Free Music Downloads You Don’t Have To Steal
Ever on the lookout for cool new music, and of course being of limited means (I am a musician), I admit that from time to time I have set my morals aside in order to obtain the coveted cool music. OK, I’m a sinner. I’m not going to heaven. Woe is me.
So when I stumble across new music that is not only cool, but absolutely 100% free, it is a gift from the music gods. Hallelujah!
Daytrotter is a recording studio in downtown Rock Island, Illinois. Daytrotter.com is their website, which is not merely cool, it is unbelievably cool. What these fine people do is invite musicians into their studio for one day, record them and make 5 songs available online for free. Simple, and beautiful.
And to make it even better, at least to me, is that these recordings “…are all live, no overdubs, straight to tape. What you hear is what happened in the room that day.”
In these days of computerized tweaking, overproducing, soul sucking sterile recording it is so refreshing to really hear the band, not the technology. I like to hear the room, the interaction between musicians, the musical event.
Daytrotter.com has so many great free music downloads that you will need to buy a new hard drive just to store them. The daytrotter.com home page shows that they have posted over 7 million songs. At the time of this writing, the daytrotter archive page had 614 awesome artists, some of whom are well known, like Aimee Mann, Death Cab for Cutie, and Ani DiFranco, others awaiting your discovery.
But wait, the audio is not all. They also have a limited number of performance videos. And the way cool art on their website makes it a really nice place to be.
Do yourself a favor and when you check out daytrotter.com be sure to subscribe to the daytrotter.com feed so you don’t miss a thing.
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