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The Cheapskate: Best Free Music
Posted by rober in The Cheapskate on February 3rd, 2010
Another week, another feast for lovers of free music: There has been no shortage of prime track downloads and mixtapes during the last few days. Beginning with Yeasayer, the rising Brooklyn combo is previewing their festive second album “Odd Blood” –which can be heard in full at Myspace- with the free download of their second single “O.N.E.”, the follow-up of “Ambling Alp”.
Four Tet, still earning rave reviews for his latest opus “There is love in you”, went to the BBC to broadcast his take on the Beeb’s much loved Essential Mix series. You can listen to the whole mix at Four Tet’s website and it can also be found on Download format.
The laptop-electronica artist formerly known as Manitoba, now morphed into a proper band formation under the moniker of Caribou, is back with “Swim”; offering the excellent first taster “Odessa” for free, which is currently riding high in our loop.
Raekwon put the cream on top of an incredible year, in which The Chief has gathered unanimous acclaim for the second installment of his “Only Built For Cuban Lynx” classic, with a new mixtape “Coke Up In Dollar Bill” compiling freestyle moments, some of them in the Company of other Wu-Tang members such as the late ODB.
Bullion, a DJ and remixer from the London neighborhood of Acton has curated this month’s Fact magazine mix. The rising artist has just released his new single “Say Goodbye To What”, samping Buffie Sainte Marie and wrapping her speeded-up vocals in all sorts of uplifting arrangements.
Other online magazine, Verbicide, offers the volume 3 of its mixtape with recent greats from Animal Collective, Elliott Smith; Dum Dum Girls; etc included.
Last year it seem that Canada’s frenetic pop activity was put on hold, but 2010 begins with news of some of their most iconic bands (Arcade Fire; Broken Social Scene; etc) releasing new works and with some new names surfacing. Ontario’s ethereal duo Memoryhouse, self-described as the bedroom recording project of a neo-classical composer and a photographer, is giving away a full EP worth of music named “The Years”.
Meanwhile, L.A. based band Dios are also giving away the two tracks comprising their “1st Quartet” single.
From Sunderland, England, the band of the Brewis brothers have readied their third album, “Measure”, after a gap year shaping up different side projects. Field Music’s first single “Them that do nothing” was available online before Christmas and now the trio is giving away the title track to plug the album’s release.
Somewhere else in England, Peter Gabriel keeps unveiling the contents of his covers album “Scratch My Back”, after Arcade Fire’s “My Body is a cage”, now is the turn for Bon Iver’s “Flume”, an mp3 of which is offered as a freebie.
Listen to Madonna’s good album “shocker”
Posted by rober in The Cheapskate on April 22nd, 2008
MADONNA feat. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE & TIMBALAND-4 minutes
After the huge disappointment that was her much advertised going back to disco roots in “Confessions on the dancefloor” and some terrible moments that arrived afterwards, like the ballad she penned specially for the Live Earth fiasco –acoustic pollution reached new heights thanks to it-, everybody thought Madonna’s career was starting its natural decline. But in another display of heavy weaponry, at 50, she’s back with a new album, her last ever for Warner after a lucrative tour/merchandising/record deal with concert promoter Live nation, anticipated by the rather good duet with Justin Timberlake “4 minutes”. And, luckily enough, it is an excellent one. Read the rest of this entry »
The Cheapskate: Björk Tribute; R.E.M. show; Matador Sampler and Music TV Online
Posted by rober in The Cheapskate on April 1st, 2008
“Gran Ganga” comes again packed with freebies, beginning with the new offering in Stereogum’s series of tributes to classic albums. After “OK Computer” and “Automatic For The People” now is the turn to pay respect to Björk’s second solo album “Post”. Among the bands gathered for the occasion, Liars give a noisy rendition of “Army Of Me”; Dirty Projectors apply their chamber pop antics to “Hyperballad” with a great deal of success; and No Age, Atlas Sound, Xiu Xiu, Evangelicals and Spanish sensation El Guincho give their best shots to the rest of tracks. The album is free to download at Stereogum’s popular blog.
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“Gran Ganga” The Cheapskate: Free Radiohead and Alela Diane gigs; Sigur Rós film; SXSW Torrent; etc.
Posted by rober in The Cheapskate on March 12th, 2008
ALELA DIANE-The Pirate’s Gospel
Our “Gran Ganga” comes back loaded with all sort of exciting freebies for all of us cheapskates. This month: a whole cartoon series; a feature film, a new found lost track from one of popular music’s most influential bands ever and the usual array of listening parties, mixtapes and free online and real live shows.
+Beginning with Alt-folk vocalist Alela Diane, who is in London playing tonight at Bush Hall the gorgeous compositions included in her debut collection “The Pirate’s Gospel”. She will be also performing a free live set next Friday’s during lunchtime at Rough Trade East shop, probably to thank them for choosing her album as the best of 2007. Next to favorites like “The rifle”, we hope to hear some new songs from her forthcoming second opus, expected later this year. Some of them are already circulating online. Read the rest of this entry »
Introducing “Gran Ganga” The Cheapskate
Posted by rober in The Cheapskate on February 14th, 2008
PEDRO ALMODOVAR’s early days in Almodovar & McNamara.
Named after a character created by Pedro Almodovar for his shockingly funny early efforts in pop music as part of the duo “Almodovar & MacNamara” and later used in the acclaimed director’s second feature film “Labyrinth of Passions”; Roberawards gets into his best charity shop outfit to premiere a new section, dedicated to everything that’s free; gratis; for-no-money-whatsoever available on the net.
With tough financial prospects for 2008, we though we should play a stronger social role as community benefactors, helping our readers to save a few pounds by pointing them towards the finest free entertainment.
Our first delivery includes free Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Vampire Weekend gigs; a take away show from Animal Collective; a few top of the range mixtapes and a mad as a hatter, indie artist giving away for free his complete back catalogue.
You’re welcome.
Con nombre de canción de Almodovar en uno de sus primeros intentos de triunfar en el mundo del pop en su dueto con McNamara; posteriormente usada en su segundo largometraje “Laberinto de Pasiones”; Roberawards se enfunde en sus mejores galas de segunda mano para presentar una nueva sección dedicada a destacar el mejor entretenimiento gratuito disponible en el ciberespacio.
Con todo apuntando a que el 2008 será un año economicamente duro, pensamos que era hora de ejercer una mayor responsabilidad social, enfundandonos en el papel de benefactores de la comunidad y ayudando a nuestros lectores a ahorrarse unas perrillas encaminándoles hacia horas de fina diversión sin moverse del PC.
Nuestra primera entrega incluye un show pret a porter de Animal Collective, varias mixtapes de altura y la locura de un artista indie que ha puesto a disposición de sus fans todo su fonde de catálogo.
De Nada. Read the rest of this entry »
Digital Gifts Bonanza
Posted by rober in The Cheapskate on October 3rd, 2007
DEERHOOF-This Magnificent Bird Will Rise (Live at Primavera Sound 2007)
The digital world’s upheaval after last Saturday’s Radiohead announcement continues with two of 2007 most prominent bands being in giveaway mood through their websites.
First of them, Deerhoof, have put an album worth of rare, live and unreleased MP3s available to download for free via their website. The tracklist goes as follows:
1) “Holy night fever”
2) “Rrrrrrright: germlin remix”
3) “Milk man”
4) “Our angels ululu”
5) “Look away part two”
6) “Kidz are so small”
7) “Someone’s swizz-deerhoof mash up we found”
“Jorge b.s. friend”
9) “Flower, panda, you’re our two, the last trumpeter swan”
10) “Unused dedication sound effect”
11) “The perfect me: cover by so cow”
12) “Twin killers”
13) “Milking”
Download or stream Deerhoof’s new MP3s here.
ARCADE FIRE-Money Changes Everything (Cyndi Lauper Cover, Live at The Hollywood Bowl)
And, to create new expectations, Arcade Fire have just warned their fans to go to http://www.beonlineb.com on Saturday October the 6th for more surpises, Gratis!!
Last, but not least, superblog Stereogum has launched the second installment of its tribute to iconic albums series. If a few weeks ago, the likes of Marissa Nadler, The Twilight Set, My Brightest Diamond, etc. covered the whole of “OK Computer” and renamed it “OKX” for the occasion; now it comes the turn for another Rober award winning album, the last of R.E.M.’s finest hours, “Automatic for the people”.
Titled “Driver XV”, to commemorate its release fifteen years ago, TheVeils, Blitzen Trapper, Figurines and The Wrens stand out from a myriad of fresh indie talent celebrating the sounds of Athens, Georgia’s music legends.
Click here for the whole tracklist and/or free album dowload.
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