.

[New Damage]

Speaking of Reuben, even if most of the people here probably know, but you can download a bunch of their demos/EPs from when they were still called "Angel" from their website.

http://www.wordsfromreuben.com/2009/download.php

[Lint]

My friend Thorsten aka Phaze Wun has an album up for download here.

also has a video here

(Thorstens the white guy..lol)