The Month's FMA Gold

Month: June 2013

Some of the albums that caught our attention this month at the Free Music Archive

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads.  The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America.  Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.

Every mp3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright laws that were not designed for the digital era.  These uses vary and are determined by the rightsholders themselves who feel that allowing a degree of free cultural access is beneficial not only to their own pursuits, but to our society as a whole.  Are you a podcaster looking for pod-safe audio?  A radio or video producer searching for instrumental bed music that won't put your audience to sleep?  A remix artist looking for pre-cleared samples?  Or are you simply looking for some new sounds to add to your next playlist?  The Free Music Archive is a resource for all that and more, and unlike other websites, all of the audio has been hand-picked by established audio curators.

Not a lot grabbed us in the June lineup, so we didn't put together a playlist this month.

Chuck Johnson - Live On WFMU, May 2013 [Acoustic Folk]	Silence Is Sexy - This Ain't Hollywood [Pop, Rock]	Ian Sutherland - Missing Time [Dance, Electro]
Radio 421 - Seven [Electro Punk, Garage Rock]	Burstbot - Demiurge [Experi Electro]	Various Artists [KBOO] - 2002 Cathedral Park Jazz Festival [Jazz, Vocal Jazz]
Bliss Blood And Al Street - Live On WFMU, February 2013 [Classic Pop Formats, Vocal Jazz]

Promoted This Month on Blogio
now appearing on the FMA
(sadly, without label profiles or good cover art)

• Natalia Skvortsova - Summer Time
• "Gorgeous Jazz Combo Album"  5 June 2013
• GeeNerve - Suspense Dance Delights
• "Film Noir Spy Themes from GeeNerve" 12 June 2013
• Various Artists - Wild About You! Tales from the Australian Rock Underground 1963-68 
• "Australian '60s Rock Undergound" 14 June 2013

The Month's FMA Gold

Month: May 2013

Some of the albums that caught our attention this month at the Free Music Archive

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads.  The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America.  Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.

Every mp3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright laws that were not designed for the digital era.  These uses vary and are determined by the rightsholders themselves who feel that allowing a degree of free cultural access is beneficial not only to their own pursuits, but to our society as a whole.  Are you a podcaster looking for pod-safe audio?  A radio or video producer searching for instrumental bed music that won't put your audience to sleep?  A remix artist looking for pre-cleared samples?  Or are you simply looking for some new sounds to add to your next playlist?  The Free Music Archive is a resource for all that and more, and unlike other websites, all of the audio has been hand-picked by established audio curators.

[Download Highlights Mix]

Stealing Orchestra - Deliverance [Experimental]	Various Artists - Consciousness Dr. [Electronic, Ambient]	The Wonderful and the Obscure Volume 1: Rodd Keith [Song-Poem, Early Rock]
Eleni Mandell - Live on WFMU, May 2013 [Singer-Songwriter]	PK Jazz Collective - Pearls Of Our Life [Nu-Jazz]	Telegraphy - Life Without [Ambient, Experi]
Kosta - Metro Is Breathing [Experi]	HighWay17 - The Grain Box [Drone, Noise]	Duas Semicolcheias Invertidas - I [Fusion Jazz Rock]
16 Squares G - Tempus Fugit [Synth Pop]	Sara Minkovic - Nowhere Near [Ambient, Electro]	Impossibulls - 1 Nation... [Hip Hop, Rap]
Various - Between Two Waves [Pop]	Lee Rosevere - Time-Lapse, Vol 2 [Ambient]	The Womb - Sex Club [Pop, Synth Pop, Rock]
Johnny Haway - Musurgia Volucris [Experi, Field Recordings]	Mudhoney - Live On WFMU, May 2013 [Rock, Hard Rock]	Spiedkiks - Take Off Your Make Up [Big Beat, Electro, Funk]
Wooden Ambulance - River Sand [Indie Rock, Folk]	No Joy - Live On WFMU, May 2013 [Rock, Shoegazer]	Face The Music - [Modern Composition, Classical]

Singles and Album Previews:

Oskar Schuster ft. Possimiste - Stjernen [Lullaby, Electro]	Steve Mackay (The Stooges) w Iggy Pop, Mike Watt, Henry Barnes, Randy Scarbery, and Kamilsky - The Prisoner from Sometime Like This I Talk [Alt Rock]
Marty Ehrlich's Dark Woods Ensemble - Emergency Peace [Modern Composition]	Pete Lund - Back from 1991 [Singer-Songwriter]

Previously Promoted by Oddio Overplay:

The Impossebulls - Enemy Among Us [Hip Hop, rap]

Brutal Whiskers - Fallen World [Metal]

The Month's FMA Gold

April 2013

Some of the albums that caught our attention this month at the Free Music Archive

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.

Every mp3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright laws that were not designed for the digital era.  These uses vary and are determined by the rightsholders themselves who feel that allowing a degree of free cultural access is beneficial not only to their own pursuits, but to our society as a whole.  Are you a podcaster looking for pod-safe audio? A radio or video producer searching for instrumental bed music that won't put your audience to sleep? A remix artist looking for pre-cleared samples? Or are you simply looking for some new sounds to add to your next playlist? The Free Music Archive is a resource for all that and more, and unlike other websites, all of the audio has been hand-picked by established audio curators.

[Download Highlights Mix]

Maya Solovéy - Forte [Folk, Pop, Chamber Pop]	Podington Bear - 22 new albums added this month [Instro, Electro]	Allah-Las - Live on WFMU Apr 2013 [Rock, '60s-style Pop, Psych]
Diotima_Quartet - Hugh Levick's Empire Inc. [Modern Composition]	Robin Grey - tracks from albums [Folk, Acoustic, Pop]	Roach Davies And The Fleas - Navigator [Psych, Folk, Rock]
Alan Driscoll - The Differences Between Men And Women [Standup Comedy]	Robyn Hitchcock - Live on WFMU Feb 2013 [Pop, Rock]	A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Live at WFMU with Irene Trudel - March 25, 2013 [Traditional Music, Folk, SE Europe]
Candlegravity - Junpei [Experi, Electro]	THF Drenching - Punishing Moral Code [Experi, Noise, Musique Concrete]	★ Various Artists - Revitalize Music Contest [Varied]
Avoidant - Birth In Carpathia [Dark Ambient, Drone]	Joe Marson - Someday Soon [Pop, Blues Rock]	Jahzzar - Sketches [Beats, Rhythm & Blues]
Spuntic - Between Green [Ambient, Drone, Space, Electro]	Daizy - The Daizy Factory [Beats, Electro]	Mice Parade - Live on WFMU Mar 2013 [Folk, Experi, Acoustic]
Plates Of Cake - Live on WFMU Mar 2013 [Pop, Power Pop, Indie Rock]	Эксперимент (Experiment) - Навсегда (Forever) [Russian Pop]	Various Artists - Retork (Enough Records) [Electro, Varied]
Anitek - Lily [hip hop beats, trip hop, funk]	Various Artists - Un|Herd Archive [experi, electro, radio]	Zelmershead - Imperfection [electro, trip hop]
Nasienie - Private Loops [electro, ambient]	Keaton Henson - Live on WFMU Apr 2013 [Folk, Acoustic Guitar]	Onyx Ashanti - Berlin [Dance, House]
Eaters - An Evening With Tuck Pendleton [Soul, Hip Hop, '60s Groove]	Underling - 2 new albums (hear live session!) [Hip Hop, Rock]	Asian Women on the Telephone - Ivan (Euro Edition) [Noise, Experi]
Vlasta Popić - Za Očnjake [Punk, New Wave]	Ховбай Хвекмеев and PK Jazz Collective: 1967-1976 The Best [Varied]	MC Cullah - Be Love Not Fear [Blues Rock, Experi, Electric Guitar]
Technology of Silence - The Squad [Industrial, Electro]	Nevada Base - Foresight [Synth Pop, Dance]

Some content added by Oddio Overplay:

Lee Maddeford et Roland Vouilloz - Cyclops [Modern Composition, Stage Music]

Various Artists - The Droplift Project [Collage, Varied, Experi]

Some content promoted elsewhere by Oddio Overplay:

Sergi Boal - Silenci [Traditional Music, Modern Composition]

The Impossebulls -Made by History (Decade One: 2000-2010) [Hip Hop, Rap]

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