All posts tagged as: free music
Fite Night
JDub friend Tim Fite just re-did his website, and it’s FULL of free and awesome content. Records? Got ‘em. Videos? Check. Art? He has that too. Click HERE and explore all that demented genius Tim Fite has to offer. To start, I’ll personally recommend Over the Counter Culture, as it’s one of my favorites…
T-Shirts are the new CDs!!
Mos Def - Supermagic Download
It’s true that it aint easy to sell CDs these days, so labels and artists and clothing companies and brands are all trying new and unique ways of making money from recorded music. Some people are failing and losing money, some are giving music away for free, but Mos Def is selling t-shirts!!
Mos Def, the mc/poet/actor has partnered with clothing company LnA to develop a line of shirts to promote his new album The Ecstatic. Each shirt features the album artwork on the cover and a track list with a special download code on the back. If you buy the shirt, you get the album for free. SoundScan has even agreed to count the shirt as an album sale.
His release of the Ecstatic has seen a lot attention throughout the industry. He has moved nearly 40,000 copies in 2 weeks, but keep in mind they were selling the record for $3.99 on Amazon at first. Anyway, this t-shirt/cd is a pretty genius concept, they are bypassing the middle man and leveraging t shirt sales to make up for unearned record sales revenue. According to the LnA website, the t-shirt is available for pre-order now and will ship July 7th, the current retail price is $39.00. That price tag seems a little high to me but let’s see what happens. I have to think that there is a major label somewhere behind that $39 price tag.
Ladies & Gentlemen… The Wailing Wall
The Wailing Wall - Hospital Blossom
The Wailing Wall - Sister, I
The Wailing Wall - Nails and Wood
JDub is proud to welcome The Wailing Wall to our roster! We know everyone loves free music and discovering new artists, so we are releasing his debut LP Hospital Blossom for FREE on June, 9th.
The Wailing Wall is 23 year old multi-instrumentalist and ex-theology major Jesse Rifkin. Born in Los Angeles, Jesse was raised in Annapolis, MD and now resides in New York City. Hospital Blossoms is The Wailing Wall’s first full length LP, and his first release for JDub Records.
The Wailing Wall is a solo project that fluctuates between 1 and 38 members, sometimes including K Records’ Jason Anderson
, So So Glos’ Matt Elkin and Thanksgiving’s Adrian Orange. Jesse likes to invite any and all musicians and curious onlookers within earshot to join him in the studio or on stage. The Wailing Wall’s DIY community creates a certain vibrancy that stems from Jesse’s belief that a band’s spirit only burns as brightly as the sum of its parts.
Hospital Blossoms is a narrative about the search for spiritual meaning and fulfillment. It contains a patchwork of simultaneously scratchy and lovely sounds: banjo, fretless bass, glockenspiel, gamelan, grand piano, viola, harmonium, girls laughing, trumpet, drums, shakers, hand-clapping and knee-slapping. Jesse recorded the album across 3 states and on a variety of recording machines with different fidelities. The very first sounds heard on the album are lifted from a field recording of a thunderstorm outside a boathouse in Stone Lake, Wisconsin—a location Jesse sought out to record the majority of Hospital Blossoms. Jesse and friends pieced together the rest of the record between a workshop theatre, a dingy basement and a Colonial mansion converted into a college music building.
We don’t want commerce to get in the way of you hearing a record this good, so we’re giving it away for FREE. Listen to Hospital Blossoms, pass it along to your friends, and be on the lookout for more great things from Jesse Rifkin and The Wailing Wall.
The Wailing Wall
Hospital Blossom
LP
FREE download available June 9th
at jdubrecords.org/wailingwall
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The Wailing Wall on Myspace
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The Wailing Wall 7″ for sale
WFMU’s Free Music Archive
WFMU done done it again! As if we didn’t think they could get any cooler, they’ve gone and created WFMU’s Free Music Archive, a digital library of curated music that will allow musicians, fans, webcasters, podcasters, and blogcasters to listen, download , and stream with absolutely no restrictions for FREE. This means all that Korean free jazz, Japanese art punk, obscure hip-hop, Indonesian funk and Afghani soul will now be at our fingertips. All hail WFMU!
They’ve already posted 2 free samplers for stream and download:
Free Music Archive Sampler CD Vol. 1 - Check it out
Free Music Archive Sampler CD Vol. 2 - Check it out
The Wailing Wall - Hospital Blossoms LP FREE Download
The Wailing Wall
Hospital Blossoms LP
Hospital Blossoms (128 kbps, 38.1 mb)
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The Wailing Wall, as it appears on this record, is:
Luke Bace – bass, sound effects
Holly Fulton – viola, grand piano
Alixandra Macmillan-Feidel – vocals
Natalie Mirsky – accordion, vocals
Taylor Pavlik – trumpet
Jesse Rifkin – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, banjo, harmonica, harmonium, accordion, electric piano, glockenspiel, violin scratches, drums, shakers, tambourine, wood block, field recording of gamelan musicians
Chris Roush – drums, cajon, darbouka, bass synth, shakers, vocals, sound effects, field recording of a thunderstorm outside the boathouse
Recorded by Chris Roush at the Boathouse in Stone Lake, WI and at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, except for “Floral Park,” “No Wind,” and “Morning #2,” which were recorded by Jesse Rifkin at his parents’ house in Annapolis, MD (Chris added all sorts of awesome sounds to “Morning #2” later on though).
Mixed by Chris Roush. Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper.
All songs copyright Jesse Rifkin, 2006-2007.