Audio/MP3
Band of Horses: Free MP3 of the Day
With a sound so big and wide-open it could bounce off of mountains, Band of Horses is a noticeable departure and progression from Carissa’s Weird, Ben Bridwell and Matt Brooke’s previous partnership.
Scott first blew us away with a mix of hip-hop sense, vintage soul singing, and a poet’s wisdom. Her latest builds on those themes. As horns blare, Scott belts it out like an earlier generation of soul divas. She no longer recalls them: she’s one of them.
Delicately plucked chords cascade around Sam Beam’s gentle baritone, leaving pure, perfect songs in their wake. Iron and Wine’s personal, sometimes haunting songwriting keeps urban cynicism at bay, unfolding instead with beauty, wonder, and bittersweet joy.
The “8 Diagrams” mixtape whets the appetite for the Wu’s first studio LP since 2001 (and its first without the late ODB). These tracks crackle with the pent-up energies of half a decade. They’re rugged, raw, brooding, and (if there’s such a thing) uniformly eclectic.
Hailing from the flats of Omaha, Neb., Conor Oberst delivers angst-filled songs with a quavering-yet-melodic lyrical style. He has the range to captivate a festival crowd with just his voice and an acoustic guitar as well as engage his dedicated following with a full band.
Qtrax didn’t give me free music downloads, but it did teach me a bit about the Oracle Application Server 10g.
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After announcing deals to provide music from Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, and EMI Recorded Music at the Midem music conference in Cannes, France, Qtrax CEO Allan Klepfisz told CNET News.com on Sunday that there may not be agreements “written in stone.” With such shenanigans involved, it’s unlikely those agreements will ever be signed.
What’s most unfortunate about the whole affair is that the name of a fine open-source project gets dragged through the mud. Songbird is a Firefox analog that adds media playback and library-management features to the popular browser. It’s very cool, with tons of potential, but it’s … Read more
(Credit: CNET Networks)Just about every computer available these days comes with a CD/DVD burner as part of the package. Whether your primary use for this drive is to make mix CDs for the car, backup data, or burn DVD backups for your movies, you need a good program with the right type of features for the job. Though Windows offers some burning features, you’re not going to get the options you’ll find in a stand alone app.
There are many paid CD and DVD burning apps to choose from and some of the most popular in this category–like Nero and Alcohol 120%–are probably recognizable by most Download.com users. The only prohibitive trait about these apps (besides cost) is usually they take up too many system resources and offer superfluous features that you may not need for simple burning. I happen to like these apps and some of the extra features are quite useful, but what if you just want something quick and dirty for burning on the cheap?
I did a little research and picked out some top free CD/DVD burning apps that you can download and use for free if you need to get started right away.
The four-paned interface makes moving your media around a snap.
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CDBurnerXP is a quick and easy solution for burning audio CDs, creating data disks, and has extra features for ripping your audio CDs and finding track info on the Web. A four-paned … Read more
Are you new to Download.com Music and don’t yet know what to do or where to start? Or maybe you have a brand-new iPod (or other MP3 player), and you need some advice on (free) music to fill it up. Or perhaps you’re simply a Download Music regular who just wants to chat. Whatever the case, join me on Thursday, Jan. 24 at 11 a.m. Pacific time (2 p.m. Eastern) for a live online Q-and-A session, where I’ll do my best to answer any and all music- or site-related questions you might have.
To participate, just visit the live chat page during the given time and type your questions into the form. Hope to see you there!
Crossfade TV: Best of 2007
Richard HawleyLater this week we’ll post a brand-new Crossfade TV episode, featuring three artists who are already making a big splash in 2008. In the meantime, and before ‘07 fades entirely into memory, have a look at our end-of-the-season video special highlighting faves from last year’s crop, including Spoon, LCD Soundsystem, Kanye West, and Richard Hawley.
Free DJ Mix by Justice: “Rejected Fabric Mix”
Justice
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Courtesy of Xavier de Rosnay, Gaspard Auge (aka Justice) and the whole Ed Banger crew, the DJ mix unofficially dubbed the “Rejected Fabric Mix” has found its way to the WWW as a freebie when the popular London dance label (and club) Fabric rejected it for their next FabricLive compilation DJ series.
Before being leaked to the public, Justice’s new mix is easily one of the best of the year and has a scope well beyond the duo’s own apocalyptic electro madness. Take a listen (or three… or five) and see for yourself.
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