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• Free music: El Oso "Making Love, Making Beds"

  Retired local rockers El Oso have just released a new EP - "Making Love, Making Beds" - and you can download it for FREE! Click here. Posted Jun 10 2008, 12:46 PM by Erika J. Bock With | With no comments Filed under: free music, free download, el oso, retired bands

• Warner Music Group pulls music from Last.fm

  If you are unfamiliar with Last.fm, you can read about it here. One of the coolest features of LastFM is that you can stream music from the website or via the LastFM widget/desktop window. But Warner Music Group has decided that it doesn't want LastFM... Posted Jun 09 2008, 04:32 PM by Erika J. Bock With | With no comments Filed under: free music, industry dirt, free download, LastFM, new music technology, free music software, Warner Music Group

• Lars Ulrich changes his tune.

  Lars Ulrich (you know, the drummer for Metallica) recently told Rolling Stone magazine, "We're looking at how we can embrace everything. We want to be as free players as possible. We've been observing Radiohead and Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch... Posted Apr 25 2008, 06:36 PM by Erika J. Bock With | With 1 comment(s) Filed under: free music, file sharing, Radiohead, lawsuits, Trent Reznor, Rolling Stone, Napster, Lars Ulrich, hypocrites, Metallica

• New Nine Inch Nails Album! Free/cheap!

  From the LA Times website : About 6 p.m. PST on Sunday, Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor released a 36-song instrumental collection, "Ghosts I-IV," direct to the Internet via his official website. The album is available at a number of pricing... Posted Mar 03 2008, 03:50 PM by Erika J. Bock With | With no comments Filed under: free music, Radiohead, In Rainbows, downloading, LA Times, Ghosts I-IV, Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails

• Amie Street ups the ante

  Rather than completely ape Muzzle of Bees story, I'm giving you the link to it here , and summing it up here: Amie Street , an online music retailer, is releasing more than 15,000 songs that will rise in price from free to $.98 based on popularity... Posted Feb 26 2008, 11:03 AM by Milan Zori With | With no comments Filed under: free music, Radiohead, Peaches, Matador Records, Cat Power, Polyvinyl, Muzzle of Bees, Thom York, Beggars Group, Of Montreal

• Ant & Slug are like Santa & Santa

  I swear, Christmas might as well have been a hiccup this year. No sooner were celebrators ripping open their gifts than it was time to call it a night, 'cause they had to get up early for work the next morning. All work and no play makes America a... Posted Dec 28 2007, 02:01 AM by Milan Zori With | With no comments Filed under: free music, Ant rules, Rhymesayers, Atmosphere

• Can't find a band? Win one.

  So MKE is giving away a Rock Band for the X box 360. No, really. All you have to do? E-mail info@mkeonline.com with your name, street address (with city, state and zip code), daytime and evening phone numbers and birthdate. Please write "Rock Band... Posted Dec 12 2007, 12:59 AM by Lilledeshan Bose With | With no comments Filed under: free music, The Hives, video game, giveaways, The Who, Rock Band, Weezer, XBox, David Bowie

• NerdCore for Halloween

  Lille wrote about NerdCore a week or so ago. In the spirit of Halloween, I give you the Halloween NerdCore mix. Posted Oct 30 2007, 02:15 PM by Erika J. Bock With | With no comments Filed under: Halloween, free music

• RIAA to Everyone: File sharing BAD, Spending Money GOOD

  In the wake of Radiohead's groundbreaking album release and Madonna walking away from her label , the RIAA and their foreign equivalents has been working overtime. Invite-only bit torrent OiNK (which I was briefly a member of but never used) was shut... Posted Oct 23 2007, 05:29 PM by Erika J. Bock With | With no comments Filed under: free music, RIAA, file sharing, OiNK, Usenet, Radiohead, bittorrent, Madonna

• The Infamous Radiohead Meme

  1. What are your Radiohead memories? In high school, I acquired Pablo Honey for one cent via BMG Music Club. I adored it, even when my peers made fun of me for listening to "weird" music (hey, they were still into the MTV Party-To-Go series... Posted Oct 18 2007, 11:17 AM by Erika J. Bock With | With no comments Filed under: free music, Radiohead, meme, In Rainbows

• Yet Another Reason to Love Brits!

  Band see, band do: Joining the likes of Radiohead and The Charlatans , the British press is speculating that Oasis and Jamiroquai are contemplating distributing their forthcoming albums for free. After Radiohead announced last week that they'd be... Posted Oct 10 2007, 04:29 PM by Erika J. Bock With | With no comments Filed under: free music, file sharing, Radiohead, In Rainbows, Charlatans UK, UK, downloading, Britpop

• Free Music.

  Biting a bit from Radiohead , Britpop-ers The Charlatans UK announced that they will give away their new album via their website in addition to Xfm's . "You Cross My Path", the first single from the as-yet-untitled album, drops October 22... Posted Oct 04 2007, 01:35 PM by Erika J. Bock With | With no comments Filed under: free music, file sharing, Radiohead, Charlatans UK, XFM

• Radiohead: A Pot of Gold at the End of In Rainbows

  We all know the drill - record sales are plummeting and the future of music is downloading. Maybe. Radiohead has announced that is will release its new album In Rainbows (street date 10/10) themselves, via their Web site. Customers will also set their... Posted Oct 01 2007, 12:08 PM by Erika J. Bock With | With no comments Filed under: free music, file sharing, Radiohead, In Rainbows, Courtney Love