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Lancaster, PA pop-punk band Carousel Kings have a free EP “Here Come Trouble.”
for fans of Four Year Strong, Fight Fair, Me vs Hero
click to download
myspace.com/carouselkings
New York City skate-punk band A Life Worth Living have a free 3-song demo download.
for fans of: The Fullblast, Strung Out
download via megaupload
myspace.com/alifeworthliving
download “The Beyonce EP”: 6 old demos from New York melodic hardcore band My Only Escape collected in chronological order. The cover art and title are a parody of The Chariot’s “The Fiancé”.
for fans of: With The Punches, Shook Ones, Comeback Kid
download via mediafire
myspace.com/myonlyescapex
I’m glad to finally have some free music to post from Latin For Truth, who I raved about a while back. Their new EP “We Are Sick of Not Having The Courage to Be Absolute Nobodies” is available for free download from Pitfall Records.
for fans of: Living With Lions, Title Fight, Fireworks
download via mediafire
Bridge 9 Records have posted new songs from Strike Anywhere, Polar Bear Club, Crime In Stereo, Have Heart, Ruiner, Paint It Black, Death Before Dishonor, Dead Swans, and Soul Control. All the songs are part of label sampler that can be purchased on CD for $3, vinyl for $9, or both for $10.
download links below:
Crime In Stereo – “war (demo)” (exclusive track)
Dead Swans – “Thinking Of You” (from Sleepwalkers out August 11)
Death Before Dishonor…
watch Set Your Goals’ new music video for “This Will Be The Death Of Us” featuring Vinnie Caruana of The Movielife and I Am The Avalanche. The album of the same name will be out July 21 on Epitaph Records.
download the mp3 (right-click & save)
Fearless Records and Epitaph Records both have free summer samplers out now. click to download:
Epitaph – 22 songs (Set Your Goals, The Higher, New Found Glory)
Fearless – 7 songs (Sparks The Rescue, Artist Vs Poet, Eye Alaska)
more free samplers can be found in this post
tracklistings below:
Epitaph:
1. Every Time I Die – The Marvelous Slut
2. Set Your Goals – gaia bleeds (make way for man)
3. Escape The Fate – 10 Miles Wide…
French melodic punk band Straightaway is giving away their 2007 full-length album “Democracy Of Spreading Poverty”
for fans of: This Is a Standoff, Belvedere, Much The Same
myspace.com/straightaway
click to download
download individual tracks
Connecticut straight edge hardcore band Signs of Hope have an EP and a full-length album for free download.
for fans of: Blue Monday, Final Fight, Down to Nothing
myspace.com/signsofhope (national tour dates)
“First and Foremost” LP 2006 – .rar (mediafire) or individual mp3s
“Choices Made” EP 2008 – .rar (mediafire) or individual mp3s
Download the 2008 demos from Connecticut pop-punk band Fire First. They have a new EP “Tell Me I’m Right” which doesn’t seem to be available online.
for fans of: Shook Ones, Latterman, None More Black
myspace.com/firefirstct
download from mediafire
Tracklisting:
1. Intro
2. Exit 40
3. Magnet
4. Long Song Titles (are only cool if the name has nothing to do with the song)
5. Cut the Cord
6. Can I Bum One?
Download the new album “The Unquotable A.M.H.” from Bellingham WA melodic hardcore band Shook Ones. They also have a $1 song to raise money in support of gay marriage.
for fans of: Lifetime, Kid Dynamite, Paint It Black
(note: If you see “download” in the title instead of “free” it means it’s not intended to be downloaded.)
buy mp3 download – $8
buy on vinyl with free mp3 download – $12
buy “Breakfast for Dinner” – $1 –…
Well I said I wanted to check out more of the bands on the KD tribute, and by track 4 before I’ve already found a free full-length: “Slow and Painful” by Long Island hardcore band Call It Fire.
for fans of: Capital, Silent Majority, The Suicide File
myspace.com/callitfire
download via sendspace
Carry The Torch: A Tribute To Kid Dynamite is streaming now on vinyl collective, which also means the mp3 links are in this post. The bands on this compilation that I’m familiar with are all really awesome: The Wonder Years, Latin For Truth, Broadway Calls, Make Do And Mend, This Time Next Year, No Trigger, etc. – so much so that I’m curious to check out the bands I don’t know.
download the 7-song 2008 demos from Florida pop-punk band Away With You. Their new EP “Game Time” is streaming on purevolume now.
for fans of Set Your Goals, Four Year Strong, The Movielife
myspace.com/awaywithyoufl
download the demo
stream “Game Time”
Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s Meriwether have 20 songs for free download on their purevolume, including their entire 2005 LP “Make Your Move.”
for fans of: So They Say, Just Surrender, Lorene Drive
download “Make Your Move”
download all songs
myspace.com/meriwether
I checked out Telfair because I am going to see them opening for Title Fight in a few weeks, and I have to say I am really impressed, I’m a big fan of the raw throaty vocals.
for fans of: Dolarhyde, Living With Lions, Borderland
download the 2008 demos (4 songs)
download Scott Ayotte’s solo EP “Trapdoor”
myspace.com/telfairma
myspace.com/ayottescott
Massachusetts pop-punk/indie band Adventure Plus have a free EP “In Case Of Fire”:
for fans of: The Fake Boys, Frogball, Defiance, Ohio
myspace.com/adventureplusma
download links:
mediafire (.zip) / mediafire (.rar)
How unsurprising that a band whose name is In This For Fun would give away their music for free. The UK pop-punkers have a 4-song free EP “The Away From Home EP”
for fans of All Or Nothing, Save Your Breath, The Wonder Years
download via mediafire
myspace.com/inthisforfun
tracklisting:
1. Intro
2. I Heard Your Band Was Ship
3. 15 Till Die
4. 15.02.08
Download the EP “Gunslingers & Cutthroats” from California pop-punk band The Light Year. They have a new EP “As Tall As Giants” out now.
for fans of: Fight Fair, Weekend FM, The Crosstown Rivalry
download via mediafire
myspace.com/wearethelightyear
A classic case of “how do I even find this stuff?” – here are 2 free EPs from southern New Jersey indie rock bands:
By Surprise – 478 (Four On Seven In Eight)
for fans of: Into It. Over It., Algernon Cadwallader, Street Smart Cyclist
myspace | download
It’s A King Thing – Adelphia Was Hell At Once EP
for fans of: The Lemonheads, Weezer, Pavement
myspace | download
Download the discography of Pennsylvannia pop-punk band All In A Year: a 7-song EP and a 5-song demo.
for fans of: Title Fight, Balance and Composure, Tigers Jaw
myspace.com/allinayearpa
download “Don’t Wait Up” EP
download the 2008 Demos
Track Listings:
Don’t Wait Up EP
1. By Design
2. Don’t Wait Up
3. Life You Take
4. What Change Brings
5. Stay
6. Shooting Signs
7. I Can’t Forget
Demo 08
1. You Owe It To Me
2. Better Off
3.…
So I just came across the band The Story So Far from California on myspace and realized that this was probably the band I was looking for when I instead found the UK band whose EP is 2 posts down.
for fans of: This Time Next Year, A Loss For Words, The Movielife
download the 2008 demo
& my rant about unoriginal band names:
tracklisting:
1. Intro
2. Jud Jud
3. Standing Taller
4. 20 More Feet
5.…
In this post are 14 free samplers from Victory Records, No Sleep Records, No Idea Records, Deep Elm Records, Barsuk Records, Anti- Records, Sub Pop Records, Saddle Creek Records, Jagjaguwar, Urban Outfitters, Lookout! Records, Eyeball Records, Arts & Crafts, and Doghouse Records.
Dancey pop-punk band The Story So Far from Cardiff, Wales, UK have a new 4-song EP entitled “Lessons” for free download.
for fans of: The Audition, All Time Low, The Maine
This post sets me back three years to when The Summer Obsession was opening for Cartel and Cartel was still good. Since their major label flop and subsequent break-up, The Summer Obsession have posted their entire discography for free download, including demos and b-sides.
for fans of: Quietdrive, Cartel, October Fall
click to download the songs
other posts on the blog include links to download their music videos
Though linking to a blogspot blog may seem fishy, the…