Posted in: Musicouching by Nelson Doyle on September 25, 2008 | 11 Comments
Now, get the all the music that you want for free in minutes. Discover new bands and great music that you can listen to or download for free.
This is the fourth article that I’ve written focused on free Internet music sources, so if you are reading this blog for the first time, please understand that I do not list the exact same music sources in each and every article. New music resources are popping up all over the Internet nowadays and most of these websites are probably new to you, but this does not mean that they are somehow less important than their larger corporate counterparts that every music fan already knows about.
The purpose for writing these articles about music resources is to make it easier for music lovers to locate new by widely popular artists and that of small garage bands possibly just starting out. Finding fresh music to listen to on the Internet isn’t always found on the largest mainstream websites, because not all artists view these corporate music sites in the same exact way. To find the music, we must go where the artist has made their music available free to the public.
In no way, is this list of free music resources a top 10 list, so please cut a brother a break in the comment section below this article. If you cannot locate your favorite music site in this list, then it is quite possibly noted in one of my other free music articles linked here below.
Qtrax Beta is the world’s first legal peer-to-peer (P2P) digital music site that offers over 25,000,000 free full-length songs that can be legally downloaded free of charge. Music lovers will be able to find popular music mainstream artists and discover a bunch of new upcoming talents, just begging to be given the chance to be heard. Build your own enormous play-list, read charts, choose a music genre that you are interested in. Artists and the website are paid through advertising revenue generated from the site advertisers.
At this site music fans will find 440 artists that have joined together to make “The Free Music Argument” and they want as many people around the world to here and enjoy their music more than making piles of money. Musicians and vocalists that care about the spread of the music that they produce more than limiting the reach of their songs to only those that have the money to afford it. Music fans can support these artists with donations, to help them afford or maintain the equipment needed to continue to develop new music for you to enjoy, but donations are not required to use this site or listen to the free music.
One fantastic option that music fans have available on the Internet is radio stations broadcasting breathtakingly fresh new songs contributed by thousands of artists around the planet. At this website, you are able to listen to new music that is airing from radio stations globally. Build your own personal play-list and share the music that you have collected with friends and interact with other like-minded music fans and make new friends along with discovering new music and artists.
Kerevizli is a music type search engine that makes it really easy for fans to find and discover new music and new artists simply by typing in the title or artist of the music that they wish to locate. This site allows visitors to listen to full albums and stores an amazing 12,820 albums in the database.
Download free full MP3s music from new artists that you probably haven’t heard of before now. Read the lyrics for each song before you download the MP3, if you so choose. There are not any advertising banners, links or pop-ups on this site and the pages download quickly even for those folks that are still using dial up Internet connections.
There is plenty of indie music that can be discovered here on this website. Musicians and bands upload their music on the site and listeners are allowed to listen to the music for free or add their favorite new music to their favorite social network site. Listeners have the option to purchase their favorite songs and bands have so many exciting opportunities to audition new members or audition their selves to join a band. The forum is a bulletin board for artists and listeners to discuss music or buy and sell music equipment.
This music site is geared up for the die-hard music lover as it offers a wide array of news, photos, artists interviews, and free music to listen to on any of its 750+ radio stations. Users can also enter free contests, download ring-tones and even checkout the lyrics that they are interested in seeing. To gain access to all of the site’s features membership is required.
Music fans will discover a large selection of artists, musicians and bands from every imaginable music genre under-the-sun on this music site. Plus, visitors can score music videos and podcasts or read reviews about new releases. There are 111,052 free MP3s available to music fans presently with new MP3s added regularly.
This site members can listen to free music, build customized play-lists, learn about the artists, interact with other music fans, and discover more free music than they can shake a stick at. There is much more than what this description suggests, so check it out for a deeper understanding of the opportunities that this site has to offer you.
As with all of the other music sites that are presented in this article, this website offers free music from mainly indie artists and site members can build their own personal play-lists and share their discoveries or favorite songs with friends. Search for music that you are looking for, by selecting a “Title, Artist, Album, Play-list or Webjockey.
Tommy Fassbender September 25th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Great list, Nelson.
Rich Leigh September 25th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
A really useful list you’ve provided there Nelson. Thank you!
Rich September 25th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
This is a very useful list of music sources that will come in handy this weekend, when I have time to go through them. I was going to let you know about Pandora, but you have already listed in one of your other music lists, so there is no need to.
Ruby Hawk September 25th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
This is useful, My grandson is always on the lookout for new music. I’ll pass this on to him. Take care,Ruby
RJ Chamberlain September 26th, 2008 at 3:32 am
Yet more music sites I have never heard of. Thanks a lot Nelson they will come in useful.
nobert soloria bermosa September 26th, 2008 at 10:06 am
thanks for the additional sites Nelson,
nice post as always
Sam September 26th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
great list.thank you.
B Nelson September 26th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Never heard of anyone of them until now. I really gotta get something better than dial up one of these days, so we can use some of these great links more.
goodselfme September 30th, 2008 at 12:15 am
great info and lots of it. Thank you. Well done on this post.
Now and Then October 17th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Thanks for the info. I did not realize that there were so many places to find and listen to free music. Thank you for opening my eyes and sharing what you have already.
Sam Hamilton June 16th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
If you are tired of myspace and sites like that but want a way to connect with artists and musicians then you should check out http://www.putiton.com
and by real world I don’t mean the tv show…
If you are tired of myspace all together than you should probably leave your bedroom and go interact with the real world