Free and Legal mp3 Downloads

Please enjoy these songs from 2008, and then buy the artists’ albums. Stella Splice has made this post a page, accessible at the top of the blog, that you can check for updates throughout the year.

To download, click on the link, and on the resultant page scroll down just a bit until you can click on the orange Download Now button. Scroll down on that next page until you see “Your download should begin shortly. If it does not, try Download file now.” It never begins without me clicking on that link. Have fun!

American Music Club ~ All Lost Souls Welcome You to San Francisco
Band of Horses ~ No One’s Gonna Love You
Basia Bulat ~ In the Night
Benji Hughes ~ So Well
Benji Hughes ~ You Stood Me Up
Benji Hughes ~ Why Do These Parties Always End Up the Same Way?
Benji Hughes ~ The Mummy
Benji Hughes ~ I Went with Some Friends to See the Flaming Lips
Bodies of Water ~ I Guess I’ll Forget The Sound, I Guess, I Guess
Bowerbirds ~ In Our Talons
Brazos ~ Mary Jo
Dirty on Purpose ~ Mind Blindness
Dr. Dog ~ The Ark
Dr. Dog ~ The Old Days
Fleet Foxes ~ White Water Hymnal
Howlin’ Rain ~ Dancers at the End of Time
Iron & Wine ~ Innocent Bones
James Hunter ~ Jacqueline
Jens Lekman ~ The Opposite Of Hallelujah
Jens Lekman ~ Friday Night At The Drive-In Bingo
Jim White ~ Crash into the Sun
Kaki King ~ Two O’Clock
Ladytron ~ Black Cat
Lykke Li ~ Dance Dance Dance
Man Man ~ Top Drawer
Mates of State ~ My Only Offer
Mike Doughty ~ 27 Jennifers
Mike Doughty ~ I Just Want the Girl in the Blue Dress
Morning Benders ~ Crosseyed
Mudhoney ~ I’m Now
Mudhoney ~ In ‘n’ Out of Grace
My Brightest Diamond ~ Inside a Boy
My Morning Jacket ~ Evil Urges
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ~ Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Nina Simone ~ Revolution
No Age ~ Eraser
Oxford Collapse ~ The Birthday Wars
Port O’Brien ~ I Woke Up Today
Ra Ra Riot ~ Dying Is Fine
Saul Williams ~ Sunday Bloody Sunday
Saul Williams ~ World on Wheels
Science for Girls ~ Northern Lights
She & Him ~ Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
Shearwater ~ Leviathan, Bound
Shearwater ~ Rooks
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin ~ Think I Wanna Die
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks ~ Baltimore
The Acorn ~ Crooked Legs
The Acorn ~ The Flood, Pt 1
The Breeders ~ Bang On
The Dandy Warhols ~ The World The People Together (Come On)
The Dodos ~ Fools
The Dodos ~ Jodi
The Dutchess & the Duke ~ Reservoir Park
The Mountain Goats ~ Sax Rohmer #1
The Republic Tigers ~ Buildings and Mountains
The Whigs ~ Right Hand on my Heart
Tilly and the Wall ~ The Freest Man
Tilly and the Wall ~ Cacophony
Tokyo Police Club ~ In A Cave
What Made Milwaukee Famous ~ Resistance Street
White Hinterland ~ Dreaming of the Plum Trees
Wolf Parade ~ Call It a Ritual
Wolf Parade ~ Language City

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The Republic Tigers

The Republic Tigers don’t need any help to get noticed. They’re going to be hot, but — bonus — they’re good to boot.

These college kids have the full flex of Alexandra Patsavas behind them. I remember being excited a long time ago that she was going to be in charge of a label (Chop Shop, a subsidiary of Atlantic), and this is (finally) her first project. It’s sure to launch, Kennedy Space Center style, particularly after they play David Letterman in a month and then start touring with Nada Surf, an excellent pairing.

Buildings and Mountains, featuring excellent backing vocals, is their first single. If you download it at RCRD LBL, then the band gets paid even though the mp3 is free via the miracle of advertising. It’s at the bottom of that interview with Patsavas. What’s the song like? Well … maybe the mellow bits of Modest Mouse?

The video for that track is quite nice, as well. Very simple, but mesmerizing. This Kansas City, MO, band has the potential to flesh out an exciting range of emotions in their 2008 release Keep Color. I’m looking forward to seeing more.

May 2 – Tribeca Film Festival – Webster Hall – New York
May 12 – KCRW “Morning Becomes Eclectic” – Los Angeles
May 13 – Spaceland – Los Angeles
May 22 – David Letterman – New York
June 1 – The Social w/ Nada Surf – Orlando
June 2 – Studio A w/ Nada Surf – Miami
June 3 – State Theatre w/ Nada Surf – St. Petersburg, FL
June 5 – Mercy Lounge w/ Nada Surf – Nashville
June 6 – tba w/ Nada Surf – Memphis
June 7 – Bluebird w/ Nada Surf – St. Louis
June 9 – The Music Mill w/ Nada Surf – Indianapolis
June 10 – The Basement w/ Nada Surf – Columbus
June 11 – Beachland Ballroom & Tavern w/ Nada Surf – Cleveland