Over the last two weeks of the year, the Free Music Archive blog will feature mixes highlighting the best free music of 2011. Stream or download all the Best of 2011 mixes here! You are invited to join the community and submit your own mix . Just be sure to tag it as bestof2011 and year-end lists . Then embed your mix in the FMA Forum . Enjoy the new 2011 Year-End Mixes !
The Four Seasons is among the best of the Baroque and exquisitely beautiful. Brilliant violinist John Harrison performs on this gorgeous performance of Vivaldi's classic now available at the Free Music Archive. The Vivaldi episode of Classics for Kids is packed with facts about Vivaldi and The Four Seasons . album license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License illustration from the 14th [...]
☠ Selections for a creepy Halloween! Psi Corps: Shadow Creatures Creepy Russian ambient EP based on the book CREATURES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS by Roger Zelazny. Gloomy atmospheric soundscapes. Halloween 2011 Exclusive from Superchunk Superchunk likes to give seasonal treats. Get their Misfits cover for free! [...]
Everybody loves the weekend. Looks like everybody also loves The Weeknd, alternative R&B group and Internet darlings. Their newest album Thursday was just released for free and already demand for it is maxxing out bandwidth limits on sites everywhere. You can get it from their official website when they recover from the stampede. The first album blew through bandwidth, too, so give it [...]
Amanda Palmer, Meat Puppets, Vaselines, and 10 more cover Nirvana. SPIN's August issue pays tribute to the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, tapping some of their favorite contemporary artists to cover the influential album's 13 songs, in their original order. The download is called NEWERMIND , and it's a free gift to you.
Despite the rush of exciting fear from folktales, there is NOT ONE single case of wolves ever attacking and killing man on the North American continent. They may kill livestock man has introduced to the wolves native home, but has never killed man. ( LISTEN or download mp3 ) Get more info on the misunderstood wolf. While you are there, how about joining Robert Redford in taking action? Robert Redford has long championed the cause of the wolf. Hear him [zip [...]
America's unique public broadcasting system, PBS, is a collaboration of 1,300 local non-commercial radio and television stations across the nation. These stations meet the standards of and are supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Working together and with hundreds of national and local content producers (like PRI, Pacifica, NPR) and community partners, they ensure that Americans have universal access to high-quality, non-commercial programming. PBS is broadcasting BY the people FOR the people without commercial backing, so Americans have their own voice. [...]
Papua New Guinea in Indonesia is one of the most heterogeneous nations in the world. In a population of less than seven million, there are more than 850 indigenous languages and at least as many traditional societies. The majority are from the group known as Papuans, whose ancestors arrived in the New Guinea region from the African continent tens of thousands of years ago. Many remote Papuan tribes still have only marginal contact with the outside world. It has long been a land of mystery, as it's people were not always welcoming to foreigners. It was only [...]
Live your life. Love your life. Help others. Love others. Two years ago today, the world lost Michelle to leukemia. She was an inspiration and a fighter. Here's hoping her love of life is passed on to all who learn about Michelle. Before she passed, Michelle's cancer coach asked her to create a video about all of the things that she loved and was proud of in her life. This video was played at the beginning of her funeral service on August 1, 2009. [...]
Certainly must have promoted Portuguese rockers Dr. Frankenstein before in Blogio. Summertime is such a great time for surf music, so here's a reminder of how great this instrumental surf group is! Grab the entire album and all the other fantastic free albums from the You Are Not Stealing Records label on their blog or at the Free Music Archive . Surf's up!
Certainly must have promoted Portuguese rockers Dr. Frankenstein before in Blogio. Summertime is such a great time for surf music, so here's a reminder of how great this instrumental surf group is! Grab the entire album and all the other fantastic free albums from the You Are Not Stealing Records label on their blog or at the Free Music Archive . Surf's up!
Brand new free album from Axial (São Paulo, Brazil) just released! Axial are long-time favorites at Oddio. Axial are Brazilian artists who blend soft vocals, organic sounds, synth beds, and electro glitches with gorgeous results. License: Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
Just in case you have forgotten your history lessions, William Blake (1757 – 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Blake is considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. He was a real revolutionary who lived in the time of the American and French revolutions. Arrington de Dionyso has translated selections from Blake into Indonesian and incorporated them into his group's songs. Where else would you expect find William Blake in Indonesian but at WFMU's Free Music Archive ? Enjoy! [...]
Just in case you have forgotten your history lessions, William Blake (1757 – 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Blake is considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. He was a real revolutionary who lived in the time of the American and French revolutions. Arrington de Dionyso has translated selections from Blake into Indonesian and incorporated them into his group's songs. Where else would you expect find William Blake in Indonesian but at WFMU's Free Music Archive ? Enjoy! [...]
Andrew Bird , Vicki Brown , and KT Tunstall blow us away performing live with their loop pedals. This song for your weekend is "Bizness" from their fellow hero of the loop pedal, tUnE-yArDs (Merrill Garbus). She offers this mp3 on her website for free . Please do not hold Oddio responsible, when you find yourself jamming to it for weeks to come. Official Video: Live Video:
Any fan of Hollywood soundtracks should know composer Carl Orff's Carmina Burana . Countless films and trailers employ the first movement, "O Fortuna." The Carmina Burana , or Codex Buranus , is a medieval manuscript of 254 poems and dramatic texts dating to about 1230 AD. Several more pages were bound with it into a small folder in the Late Middle Ages. The authors were theological students who worked within and satirized the Catholic Church. They protested through song, poetry, and performance the growing contradictions within the Church, [...]
Martinibomb is sharing their catalog for free! WHAT?! I KNOW! RIGHT? You knew you could score some of their tunes on Comfort Stand and one on Oddio Overplay . Now you have hit the mother lode! Martinibomb (The 1998-2004 Collection)
Stealing Orchestra have been amazingly generous contributors to the free music world for a decade. The orchestra has provided a prolific free netlabel (and at Free Music Archive ) featuring their work and the works of fellow Portuguese bands. DELIVERANCE is Stealing Orchestra's new album. It is a master work, a massive opus that begins with the big bang and delivers us to the present day. It is amazing. The first time I heard it I was stunned, so I am here to recommend it to [...]
Ah, the late '70s were the glory days of power pop punk when bands like the Clash and 999 were kings. Power pop descended from those originals appears today in the form of The Killers, Hot Hot Heat, The Strokes, The Walkmen, Franz Ferdinand, The Hives, Interpol, and a slew of others. It's a sound that I personally am all too happy to hear again. Punk and New Wave kids in suspenders, ratty Lower East Side band shirts, or thin ties, it was fun pop with a punch. The album PATH MASHER by [...]
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