[thelitguy]

Cornize is a locally ran site that has a section on their message boards which feature out of print, rare, or local albums to be downloaded.

It has some very early ZAO demos, theNapalm Death and Coalesce split, Earth Crisis demos, and all sorts of other awesome stuff.

Things I would check out (in order):

Transistor Indiana- songsforanactivelifestyle: I consider this band to be the greatest live band I've ever heard, and I've seen a good deal of very famous people. This early EP is some great indie rock with a little bit of emo (a la Texas is the Reason). Almost all of the members of this went on to form American Minor.

The Blanket Institute- Fearsomeasinmouthwithscapel: This is one of the better grindcore bands I've heard. They are one of the 4 bands that I consider good enough to advertise with a sticker on my car.

Dead Ant Farm- Ultimate Suburban Fantasy: Legends of my hometown, also considered the greatest pop-punk band ever to come from West Virginia. Short, poppy songs about girls and school. It's great stuff.

Fud- Fudland: Just download it. You'll be surprised and in love at the same time.

The link is http://www.cornzine.com/board/viewfo...1c72696af5255a

[Role Modlin]

You want TONS of live stuff?

http://www.archive.org/details/audio


I just spent two hours browsing stuff. So far I've downloaded shows from The Decemberists, Vigilantes of Love and Hobex. Some are very high quality recordings...like board mixes.

[eric k]

http://www.elephant6.com/sound.html has several demos and live shows from bands such as the Olivia Tremor Control and Of Montreal.

[thelitguy]

Dude. That's great.

[Gsus_Rawks]

If you go to Drpepperbubble.com, create an account and type in "Fingerlickin" you can get a free Cartel song. If you get two Dr. Pepper bottle caps you can get any song on Connect Music Store.

[Spaceman]

I found a good thrash metal trio from Indiana named Iconoclast on accident the other day. They only have one song available though.

http://purevolume.com/iconoclastin

[bread man]

At http://www.mihaiedrisch.com/ you can download both of their albums for free.

[Stain of Peace]

http://www.spiralfrog.com you can download music for free and its legal. But you do have to download a manager thing to your computer to download the music. But so far it has been working great for me ive already downloaded over 100 songs in a few days(the site came out monday). One bad thing is the music is protected WMA's. So you can't get them on a iPod and Zune, but ive found ways around that...

[woodstock109]

Much like archive.org is the following http://bt.etree.org/ . This is a good torrent site for taper friendly bands as well. Black Crows, Gov't Mule, John Mayer, Robert Randolph, and lots more.

[bobthecockroach]

Originally Posted by Stain of Peace

but ive found ways around that...

In which case it's no longer legal.

[ddts]

The record label Soundsfamilyre are releasing a Christmas album on their blog, one song at a time. There's been six offerings so far, out of a total of 13. Soul Junk, half-handed cloud and Danielson have all contributed so far. The Danielson track is awesome, so much fun.

Can't wait for the Woven Hand contribution!

http://www.soundsfamilyre.com/blog/2...ee-download-2/

[thelitguy]

DUDE!

This is incredible.

[bread man]

Woven Hand, Danielson, Soul Junk...wow. That's unreal.

[thelitguy]

A full Soul Junk Christmas album should probably be happening. Now.

[ApparentlyNothing]

A good friend of mine just released his first remix album for free on Stereogum. And it's REALLY good. If you guys have never heard of the Remix Artist Collective (RAC) or any of his remixes, you really should take a second and listen. These aren't your typical "club" remixes.

http://stereogum.com/archives/mp3/st...medium=tribute