May 2, 2004
If you’re looking for more sources for great free music, you could do far worse than check out the great collection of mp3 blogs in this entry from Close Your Eyes.
Some of these sites spend a lot of time tracking limited time releases, reviewing new releases, etc, and there’s a little something here for everyone—indie, j-pop, electronica, etc.
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Free Music BlogsIf you're looking for more sources for great free music, you could do far worse than check out the great collection of mp3 blogs in this entry from Close Your Eyes. Some of these sites spend a lot of time tracking limited time releases, reviewing new releases, etc, and there's a little something here for everyone -- indie, j-pop, electronica, etc. Enjoy (via delicious)...
Webjay - Free Music PlaylistsThere is a lot of great music on the web, yours free for the listening—if you can find it. Now Webjay let’s listeners create playlists of their favorite free MP3s from all over the ‘net—you can listen to playlists made by others, or create your own (public or private). It’s a great way to discover new music, and to share music that you’ve discovered with others. Here are a few of my favorite free MP3s to get you started… Enjoy! ...
Free Music Works for WilcoXeni Jardin writes in Wired about Wilco's "suprising" success. It's becoming a fairly common story -- artist gets shat upon by label, artist says "screw it" and puts out a solid representative sample of their music online, artist finds later commercial releases gobbled up by fans. In this case, they even raised $15K for charity from people who still wanted to pay for the material they released for free. What a concept -- let people hear some of the band's good stuff (not just some not-ready-for-album samples) for free, and they're more willing to buy stuff. Nothing new here, mind you -- it just used to be called "radio play". Except of course that several whole species of moneygrubbers evolved...
A Million Free Music Downloads?Red Ferret Journal is a wiki that claims to have links to “1 million free & legal music tracks.” You’ll have to count them yourself. -----...
Slashdot and del.icio.us?I keep seeing this in del.icio.us/popular... Who are these people who keep adding bookmarks to del.icio.us for Slashdot, anyway? I know I’m becoming a curmudgeon, but who discovers del.icio.us without having discovered Slashdot? I think the tide turned on del.icio.us when I started noticing bookmarks for Google… We must be getting near the middle of Endless September by now… -----...
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