
Jello Biafra and The Guantanamo School of Medicine are doing something nice for the Holidays. They are giving away their album digitally on Amazon & Emusic.com for a limited time! All you have to do is go to the sites and download the album there. How generous of Jello Biafra and the band!
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Side One Dummy’s The Briggs are also in the giving spirit and have recorded the holiday song “Silent Night.”
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The Pier is proud to present the FREE 2010 Exposed compilation album! What better to hear new music than for FREE!? The digital compilation offers up 30 bands from the reggae, reggae rock, ska scene. The bands and songs were hand picked & compiled by The Expendables, Passafire, Dirty Heads, John Browns Body, Ballyhoo! & The B Foundation.
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Side One Dummy is giving away a 10 free song sampler from their recent releases. But that’s not all folks! They are also giving away test pressings from the upcoming releases of Gaslight Anthem, Chuck Ragan and Broadway Calls as well. Some T-shirts, and other goodies are included as well.
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Vinnie Fiorello, drummer of ska/punk legends Less Than Jake and owner of Gainesville-based independent label Paper + Plastick Records, is celebrating his birthday in style this year. To commemorate, the music industry vet is giving away P+P digital catalog (except the latest release, Shook Ones’ The Unquotable A.M.H.) to the first 200 loyal fans that visit www.audiblediversiongroup.com/paperandplastick/browse/DigitalReleases at 3PM EST.
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The Virgin Mobile Fest is doing something Ozzfest has already done and is offering up FREE tickets. Sounds pretty sweet to me, I’d probably drive down if there were better bands playing. The full lineup playing the one-day fest include: Blink 182, Weezer, Franz Ferdinand, Public Enemy, Taking Back Sunday, Bravery, Girl Talk, Jet, The National, The Hold Steady, St. Vincent, Wale, and Mates Of State. The festival will also include a dance tent favorites that include Pete Tong, Danny Howells and Lee Burridge. An interesting lineup to say the least. The festival is happening August 30th at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD.
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FREE IS GOOD! LA-based post-punk girl duo Eagle and Talon are garnering comparisons to Sonic Youth, Sleater-Kinney and The Breeders with their debut full-length album Thracian, out June 23rd. Scrappy, smart and unorthodox, Kim and Alice Talon splice angular guitars and gunshot rhythms with surreal lyrics, toy Casio and scraps of musical theater, forging a sound that makes you wonder whether you’re being pet by a kitten or mauled by a lynx.
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