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• The Dresden Dolls - Downloads and Lyrics - The Dresden Dolls - Downloads and Lyrics
• Schoolhouse Rock
• U B U W E B :: 365 Days Project - "One MP3 a day for a year." Apparently done in '03, so I think it isn't updated anymore. I haven't explored it deeply to be sure. This is mostly oddities from used record stores, including things like a Tammy Faye Baker track and tracks by Thurl Ravenscroft, the singer who did the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch."
• SoundClick - Free MP3 music download and much, much more.
• S K E E W I F F . C O M - This artist has done a really cool remix of "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" (Called "Oh Skeewiff..." etc.

Alphabetical

• .::THROWBACK::. - I really like this group. Reviewed at Gods of Music (Look in the "Music Megasites" folder for that one). You can listen to all the tracks on their album from this site, and the GoM review has a link to a download of "September." Very nice.
• 00 Audio Players & Programs Sorted by Date
• 00 Music Megasites Sorted by Date - 00 Music Megasites Sorted by Date
• 00 My Audio sites - This folder sorted by date added. Oddly, the subfolders don't show on the "by date" page.
• 00 Podcast Sites Sorted by Date - 00 Podcast Sites Sorted by Date
• 00 Streaming Sites Sorted by Date
• 3hive - sharing the sharing - This is a music blog--the bloggers review the music, and link to the free, legal download of the songs. In addition, they provide links to where those download links came from, so it isn't a theft of bandwidth thing so much. Nice.
• A:M Films
• ABC Radio National - All in the Mind - Home Page - Australian Radio show called "All In The Mind." Offers downloadable versions of some eps.
• allmusic
• Audio Lunchbox - Audio Lunchbox
• Audioscrobbler :: Home - Plugin notes what you play on your computer's audio player and then suggests music you'd like. I haven't tried it.
• Automatically find MP3 artist and title : Lifehacker
• barsuk records - Some free downloads by some very interesting artists, including one by They Might Be Giants.
• Basic Hip Digital Oddio - Old music, especially recorded oddities. They host a live365 station, as well as having some downloads.
• Batanga - Latin Music Internet Radio - Found from the Windows Media player browser--it may be WMP only.
• Become - "Become" - Stop motion video about how to build a clay stop motion video character. The color on it was really odd on my computer.
• Blind Mime
• Brad Sucks - Brad Sucks (Legal MP3 download)
• CARLITO's BLOG~*~*~*~*~* - Blog of a DJ I picked up from Boingboing. I haven't checked out his shows yet.
• CD Baby: BLUES CO-OP FEATURING JOHN JAWOROWITCZ: Muddy Water Fever - hear and buy it at CD BABY.
• Cohen's Ghost - Very cool...hard to describe. Semi-acoustic, folk feeling.
• CommonTunes - a community directory of freely available music
• Daniel A. Shockley - TuneTags - Add tags to songs in iTunes
• Digital Music News
• Doing some houskeeping on the Public folders - I'm doing a bit of fiddling in the various folders I've got public. I just discovered that the rss feeds for the subfolders on the public folders don't work. Dunno why, but I'll be rearranging things to get rid of the subfolders. I might just move all the folders to top level, though that seems a little untidy to me. Or I might put all the links currently in subfolders into the main folders with tags or something on the item names. We'll see. The goal, though, is to get the rss feeds to include all the links somehow. \n
  \nSorry for the moving and screwups. \n
• Donkey T
• Dylan Thomas - Salon.com - I haven't checked this out personally, but got it from boingboing.net. Salon has got MP3s of a large collection ("entire, eleven-volume set of Dylan Thomas recordings from Caedmon," boingboing sez) available for free download. This is Dylan Thomas reading his own poems. If you're not a Salon subscriber, you have to watch an ad of some kind, but I'm cool with that.
• Fancast - Watch full length episodes online of your favorite TV shows, movies, and celebrities - Fancast - Watch full length episodes online of your favorite TV shows, movies, and celebrities
• Fluxblog: Styles Come And Go But I'm Not Gonna Let You Go
• freesound :: home page - A site of sound samples licensed under Creative commons for free re-use. I haven't played with it yet, but it looks like a good place to find bangs and crashes and stuff for your remixes or your indie films.
• Gig Guide: How to Make an Origami CD Case - by Matthew Toledo - 2/13/2005 - Cool! How to make a CD case out of a regular sheet of 8 1/2" x 11" paper. According to to the comments, the design is copyrighted by Tom Hull, but we're still free to use it.
• Harvey Danger Downloads - Another Group offering a full, free, legal download of their stuff. Harvey Danger is offering a complete version of their album, "Little By Little." Be nice to them and bittorrent it, if you can.
• HICK - HOP !!!! - Don't even think of going here if you hate country music. I won't be held responsible.
  \nThis is the site of an artist who does country hip-hop, aka hick-hop. The site plays a song in flash, so you can hear what I'm talking about. I think it is cool and fun, but I like country music.
• HUSH: MP3
• IFILM - Shorts Channel - Not music, but short films
• iPodarmy - This is sort of podcasting, and sort of an mp3 blog. It's a blog about (and containing links to) podcasts...sort of. I'm not sure if you can subscribe to a feed and get the downloads automagically, but they are otherwise what I'd call podcasts, because they're collections of music that you download as one long show. \n
  \nThe blog may be of interest for non-podcast folks because it looks like there is discussion of where to get legal-to-podcast and legal-to-share music. That's always good.
• iSerenity - Free downloadable ambient sounds for relaxation. They have things like wind chimes, library sounds, train tracks, and whale songs. Interesting.
• ISGM Music: The Concert Podcast - Podcasts of classical music licensed under Creative Commons licenses.
• jescaflowne: Music - Live Journal person who (apparently) occasionally recs music
• Leo's Lyrics Database - Featuring the greatest search engine ever! - I've been looking for a slightly less obnoxious lyric site, and this one so far has been pretty good. We'll see how it goes.
• LibriVox - A pretty cool site. Volunteers read aloud chapters from books on the Gutenberg project (public domain works) and the resuts are distributed as a podcast. Great place to go to get one of those classics you've been meaning to read as an audio book.
• Macadamia: Alison's Potted Music - Macadamia: Alison's Potted Music \nMostly celtic and celtic-themed music so far, these are all (apparently) legal downloads with links to the artist's sites and some short descriptions.
• Making Fiends - No, the title's not a typo. Vendetta pours stuff into a box and makes fiends. Charlotte is clueless. \n \nCute flash animation series--looks like a fair number of episodes have been made already and you can sign up for notification of new ones.
• Marc-Salmon--singer to check out - dmusic.com - Marc-Salmon
• Matador Records - Free MP3 downloads
• MC Frontalot
• More Hip Than Hippie
• More music you buy and own : Lifehacker
• Morgan Dawn songvids gateway - Songvids--password protected. I had the password at one time...check Eudora for it
• MP3Blogs Aggregator - Collected recent posts from all kinds of MP3 blogs. Looks like a mix of legal and illegal music, and a great place to discover new stuff. \n
• music (for robots)
• musicplasma.com music, links, related artists - Enter the name of a performer and it shows you graphically the names of other artist that you might enjoy. Interesting to play with, though I don't know enough of the artists to tell if I think it is accurate or not.
• Not Kenzo's Page - Looks like lots of interesting art mp3s--mostly illegal art--unauthorized mixes of famous songs
• NPR Weekend Edition Saturday with Scott Simon
• Orb Networks | Home - Orb Networks | Home
• Ourmedia - "Create. Share. Get noticed. That's what Ourmedia is about.
  \nOurmedia is a global community and learning center where you can gain visibility for your works of personal media. We'll host your media forever - for free.
  \nOurmedia is several things in one. We are:
  \n \n * An open-source project built and staffed by volunteers
  \n * A destination Web site that freely hosts grassroots video, audio, music, photos, text and public domain works
  \n * A community space to share and discuss personal media
  \n * A learning toolkit to help our members create rich and compelling works
  \n * An archive so that these works can be preserved for the ages
  \n * A clearinghouse that allows anyone to search for licensed video, audio or music, download it and remix it, with proper attribution. Legally."
  \n \nWow. Very cool. I haven't explored here yet, but it looks like this will be a fun place to browse for music and text and images and all kindsa good stuff, plus if you have stuff you need hosting for, this might be the place to go. (I think there's a "must allow a certain amount of sharing" requirement for hosting--read the fine print.)
• paper cd case - Insert your CD details into the fields on this site, and it will generate a PDF of a cut and fold CD case, or an insert for a plastic jewel case. Handy.
• PublicRadioFan.com - PublicRadioFan.com
• Radio Time - This is a subscription site with a free 15 day trial. I'm scared to try this one, afraid I'd get hooked. From what I can see, it lets you search radio programming by genre, city, or US or Canadian zip code to find radio programs you want to hear. 140 countries of choices, it says. "Past or future" radio shows, it says. You set it to record the programs you want and it converts them to an MP3 that you download and listen to on the MP3 player of your choice. How sweet is that? Wow.
  (And no, though you can use a hardware tuner to use the service with local, non-streamed programs, you don't have to do that if you're happy sticking with the streamed stuff.)
• RADIO.BLOG.CLUB - This is both a program and a source for streaming music. Radio Blog is a free, flash-based program that lets you stream music from your website. You don't need to download it just to listen--because it is flash-based, most people have all they need already installed in the browser. The site lets you search for radio blogs by genre, but it doesn't really let you browse by genre, so if you're looking to listen, I recommend going to the forums and checking out the music talk threads. \n \nThe tech works well for me, but I haven't found any music sites I'd recommend yet (I've only been playing with it for about five minutes.)
• Robin Barrett - Lots of free MP3s here, and well worth it. One page about Barrett says "Hot, Loud, Nasty Blues Rock. A musical wild ride that seduces, screams and amuses. Great songs, Smokin' guitar and a naughty theme." Yeah. This page streams a song when you open it, and it's pretty typical of his stuff. There's a stop button under the picture. *smiles* Highly recommended.
• S K E E W I F F . C O M - This artist has done a really cool remix of "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" (Called "Oh Skeewiff..." etc.
• Salon.com Audio - Free and legal downloads. Salon.com offers free mp3 samples off of some (most? a lot of? all of?) the musical selections they review, as well as some talk audio. Yes, Salon.com is that site where you have to either register or sit through an ad to get in, but I'm cheap enough that doesn't bother me much. And you can probably get registration info from bugmenot.com if it makes you too crazy. It's worth a cruise-through every so often.
• Schoolhouse Rock
• sine fiction - sine fiction \nfreeware music (mp3s) soundtracks to science fiction novels.
• Sneakemail 2.0 - "Stop spam with Sneakemail 2.0, the spam stopper, disposable email, forwarding, spam filter service" \n \nIf you're going to go registering on free software or music sites, you probably want something like this--I only started getting spam after I started downloading from music sites (legal music sites thankyouverymuch--I guess they pay their bills by selling the email addresses they harvest.) I haven't tried this yet--I still don't get that much spam. But it looks good and was highly recommended by someone on one of my mailing lists, so if/when I start downloading again, I'll probably be using this.
• Soap Detectives - Found via boingboing.net. Old radio dramas of hard-boiled detective stories. It's a podcast, so you can go to this link and download individual mp3s, or you can subscribe with your podcatcher and have the stories come to you.
• Some of the housekeeping is done. - I actually got around to doing a little of the housekeeping I said I was planning, lo these many months ago.
  
  \n \nI moved two folders from inside the "Audio" public folder to the top level, so now there are three public audio folders. There's "Audio" which is a bit of a mishmash still, and has subfolders. Those subfolders won't register in your RSS feed if you decided you cared enough to subscribe to Audio. Hence the moving things around. The two new folders are "Audio - MP3 Blogs" and "Audio Players and Programs." The MP3 blog folder is empty right now, though I do have links to MP3 blogs. I moved all the links into the main audio folder, and I haven't put them back yet. \n
• Son of Supercar - Son of Supercar
• SONG FIGHT! - Every week, a song concept is posted, and whoever wants to writes, performs and records their song to fit the concept. Then everyone votes on the winner. Sounds like a lot of fun.
• SoundClick - Free MP3 music download and much, much more.
• Steadman - Snagged this link from boingboing.net. Lots of downloads of the music of the group Steadman here. I don't know anything about the group, but I plan to check them out. Free & legal. Yay!
• Steven Keys - Steven Keys \nmusic
• TeeMorris.com >:< The Podcast of Morevi
• Telltale Weekly - MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and AAC Audiobooks - Telltale Weekly - MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and AAC Audiobooks \nNon-DRM audio books. They're for-pay, but look fairly cheap. Lots of public domain titles.
• The 64 Second Film Contest - The 64 Second Film Contest
• The Dawn and Drew Show! - Podcasting from Wisconsin - a PodShow from D&D Productions
• The Dresden Dolls - Downloads and Lyrics - The Dresden Dolls - Downloads and Lyrics
• The Hammered Dulcimer Played by Scott Williams - The Hammered Dulcimer Played by Scott Williams
• The Music of Lisa Rein - Rain
• The Official Jon Frederik Band Website - The Official Jon Frederik Band Website
• The Space Age Pop Music Page - The Space Age Pop Music Page
• THE TOFU HUT - MP3 blog--looks like a very eclectic mix--the day I found it, there was old R&B (like, fifty years old), old country (not quite so old, but still out there) and new stuff that was video-game influenced. I'm looking forward to following this one. \n \nI don't know the RIAA status of these, so take that into consideration if it's important to you.
• thom: weblog --MP3 Blogs - Defending MP3 blogs and a list of links to MP3 blogs--that's blogs where the bloggers post music reviews and downloads to a song or two on a regular (daily?) basis. Cool.
• U B U W E B :: 365 Days Project - "One MP3 a day for a year." Apparently done in '03, so I think it isn't updated anymore. I haven't explored it deeply to be sure. This is mostly oddities from used record stores, including things like a Tammy Faye Baker track and tracks by Thurl Ravenscroft, the singer who did the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch."
• Universal Remote Control Codes - Universal Remote Control Codes
• Waxy.org: Daily Log: Waxy's Bandwidth Blowout #1: Heat Vision and Jack - Waxy.org: Daily Log: Waxy's Bandwidth Blowout #1: Heat Vision and Jack
• We surrender - Cathal Coughlan, Vocalist, baritone (all I know at the moment) \n
• Webjay Play this Page - Makes a streaming radio station from downloadable music on any url you give it. I haven't actually tried this, but it sounds incredibly cool. \n
• Welcome to Grouper - Filesharing, with maybe less stigma.
  \nGrouper is a filesharing system that lets you control who downloads your stuff. So you can put family videos and pics up and not worry about ending up on the web as the new stupid video of the week. I haven't tried it, but it looks potentially quite useful, and it's free.
• Welcome to MusicBrainz!
• Who is Ze Frank? - NY Times article about Ze Frank and his "Fabuloso Friday" where he lets the viewers write the script for his show.
• Will Young Official Website - Pop singer who's pretty cool
• WILLIAM SHATNER HAS BEEN - Wow. Shatner has a new album. Yes, William Shatner. Kirk. He of the spectacularly mockable album back when. This is really good. Still spoken-word on Shatner's part--he doesn't sing. But it's produced with Ben Fold, and it is really good. This site streams interviews and samples of the music. I'm not sure about the title song ("Has Been")--that's the one folks will mock on this album, I think. Worth checking out.
• WPS1 - "Art Radio" streaming
• www.audiobooksforfree.com - I haven't checked this one out, but it looks interesting. Possibly many public domain books, but those are often the ones I've been trying and failing to get through, so if the production values are decent, this could be pretty nice.
• Zencast - Podcast with discussions of buddism and meditation. So far very interesting. This page is a blog setup where you can download mp3s individually, or you can subscribe to the podcast.
• Zeropaid.com - The File Sharing Portal - Zeropaid.com - The File Sharing Portal