Artist: Lard Dog & The Band of Shy
Song: "I Like"
Album: N/A
Description: It's a brand new song from New York City's purveyors of affirmative oddity, this time celebrating what people like! I suspect you know someone who will like this song, free for the price of an e-mail address this month.
Source: Lard Dog website
Artist: Various Artists
Album: N/A
Description: This is a solid 11 tracks -- more than 35 minutes -- of music courtesy of artists working with Sugar Mountain PR this spring and summer. It's called a "road trip" sampler, but there's nothing necessarily summer- or vacation-themed about it. But with songs from Frances England, the Sugar Free Allstars, and the Not-Its, the Okee Dokee Brothers, and more -- not to mention songs from as-yet-unreleased albums by The Whizpops, Brady Rymer, and 123 Andres -- it will do just nicely even if you're just shuttling the kids to the municipal pool or lounging around at home. Grab it quickly, as it'll only be available for the downloading through May 25.
Source: Soundcloud
Artist: Big World Audio Theatre
Album: The Peculiar Tales of the S.S. Bungalow
Description: The half-story/half-musical hybrid from the (very) multi-headed hydra that is Portland, Oregon's Big World Audio Theatre gets a limited-time giveaway. That's right, for the month of August you can download their fine debut The Peculiar Tales of the S.S. Bungalow. It's worth more than that (throw in a couple dollars at least), but if you haven't had an opportunity to listen, take advantage of this. (Also, below the Noisetrade widget, find a brief promo video the band made to introduce the album to newbies.)
Source: Noisetrade
Let's Hear It for the Moms! album cover
Artist: Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could
Album: Let's Hear It for the Moms!
Description: A seven-song sampler of previously-released maternally-related tracks from the New York roots-rocker, downloadable for free. I would guess that this is a limited-time offer, so don't delay -- Mother's Day has come and gone, but celebrating the mothers in our lives, be it our own or others we know, doesn't go out of style. I've always liked Rymer's take on "Mama Don't Allow," but all of them are worth the mp3 space.
Source: Bandcamp
My Mom - single cover
Artist: Danny Weinkauf
Song: "My Mom"
Album: N/A
Description: If there was a Broadway musical about moms targeted at your favorite 6-year-old, then this would be the soft-shoe dance number midway through the first act. Tina Kenny, who plays bass in Weinkauf's Red Pants Band, duets with Weinkauf. Adorbs.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Hullabaloo
Song: "You Are Loved"
Album: N/A
Description: Not sure it's possible to release a much simpler song -- one voice, one guitar, one minute, and a couple dozen different words at most. All to convey a simple and powerful message, "You Are Loved." It's possible to sing this concept and have it sound trite. To my ears, that isn't the case at all with this track.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Mista Cookie Jar and the Chocolate Chips
Song: "Jelly Beans!"
Album: N/A (upcoming release)
Description: Featuring a sugar-infused electro-blues (again, MCJ is kindie's hyphenate king) amped to 11, lyrical delivery from 14-year-old Ava Flava (with an assist from Mista Cookie Jar), this ode to the sugar- (or corn syrup-)filled candy winds up and up until it crashes at the very end. The free download crashes (i.e., ends) just about the time your kids will crash after eating their Easter candy (i.e., sometime Easter Sunday).
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: The Pop Ups
Song: "Favorite Cousin"
Album: N/A
Description: I'll have a separate post on Christmas and holiday music in a few days, but didn't want the free nature of this track to go unnoticed any longer than it had to. Yes, it's nominally about Christmastime and Hanukkah-time, but really it's about jamming with your favorite-but-not-often-seen family member.
Source: Soundcloud
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