24 Hours to Go

This seems appropriate:

Ganstagrass

Their severs are crawling under the load from Boing Boing, but I can't really complain since that's how I found them too. Head over to Ganstagrass.com, where the self-titled hip-hop-slash-bluegrass album is available for free download. A few seconds into the first track and you'll know – these guys are doing something right.

The End of the World

Foxboro Hot Tubs

Been listening to this all week on my ipod. Supposed to be Green Day's new secret side project, only not so secret I guess. Either way, good music, and free, too.

The City Veins

I don't read Matt Yglesias's blog for music recommendations, but because I'm a Trainspotting-level political junkie. Still, the other day he linked to this indie band The City Veins, who were (and are!) giving away their debut CD for free. It's not at all what I'd usually listen to, but I've had it on the iPod at work and it's really grown on me. It kind of makes me want to steal Ken's computer and spend days staring plaintively into a rainy middle distance. This effect is troubling. Having hastily abandoned my SoCal roots, I'm increasingly alarmed that I've become locked in to some irreversible metro-hipster-yuppie metamorphosis. I fully expect to awake in the middle of the night encased in a gossamer cocoon of polyester while terrible enzynes melt my intestines and coat me in a chitinous shell of vinyl and hair product.

But the music is pretty good.

iConcertCal

Julian Sanchez points me to the awesome iConcertCal plug-in for iTunes, which searches your music library and tells you when one of the bands in it is playing a show in your town.

For example, now I'm going to go see MC Lars, who lived in my dorm one year, play at the Middle East on the 27th.