Music Downloads
Sort By: Post Date | Title | Publish Date
Music Downloads
Michael Lavorgna Feb 16, 2012 8 comments
Talking Heads, Remain in Light

[Gordon Rankin of Wavelength Audio hands us a bevy of musical delights with a focus on live!]

The biggest problem with a request like this is taste. Mine silly as it may sound is found in 80's pop, new wave, punk! Yea XTC, Clash, B52's, Talking Heads, Cranberries, Devo, Costello, Joe Jackson and of course Gang of Four. Not much of this is available as even red book downloads so here goes with what I could find that I would like, in order top to bottom. Yes I do have all of these on my server. While some of these obscure titles are available from Pirate Bay and other illegal sites...I really suggest if you cannot download them legally that you purchase and rip the disks.

Music Downloads
Michael Lavorgna Feb 08, 2012 0 comments
Daphne Oram, Private Dreams and Public Nightmares (Interpretations by Andrea Parker and Daz Quayle)

[Reader Edwin Wong gives us a nice eclectic list for the adventurous listener or the young at heart]

Daphne Oram, Private Dreams and Public Nightmares (Interpretations by Andrea Parker and Daz Quayle) (Aperture)

A dark re-work of original and unheard material from the archives of Daphne Oram (co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop), mixed by Andrea Parker and Daz Quayle. Digital and CD only.

Music Downloads
Michael Lavorgna Jan 26, 2012 2 comments
Wiley: Evolve or Be Extinct

[This is part of a new series which I introduce here and I'm very happy to have my friend and colleague Stephen Mejias of Stereophile fame write the inaugural entry]

I've spent this entire week writing those little 100-word blurbs that make up Stereophile's semi-annual "Recommended Components" feature. Every day, from around nine in the morning until around eight in the evening: distilling, trimming, summarizing, finding new ways to say "this" lacked "that" but nevertheless excelled at "this."

Music Downloads
Michael Lavorgna Jan 26, 2012 1 comments
The basic organizational approach of AudioStream centers around hardware, software and music. According to various tracking methods, so far posts concerning music are not as popular as software which are not as popular as hardware. So I've decided to launch a new and ongoing music series titled - Pick 6! because music is, in the end, the point of the software and hardware we talk about here on AudioStream.

The idea is simple—pick 6 of your favorite music downloads, email me your list including a link to the source, and I'll publish them. Every once in a while they'll be a Pick 6! guest picker (like the first one by Stephen Mejias above) from in and around our industry.

Michael Lavorgna Dec 28, 2011 0 comments
Beyond The Wire's 2011 Rewind, Boomkat's Charts ranks high up on my list of favorite lists. Highly recommended reading, especially the smaller lists of musician's picks. I find artists talking about art to be an interesting diversion from critics talking about art.

Here are a few of my Favorites from 2011 that appear on Boomkat's List and all of them are available as FLAC downloads from Boomkat (in - as I found them - order):

Music Downloads
Michael Lavorgna Dec 24, 2011 0 comments
Thanks to reader "acd6977" for the heads up on Drag City's FLAC download offerings. Drag City's roster is longer than Santa's naughty list and includes such musical treasure-makers as Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Sir Richard Bishop, Ty Segall, CAVE, Six Organs of Admittance, Royal Trux and about a million more.

The world of music downloads is looking very up for 2012!

Music Downloads, News
Michael Lavorgna Dec 23, 2011 0 comments
Matador Records, home to such classic sonic beauties as Sonic Youth, Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Cat Power, Cold Cave, Girls, Thurston Moore, Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks and many many more, offer FLAC downloads through their online Store!
Music Downloads
Michael Lavorgna Dec 21, 2011 8 comments
Here's a list of sites that offer CD-quality downloads (16/44) mostly in FLAC format, some in WAV. This list does not include sites that only offer MP3s (they're free, right?) or High Definition Downloads since those are listed on the big HD Download Sites list. If you find some are missing, and my guess is there are, please leave a comment or shoot me an email and I'll add 'em. Enjoy!
Free Music, Music Downloads
Michael Lavorgna Dec 05, 2011 0 comments
Iceland's Ólafur Arnalds is a multi-instrumentalist and composer and in October 2011 he sat down for his second series of 'a-song-a-day' for a week. His first foray in this format was Found Songs from 2009. This time around Arnalds and a group of musicians (piano, strings and electronics) performed a new song-a-day live via streaming video from the living room of his Reykjavík apartment. Arnalds also made each song available as a free MP3 download immediately after each performance.
Music Downloads
Michael Lavorgna Nov 11, 2011 3 comments
Crazy Clown Time is filmmaker David Lynch's first official solo record and it's a doozy. Think American Gothic Blues twisted. Or maybe the home recordings of Tom Waits' crazy influential uncle. I've been enjoying it and I think you may too. But if you need more convincing...
Music Downloads
Michael Lavorgna Oct 11, 2011 1 comments
Boomkat is a UK-based Independent music distributor with an enormous catalog of "music that exists beyond the radar". Where physical media and their related shipping costs makes buying from across most larger ponds less than desirable (especially for small orders), downloads know no borders.
Music Downloads
Michael Lavorgna Oct 03, 2011 0 comments
Independent record label Drag City lists over 200 Artists on their roster from the ever prolific Bonnie "Prince" Billy to the far out ramblings of Father Yod and the Source Family with Joanna Newsom sitting comfortably in between. While not every release is offered with a FLAC download, the majority are and you save $1.01 + shipping over the price of a CD! Drag City also offers free music but it’s MP3 snack food so doesn’t merit a separate listing in our Free Music section (but feel free to sample for free).