Category: free downloads

I normally never do straight album downloads on this blog, but this is a rare exception. “Sleepy Hollow” is one of those rare and obscure records from 1972 that was released as a tax scam (see the interview link below) and never noticed by the public. The music is similar to classic sound of The Beatles, Badfinger, or The Hudson Brothers. I’m open to suggestions as to who the band actually is and if any information can be found about them. The only info on them is identified on The Acid Archives and that isn’t much: “So this album gets big points for nostalgia value; like Blue Ash, Badfinger, Zerfas, Anonymous, We All Together, Jade and so on, it gives comfort to people who wish the Beatles never broke up.” For power pop fans, it’s unearthed treasure. I also found the era of tax scam records fascinating. So enjoy this one.

Download Album | Aaron Milenski Interview about the “Tax Scam” era 

Yes, the more the merrier. Spread the love of The Major Labels, a power pop supergroup made up of Mike Viola, Bleu and Ducky Carlisle. I’m not gonna say anymore, except you need to pass out 3 friends e-mails to get the album.

The band Shake Some Action is working on the new album “Sunny Days” for June release. In the meantime, they have a goodie for you powerpopaholics – a free track! Check out the video above to see the band hard at work.

Listen to “Looking for Someone”

And you can download the track directly from here. This sounds like it’s gonna be a great summer.

Like the “Friends” theme, he’ll be there for you (fans). Get the first solo album of Danny Wilde, “The Boyfriend” for FREE from his website. Danny Wilde’s first solo album featured a lineup that looks very much like that of the first Rembrandts album-with Phil Solem on guitar and Pat Mastelotto on drums. But the sound of “The Boyfriend” isn’t quite what you may expect. This is a straight 1986 pop rock record. The first single, “Isn’t It Enough”, was a Top 20 rock radio hit, and would often be covered live by Martina McBride and appeared in Patty Smyth’s album “Never Enough”. Because Wilde jumped ship to Geffen Records shortly after the album’s release, The Boyfriend was never issued on CD and has been out of print for years.

Not only is the album available for FREE it’s been encoded at 320 kbps, which means it’s CD quality sound. Download it at Danny Wilde’s Website

Thanks to XFM, The Charlatans “You Cross My Path” is available as a FREE download. Speaking to Xfm frontman Tim Burgess revealed “We always knew this album was gonna be given away for free, even before we started writing so we wanted to make it the best album we’ve ever made. This isn’t a case of left over tracks and b-sides, we wanted to give our fans a quality record.” And after listening to it, the album is pretty good: plenty of Brit-pop guitars and pounding beats – read the rest of the PR here. An extra thanks to TooPoppy blog for finding this.

The Not Lame Blog has also announced an albums worth of FREE music for download, as well. Bruce is calling it “The Official Not Lame Blog Soundtrack” and it’s got tracks from a big list of favorite artists like, Doug Powell, P. Hux, The Shazam, Bleu and many others. You can’t go wrong with this. The more people hear these artists the better it is for power pop.