>>Nostalgia For Infinity

I’ve got a longstanding policy of not posting press releases or otherwise doing any kind of PR on this blog: I review stuff or otherwise indulge in creative or critical writing. That’s what I do.

However, I’m going to make an exception for Next Biggest Thing. I’ve a few reasons for this. Because it’s a newly-launched music club run by nice people. Because they send out a free digital single to subscribers every month. Because they put on free shows in London. Because, when I was looking into how this could be funded, I discovered that it’s an initiative by earMusic, the rock/pop/indie/metal subsidiary of Edel Group. Do you know who earMusic and Edel have put out? Fucking Gamma Ray. That’s right, cheesy as fuck German power metal. I used to love Gamma Ray and still stick them on occasionally for some lulz and nostalgia.

So anyway, yeah, it’s a cool initiative and whilst there’s no such thing as a free lunch there is such a thing as getting free tunes and shows from a subsidiary of a subsidiary of a group of medium-sized international record labels.

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Just a quick post to point at a couple of mp3 blogs that I think are pretty cool and you might want to check out. If you’ve got some favourites, feel free to share ‘em in the comments.

Note – none of these are blogs that are likely to post high-profile releases. They’re more about offering exposure to obscure outfits. If you want to know where to download the new Deftones, use Google. I’m not enabling you. You might alternatively want to go listen to something you’ve never heard before instead… in which case, knock yourself out!

Anyway, obviously you’re gonna do whatever you want to do, but if you find some tunes you really like and it’s still in print, go buy a real copy of it. Give something back to the artists and the labels who support them, huh?

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Del.icio.us links for January 28th through February 2nd:

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