The Friday Freebie returns with a killer track in “Underground” by Jane’s Addiction! It comes off their just-released album “The Great Escape Artist“, and is available courtesty of Lollapalooza.com. From their site: Frontman Perry Farrel’s forward-thinking musical ideas anchor the album while pushing the songs into daring new territory. His iconic vocals soar across the…
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If you are a metal fan in Europe, and you love some prog metal, and you are looking for the festival, then Progsphere has what you need! Generation Prog 2011 is happening September 23-24 in Nürnberg! This is an exciting way to catch some great prog music as well as a festival to close out…
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Our Friday Freebie today comes to us courtesy of one of the all-star frontmen in the 80′s metal scene, Sebastian Bach, formerly of Skid Row. Sebastian has a solo album coming out September 27th entitled “Kicking and Screaming.” He has made the first single from this album available as a free download through Amazon.com. If…
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I know, I know, in our semi-consistent negligence we missed Freebie Friday last week, so to make up for it we dug up an amazing offer for you, courtesy of Victory Records! They are offering a sampler of not 1, not 2, but 16 Metal Tracks in a sampler to download for FREE!! Included is:…
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Our Friday Freebie this week takes a trip to the north with a killer live rendition of “Dirge For November” by Swedish prog band Opeth. Originally off of the 2001 “Blackwater Park” album, this is a live rendition offered up courtesy of Roadrunner Records to give a taste of the full album from their live…
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It’s Friday Freebie time here at Radio Riff, and we were feeling a little old school today. Our freebie, courtesy of Metal Blade Records, is Sacred Reich’s classic “Surf Nicaragua”. Released in 1988 off of the album of the same name, it is a jammin tune with a (some might say strange) combination of surf…
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It’s been a couple weeks since we’ve had a Friday Freebie since I’ve been out covering rock festivals with Moondance Jam and Halfway Jam, but we’re back and with a great one! Having seen and interviewed Lita Ford at Halfway Jam, I thought it appropriate that today’s freebie was one she released to the public…
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It’s been a light week for posting here at Radio Riff, and we’ve moved to a weekly format for our rock freebie downloads, but we’ve got a doozy for ya to make up for it! The Answer, an old-school, hard-rockin band out of Dublin have released a free preview track “Piece By Piece” from…
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Fair to Midland, the rockers who brought us the classic “Dance of the Manatee”, are back with their fourth studio album release “Arrows & Anchors” due out July 12. You can pick up a free preview of the track “Amarillo Sleeps on my Pillow”! Fair to Midland released their first album “The Carbon Copy Silver…
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Aussie rockers Airbourne have built a reputation on high energy, high speed and high-livin’ old school rock & roll. With roots in bands like AC/DC, Airbourne burst forth onto the scene with “Runnin’ Wild” in 2007, and followed it up in 2010 with “No Guts. No Glory.” If you love it loud, be sure to…
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Mastodon is giving away a free track available for download, previously unreleased on their album “Crack The Skye”. They are working in conjunction with Adult Swim and Kia to make this track, “Dry Bone Valley”, available. Mastodon is currently on a European tour, and will be playing 5 dates at the Sonisphere Festival in Helsinki,…
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Anthrax has posted a free, downloadable MP3 from their 10th studio album, “Worship Music”, available on their website. It is the first studio release from Anthrax since their 2003 with the album “We’ve Come For You All”. It is also their first album reunited with singer Joey Belladonna who had previously worked with them on…
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