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Some of these artists are seriously awful, but everyone loves covers, right? Here are 27 purevolume pages with downloadable cover songs. I recommend A Loss For Words and Freshman 15.

Milwaukee, WI post-hardcore band Hail Archer has released a new free EP Leave Your Body Behind.
for fans of: Saosin, Conditions, Thrice
myspace.com/hailarcher
download via mediafire

Walnut Creek, CA pop-punkers This Time Next Year are giving away their Equal Vision Records debut LP Road Maps and Heart Attacks as a “pay what you like” download with no minimum.
for fans of: Fireworks, The Wonder Years, First To Leave
myspace / download

Minneapolis, MN’s Motion City Soundtrack have released a new song “Disappear” from their upcoming fourth album My Dinosaur Life. click “read more” for the widget where you can stream the song or enter you email address to download it.
for fans of: The Matches, The Starting Line, Say Anything
myspace.com/motioncitysoundtrack

Richmond, VA alternative rock band Love and Reverie have a free full length album Lovers Are Liars: The Lost Album for free download on their purevolume page.
for fans of: The Dangerous Summer, Copeland, Rookie Of The Year
myspace.com/loveandreverie
download via purevolume

Naugatuck, CT pop rock band To Write A Riot! have a 5-song EP The Party Law available for free on their purevolume page
for fans of: The Downtown Fiction, Van Atta High, runner runner
myspace.com/towriteariot
download via purevolume

UK melodic hardcore band The Steal recently broke up, and are now giving away their entire discography for free.
for fans of: Shook Ones, Paint It Black, Kid Dynamite
myspace.com/thesteal
download links below:

A while ago I started working working on a massive post of all the free screamo/skramz/emo violence music on last.fm, which I sort of forgot about until now, when I came across a bunch of free screamo music on gimmesound.com. Below are the links to 8 artist pages with a total of 91 free mp3s.
all for fans of Saetia, Hot Cross, Orchid, La Quiete

Richmond VA folk-punk band The Riot Before have released the 7-song acoustic EP Fists… Out of Sockets on Paper + Plastick Records.
for fans of: Against Me!, O Pioneers!!!, Fake Problems
myspace.com/theriotbefore
download from Paper + Plastick

Columbus OH punk band False Alarm have a bunch of free music
for fans of: Lagwagon, Propagandhi, Much The Same
myspace.com/falsealarmmusic
“That’s Life / Matter Of Fact”: download via last.fm
“False Alarm” EP: click to download
“False Alarm Live”: download via last.fm