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Swagbucks
Today’s post is about a website I’ve been using quite a bit lately, and it’s something I’ve found quite rewarding. It’s called Swagbucks, and what it is is a search engine that rewards you for searching with them. Once you sign up for an account, each time you search the web you have a chance of winning a “Swagbuck”, which, once you’ve gotten enough of, can be redeemed for any of a huge library of prizes. There’s plenty of options, but I think the most notable are Amazon.com and iTunes Store gift cards. Between the two, you can get just about any music you want, for free.
Even better, aside from the main Swagbucks site, there’s also a extensive list of special, branded “Search and Win” sites that are tied to Swagbucks. There’s quite a selection of sites (everything from the Green Bay Packers to Barry Manilow), but the most notable are Search with Relient K, Search with Owl City, Search with Jars of Clay, Search with Lifehouse, and Search with We Shot The Moon, all of which feature exclusive prizes (like We Shot The Moon posters, Owl City’s Ocean Eyes on vinyl, a music video from Relient K, and more.) Now, I don’t want this to sound too good to be true, it does take a long time to get enough Swagbucks to get anything, but I know for a fact it works (actually, I’m listening a TobyMac CD I got through Swagbucks & Amazon right now), and since the average person searches the web quite a bit anyway, it’s really a handy site.
Also, for the sake of full disclosure, Swagbucks does have a referral program in place – basically, you sent your friends a link to sign up for Swagbucks, and if they do, you’ll win a Swagbuck every time they do, up to 100. Now, I know some people don’t like getting referred for things, so if you’d rather just sign-up at Swagbucks.com, you can do that here. Of course, if you don’t mind helping out a bit towards a shiny new copy of Owl City’s Ocean Eyes Deluxe Edition, then it would be great if you use the link above this paragraph. 
Either way though, I highly recommend the website, at very least, it’s worth checking out, and considering. Happy searching!
Jesus Freak Hideout Free Music Update
Free music today from Jesus Freak Hideout, one of my favorite Christian music websites. JFH has a rather impressive list of free and legal song downloads. I haven’t covered the page in a while, and I figured it was time for an update, especially since they’ve got so much new music added. For example, Phil Joel’s Christmas song “Nativity”, hip-hopper JustMe’s song “How I Met Your Mother”, Fiction Family’s “When She’s Near”, All Star United’s rock/pop jam “Surface of the Sun”, and two from Eleventyseven, the rockin’ “Nightmare” and crazy and exclusive “Cody’s Song”.
There’s actually quite a story behind “Cody’s Song” – it’s from a contest sponsored by Eleventyseven and run by Jesus Freak Hideout. Entrants gave a list of 10 or so facts about them, and then Eleventyseven used those facts to write a song about the winner, who happened to be named Cody. The result is downright zany pop/hip-hop style theme song like no other.
Besides that, there’s also several older songs still available, namely Jars of Clay’s “Closer”, Lanae’ Hale’s “Love Is Worth The Fight”, Sixpence None The Richer’s “Angels We Have Heard on High”, and Sara Groves’ “O Holy Night”. Good stuff all around, at least if you ask me. Enjoy!
Wally’s Yule-Rock Sampler
You know how the Free Christian Music Awards are going on right now here on TFCMB? Well, I think I just found my vote for sampler of the year. This particular sampler is being released by the radio show Total Axxess & Provident Music. I have to say, this is the most impressive track-list I’ve seen in a long time:
- Fireflight – “Desperate”
- Leeland w/ Brandon Heath – “Follow You”
- Tal & Acacia – “Garbage In”
- Pillar – “Secrets and Regrets”
- Phil Stacey – “You’re Not Shaken”
- Matt Maher – “Hold Us Together”
- RED – “Start Again”
- Brandon Heath – “Love Never Fails”
- Tenth Avenue North – “Times”
- Jars of Clay – “Boys (Lesson One)”
You’ve got brand new Fireflight, great songs from Pillar, Phil Stacey, Brandon Heath, and Jars of Clay, really, just about everything on this sampler is worth getting. Don’t miss this one!
Free Christmas Song from Jars of Clay
Jars of Clay fans, rejoice! AmazonMp3 has got you covered. Amazon has selected Jars of Clay’s version of “God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen” from Christmas Songs as the Day 5 song on AmazonMP3’s 25 Days of Free Christmas countdown. Not only is it exciting to see JoC featured, the song is pretty sweet too – check it out!
-Free Sampler from Creation Festival: The Tour
Some of you may have already gotten this, but if you haven’t, you’re going to want to. Why? Because it has 10 free songs, from some really amazing artists. How amazing? Check this list:
- Jars of Clay – “Two Hands”
- Thousand Foot Krutch – “The Flame In All Of Us”
- This Beautiful Republic – “Beautifully Broken”
- B.Reith – “Go On”
- Bluetree – “Life’s Noise”
- Vota – “I’ll Go”
- Jonny Diaz – “Stand for You”
- Kathryn Scott – “I Belong”
- Don Poythress – “Fill Me Up”
- Brian Doerksen – “Broken & Beautiful”
To download the songs, visit the Creation Festival website and enter your email address, after which they’ll email you the information to get the songs from iTunes. Since their from iTunes, they songs will be come complete with the correct album information & high quality artwork, and since they aren’t protected files, you can convert them to play on your non-Apple mp3 player, definitely a nice feature. And to top it off, it’s free! Doesn’t get much better then that.
Relevant Update
Did anyone else notice when Relevant Magazine took their free song page down a while back? I was pretty disappointed when I noticed that their epic list of free, legal, live, acoustic, song downloads was missing. Thankfully…
Relevant Magazine recently updated their website, and have put the same great list of downloads up, just on another URL. Same songs, different web page. If you haven’t download these yet, and live, acoustic performances by artists like Jars of Clay, Tenth Avenue North, Sara Groves, Pigeon John, and No More Kings sounds good to you, you don’t want to miss this. You can either link up here, or check out my old post for more information in my post about it.
-Relevant Magazine’s Song Downloads-
Christmas Series: Day 12 – A Bit Of Everything
It’s Christmas Eve, and thanks to many reader suggestions, I have more then enough songs to finish up this year’s Christmas series. In fact, I’ve got so many left, this post is going to be predominately composed of links. This post is going to be a bit of a endurance event, so make sure you’ve got a while to dedicate to downloading. I kid you not, there is a TON of music to come. Brace yourself. Oh, yeah, and merry Christmas!
Let’s kick it off with Shane & Shane. They’ve got their song “Away in A Manger” available from Today’s Christian Woman. Actually, Mandisa, Sara Groves, and Casting Crowns all have songs on that site too.
Alli Rogers has a brand new Christmas EP up on NoiseTrade. It’s called The Silent Stars EP, and you can pay want you want for it, or get it for free by sharing it with 5 friends. Also on NoiseTrade is the Christmas edition of The Silent’s CD Unseen, featuring their version of “We Three Kings”. To top those two, you can also get a free compilation featuring songs from the Love Came Down A Christmas Time Tour. The sampler has songs from all 4 artists on the tour, Jars of Clay, Sixpence None the Richer, Sara Groves, and Leeland. Very cool. Check it here.
If that’s still not enough music for you, GodTube has got free Christmas songs from Travis Ryan, Rachel Scott, and Sara Groves, plus some other goodies. Then there’s two free songs from High Valley on the Centricity Record’s website. Leigh Nash has a free Christmas song on Download.com, Theocracy has a wild Christmas song called “Rudolph vs. Frosty” up on their website, and then there’s The Staple Singers, who have “No Room at the Inn” up on Download.com.
Sixpence None the Richer, Sara Groves, and DecembeRadio all have Christmas songs available for free on JesusFreakHideout.com, iTicket’s has a Christmas download from Gabriela Hindy, plus two other songs from Abandon and Mission Six. Asthmatic Kitty Records has two free Sufjan Stevens Christmas songs available too.
Amazon.com has got numerous free songs from the likes of Sixpence None the Richer, Leigh Nash, Jars of Clay, Mannheim Steamroller, Big Daddy Weave, Jim Brickman, David Phelps, and BarlowGirl.
BarlowGirl, Jars of Clay, Chris Sligh, and Casting Crowns all have free mp3s available on CCM Magazine’s website.
I think Don Francisco wins the award for the most songs available. 21 on his website!
Even though it’s not a download, The Advantage has added a cool Christmas song to their MySpace profile. It’s called “Retail Christmas”, and it’s actually quite good. Here’s hoping they do a free download of it soon.
Brian Bate’s has an interesting free download. It works on a honor system – something you sadly don’t see much of any more. Anyway, the song is “Mary Christmas” and it’s available on his website.
Willet’s website, after being down for weeks, is finally up and running again with a free original Christmas song by the band. It’s called “The Nativity”, and looks pretty good.
Speaking of independent rock, the group The Violet Burning has got a full Christmas CD for free this year. It’s called Divine, and you can check that out on their website.
And, to close, Sleeping At Last has three Christmas downloads up on their Virb profile, plus one live song and another normal track.
Merry Christmas everyone!
MASSIVE Amount of Free Live, Acoustic Mp3s
Free music today courtesy of Relevant Magazine, and specifically, their podcast. They have approximately 60 (give or take) free songs, all of which were recorded live in their studios. The majority are acoustic, but there are a few “normal” songs, specifically by Pigeon John and The Procussions. I wasn’t sure what a live, semi-acoustic rap would sound like, but it’s really pretty good. As expected, artists like Sara Groves, Phil Wickham, Derek Webb, and Andrew Peterson sound as good unplugged as plugged in.
There are also quite a few new, indie artists on the site as well. A couple to watch out for are Band Marino and No More Kings. And if indie isn’t exactly your favorite thing in the world, there’s plenty of staples like Jars of Clay, Leeland, Dizmas, NEEDTOBREATHE, and David Crowder*Band. Just about something for everyone. Enjoy!
Edit: Relevant has moved their list of free songs to a new page on their site, get the details on that here.
Music Updates
Both Soul-Audio and iTickets have new music this week, featuring some amazing new music. Without further ado…
iTicket’s, once the premier Christian event website, now the premiere Christian event website AND a great source of free music, has two new songs this week by Philmont and Stephanie Smith. For Philmont, you can grab a copy of the song “I Can’t Stand to Fall”, from the album Oh Snap. It used to be availbale on the Gospel Music Channel website, and was one of hottest tracks I’ve featured in a while.
The other new song on iTicket’s is “Renew Me” by Stephanie Smith. Since I haven’t heard the song yet, you’ll have to check it for yourself.
Edit: Listening to “Renew Me” now, I have to say, this song is good. Really good. Krystal Meyers fans won’t want to miss this.
Also, as I said, Soul-Audio has added a ton of new music to their free downloads page. They have new stuff from DecembeRadio, Bart Milliard, David Crowder Band, The Wrecking, Sarah MacIntosh, Mission Six, Brenton Brown, Jars of Clay, Tammy Trent, Amy Court, and after that 4 pages of earlier downloads. The best part? No membership is required. You can just go, grab the songs you want, and enjoy them.
Downhere: “My Last Amen” Free Download
Freshness today from a band known as Downhere. “My Last Amen”, a song from Downhere’s upcoming CD, The End Is Beginning (or Ending is Beginning, I’m not sure the name, ), is today’s free download. That’s right folks, you can get “My Last Amen” for free from JesusFreakHideout.com. I think Downhere was doing a bit of experimenting stylisticly with this song, but, as usual, they pulled it off extremely well.
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