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Like Lucy Rose? Well then, I think you’re going to love this. The lovely lady recorded a live version of ‘Middle of the Bed’ a while ago at London Heaven, and wants to give it away to all of you. Where can you find this free download, you ask? Through this Facebook app. You’re welcome.
Last week, Crystal Castles premiered this new ‘Plague’, and now it’s available as a free mp3. Listen to this dance monster below and if you like it, download it.
To Kill a King have made their new EP, ‘Word of Mouth’, available for free. You can get it from the band’s Bandcamp in exchange for signing up for their mailing list here. Catch them on tour in October.
To give you a taste of what the EP’s like, here is the band’s new video for ‘Rays’, which features on the release. Watch it below. Singer Ralph Pelleymounter sounds remarkably like Charlie Fink of Noah and the Whale, and if you needed any more evidence of their street cred, the Guardian’s Paul Lester reported Laura Marling and Ted Dwane of Mumford and Sons grooving at their music at one of their early London shows last year.
It’s another week, and another Frank Ocean free download. It’s a remix of ‘Thinking Bout You’ by London’s Lonsdale Boys Club. Listen to and download it below.
I kind of had a feeling that Casiokids would be reappearing at some point later in 2012 after their album ‘Aabenbaringen over aaskammen’ had been released in January. I mean, come now. They had a song called ‘Olympiske leker’, which translates literally to “Olympic Games” in Norwegian.
Today, in honour of the Olympic ceremonies to take place tonight, we’re offering up their two free downloads of ‘Olympiske leker’, the original and a special v.2 version just in time for the special event. And it wouldn’t be an mp3 of the day and more post without that something more. That something more today is a specially commissioned hand-drawn video for the song, done by Chad Blevins. It’s all below for you to look, listen to and enjoy. Happy Friday!
Just in case you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard, General Fiasco release their second album, ‘Unfaithfully Yours’, Monday on Dirty Hit Records.
To help introduce tracks from the new album, the band will be releasing a series of live videos, one a week; for those of you that need instant gratification, all of the songs in this treatment are available for free download now in the widget below. For this week’s video, we’ve got the live version of ‘Gold Chains’ in video form for you. If this doesn’t get you excited about the new release…I think I need to check your head. And for a pulse. Seriously.
There Goes The Fear is where we tell you about the latest tours, gigs, and music we love and think you should too.
We love music that has its heart on its sleeve, tells a story, swims around our head all day or makes us dance like idiots.
The blog is edited by Mary Chang, who is based in Washington DC. She is joined by writers in the UK and America. It was started up by Phil Singer in Bristol, UK.
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