Category Archives: Free Music

Musical discoveries of the weekend

Various freely available MP3s by Portugal. The Man – I’d not heard of this band until about 3 hours ago, but am actually quite taken with them now. It’s American indie with a strong side order of psychedelia, and I … Continue reading

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Review : Lots of free music

I may get round to reviewing The Mars Volta, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth and Placebo, but as you can read about all of these in a fair few other places I thought I’d concentrate on a couple of months worth … Continue reading

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Review : Stages by Abscondo

I reviewed the first Abscondo album a while ago, and actually still listen to it a fair bit. So I was actually quite nervous about downloading the second one in case it didn’t live up to my expectations. Thankfully Stages … Continue reading

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Trying to catch up on writing about music

Albums I’ve enjoyed over the last couple of months include: The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love Robyn Hitchcock – Goodnight Oslo …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Century of Self Beruit – March of … Continue reading

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Discovering Free Music

So where do you start? There are obviously thousands of hours of recorded sound available legally for free, but it is quite easy to get lost, and to end up with a large amount of downloaded music that is not … Continue reading

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The latest batch of Jamendo releases

I’ve just mixed a whole load of previously unheard music from Jamendo in with my usual playlist in Rhythmbox. I’m not going to try and describe any of these (apart from calling them indescribable), but I think there are things … Continue reading

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Freely available albums of the year 2008

As promised, a top 20 just including freely available music released under a Creative Commons license. The Wind Whistles – Window Sills Abscondo – Midnight Snow Girl Talk – Feed the Animals The Rest – Atlantis, Oh Our Saviour Robin … Continue reading

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Introducing aaahh-records – home of free and charming music

I’ve just stumbled upon this net label, whilst trying to determine which year the Wind Whistles album was actually released in (the answer being 2007 and 2008 in different places). The label has so far only released three albums, but … Continue reading

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Death by Panda – All the electronica you’ll ever need (and then some)

I’ve written about Death by Panda before (around the time I was listening to “House Made of Glass” on repeat). Since then there have been three further albums, all of which explore an area of music that can be disconcerting, … Continue reading

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An interesting find

I was going to write something about an album by a new British folk singer that I downloaded yesterday, but then tonight I stumbled upon a newer mini album and thought I should probably lump them both together as two … Continue reading

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