MUSIC: SXSW.com = loads of free music

[mike]

The annual South By Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival is truly a Mardi Gras of music. In addition to WOXY.COM taking our Lounge Act to Austin next week, the fine folks have developed a kick-ass website that includes free MP3 downloads (128 kbs) of over 700 acts playing the Festival of nearly every genre imaginable. Truly a Texas-size heaping helping of free tunes from the well-known and the not-so-well known. Discovering new favorites is half of the fun. So if you're looking to beef up your iTunes, iPod or take a shot on playing A&R, you can't go wrong at http://2005.sxsw.com/music/showcases/

[redraven]

Thank You Mike!!! I think I just wet my pants. :o

[Stine]

Last year I didn't even realize it was a festival - I just thought it was a site w. tons of sweet free mp3s.

[postfeminist]

h o l y s h i t


i just found a way to kill A LOT of time... thanks mike! you're the greatest! :)

[Foofur]

Bam!!! Thx!!

[Somerset Frisby]

Many thanks.

[RedRigmaJacket]

i'm only finding about 5 downloads...where are all of them?

[Gaia]

Unless someone knows a faster way, goto http://2005.sxsw.com/music/showcases/date/2005-03-19.html and view the lineup. Each artist has a web profile. Those offering downloads have a little cassette by their name.

This will indeed keep some people busy. A good Friday afternoon "project".

[MyBrainHurts]

Wow, 236 new songs for the library, and the best part is the artists actually WANTED their songs downloaded! Thanks mike, it was truly a wonderful gift :D

[wombat18]

<kid in a kandy store> oo, look aimee mann's there ... and over there, it's gary lucas ...

wish that daara j had a download, ben lee, too ... oh well ...

[tark]

This is much easier than downloading individual songs. Just use BitTorrent to grab all 2.6 GB of music: http://2005.sxsw.com/geekout/sxsw4pod/

Direct torrent link: http://player.sxsw.com/SXSW_2005_Showcasing_Artist_mp3s.torrent

Info on BitTorrent: http://www.bittorrent.com/

[Neil]

Oh, Tark...thank you...mommy...queuing up Azureus now.

[zippy]

This is much easier than downloading individual songs. Just use BitTorrent to grab all 2.6 GB of music: http://2005.sxsw.com/geekout/sxsw4pod/

Direct torrent link: http://player.sxsw.com/SXSW_2005_Showcasing_Artist_mp3s.torrent

Info on BitTorrent: http://www.bittorrent.com/


whoa.. sweet lordy.. thanks for the link!