Free as a Bee: Knightingale, Cheap Horse, Animal Camera, Phenomenal Cat, Buried Feather, Glenn Robinson, ipreferguitars, No Museums, The Loblaws, Vista Blue, Deco Auto, undone

Almost exactly how we feel at this precise moment.

Well, it appears the only way we're getting another post done is to eschew verbiage and get right to free and legal downloadables we've found and loved. Like Antonio, we know we're personally "your bad entertainment" but trust the music won't be.


Knightingale



This Singapore band's debut LP was one of our favorites from 2016, We bought six songs off it but recently found it available for name-your-price download. In addition to the first song cued up above, we also bought #3, 5, 6, 7, & 9. Keen-eared visitors might remember we embedded their latest single in our Faves of the Faves Playmoss Playlist in a recent post. In case you missed it, here it is.




Cheap Horse


Many thanks to longtime friend/visitor johnnybgoode for the headsup on this Santa Cruz band. We also particularly liked #13. And speaking of johnnyb., we remember he kind of liked this next band, who've recently put out some good newstuff.


Animal Camera



We also liked-to-loved #2, 3, 5, & 8. When we got word about this Burien, WA band's recent LP, we looked back at our first Animal Camera post and found to our horror that all the songs had been removed at Bandcamp. But after contacting him, head Animal (or Camera?) Gianni Aiello kindly restored the songs in a comprehensive collection, posted below. We begin with our favorite and note that the others we particularly like are #5, 6, 12, & 13, but do please feel free to listen to them all. (Big of us, sure, but, hey, whatever.)




Phenomenal Cat



This and #12, 14, & 20 are our favorites from the Kentish band's rock opera, Pop Wasteland. Perhaps it's a bit naughty to pick out but four faves from a concept album, but the whole work is available in the widget above. In the widget below you will find "Ramshackle Heart," a favorite we previously posted, along with beaucoup more for your consideration. Just a thought, but perhaps Animal Camera might want to arrange a photoshoot of Phenomenal Cat. AWS, just a thought. Oh, and also too, maybe Cheap Horse. Or Buried Feather. This post is wearing us out.




Buried Feather


Highly diggable Melbourne psych! More here.


Glenn Robinson


Actually we are quite impressed indeed. You probably noticed this particular song features ace powerpoprocker Kurt Baker. We also especially like #5 on this hot lil LP. You can find previously posted free and legals by this Providence, RI rocker here. Suddenly we're writing short, punchy sentences. What gives with that?


ipreferguitars


Thanks to Powerpopaholic for the headsup on this Hamburg/Stockholm/Warsaw band.


No Museums


We were not previously tuned in to the Edmonton surfer scene but sure are now. We also particularly like #1 & 4. Thanks to our Bandcamp friend thorsten sideboard for the headsup.


The Loblaws & Vista Blue


We also really enjoyed #1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 by The Loblaws and #9, 10, 11, & 12 by Vista Blue, both bands courtesy of Radiant Radish.


Deco Auto


Gotta thank The Well Wishers' Jeff Shelton for the headsup on this rocker outta Kansas City. Click here to see our previously posted freely/legally downloadable by DA.


undone


Scope ye out this fine band of Macedonians.


We could keep going in this vein, but you get the drift. We hope to return soon with more free and legals. In the meantime, don't forget to check our Powerpopulist Currents Playmoss widgets up in the right-hand corner of this page for constant updates of songs we like that are not free but definitely legal and downloadable (for nominal fees).

Glenn Robinson, Man of Providence (and Rock and Ro-o-olllll)

Guessin' that's Glenn on the throne

Nor are we completely sure how we found out about this Rhode Island rocker, but it was obviously providence. And our recent Bandcamp purchases playlist just now reminded us how blessed we are. And then we found out the songs we purchased were available for free on a different EP. And then our Last.fm profile revealed he had thoughtfully planted a baker's handful (with an extra thumb or finger) of free downloads at his Last.fm page. And so, yes, the cybergods of thunder are doing righteous work today. Offer thanks at Bandcamp and read scripture here and here. And, yes, we ask forgiveness for this ridiculously worded post. But we expect none. And so we just go on sinning and sinning and sinning and can't seem to st

End-of-Year Free-Download Extravagonzo: Ballard, Glenn Robinson, Green Buzzard, Prince Rupert's Drops, Jetstream Pony, The Dandelion Seeds, Sir Robin & The Longbowmen, Burning House, Ben Woods, Vista Blue, Sloucher, The Faux Derix, The Love-Birds, Sauna Youth, Tiger Waves, Fritz, Super Paradise, Ex Norwegian, Thee MVPs, The Brother Kite, Bubble Boys, Charlie Foxtrot, Matt Shane, Murray Darling, Go Violets, Ruby, The Unswept, SCK CHX, Slime

Smile, bae. Your ship's about to come in.

In the spirit of what's generally going on this time of year, we bestow below a bounty of free and legally downloadable songs we've found and liked or loved but just haven't gotten around to posting yet. To download, click the light blue link (bandname or songtitle) or the additional download information we've provided. Of course, it's really the artists themselves (or their labels) who have so beneficently bestowed, so multiple thanks, hugs, etc., to THEM! Hope you have a very merry!

Free download here. Actually, this is by Green Buzzard, one of our very favorite Ozbands discovered in the last couple of years. Cool video here.

Actually by the quite groovy Prince Rupert's Drops; free download here.

The songtitle is "Crazy Sun."

Free download here.

Fun-ish video here.

Pause to take a breath. Okay, back to it.

Free download here. Song's by The Love-Birds.

Free download here.

Another breath. OK, GO!

Thanks to Bill Curran, aka Racer-X, for the headsup.

Thanks to Thibault at Still in Rock for the headsup.

Free download here. Thanks to Wub-Fur for the headsup.

Free download here.

Free download here.

Song's not as oookie as the bandname suggests. Rather Tom Yummy, in fact. Click the down arrow to, like, download.

Are you okay? Have we posted enough this time? We know we've been a bit remiss at posting this year, so we're trying to atone. Did we? (Rhetorical questions, these.)

Freebie Faves from Screwballs and Curveballs ICM COMP 2019: The Galileo 7, Ashes For Dreams, Glenn Robinson, Tommy Sistak, David Woodard, The Speak, The Stan Laurels, Jordan Jones, Emperor Penguin, The Details, The Unswept, Day & Dream, Mondello, The Turnback, The Ace, Trip Wire, Building Rockets, Librarians With Hickeys, Psychotic Youth, Tommy & The Rockets, Nick Frater, and Streetcar Conductors

Dude's done it again. Mr. Wayne Lundquist Ford, aka "The Ice Cream Man," purveyor of powerpop, janglepop, hooky melodic pop, and other fine dairy products, has blazed forth with yet another of his annual Summer compilations of primo pop for FREE DOWNLOADing porpoises. (Sure, "blazed" is kind of oxymoronic, but we are proud, pimpled morons.)

We've just finished our annual recon of all 133 songs and have put together a playlist of our very favorites. (See it under the Bandcamp widget of all 133 songs.) If you find a song you'd like to download, click the ////bc link and be swept (or unswept, in one case) away to its Bandcamp page for downloading activity. To download all 133 songs, click the word "download" in the Bandcamp widget.

Many thanks to The Man, The Cool Cool Legend, Mr. WLF, for the expertise and effort involved in making this stellar collection available for y/our listening pleasure. And of course, many thanks to the superb artists for making such terrific music and letting us have it free of charge.

To view our previous posts of Ice Cream Man favorites, click here. (Prepare yourselves for a good long stay and myriad conesful of enjoyment.)

Update - 30.vi.19 - Individual songs are no longer available for free, BUT you can download the whole compilation at once for free. Wayne explains the situation here.

Fave Flaves from Ice Cream Man's Latest Compilation (Phase 2***): Colour Me Wednesday, The Buzz, First In Space, Mainline, Richard Turgeon, Budgie City FC, Walker Brigade, Glenn Robinson, Rob Clarke and The Wooltones, The Bookends

Hello and behold the second batch of our favorite songs from Ice Cream Man Wayne Lundquist Ford's fabulous compilation, Rocking Road. As before, we'll post the entire 126-song comp, followed by our second set of favorites. If you'd rather go straight to the relevant Bandcamp page, click here. Again, many thanks to The Cool One and the wonderful musicians for making these songs available for free download.

#111

We're longtime fans of this West London band. Check out our previous posts (with free downloadables and a much-played, much-enjoyed video of "Purge Your Inner Tory.")

#95

#125

#97

#52

#9

#35

#62

Click here to see previous posts with free downloads from this Providence R. I. rocker.

#44

Click here to see previous posts featuring this excellent band of Liverpudlians.

#59

***in which the oats get Doris

Faves from Ice Cream Man's Power Popsicle Brain Freeze Compilation (Part 1): The Galileo 7, Arvidson & Butterflies, Glenn Robinson, Talk Show Host, Hanky Panky, Readymade Breakup, The Manics, Broken Promise Keeper

For the past couple of years, powerpop empresario/ice cream man Wayne Lundquist Ford has issued compilations of free and legally downloadable primo powerpop. And each year the scoops get bigger and better. We just got through consuming all 139 of this year's fare, waddled over to our editing box, and are posting our very favorites below and in a future post.

But here's how were doing it. The first widget has all 139 scoops, in case you want to scarf them as we did, one by one. Underneath that first widget come eight of our favorites, not necessarily in playing order. We will indicate each song's number, just in case that might be, you know, useful.

Many thanks to Wayne Lundquist Ford for these incredible compilations. As he helpfully pointed out, if the quota of downloads has been met at his Bandcamp page, you can also find the compilation free of charge at the Futureman Records Bandcamp page.

Click here and here for the two previous Ice Cream Man Powerpop and More compilations. We'll be posting our other eight faves soon.

#42   

#7    

#102 

#125 

#39   

#68   

#70   

#80   

Favorite Flavors from Ice Cream Man's Summer 2018 Compilation (Installment 1): Mark And The Clouds, Andy Klingensmith, Michael Slawter, Nick Piunti, The SD5, The Turnback, Dropkick, Stephen's Ruin, Propeller, Roger Arvidson, The Box Dwellers, Glenn Robinson

The inimitable Wayne Lundquist Ford, aka "Ice Cream Man," has done it again. For the fourth summer in a row, the tireless Cool One has put together a stellar compilation of powerpop, indiepop, janglepop, rockpop, and otherpop songs and made them available for free download at Bandcamp. We've been eagerly anticipating Songs We Learnt At Sundae School for months now and got right to sampling all 160+ as soon as we found them posted tonight. We're posting widgets of the entire compilation, plus our very favorite songs in two installments.

If you want to download the entire comp, click "Download" in the first widget below. To download any of our faves, clicking the song title will take you to its download page. To go to the Bandcamp page of the entire compilation, click here.

We would again like to thank Wayne for his effort, expertise, and generosity in making these excellent songs available. Thanks, too, to the artists who participated in the project. Be sure to check out Wayne's Ice Cream Man blog and give ear to podcasts of his excellent weekly radio show. You can check out our posts of the previous Ice Cream Man compilations here, here, here, and here.

Update, 1aug18: Free downloading of the entire compilation is now available courtesy of Futureman Records. (<==Clicky clicky.) If you click on the individual song titles below, the page you go to will show a fee until 8aug18. Many thanks to Futureman Records for stepping in to maintain free downloads.

Pause here to prevent brain freeze. Resume when ready.