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October 17, 2011

Every day I offer 10 free and legal mp3 downloads and bonus live recordings in this blog's Daily Downloads feature. In almost 10 years of music blogging, I have gathered quite a collection of bookmarks to repositories of free and legal music downloads.

These sites range from the huge (the Free Music Archive and Live Music Archive each hosts tens of thousands of mp3s) to the tiny (They Might Be Giants offers a single track a week), but all are free and legal sources, and great places to discover new music and beef up your music library.

Do you have a favorite site for free and legal music downloads? What sites have I missed? Feel free to leave a comment.



The list of 100 online sources for free and legal music downloads:



3hive - music blog

Alina Simone - singer-songwriter

Amazon MP3 - online store with albums and singles

Aquarium Drunkard - live sessions

Bandcamp - online music store

Barsuk Records - record label

The Bay Bridged - live sessions

Beat the Indie Drum - record label

Better Looking Records - record label

Better Propaganda - music site

Big Ugly Yellow Couch - live sessions

Boompa Records - record label

Bradley's Almanac - live concerts

Cloud Chapel Records - record label

Dead Oceans - record label

Deep Elm Records - record label

Donewaiting - live sessions

Drag City - record label

EardrumsPop - record label

Epitonic - live sessions

Epitonic - music site

Fat Wreck Chords - record label

Fingertips - music blog

Free Albums Galore - music blog

Free Music Archive - music site

Free Music Is Awesome!!! - music site

Fuel/Friends - live sessions

Green Label Sound - music site

Guided By Voices - band

Halfway House Music - live sessions

Hallelujah the Hills - band

HearYa - live sessions

Hometapes - record label

Hush Records - record label

Indiecater Records - record label

Insound - music store with free mp3s

Insubordination Records - record label

Jamendo - online music store

Jealous Butcher Records - record label

John Vanderslice - singer-songwriter

Josh Ritter - singer-songwriter

The Key - live sessions

La Societe Expeditionnaire - record label

Labrador Records - record label

Lapdance Academy - music collective

Largehearted Boy - music blog

Last.fm - social music community

LaundroMatinee - live sessions

Live Music Archive - live concerts

Lujo Records - record label

MadeLoud - music website

Magnet Magazine - music magazine

Mashable - technology blog

Matablog - record label blog

Metallica - live recordings

McGuinn's Folk Den - Roger McGuinn's folk covers

Misra Records - record label

Mile Marker sessions - live studio sessions

MountainGoats.net - Mountain Goats fansite

MP3.com - music website

Nels Cline - guitarist

New Weird Australia - record label

No Idea Records - record label

NoiseTrade - music site

nyctaper - live concerts

The Occasional Archivist - live concerts

Old 97's - band

Pitchfork - music site

PureVolume - music website

Radiohead Not for Profit - live Radiohead downloads

RCRD LBL - music blog

Recording LA - live concert downloads

Records on Ribs - record label

Robert Pollard - singer-songwriter

Rock Proper - record label

Secretly Canadian - record label

Serious Business Records - record label

Sigur Ros - band

Silber Records - record label

Sinewave - record label

Song, by Toad - in-studio sessions

Song, by Toad Records - record label

Sound as Language - music blog

Soundclick - music website

Southern Shelter - live concert downloads

SPIN - music magazine

Spinner - music blog

Stereogum - music blog

Strange Attractors - record label

Sweet Adeline - Elliott Smith official website

The Switchboard Sessions - live sessions

Team Love - record label

They Might Be Giants - band

Thrill Jockey - record label

Tim Fite - singer-songwriter

Triple J - Australian indie rock radio station

True North Records - record label

Violitionist - live sessions

Visible Voice - live concert downloads

Wood and Wire - record label

XO Publicity - indie rock publicity firm



also at Largehearted Boy:

other lists at Largehearted Boy

Daily Downloads (free and legal daily mp3 downloads)

Book Notes (authors create music playlists for their book)

musician/author interviews

Note Books (musicians discuss literature)

Shorties (daily music, literature, and pop culture links)

Soundtracked (composers and directors discuss their film's soundtracks)

Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from the week's CD releases)

weekly music & DVD release lists

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