- Linesthroughlines has a listening assignment today: download these tracks by Badly Drawn Boy, Josh Ritter, What Made Milwaukee Famous and Blitzen Trapper.
- Macktronic posted an entire free Insound compilation CD today, loaded with tracks by bands like The Hold Steady, TV On The Radio, The Rapture and a whole lot more.
- My Music Trivia proves everybody’s connected, including tracks by Pavement, the Smashing Pumpkins, the Silver Jews and Zwan.
- Come on, you kinda want to download these acoustic Everclear tracks from Faronheit. Admit it. We won’t tell.
- And finally, Both Sides of the Mouth has 3 tracks by the Cold War Kids that are too good to ignore. So don’t.
- Just in case Pitchfork’s review of the new Jet album wasn’t enough for you, The Music Nazi posted a track for your enjoyment. Go listen to it, then decide for yourself if it’s better or worse than a monkey drinking its own urine.
- Gorilla vs. Bear posted a track from Clipse’s new album. So go download “Oh My S**t”, if for no other reason than it’s an amazing song title.
- The Scissor Sisters have been all over TV promoting their new album. Culture Bully has mp3’s of their appearance on Dancing With The Stars and Conan.
- Everyone– everyone– is loving The Hold Steady’s new album. Pop Tart’s Suck Toasted has three tracks from Boys & Girls In America, as well as three tracks off the new Decemberists album.
- And finally, A Soundtrack For Everyone posted tracks by The Killers and The Lemonheads today. Download them, because you could always use more ‘The’ bands in your iPod.
- Brooklyn hipster-monsters TV On the Radio “Return to Cookie Mountain” over at Aquarium Drunkard.
- Speaking of cookies and hipsters, The Hobby Box dunks the latest The Hold Steady track, “Chips Ahoy”, into his spilled milk.
- I Am Fuel, You Are Friends knows that the only thing better than cookies is a list of rare tracks from the Sub Pop Singles club that you can download for free!
- Last week Jeff Tweedy turned 39 years old, but to celebrate Muzzle of Bees gave his gift to us by posting a bunch of rare live Wilco tracks.
- Scenestars will set you on fire with pictures, tracks and a recap (but sadly, no cookies) from the The Flaming Lips live performance at Lollapalooza.
- I Am Fuel, You Are Friends is starting the week off right with a Monday mix including Pete Yorn, Rooney, Girl Talk, R.E.M. and more.
- Speaking of Michael Stipe and co., Feed me Good Tunes has a bunch of old tracks from a handful of albums. Download them all.
- Pop Tarts Suck Toasted has a mix today that features tracks by Of Montreal, The Hold Steady, and a few other bands passing through New York this week. You know I’ll be at the OM show Sunday.
- Disco-Not-Disco posted four great tracks today, including songs by Clipse and Beck, so I’m willing to overlook the positive review for Johnny Knoxville’s The Ringer. But it wasn’t easy.
- And finally, if you’ve never listened to Voxtrot head on over to Obscure Sound asap. Let me know what you think.
