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As we have previously reported, The Smashing Pumpkins are in the process of releasing a brand new 44 song album….one song at a time.  Today they released the third song from the album ‘Teargarden by Kaleidyscope‘ called ‘A Stitch in Time’.  Check it out.  You can listen to the song and download it legally for free!

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One of the best kept secrets in the Seattle music scene from the 90’s has got to be Maktub.  For 10 years and five releases, they have been a great positive music force while

To celebrate their 10th year together (and on the exact day of the release of their first album) they have released ‘Five’.  As a thank you to fans, ‘Five’ is available for download for free from their website.  If you wanted to check out some new music, give Maktub a try!

Download link and more information about the band:

http://maktub.com/five.cfm

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From today until the end of their last concert in 2009, Coldplay has a free (and 100% legal) live album for fans to download from their website.   This is meant to be a thank you to the fans from Coldplay for your continued support.

Coldplay will also be handing out CD copies of this album to all fans who attend their shows until the end of 2009.

All you need to do is just go to the download website and follow the directions:

http://lrlrl.coldplay.com/leftright.html

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For a limited time you can download the new Dave Matthews Band single, ‘Funny The Way It Is’ from RCA Records.

http://www.rcarecords.com/dmbfreedownload/

The new Dave Matthews Band album, ‘Big Whiskey & The Groo Grux King’ will be available in stores everywhere June 2.

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Ok, so by now you’ve downloaded some pretty cool music from Nine Inch Nails, especially ‘The Slip’.  Ok so now that you have a new album you just released to the masses what’s next if you’re Nine Inch Nails?

Why you go on Tour, of course.

Nine Inch Nails announced their ‘Lights in the Sky over North America 2008′.

(More info here)

http://tour.nin.com/

As a preview of what’s to come on this tour, Nine Inch Nails released a free EP of (legal) downloadable music that contains samples of every band that will be joining Nine Inch Nails on tour.

The bands that will part of this tour are:

A place to bury strangers
Does it offend you, yeah?
Crystal castles
Deerhunter
nine inch nails (duhh)

To get your own copy of this EP follow the link below:

http://dl.nin.com/lightsinthesky/signup

As an additional bonus here’s some cool videos from their tour rehersals:

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echoplex

letting you

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To continue the story…so Nine Inch Nails/Trent Reznor experimented with a revolutionary method of releasing his music to the masses and without the involvement of the record companies with his Ghosts I-IV album.  Not too long after that (around May) he decided to release his next album, The Slip, for free via the internet as a thank you to his fans.  Personally, I think to release this album in this manner (for free over the internet) is a ballsy move….and it’s paying off for him.

To get your own copy of ‘The Slip’ just follow this link:

http://theslip.nin.com/

Here’s the first Video from ‘The Slip’ called ‘Discipline’.

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If you have been living under a rock as of late you don’t know the ground breaking work that Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has done with his music.  Recently out of his contract with Interscope records he began to experiment with ways to release music on the internet.  His first release was Ghosts I-IV.  This is a selection of 36 instrumental tracks that are not only optimized in the most original manner in Apple’s iTunes but it comes with a whole bunch of cool stuff and extras.  The amount of extras depends on how much you spend.

You have many different options to choose from.  Here’s the ordering page:

http://ghosts.nin.com/main/order_options

…as you can see you can get tracks for free, for $5, or if you want to spend more you can get additional goodies at the $10 and $75 levels.

If you want to get a sample of what the album is all about, you can listen to Ghosts I-IV in it’s entirety.

http://ghosts.nin.com/main/player

Tomorrow, I’ll post links to his new album that can be downloaded legally for free.

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