Villagers Daytrotter session

Conor O’Brien records a small set of songs acoustically for the revered indie song session site. It features a cover of Leonard Cohen’s Famous Blue Raincoat along with three Villagers originals.

Listen at DayTrotter

Snack Tunes

A free compilation of live material from bands who have played on the Brooklyn-based radio show Snacky Tunes. Includes tracks from Freelance Whales, Frankie Rose & The Outs, Surfer Blood and more.
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Robin Pecknold releases free tracks

The Fleet Foxes singer recorded three slow-burning acoustic guitar songs (one is a duet with Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear) that didn’t fit in with his band, so he gave them away on Twitter.

Robin Pecknold (of Fleet Foxes) Solo Acoustic Set by Thunder Road

Braids

Currently lighting up the music blogs are this Canadian-based quartet with nods towards early Animal Collective with loose folky electro songs that still manage to make things pop. Lemonade is the track to get started with.

http://www.myspace.com/braidsmusic

1. Hockey
   A storming set from this Portland indie-funk pop four piece alongside Passion Pit last Sunday in Whelan’s, has marked them out as potential heavy-hitters at this year’s Oxegen festival.
   myspace.com/hockey
2. Phoenix
   The cool French band return with a catchy gem of a song called ’1901′ from the brilliantly-titled forthcoming album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.
   url.ie/196t
3. SXSW MP3s
   Every year, 1800 bands from across the globe descend on Austin,Texas for a mammoth five days of live music. 65 hours or over 1000 legal tracks from the bands playing the festival are now available to download.
   url.ie/196u
4. Fleet Foxes frontman goes solo
   Robin Pecknold, the lead singer of last year’s big indie success stories Fleet Foxes is striking out on his own and his solo work so far is as nimble and as every bit as good as his other band’s material.
   myspace.com/awhiteantelope