Free and legal music

More blatant Boston band plugs:

Static Of The Gods - The Midnight Fires. Pretty, Shoe Gazing-ish music with female vocals.

Sidewalk Driver - For All The Boys And Girls. Glammy, earwormy as hell power pop. Actually this is name your price, but there's no minimum, so it can be free if you want.

Mellow Bravo - Strut. Just good old fashioned hard rock I guess. They make me think a little bit of Urge Overkill at their most arena-rockin', although there's also a little more blues rock and even a few ballads.

edited 25th May '11 10:55:46 AM by MikeK

Meat Beat Manifesto has some demos and live stuff on their website. :3

Mike: You're from Boston?

I didn't know that.

I guess you have a rival in Esoteric, now.

/lolhiphopjoke

Pacifico: Thin Skin & an Open Heart. For lack of a better description, indie pop-rock.

Act quickly, the band are only putting this one up for free download for 24 hrs.They said they were taking it down after 24 hours, but it's been a few months and the link still works, so hooray.

edited 4th Sep '11 5:48:39 PM by MetaFour

Fox a electronica/alternative/post-rock one man project hailing from the bosom of Mother Russia has made a lot of his stuff available on http://ningenrecords.com/en/. Mention should also go to French Teen Idol, one of his inspirations, from Italy. His music is great and he has some really interesting use of samples. He can be found on the Lost Children Netlabel

Edit Hannah Fury has also made of her music available for free http://www.mellowtraumatic.com/recordings.html

edited 13th Jul '12 9:18:55 AM by eedwardgrey3

Oooh, forgot about this thread:

• Abaga Records, a Dubstep label, has some good free stuff.
• Data Shit, Some of the best speedcore I've ever heard, DOWNLOAD THIS NAO.

If it's bootleg concert recordings you want, this site is an embarrassment of riches.

I had mentioned these elsewhere but not here:

• Halc: 2 free ep's. Chiptune / ambient techno.
• Fear of Tigers: Album with an unpronounceable name. Super bouncy upbeat house.

Blatant plug: I just released a free album.

Oh, well as long as someone else is, I have a Bandcamp page with TWO albums.

It's in my sig line.

Stuff that is not me:

Night Fruit - Triangles EP - Shoe Gazing-ish rock with female vocals.

Old Abram Brown - Restless Ghosts. Dark-ish, moody indie folk.

††† - EP. New project from Chino Moreno. Kinda like a more electronic version of Team Sleep. If you have no idea what that means, think Perishing Indie Voice + ambient synthesizers + drum machines + the occasional clean guitar.

Stuff that is me:

Quetzalcoatlus - Raised By Motorcycles and Beats + Noise. I totally have more albums (well, EPs) than this and some day I should put them up too.

edited 4th Sep '11 10:02:34 PM by MikeK

The Scurvies: Don't Let Me Go. Rock and roll.

Have A Nice Life's Time Of Land EP. Enjoy the relentless negativity.

Animals Within Animals: Glitchy Databending mashup weirdness, sounds like Merzbow randomly spinning a radio dial.

I'm on the first track, you got REM, NIN, Radiohead, The Beatles, Bjork...

edited 7th Sep '11 9:17:54 AM by inane242

The Panduhs, a local band I went to see a while ago with a free new EP. http://hulkshare.com/uo65ooqqey3u

You can find them on Facebook too if you like them enough.

Has Renard Queenston already been mentioned in this thread?

The majority of his stuff isn't free to download from the site itself, but a good chunk of it is.

Also it may technically be illegal is most places to pirate music from him but he still encourages it at least from an official standpoint, so you should be safe as long as you live in a country where you can't be prosecuted for piracy without a complaint by the copyright holder...

edited 21st Sep '11 5:25:16 PM by FuschlatzOReilly

Yes, I believe he has.

His stuff's good, head and shoulders the best free breakcore I've ever found.

Darling Pet Munkee - Glows In The Dark!. Campy Three Chords and the Truth garage rock songs about those mail order ads you used to see in the back of comic books (seamonkeys, x-ray spex, etc). I detect a little bit of a Cramps influence. Honestly even if you hate the music, you might find their website interesting, as it goes into detail about the actual products that inspired their music (many of them were ripoffs, but believe it or not the "darling pet monkey" they were named for was an actual, live squirrel monkey being sold by mail order).

edited 7th Oct '11 10:21:43 PM by MikeK

A great and silly band from Philadelphia Lemons Are Louder Than Rocks

Loneliness Is Dangerous by Josh & Katie Dooley. Josh Dooley is the man behind MAP, who put out a few albums of really good indie-pop-rock. On this album, Josh did something different and enlisted his sister to sing, and the results are kind of a weird intersection of MAP's previous style and Post-Rock.

I may need to revise my best of 2011 list after giving this a few more listens.

Urbantramper has a bunch of songs available for free and pay what you want, same thing with Jake Kaufman, Jonathan Mann, Starship Amazing, anamanaguchi, Jamie Soar, C418 and Danny Baranowski.

And Mashup artists and VGM Remixers.

Xroma Bureau makes synthy electronic stuff which is free.

Emergency Music - two albums of indie pop, both name your own price. They remind me a bit of Sloan at times, if you're familiar with that band at all.

Machinae Supremacy were mentioned before, but they've since put up their whole first album. (Also the link xexyzl posted is now broken; here is the working one.)

Cyan Music is a netlabel putting out free trance albums. So far I'm liking Horizon pretty good.