Awesome poppy funk, free (name your price) and Bandcamp.

I LOVE this.

A collection of tunes from my mailbag and around the interwebs.

Free Matthew Sweet!  Free Matthew Sweet!  An acoustic sampler is free here.

Jillette Johnson gets the award for best album name of the year: Whiskey and Frosting.  The EP is free from Noisetrade.

And free Rachael Yamagata, too!  Here.  Noisetrade, you are too good to us.

Captain’s Dead has a 1994 Afghan Whigs show.  You pretty much can’t go wrong with that.

Here’s a direct link to a cover of The Stooges’ “No Fun” by Mike Watt and Kurt Vile.

RSL gets to know buzz band The Pinz.

I haven’t linked to some of my buddies in a while, so since I’m laid up post-surgery, I thought I’d take the chance for some shout outs.

Find a whole truckload of Petty covers here.

This is nota  typo: CYSTS posted the best albums of 2002.  Glad to see McCusky there.

Cover Me has covers of every song on the “Songs of Leonard Cohen” album.

If you like Fred Eaglesmith, and you should, check out some covers here.

New Mountain!  Mary Lou (mpfree)

My other blog is awesome.  Check it out.

Now is your chance to get to know the great singer/songwriter Joe Pug, for free.

Amazon has a free SXSW sampler.

9th Wonder produced this EP. He’s renowned in the rap game for his work with Jay-Z and Little Brother. When you hear a 9th Wonder track, you pretty much know it right away. It’s smooth. It feels like getting lifted. That’s what you’ll hear here.

Machete Blak is pretty good–nice flow, and it matches well with 9W production.

Oh, and it’s free. So it costs you nothing to check it out.

The first quarter of the year is usually when a bunch of 2012 releases come to my attention–either because I was too backed up to hear them last year or because I just hadn’t heard of them yet. This is one.

Pesky Nixon is another one of those dudes who will give you his album on Bandcamp just for the price of an e-mail address. And it’s worth much more than that. Especially his cover of Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. It’s a completely new take on it.

And his cover of You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere is freakin’ awesome as well.

Check it out.

You got a problem with DIY lofi rock and roll? Then don’t download this.

You into good musicians learning their craft and offering some free tunes?

This is for you.

This is from 2010, so I slept for two years. But it was worth wait.

Good, free hip hop.

Check it out.

One of the greatest mashup albums of

*ALL TIME*

is now free on Bandcamp!

Fuckin A right jack. Punk. Edge. Hardcore. Even pop. All tossed into a blender and pushed to puree. Then given away.

Modern Surf Rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free album!!!!!!!!!!!