There's nothing better than free music. Well, not much better, anyway. Here are some more places to find it. Read the first part of this article here.

MP3 Blogs

• The Sound of Indie is a great blog run by someone I don't know who apparently has access to my record collection. I'm serious. It's like they break into my house in Tampa from their place in (I think) Minneapolis. Actually, now it's LA. Check it out. We have lots of good stuff.
  
• Said the Gramophone. Lots of good indie rock.
  
• I Guess I'm Floating. More good indieness.
  
• 1.168. Indie rock with beautiful, if slightly annoying, archive section.
  
• Metro Distortion. More. MORE!
  
• Dasp. Punk and stuff. In German, but who cares? You don't read anything anyway.
  
• Exit Fare. Lots of good stuff. Curiously, there is a picture of the DC Metro at the top of a page from Boston MA.
  
• fak3r. Shellac, Explosions In the Sky and Elliot Smith on the first page, which is all I have seen so far.
  
• Hobby Box at The Larry Page. Interesting stuff.
  

Labels

• One of my all time favorite labels is Kill Rock Stars. It's been the home of a lot of great bands, my current favorite of which is Deerhoof. Their looklistenwatch page has a few songs and videos for download, as well as a nice collection of posters and fliers (wish more labels, bands, etc. did this). At the top of the page you can click on each category to find more stuff. If you click "Sound," you're going to find some Born Against. You have been warned.
  
• Second Nature Recordings, the home of Rocky Votolato, These Arms Are Snakes, The Blood Brothers and Reggie and the Full Effect, as well as the final resting place of Anasarca, has a ton of songs available for download. Just click the audio link at the top of the page.
  
• Touch and Go Records is the label Kurt Cobain wanted to be on. And it is the label that Arcwelder, Blonde Redhead, Calexico, Don Caballero, June of '44, Man Or Astroman?, and a million other bands are on. Their Songs and Videos page has a lot of stuff available.
  
• WARNING! I don't know a single other person anymore who can listen to this stuff. So go check out Stonehenge Records Their Media page has stuff you cannot handle, the likes of which you have never heard. Unless you have. Listen to the Fingerprint song first. Then Jasemine. That's the singer's next band. Also check out Amanda Woodward.
  

If you're going to download from labels, I suggest dragging the songs into a new playlist in iTunes. Name it for the record label, and when you find what you like, you will know where to go to buy it.

Google

There is a really simple way to find songs on Google using Smacki's Google Search. Just click the link, type the name of a band, and hit enter. Great for finding stuff you think lots of other people may have heard of.

Labels: Hardcore, Hardcore Music, Indie, Music

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