Free new tracks from Sufjan Stevens, Spoon, _and_ Need New Body. They're all excellent, and bode well for the unreleased albums from which they come!

"There was a self-titled debut, followed by an LP." Sweet! More Decemberists-ish material to devour.

"Comcast turned over the names and addresses of some of its customers to the RIAA, without being required to do so by a court order and without notifying the customers."

"In November of '96, Vatican hardliner Cardinal Ratzinger warned that heavy metal was an 'instrument of the Devil' and endangered young people's souls."

Tyler Hoyt's electronic music.

"'No one should psychoanalyze the song selection. It's music to get over the next hill.'"

The New York Public Library and WIRED present a talk with Jeff Tweedy, Lawrence Lessig, and Steven Johson. Very interesting.

On the struggle between Apple and the music industry. "Is the government coming to take away your iPod? Of course not. But your iPod is already less functional than it should be."

"We use computers... to make video games!" Games, music, and more.

James Anderson's electronic music.

Remember "Rodeohead?" Here's the full-length by the same guys.

An hour-long mix, showcasing "the history of cut up music - be it avant garde tape manipulation, turntable megamixes or bastard pop mash ups."

A free collection of Super Mario Brothers and Final Fantasy songs on piano.

"The erosion of social conscience." Should musicians be uniting politically?

"A collection of legally downloadable, freely distributable creator-approved files, from electronic/indie music to movies and books, which we have made available via BitTorrent."

"Top 10 net.label MP3 releases for the year, in no particular order, all freely downloadable and Creative Commons licensed." Yes. YES. YES!!

"Monotonik is a net.music.label that _exclusively_ releases music online in the mp3 format. All of our releases are freely downloadable and distributable under a Creative Commons license that allows free non-commercial distribution."

Mashups.

"This face was supposed to be viewable with a spectrograph program, so I decided to try it myself." Art from Plaid, Aphex Twin, and Venetian Snares.

"In 2005, Basic Hip Digital Oddio will feature an entire year of albums from the golden age of kiddie records, lovingly transferred from the original 78s and encoded to 192kbps MP3 format. That's one a week for 52 weeks!"

Dozens and dozens of excellent (free) tracks by People Like Us and friends.

Beatles and Jay-Z music video mashup.

Mashups, sets, tracklists, downloads.

"Electro-pop duo's feud with the United States Postal Service ends in bizarre cross-promotion." "Surreal events like this one don't happen every day, and they must be documented for posterity."

The lead singer of the late Dismemberment Plan covers Ludacris.

Interpretation and investigation.

"Between them the Remainders have published over 150 titles, sold over 200 million books, and have been translated into over 25 languages, but for one week a year they are rock stars."