31 July 2007

Your New Dozen Has Arrived

Tuesday is a real good news day. Here you have a new set of 12 free and legal collections and CDs! Eat up!


Bester Quartet - official site
[klezmer, chamber]
listen

US Navy Band - World Class Marches
[orch]
listen

Voks - official website
[experi, toy]
listen

Luke Palmer - official website
[composer, classical]
listen

Labelable All Stars - official site
[mixmasters]
listen

Jens Lekman - Presents for You
[pop]
listen

Mark.Nine - Artificial Horizon (site)
[electronica]
listen

Say Hi to Your Mom - official website
[pop]
listen

Peter Peter Hughes - The One Hundred Thousand...
[singer-songwriter]
listen

Larry Carlson - official site
[tripped out collage]
listen

Francis E. Dec - The Rants of (audio)
[mental rants, offensive!]
listen

Dalt Wisney - Lifetime Psychedelic Dance Lessons
[collage, remix]



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Gogol Bordello on N. Amer TV Tonight

Your favorite gypsy punks, Gogol Bordello, will be appearing as the musical guest tonight on The Late Show with David Letterman. The show airs tonight at 11:35 pm on CBS. Check it out!

Enjoy Gogol Bordello and many other Eastern European and Russian artists on the free Red Army Favorites comp on Oddio Overplay.



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30 July 2007

Twizzle!

Twizzle - S'prise Inside has just been released! Congratulations to Twizzle and the fans! Preview it here.



If you are not yet a fan, they have a free release on Comfort Stand to quickly convert you to a fan! It is called Soda Fountain, and you need to get that thing into your head right away. listen

Enjoy, and then go grab a copy of S'prise Inside! They are also on myspace.



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26 July 2007

Psychedelic Splendor

Astra (formerly Silver Sunshine) are just the ticket for this sleepy sunny day. Hailing from San Diego, Astra delivers trippy, psychedelic rock with ample guitars and plenty of space for a colorful wandering imagination. Put on the headphones, relax and smile ear to ear.

Enjoy free selections from their official website and at their their Astra and their Silver Sunshine myspace profiles.

listen




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20 July 2007

Chico Correa and Electronic Band

Chico Correa and Electronic Band

Beautiful mix of organic and electronic works and all with a distinctly Brazilian flavor. It is right up there with Bojo. I am in deep love with this 13-song release right now.

Brought to you by Japanese netlabel Bumpfoot and the Internet Archive.

19 July 2007

A Gajillion Free Audiobooks - UPDATED


Sources for free spoken books, or audiobooks, available for download and/or by RSS subscription:

see also Tell Me Something,  audio books, lectures, stories, and podcasts

LibriVox
provides free audiobooks from the public domain
http://librivox.org/

Gutenberg:The Audio Books Project
Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books, also
provides human and computer read books
http://www.gutenberg.org/

LoudLit.org
committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high
quality audio performances
http://www.loudlit.org/


LearnOutLoud.com
over 15,000 audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos
http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video

Audiobooks.org
four free books and links to others
http://www.audiobooks.org/

Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig
http://www.free-culture.cc updated
audio: http://www.turnstyle.org/FreeCulture/
and here: http://www.archive.org/details/free-culture-audiobook

AudioBooksForFree.com
free membership required, pay for higher quality audio
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com

Podiobooks.com
serialized audio books in podcast format
click to listen on site or subscribe to feed
http://www.podiobooks.com

Activated Stories
http://activated.libsyn.com

Americana Phonic
http://www.americanaphonic.com/

AudioBoo Audiobooks Channel
http://audioboo.fm/channels/audiobooks

BBC Afternoon Drama
radio dramas to surprise and delight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qrzz

Free Audio
a non-partisan org with goal to spread the word of liberty, freedom and democracy
http://freeaudio.org

Japanese Literature At Bedtime [jp]
http://jclab.wordpress.com/ updated

Literalsystems
http://literalsystems.org/abooks/index.php

Literate Loser Show podcast
http://literateloser.mitchellkdwyer.net

Mercury Theatre (old time radio from '30s and '40s)
http://mercurytheatre.info

Miette’s Bedtime Story Podcast
http://enivrez.com/bedtime

Public Domain Podcast
http://publicdomainpodcast.blogspot.com

Spoken Alexandria Project
http://spokenalex.org

Story Spieler
Roy reads classics and his own works
http://www.storyspieler.net/ updated

Thought Audio
"one of the most fundamental aspects of humanity is to enjoy its thoughts and its great works"
http://www.thoughtaudio.com/


NEW: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, and Such

NEW: For Children

updated July 2012

17 July 2007

Another Dozen Free


Blokk5 - official website
[instro rock]
listen

Ricky Graham - Hippocritical
(official site)
[ambient, guitar]
listen

Bran Flakes - Bubbles EP
[silly fun]
listen

Bagual - Second Hand Friendship
[electro]
listen

Tin Termites - Strange Case
[surf, instro rock]

Volver [Brazil] - Official Site
[rock]
listen

Leo Kottke - Seven from '68
[folk]

Chenard Walcker - L'Omelette
[soul, collage]
listen

Bombay Laughing Club - The Golden Years
[blues, rock]
listen

Alessio Benvenuti - Bach Sonata (k 1001 -1006)
[classical]
listen

Cool and Strange Mag Thrift Store Compilation
[oddio]
listen

Digital Groove (Brazil) - Rabeca, Sanfona e Pife
[electro]
listen



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