Posts Tagged ‘ free music downloads ’

Free Podcast Features Classical Guitar Music

Aug 29th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music, Podcast Quickies, Podcast-Legal Music

The University of Utah’s Classical Guitar Podcast (iTunes link) features classical guitar audio and video podcasts.
The podcasts feature performances of works by Tárrega, Torroba, Berkeley and others, as well as original compositions by Tully Cathey, a classical and jazz guitarist who teaches at the College of Fine Arts.
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Get Free Music And Preview The Free Music Archive

Jul 3rd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music, Featured Story, Podcast-Legal Music

The Free Music Archive is a new online digital library of music that will allow music fans, webcasters and podcasters to listen, download, and stream for free, with no restrictions, registration or fees. And it will all be legal.
The site’s still a work in progress, but you can download a free selection of music from [...]



Nine Inch Nails Releases Another Free CD

Jun 5th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General

Trent Reznor today announced another free music download, Lights In The Sky - an EP that features the work of Nine Inch Nails’ touring band:
I am proud to announce the final personnel lineup of nine inch nails for the foreseeable future. We’ve added, we’ve subtracted and we’ve wound up with unquestionably the strongest lineup I’ve EVER had. [...]



How The RIAA Targets College File Sharers

May 14th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an off-the-record explanation from an RIAA official on how they identify colleges and universities to target:
The official explained that one way the RIAA identifies pirates is by using LimeWire, a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing program that is free online and used by many college students (there is also a more-robust [...]



New Free NIN Track

May 3rd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music

Nine Inch Nails has released a new free mp3 single, Echoplex, via the music site iLike. You can check it out below.
NIN has become the band to watch, if you’re interested in the future of music:

The group recently released Ghosts I-IV under a Creative Commons license, which means you can share it or use [...]

 
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Nine Inch Nails Offers Latest Album, Ghosts, As Free Download

Mar 3rd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music, General

Nine Inch Nails is offering its latest CD, Ghosts I, as a free download from its site. The collection is a teaser to promote their Ghosts I-IV, a new collection of instrumental tracks.
The official download requires email registration at the site to get a download link. You can also download the collection officially via BitTorrent.
The [...]



Qtrax - Another D.O.A. Music Service

Jan 28th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music, iPods & Portable Media Players

The net is abuzz with talk today about Qtrax, another service that promises free ad-supported music.
The Qtrax service offers to let you use an ad-supported program to search for and download DRM’d music that you can play on a PC and on some media players.
Unfortunately, it looks like Qtrax will be as dead on arrival [...]