Happy Monday, music lovers! Thanks for tuning in for this week’s edition of Free Music Monday, where we give you 10 free tracks in honor of the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter.
We hope you enjoy this Memorial Day’s eclectic selection of free tunes we’ve collected. If there’s a genre you’d like to hear more of, drop us a line in the comments. And if you’d like to appear in a future edition of Free Music Monday, please check out the submission guidelines at the end of this post!
And as always, thanks for tuning in to Free Music Monday!
1. [DANCE ROCK] El Cuarto: “Minimal” — Check out this disco-infused track from Mexican 5-piece dance pop group El Cuarto — you can download it along with a number of other free tracks from the Coyote Nights compilation from Mexico’s indie label Happy-Fi.
2. [INDIE] April In the Shade: “Stop” — Download a bluesy-edged rock single from London’s April in the Shade featuring the soulful vocals of Holly Rhed. Right-click to snag your copy, and check out the video for the 4-piece’s debut single below as well.
3. [MIXTAPE/ELECTRONIC] Major Lazer & La Roux: Lazerproof — Dancehall giants Diplo and Switch teamed up with British electro-pop duo La Roux and a cast of notable guest artists to produce this mixtape during a recent trip to Jamaica. Hit up the track list and download link at label Mad Decent. [via Pitchfork]
4. [HARD ROCK] Black Hat Villain: “My Generation” — Driving straightforward rock with an edge characterizes this 5-piece from Victoria, British Columbia. Right-click to snag a copy of “My Generation” and check out more about the band on their website.
5. [INDIE/ALTERNATIVE] ExDetectives: “Won’t Stop” — Los Angeles indie band ExDetectives blend melodic shoegazing pop with alternative rock and offer Mashable readers a free download of “Won’t Stop” (right-click to get it). Check out more about the band on their website and hear more on Bandcamp.
6. [DREAM POP] Gem Club: “Acid and Everything” — Ethereal and dreamy piano ballads emerge from this Somerville, Massachusetts pop duo. Right-click for a free copy of “Acid and Everything” and check out more about the group on MySpace.
7. [R&B/SOUL] Bettye LaVette: “Salt of the Earth” — In her latest album, American chanteuse Bettye LaVette soulfully interprets the British Invasion with 13 unique renditions of famous rock hits. Right-click for your free copy of her rendition of the Rolling Stones’s “Salt of the Earth.”
8. [DEEP HOUSE] Tim Split: “Are We Living in the Future? (Pete Dafeet Dub Mix)” — London-based label Lost My Dog offers this Pete Dafeet remix of young but accomplished classical pianist and UK songwriter Tim Split’s original track. Download it from the widget below, and check out more from Pete Dafeet and Lost My Dog.
FREE DOWNLOAD: Tim Split – Are We Living in the Future? (Pete Dafeet Dub Mix) by Lost My Dog9. [ALT POP] Escape Act: “Burning Sand” — Hailing from Belfast, Ireland, this four-piece outfit offers a free track to Mashable readers (right-click to snag it) as well as the rest of their debut album for a name your price/donation cost. Check out more about the band on their website.
10. [INDIE] Royal Downfall: “A Backlash is Here” — Swedish four-piece act Royal Downfall describes their second album as “some kind of indie rock with a touch of post-punk, barbed wire guitars, whirlwind drums and social critique.” Download “A Backlash is Here” along with the rest of the album via the widget below, plus check out the “no-budget” music video for the track embedded beneath.
As usual, huge thanks to all who tuned in to Free Music Monday! If you find something you like in this feature, please feel free to share it with your music-loving friends. You can always check out the latest edition of this feature, plus all the past editions, on the Free Music Monday tag page, so be sure to tune in each week. We’ve also included the list of past Free Music Mondays at the end of this post in case you want to check out the back catalog.
Huge thanks to everyone who has submitted tracks. If you sent us something and we haven’t included it yet, stay tuned for a future Free Music Monday. Here is how to submit your music to FMM:
Attention artists/labels: there are new submission guidelines for Free Music Monday. Please pick one track you’re willing to give away to Mashable readers as a free download and either a) include it as an attachment in your email to barb+FMM AT mashable DOT com (25 MB file size limit, please) or b) include a link to a location where we can download the song (use temporary file sharing sites like zshare at your own risk, because we may not get a chance to audition your track before the links expire). If you want to use “in exchange for email” or other specific widgets to offer the track to Mashable readers that’s totally fine — just send us or point us to the embed code. Please also include any relevant information about the artist (or link to their bio) plus their Twitter account, if they have one.
If you’d like to also point us to more of the submitted artist’s work online where we can stream and/or download it, please feel free — but you must complete either a or b to be considered for Free Music Monday. Due to overwhelming submission volume we are sadly unable to include each and every submission or even reply to every inquiry. If we haven’t posted your track yet, you are welcome to submit another new track at a reasonable and totally not pushy time interval. If we’ve already posted a track from your band or artist, we are unlikely to double up and post something else from you for some time — as much as we love all of you! This makes FMM more diverse and inclusive of new music. Thanks!
Free Music Monday Back Catalogue
- 10 Completely Free Downloads (April 12, 2010)
- 10 Entirely Free Downloads (April 5, 2010)
- 10 Free downloads and More (April 26, 2010)
- 10 Free Downloads Just for You (March 22, 2010)
- 10 Free Tracks (March 8, 2010)
- 10 Free Tracks to Download (May 10, 2010)
- 10 Fresh and Free Downloads (May 24, 2010)
- 10 Totally Free Downloads (March 29, 2010)
- Alternative Rock Edition
- Covers, Remixes, and Mashups Edition
- Free Music Monday: Download 10 Free Tracks (May 3, 2010)
- Electronica Edition
- Free Downloads for Your Collection (Feb. 8, 2010)
- Free Downloads for Your Ears (Feb. 1, 2010)
- Fresh and Free Downloads (Jan. 25, 2010)
- Get 10 Free Downloads Right Here! (March 1, 2010)
- Get Your 10 Free Downloads (May 17, 2010)
- Get Your 10 Free Downloads (April 19, 2010)
- Hip-hop Edition
- Labor Day Edition
- Live Edition
- Rock and Pop Edition
- Singer-Songwriter Edition
- This Week’s Free Downloads (Feb. 15, 2010)
- Video Edition
- Your Submissions Edition
- Your Submissions, All Downloads EditionFor more entertainment coverage, follow Mashable Entertainment on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook
Tags: downloads, free music monday, mp3s, music, musicmonday, twitter
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()