Community Records have released a free sampler in anticipating for the upcoming Ska Is Dead – Young Gun Tour. The sampler includes info on all the tour dates, music from all of the bands playing on the tour along with info & free music from many of the bands playing at Block Party 2011 including the likes of We Are The Union and The Fad.
In anticipation of the SXSW show on March 19th, Dirtnap Records have posted a free sampler compilation featuring a bunch of their artists. On the sampler you’ll get unheard tracks from High Tension Wires (Mind Spiders/Riverboat Gamblers members), Something Fierce, and Bad Sports as well as tracks by Mind Spiders (buzzed-about new band of Mark Ryan from Marked Men), White Wires, Mean Jeans and more. Check it out.
Intervention Records are the latest label to offer a free compilation for download. They’re calling their twenty-three track compilation “How The West Was One” and it features songs from Nothington, The Atom Age, Random Orbits, DC Fallout, Black Sails Western Shores and more.
Florida’s Livid Records have put up a free, twenty-five song compilation online for download. The mostly pop-punk compilation features tracks from the likes of The Crumbs, Geoff Useless, The Getback, End of Power, Zero Cool, Pool Party and more.
Anchorless Records have released a free digital compilation featuring fifteen tracks from the likes of Wolves And The Radio, Fallen From The Sky, The Sainte Catherines, Brendan Kelly, The Flatliners and more.
It features a nice recap of what the label has been doing over the last few years.
This is a free-to-download (physical copies have also been made) compilation of 21 lesser-known screamo/emo bands from around the world. There’s bands from Canada, Ukraine, Australia, United Kingdom, Malaysia, USA, Germany, Spain and more.
The bands are Crippled Children, Elephant Opinions, Oh, Deer!, World At A Glance, Etai Keshiki, Innards, Nebraska, Animal Faces, Panthalassa, No Action, DramaComa, Lizards Have Personalities, BEARS, Manku Kapak, Edison, Describriendo a Mr.Mime, Family Patches, Laatste Halte, Todos Caeran, Laeirs and Praesentia.
Sorry about the delay lately, Christmas just kind of caught up with me I ran out of time! So to get back on track, here’s a great winter compilation by the good folks at AMP Magazine. There are a lot of really solid bands on here, like Banquets, Banner Pilot, Be My Doppelganer, The Brokedowns, Captain We’re Sinking, DC Fallout, Go Rydell, Heartsounds, Iron Chic, Mixtapes, Red City Radio, Sainte Catherines, and Under Stars and Gutters to list a few I’m already familiarized with. The entire compilation is thirty-five songs, and it works really well together as a group. Just sign-up using AMP Magazine’s Facebook and it’s yours!
Various Artists - AMP Magazine 2010 Winter Collection
The Fest 9 is still half a week away, but that hasn’t stopped Juicebox Recordings from celebrating early. In fact, the Canadian donation based label is offering a free mixtape of the those Canadian bands that are heading down south for the Gainsville punk rock extravaganza. Notable bands include Junior Battles, The Flatliners, Saint Alvia, and The Sainte Catherines to name a few. Let’s here it for Canada!
Dine Alone Records has released a digital sampler with tracks from all their latest releases. It includes bands like Parlovr, Tokyo Police Club, Attack In Black, and City And Colour to name a few. And to top it off, you can make your own album art (which really doesn’t serve much of a purpose, but is kinda cool in a a geeky music nerd kind way). Flex those creative muscles and get at it!
