Map Of Zunes

Welcome, dear blog reader, to New Music Friday: your weekly digest providing free n' clear music for your Zune. High five! Ready? okletsgo

• Heading off the week, head over to InsidetheCircle for a free track from Nightmares on Wax (DJ)
• I'm not the biggest fan of hardcore, but if you are, head over to 'Tracks for a Human Waste Project MP3,
• Arjan serves up a new track from Ryan Farish, saying total bliss with chill out beats and faint, choir-like background vocals. Sweet.
• Stereogum has a live track Zuneinsider favorite Spoon. (rock)
• Sweet. A good cover. My favorite: The Kooks cover MGMT - thanks My Old Kentucky Blog! (rock)
• And speaking of covers, here's one to make you smile Jeff Buckley takes on School House Rock, over at YANP.
• And last but certainly not not-awesome: check out an M.I.A. video and MP3 at GorillavsBear.

Ok, enjoy the free music and have a great weekend everybody!

 Another Friday, another chance for free n' clear music for your Zune. High five! Ready for some free n' clear music for your zune?

• It's true, I love The Ting Tings. You should too; head over to Inside the Circle for a free track (rock/dance).
• Pick up a Cinematic Orchestra MP3, over at 'Tracks (eclectic)
• There's a new Lou Reed track, posted at Stereogum (rock). 
• This post is chock-full of awesome free music - head over to MOKB for more: a free track from Of Montreal. (rock)
• You know who I also love? The Streets. Arjan points to a sweet MP3 of the new track "The Escapist" (garage)
• And last but certainly not not-awesome: you might know that to me a cover is (also) like a cake filled with pies. Well check this First Aid Kit cover of Fleetfoxes, over at GorillavsBear.

Ok, enjoy the free music and have a great weekend everybody!

Welcome, dear blog reader, to another exciting edition of New Music Friday. High five! Ready for some free n' clear music for your zune?

• Heading off this week is a free track from The Cold War Kids, over at new cool site Social Circle (rock)
• And check The Shaky Hands, giving away a free MP3 at Beetstro (rock).
• Let's keep the free rock going with a Melvins track, courtesy of 'tracks
• Best name for a band this week: Ra Ra Riot  check the MP3 over at Stereogum
• You might know that to me a good remix is like a cake filled with pies. Well check this Ratatat remix of Notorious B.I.G., over at GorillavsBear: MMM. . . piecakes. (hip hop/rock remix)
• And last but certainly not not-awesome: MOKB has a fresh new track from Zuneinsider favorite TV on the Radio

Ok, enjoy the free music and have a great weekend everybody!

Welcome, music lovers and blog readers, to another exciting edition of New Music Friday. High five! Ready for some free n' clear music for your zune?

• Heading off this week is some Latin Alternative: Drea from Beetstro posts a Plastilina Mosh MP3.
• 'Tracks post a song from Alejandro Escovedo (alterative country/rock)
• Put on your dancing shoes and click through to ArjanWrites, for a collaboration between DJ/producer Ryan Farish and multi-platinum recording artist Donna Lewis
• Let's bring the Hip Hop: GorillavsBear has a Cool Kids MP3.
• I missed this before but I'm making amends now - Stereogum posts a remix from my most favoritest band, Tokyo Police Club! (rock).
• And last but certainly not not-awesome: our friends at MOKB post a few tracks from The Whigs, along with a bunch more MP3s from different artists, including CSS!

Ok, enjoy the free music and have a great weekend everybody!

Greetings, dear blog readers. Ready for some more free n' clear music for your Zune? okletsgo:

• Kicking off this week's free music, head over to 'Tracks for a Self MP3 (rock)
• Brendan Canning of Broken Social Scene has a track at 'Beetstro, the new blog by Drea of Generation Zune!  (rock)
• If you like Shout Out Out Out, Check out The Faint, over at Spinner (rock).
• Time for some music to dance to: get some Music Go Music, over at GorillavsBear
• MOKB has a sweet Santogold track, go pick it up (funk)
• And last but certainly not not-awesome: You Ain't No Picasso posts a Wu-Tang Clan MP3 (hip hop)

Ok! Enjoy the music and have a great weekend everybody!

Greetings, the internet, and welcome back to another edition New Music Friday! If you're joining us for the first time, here's how it works: I link to free n clear MP3s for your enjoyment out on the web. You, dear blog reader, click through the links and download them, then load them on your Zune. Ready? okletsgo:

• First up this week, 'Tracks has a track from Seattle rock legends Mudhoney.
• If you like Magnetic Fields, you should check out Paramount Styles, over at Spinner (rock)
• Head over to Stereogum to pick up a great Fiery Furnaces track (rock)
• I love hip hop icon Murs, and you should love him too. Don't know him? You can pick up a Murs / 9th Wonder track, over at GvB.
• Head over to Music For Robots to pick up a track from Londong/Reykyavik group Fields (rock).
• And last but certainly not not-awesome, check out the Avett Brothers MP3, from MOKB (americana/rock)

Ok, enjoy the music and have a great weekend

As many of you know, when Zune refreshed the product line back in November 07, we started selling DRM-free MP3s. We’re now up to around two-thirds of our catalog available in that DRM-free format. I’m sure many of you saw the recent announcement from Rhapsody today – with other digital music providers moving toward MP3, it could be signaling even better changes in the industry in the future.

Taken in combination with the millions of tracks you could get with a Zune Pass, and guided by recommendations from your friends in Zune Social, I think it makes for an exciting platform to discover new music. And as many frequent readers know – helping folks discover and get new music is something at the core of Zune. And good thing about all that discovery is that you can take it to go – you can drag and drop both subscription tracks, MP3s you get from Zune Marketplace, and the Zune Cards you download from Zune Social down to your Zune.

We’re working to push the industry to explore new models – the standard $.99/track model is a great start, but there’s so much more we can do there. So for a major player like Rhapsody make an aggressive push into MP3 is a great sign that change in the way that folks get/find/acquire music is coming – more on this as it develops. What about you, dear blog reader - what do you think?

And speaking of Social - add me up as a friend - I can't handle Jessica having more 1-way friends than me!

Head over to Zune Marketplace for a free track from drum and bass* producer Danny Byrd, from his latest record, Super Sized. 

The track is called "From Bath with Love," and it's a DRM-free, no strings attached MP3. And if you like it, the whole album is available either in MP3 or via Zune Pass download.

Enjoy!

*liquid funk if you want to get specific