SXSW and FREE MUSIC

South by is here. And with it, tens of thousands of extra people flooding downtown, and COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF MUSIC.

I cannot tell you how broke I want to be by the end of this week, mostly from spending all my money on busses, trailer food, music and possibly the occasional pedicap, if my feet are really killing me.

In hopes that not everyone will go broke, however (or may go broke all the faster), I have set out to compile some Free Music.

No promises on quality. I don't think I'd include anything that awful, but, well, some of it is just funny, and everyone has different tastes and all.

First up, some from Paper Garden Records. They've got seven and a half hours of free music the 17th and 18th with RSVP (can't find if it's all ages, but it is sort of a wine bar--bring an adult).

Pretty folky, chill stuff. Step above coffeehouse music. But it is also free.

The Lovely Hearts Club SXSW 2011 Mixtape by Paper Garden Records

Next, a step up on the scale. Intercept has a pretty freaking awesome website, which, more importantly, has a free download link for a song.

This song, in fact.



Also, it has a line about London in it. Which automatically means it wins just a bit more.

Get the free single here (might have to close the banner--congrats, Camilla Luddington, whoever you are!).

And last but certainly not least for this evening's post, a lovely little band I found which I will definitely need to stalk this coming weekend... The Bloody Irish Boys.






They, I think, rank as at least two steps above Intercept on the sliding scale of screaming.

Get some music here, I s'pose, if you want*.


Musically yours,
IBI




*Never play it in my presence or I will bloody kill you. This is a joke, ya'hear?