Sound It Out Records

Stereogum just posted their Cruel Summer 2010 mixtape, featuring 27 tracks from recent and soon-to-be-released albums. Tracks include songs from Best Coast, Male Bonding, Sleigh Bells, Baths, Blonde Redhead, Japandroids and more.

Speaking of Best Coast, you can check out “Boyfriend,” from their upcoming debut album Crazy For You.

Deep Elm Records has a free sampler for download featuring 18 tracks from their current roster of artists.

Polyvinyl Records will give you a free download of a new Of Montreal track from their upcoming album False Priest.

Adult Swim has an ongoing singles series where they’ll be posting a new track every week for 8 weeks. So far there have been tracks from Matt Sweeny & Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Madvillain, Black Lips, High on Fire, and LCD Soundsystem. There’s only one more week to go but you can download all of the past weeks’ tracks.

Eulogy Records has two samplers available to download on their site, one featuring new bands they have recently signed and a classic sampler entitled The Beginning as well.

Blur has posted a free download of the new track they recorded for their UK Record Store Day release.

In exchange for an email address Here Lies Are.

To celebrate their 30 years as a band, Bad Religion will be offering a FREE live album for download if you sign up for their mailing list.

In order to promote their new album Treats, Sleigh Bells has a free track on their somewhat crazy website.

The Books have a new album out this July on Temporary Residence and you can check out a cut from it here.

Coliseum also have a new record coming out on Temporary Residence this summer (June 22). Download “Blind in One Eye” and check out some mp3s of Temporary Residence’s other releases on their website. (Scroll down the right side and click “MP3″)

Get a track from the new Trap Them EP via brooklynvegan and check out their interview with the band as well.

Brand new duo Cults have their debut 7″ available to download here. Cults will be playing with the aforementioned Sleigh Bells shortly. They have a retro-pop/girl group influenced sound and seem to be getting a lot of buzz already.

Sacramento hardcore band Trash Talk is offering a new track off their forthcoming record, Eyes & Nines (out June 8th), on their website.

Orlando, FL-area hardcore outfit Boxing Day (ex-No Harm Done, Offsides) have posted their demo as a free download, available
here via Punknews.

Spin Magazine has a best-of Bamboozle mixtape to download on their website. The compilation features tracks from Wale, Saves the Day, Title Fight, Motion City Soundtrack, fun, and more.

Pitchfork has a round-up of links to downloads of Record Store Day songs from Of Montreal, Bon Iver, The Thermals, Dum Dum Girls, Julian Casablancas, and more.

Also via Pitchfork, two new Wolf Parade songs from their upcoming album EXPO 86, due June 29th on Sub Pop Records.

I’m going to start collecting links for free downloads, possibly in the near future we will have a separate section on the site for this purpose, but for now just use the “free downloads” tag at the bottom of the blog post to sort out any blogs containing download links.

If you are a band or label interested in having your download info posted, please email me at sounditoutrecordstc@gmail.com

Some of these are only available for a limited time, so act quickly!

The National has posted a track for download from their forthcoming album, High Violet. The first single is called “Bloodbuzz Ohio.” High Violet is The National’s follow-up to the fantastic 2007 album Boxer.

Brooklyn quintet Kid Sister offers a new EP, Color Your Life, for download on their website. About the EP, Stereogum says, “[A] lovely EP, following up on favorable notices for “Ginger” and “Nectarine” from their previous four-track set Vampires Dreaming With Kids. Color Your Life is bolder, more confident in its spacious hush and plush Stereolab push. The breathy thump of “All Around And Away We Go” was a good tease for the set, the rest of Color pits singer Andrea Estella’s intimate coos inside night sky ballads and starry grooves, effortlessly romantic and certainly remarkable.”

Jump Start Records is offering free previews of all their releases. Jump Start is a small label offering a variety of punk, hardcore and ska records. In addition to the free preview downloads, Jump Start offers complete, high quality downloads of each of their releases for a small donation.

Punknews has teamed up with Fail Safe Records to offer a free 5 song sampler of Gainesville, FL band Anchor Arms.

MMX: The Deathwish/Malfunction/Six Feet Under Spring Sampler
36 tracks, featuring Converge, Narrows, Integrity, Blacklisted, Doomriders, Nails, Bitter End, Rise And Fall, Acid Tiger, Lewd Acts, Killing The Dream, Carpathian, 108, Starkweather, Overmars, J. Bannon, Eshas, Rot In Hell, As We Let Go, The Rival Mob, New Lows, 50 Lions, Trap Them, Mother Of Mercy, United Nations, Ressurection, The Carrier, True Colors, Foundation, Pegasus, End of a Year, Daylight, Irons, and Ceremony. Also includes two new videos from Converge and Integrity.

Grammy winners Phoenix have a Live in Sydney EP on their site.

Enter code A3892010 here to download A389 Record’s 2010 sampler. 32 tracks, including stuff from Pulling Teeth, Integrity, Ringworm, Gluttons, Hatewaves, and a new track from Millennial Reign, new project featuring Damian Abraham from Fucked Up and members of No Warning. If you write a short review of the compilation and send it into A389 they will give you a free download of any of their full-length albums. More info on that here.

Los Angeles experimental lo-fi drum-and-guitar duo No Age are offering a free download of a 16 minute score they did for a short film. Check it out on No Age’s blog.

21 track sampler from Kill Rock Stars featuring Marnie Stern, The Gossip, The Decemberists, Sleater-Kinney, Bratmobile, Bikini Kill, Quasi, The Thermals and lots more.

Sound as Language has a download of a demo from Indiana pop punk band Like Bats. They are also featuring a download of CA indie rockers Forming’s EP Sleep Like a Dog. In addition to these 2 downloads, more can be found on the Media section of their website.

Music site The Silent Ballet has their newest compilation up for free download here. This is volume 15 in their compilation series, featuring post-rock and post-metal from around the world.

Hardcore band No Friends (featuring members of Municipal Waste and New Mexican Disaster Squad) has their new 6 song EP, Traditional Failures, up for download via Kiss of Death.

California punk band Hear the Sirens offers their 6 track EP Lets Say All The Things We Never Said Before.

In conjunction with Red Sound Records, The Soviettes have released a rarities collection as a free download. The 18 tracks can be found here.

Online, donation-based record label Juicebox Recording Co. have over 20 releases available for download on their website.