Ocean City Defender is distributing their new EP on Bandcamp at the “Name Your Price” rate (which includes, of course, zero bucks). If there was a category of music called “indie 1980s,” it would fit. The mellow waves flow like Simple Minds, New Order (but smoother), Yaz, etc.
Good stuff!
Tags: Extended Player (EP), Free Album!, Indie Pop
Rich Daley, a.k.a. Babyface Monster, wants you to have his FreEp. He’s a Chi-town lyricist with a silky flow and lyrics that range from Cool J shmoove to street stories, all told with humor. The whole album feels very person. Really solid stuff.
Get it here.
Babyface Monster – Cadillac Brougham Joints by bfmbangerz
Tags: Extended Player (EP), Free Album!, Hip Hop
Brooklyn’s Radio Barons. These dudes owe debt to The Clash, but there’s no dishonor in that–there are many far worse bands to crib from. Check ‘em out.
Get it free here.
Tags: Extended Player (EP), free, Free Album!, Indie rock
The Starlight Girls bill themselves as psychedelic lounge, and I guess that’s as good a term as any. I could see them backing the soundtrack of an edgier Austin Powers, or maybe a fight scene in a Tarantino flick. They’re a few gals out of Brooklyn, looking to promote their debut (by giving it away). It’s smart, cool, and much better than it oughtta be for free music. I know that there’s a million bands with a retro sound desperate to get coverage these days, but this band is one of the ones that’s worth your time. Check ‘em out. I’d love to see what they’re like live…
Get the whole thing free here!
Tags: Extended Player (EP), Free Album!, Indie Pop
Want to know all about the year in covers, with links to tons of free or low-cost albums, and the wonderful political musings of Me? Then hit the break! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Best of 2011, Covers, Free Album!
More great hip hop from Domo Genesis of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, the same group of L.A. rappers who spawned Tyler, The Creator. But I dig Domo much more. On this tape, he raps over some Kanye, Scarface…A bunch of great stuff.
Tags: Free Album!, Hip Hop, Mixtape
Satan’s favorite country rock band’s EP begins with a take on Gallows Pole, the song made famous by Led Zeppelin. But unlike Plant and Page, who sanitized the song into one about how the doomed man was such a stud that all the girls wanted to rescue him despite his crimes, Blackwater Jukebox make a grimy, rough bounce and the end is never in doubt: This guy’s gonna die. On the very next cut, That Voodoo Shit, the album takes a left turn at breakbeat and does a dusty rap. Kind of. It’s something that sounds like Junior Senior on brown acid.
Then there’s the pirate song, below, “Heave Away.” I love this song.
And it keeps going like that. Is this really an EP, or is just a showcase for Geordie McElroy, a self-proclaimed “DJ and folk archivist turned banjo-and-drum-machine-slinging troubadour?”
Don’t know, don’t care. It’s fun and it’s awesome and it’s free.
Get it free here at Bandcamp.
Heave Away (aka The Scrimshaw Blues)
Get it free from Bandcamp.
And check out a vid:
Tags: Free Album!, Hip Hop
I think this guy used to blog at Pigeons and Planes, but I can’t swear to that. I really don’t know fuck all about him, but Fuck Y’all is surprisingly good.
And free.
Here.
Try before you buy (for free):
Tags: Free Album!, Hip Hop
The cello shredding, old-soul singing, bicycle touring, social activist ball-o-musician Mr. Ben Sollee is giving away his new album over the weekend at http://www.bensollee.com/
And in other free news….
Topshelf’s 2011 sampler is free here.
The new single Black Holes by Smoke Signals is free here.
Tags: Free Album!
