Free music is something you can download and listen at your convenience, for free, but you can’t necessarily use it for commercial purposes. Essentially, it’s free for download and personal use, but not commercial use. For that, you need royalty-free music. Here’s where you can find it.

AudioJungle

AudioJungle is definitely one of the places to check out. With tracks from as little as $1, they provide all genres of royalty-free music. The site also offers a range of sound effects and kits, and the odds you’ll find anything you can ask for in their collection.

If you’re looking for a good place to start, this is it — but it’s not the only one.

Free Stock Music

True to its name, the website has stock music, and it’s free. You need to sign up (which is free), and then you can access their entire collection.

They also offer a wide range of genres, as well as several audio formats (MP3, WAV, & AIFF). All in all, while it is somewhat limited, it’s an excellent and free resource.

Pond Music

Pond music touts themselves as the “world’s largest collection of royalty-free stock video and creative assets”. We don’t know if that’s true, but with a library of 500,000 tracks to choose from, they’re definitely one of the biggest.

What also helps set Pond apart is its excellent categorization. Everything is divided into adequate categories, which makes it very easy to find what you’re looking for and download it with ease.

Seven Skies Music

If you’re looking for royalty free techno music, you can’t go wrong here. Seven Skies has a collection of mastered sounds suitable for most projects.

They claim to be the “platform to unite musicians who make beautiful audio tracks and people who need qualitative sound for various purposes.” While their library is not as large as some of the other ones on this list, the quality definitely makes up for it.

Machinima Sound

Yet another reliable library, Machinima features a wide range of tracks, genres. Their music is typically available in MP3 format, which might not be well-suited for all projects, but it’s easy to access and use.

In particular, look for songs marked as Legacy — they’re free, as long as you attribute them under a specific license format.

Amazon

If all else fails, there’s always Amazon. Amazon has one of the biggest libraries you can find anywhere on the internet. It’s not free, but it’s usually quite cheap.

While it’s probably not the place you want to start, you can use Amazon when all else fails.

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His new song, ‘You Said You Needed Time’, is a driving little tune with some great riffs and mean guitar tones.

He’s yet to debut his full-band live show but I for one am eagerly awaiting his announcement to do so.

With frequent plays on BBC Introducing radio stations and features on a number of blogs, his following is slowly but surely growing by the day.

You can check out his tracks on here: https://soundcloud.com/matthewcross or on Spotify and both of his releases are available to buy on iTunes and Bandcamp. He’s also done a very limited run of hard copies of his Debut EP, ‘Better Late Than Never’ which you can find here: https://mattcross.bandcamp.com/album/better-late-than-never-ep

As well as having 5 fantastic tunes, that EP has one of the most beautiful and unusual covers I’ve seen in a long time, by London artist Kim Bennett.

You can follow Matt on social media here: https://twitter.com/mattcross071  https://www.instagram.com/mattcrossuk/  https://www.facebook.com/Matt-Cross-263896187385698/

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‘How you been? Have you told your mother about me?’, sings Rex as he opens his set at The Barfly in Camden on Sunday. I’ve been well thanks, and yes, yes I have. In fact I’ve told pretty much everyone I know about you since you dropped your album last month.

Rex, also known as Alex, released his first track back in June, ‘Corduroy Dreams’. It’s a croony lazy love song full of wit and depth that far surpasses his age of 17. He followed this up last month with an 11 track album titled ‘bcos u will never b free’, a stunning snapshot of a teenager on the cusp of adulthood, encompassing all of the questions, confusion and heartbreak that being at such an age brings.

After discovering such a relatively unheard gem I was excited to hear that he was playing a headline show in Camden. I enter as support Cosmo Pyke is playing, it’s an intelligent jazzy set full of punk energy and he holds the crowd well. Its obvious when he finishes though people are there for Rex. As the lights darken, the room fills and we are graced with a playback of Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love for You by Glenn Medeiros. Though obviously played ironically, it was actually the perfect intro to the set that followed.

He comes on sporting a Metallica t-shirt, again I sense irony here, and it brings so much to his performance. His second track, Paradise, pays homage to artists such as Stevie Wonder and D’Angelo, however firmly being Rex’s sound. In the second verse he jumps off the piano and grabs the microphone to rap; incredibly this looks like the most natural thing in the world for a white boy from Surrey. Its clear that he knows himself better than most 17-year-old musicians ever could. Lyrics such as ‘see the reason why they did not understand you in school/same reason why you tell yourself you’re not cool’ and ‘onto the fourth but you still cant see why they would want to drink this/cold/branded/bottled/fizzing piss’ are both thoughtful and relatable, and evoke emotions that every teenager feels but most wouldn’t put into words.

He plays a track that he introduces as a new one that’s not on the album. The beginning sounds distinctly like the intro to Easy Easy by King Krule (which unfortunately some big mouthed cunt in the crowd took it upon himself to shout out), but when the verse kicks in you forget the similarity instantly. He gets the crowd to sing along to the lyric ‘you’re gonna wanna be my best friend baby’, a lyric and tactic that if anyone else used would be cheesy, but thanks to his incredible musicianship and inoffensive exterior, it’s simply endearing and works well. With regards to King Krule, there are a lot of influences obviously taken from him by Rex, and his sound would fit in well alongside him and other artists that are coming out of South East London at the moment such as Jamie Isaac and MC Pinty. However, in Krule’s music there is such despair, and such self-loathing at times. Rex is like a King Krule filled with hope, a youthful optimism rather than weary pessimism.

He ends his set with a poem; a bold move for a gig so early on in his career considering the room is primarily made up of teenagers. Of course the crowd hang on his every word though, and it’s as thoughtful and direct as expected.

He ends up playing an encore; a cover of Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, and again the audience love it and he leaves the stage to a room of absolutely thunderous cheering and applause.

The night has been fantastic, and he’s proved himself to be an inspiration to any lost teenager and simply remarkable to anyone older. If this is what he’s coming with on his first release, without a label or even a manager, it’s incredible to think what his future holds.

Listen to ‘bcos u will never b free’ here:

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20 year old producer from Liverpool SG Lewis has dropped No Less, the first track from his upcoming EP. Featuring vocals from Louis Mattrs, its a soulful, sexy piece of R+B that flows calmly with an arousing exuberance. The hook of the song ‘I just wanna do you right’ may sound crass, but accompanied by Lewis’s lush production it is the perfect lyric. The simple beat is hypnotic, and when the guitar and clicks come in for the chorus its all beautifully tied together.

This is my first glimpse of SG Lewis but its a promising first listen. Having previously held a longstanding residency at Liverpool’s Chibuku club as well as a spending the first half of this year playing shows across Europe, SG already has a busy summer ahead with appearances at Parklife Festival, Wild Life Festival, Lovebox and Bestival amongst many more. With support coming from Annie Mac, Pete Tong, DJ Target, MistaJam and Toddla T and a growing number of supporters online, SG Lewis is quickly establishing himself amongst the next wave of exciting and forward thinking producers.

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Oliver Heldens is a dutch producer that has very quickly made his name in the charts. If you don’t recognise the name I can guarantee your ears will be familiar with his debut banger “Gecko”.

Oliver Heldens first caught my attention with his original mix of “Gecko”; a version featuring no vocals, just certain funky grooves mixed with commercial house. I instantly knew it would dominantly make itself an essential track in club sets, and it undoubtedly has. Heldens quickly caught the attention of Tiësto who signed him to his label Musical Freedom, releasing a new version of the track with vocals from British singer Becky Hill. Check out the really bizzare video here! The vocals were clearly a perfect fit with the track debuting at number 1 on both the UK Dance Chart and the UK Singles Chart.

The producer seems to wander in and out of genres, fading in and out of electro, deep, and progressive house. Slotting deep thumping beats with funky electro rhythms, Heldens has gone on to create an impressive string of releases through 2014 into 2015. “Gecko’s” follow up “Koala (Last All Night)” clearly portrays this. Featuring vocals by KStewart, an incredibly catchy melody and deep electro vibes, it captures his funky signature style in perfect fashion. Give it a listen here.

I think Heldens has started as he means to go on and with the way he is going it is somewhere big after winning the Best Breakthrough Artist Award at the International Dance Music Awards back in March. An easily distinguished DJ for 2014 but definitely someone to keep our eyes on for 2015!

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The Prodigy – The Day Is My Enemy album artwork Source

The well known English electronic music band decided to share their newest video for one of the tracks from their upcoming album. Wild Frontier is one of the fifteen tracks from the The Day Is My Enemy album which is set to be released on March 30 via Three Six Zero Music/Warner Bros Records.

Last month on January 12 the band also released a cartoon video for their first single from their newest album, Nasty, which can be watched at the bottom of the page.

The follow-up of the 2009’s Invaders Must Die is already available for pre-order on iTunes and will give you an immediate download for three of the tracks. Below you can check out the album’s full tracklist:

1.The Day Is My Enemy (featuring Martina Topley-Bird & Paul “Dirtcandy” Jackson on vocals)
2.Nasty
3.Rebel Radio
4.Ibiza(featuring Sleaford Mods on vocals)
5.Destroy
6.Wild Frontier
7.Rok-Weiler
8.Beyond the Deathray
9.Rhythm Bomb(featuring Flux Pavilion on production & additional programming)
10.Roadblox
11.Get Your Fight On
12.Medicine
13.Invisible Sun
14.Wall of Death
15.Rise of the Eagles(Bonus Track)

The video shares a story of some huntsmen that are killing animals in the woods being killed by one of the mutant animals themselves in the end. Maybe this will have a more profound meaning than I see but personally I don’t like movies or videos where animals are killed. But you might like it and even see the meaning behind the whole idea of the album.

Also the song sounds quite simple, maybe because I was expecting it to sound more like Invaders Must Die which is one great album of them, but I’ll just wait for the other songs in order to come up with an opinion about the new Prodigy sound.
Enjoy the video for Wild Frontier below!

Also check out the video for Nasty!

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Soundgarden. Source

The American rock band finally decided to share new information about the follow up of 2012’s King Animal. It was about time! If you really think about the fact that the last album was actually the first one released in 16 years this fresh news actually comes as a surprise for the fans. It appears that the band is taking this reunion more seriously than ever and that they are ready to start working at their new album.

According to the band’s guitarist, Kim Thayil,It seems that there are no materials ready yet for the upcoming album:

No studio has been chosen and no songs are written yet… When we finish these shows in Australia, we’ll spend a month or more working on it. It’s definitely going to happen.

What we don’t really know for sure yet but might be a possibility is the album’s producer, according to Kim’s statement:

We worked with producer Adam Kasper on our last album and I wouldn’t be surprised if we hook up with him again.

Speaking about the sound of the upcoming new material, the band’s singer Chris Cornell said that:

We’re definitely gonna start writing new songs and I think we’ve all agreed on several occasions that we want to keep doing it. And I think it will be very similar to ‘King Animal’ in that there’s no clock on it. And I also see us going out into some new SOUNDGARDEN frontier musically and see what it is, and hopefully we’ll be here in a year talking about what that is.

Hopefully this album will be as good as the previous one, or maybe a lot better, knowing that King Animal was quite a success and also a very good rock album.
Also in October last year, Soundgarden released a new song, Storm, which can be found at the bottom of the article.

Enjoy it below!

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Lorde. Source

Joel Little, the producer of one of the most successful young artists – Lorde – has finally confirmed that they will begin working at a new material next month, according to NME:

Within the next month or so we’ll be in the studio,

The producer also added about the whole process that:

We’re just going to start writing some songs. We haven’t got some planned out ‘This is what it’s going to sound like’… I think we’re just going to start writing and when it starts to feel right, we’ll know that it’s right. It’s pretty simple really.

Event though they only share very vague information about the follow up of the 2013’s Pure Heroin, the artist spoke about the new material at the recent Golden Globe awards event:

For me I have to kind of write a project lyrically before I attack it musically. So I’ve written a lot of amazing stuff and I’m just tentatively starting to make it music.

We also don’t have an official release date, but it seems that it won’t be quite soon as I can understand from Lorde’s statement when asked about it:

I have no timeline…I really don’t care.

I have to say that if all of these happen like the teenage artist says, I bet it will be on of the most sincere albums that will be released this year(hopefully). In the same time, I’ve kind of heard this way before, when Lykke Li released her third album last year which actually ended up way less appreciated than it was expected.

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Lady Gaga performing at Oscars. Source

I think that an introduction to the Oscars is redundant – but Lady Gaga performing live songs from the well known classical movie, The Sound Of Music, at the Oscars, that is really something that is worth sharing.

The singer performed four songs from the musical, The Sound Of Music, My Favourite Things, Edelweiss and Climb Ev’ry Mountain, as the event actually coincided with the movie’s 50th anniversary.

Julie Andrews hugging Lady Gaga. Source

At first I was quite skeptic about this, knowing Gaga’s strong voice compared to Julie Andrews’ soft opera-like voice… it’s not something I would’ve seen coming. But I also really have to say that I was also impressed the first moment when the pop singer began singing: The hills are alive with the sound of music… .

At the end of the performance, Julie Andrews actually went on stage in order to hug Lady Gaga and approve that she did a great job:

Dear Lady Gaga, thank you for that wonderful tribute. It really warmed my heart, it really did.

Without any further ado, enjoy the song that impressed not only the fans and the haters as well, but the person that originally performed the songs of the one of the most well known musicals in the history of movies industry.

Enjoy the performance below and don’t forget to share your thoughts!

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What makes this new album so special is the fact that this is the first studio album ever to be released with the band’s newest singer, Floor Jansen, former After Forever singer, which replaced the pop-metal singer Annette Olzon.

I have to admit that after I’ve heard the news that Floor became the band’s newest vocalist I really thought that Nightwish will turn back to really make some good symphonic metal music. It seems that I was wrong. These guys just wanna stick to the pop-metal area.

Even though I am not really impressed by the song (actually I think it’s quite average) the video is really not that bad and the singer looks very nice in the pin-up – rockabilly outfit. Check out the video at the bottom of the page!

For many of you might not be the very first time you listen to the Élan single, because last week the song actually leaked on the internet. Asked to make a short statement about this event, the band’s frontman, Tuomas Holopainen replied:

The leaking of a full album, or just a single song in advance, is a huge blow to the wonderful mystery which is surrounding the impending release of our new music. We have deliberately cultivated this so as to give our fans an event; a (hopefully) powerful surprise. The passionate posts on the bands Facebook page (which were done in the heat of the moment) were no doubt a honest reaction to the disappointment in someone deliberately spoiling a part of these efforts. To suggest that the band or the record label would do this on purpose is very “conspiracy theory” and simply not true. The very thing we care about most is the music on the album, and the impact it will have on people.

When I’ve heard about this my thoughts went to Lana del Rey which has no problem with her songs being leaked like every time she wants to release some new material, but this time I have to agree with Tuomas. The leaking of one new song really makes the magic moment of releasing fade away (not speaking of entire albums and bands that leak their own albums).

My only concern now is how long will take them to change Floor Jansen as their vocalist. Don’t get me wrong, I like Floor, and I used to listen to a lot of After Forever and Nightwish back in my teenage days but you guys have to admit that this band changes their singers and band members like (I’ll quote Katy Perry here) a girl changes clothes.

Enjoy the video below and don’t forget to free your mind and share your thoughts!

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