So, you can download 25 indie tracks (or rap, classical, blues, whatever) from eMusic right now for free. They’re doing a 14-day free trial
that lets you keep the music you download, whether you subscribe or not, with no obligation, and no DRM. Nice. You can check out the offer here.
I recently browsed emusic.com and I picked out a bunch tracks by indie and alternative bands:
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Alkaline Trio
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Arcade Fire
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Badly Drawn Boy
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Beirut
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Belle and Sebastian
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Ben Kweller
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Bloc Party
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Brand New
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Dashboard Confessional
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Elliott Smith
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Jens Lekman
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Modest Mouse
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Of Montreal
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Plain White T’s
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Spoon
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Stereolab
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Sufjan Stevens
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The Decemberists
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The Mountain Goats
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The New Pornographers
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The Pixies
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The White Stripes
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Thom Yorke
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Voxtrot
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Yo La Tengo
Some of these are more mainstream indie than others, but whatever — I’m not ashamed. :) If you do the trial and download some tracks from e music, share your picks with the rest of us in the comments below — it’s fun to know what everyone else is listening to..!
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If you dig Beirut & Sufjan, you’ll prolly like Midlake too.