Archive for the ‘Discovery Download’ Category
Our Discovery Download focuses on a different genre each week, offering up a free track we think is worth your attention. Before there was popular music as we know it, there was Euro classical. In the world of classical music, Johann Christoph Pachelbel’s late–17th century composition “Canon In D” is a huge hit. The secret to its success? The famously memorable chord sequence that makes it the baroque equivalent to Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me”. If you’d like to further explore the great works, check out 50 More Essentials Pieces of Classical Music which is available for the remarkable price of $6.99.
IMPORTANT: Downloads are only free on iTunes for approximately 1 week from this post date.
In lieu of our regular Discovery Download, we’re presenting a Rediscovery Download – in which we give an artist you may be familiar with another listen. Brad has been around since the early ‘90s, but if you’re not yet hip to the band’s rocking ways, you probably know one of its illustrious members: Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard. Although the cohorts have shown a penchant for ‘70s-influenced hard rock throughout their careers, “Rush Hour,” is a mellower, grungy affair – a spacious, melodic jam that rides a wave of guitars until the final chord change.
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Our Discovery Download puts the focus on a different genre each week, offering up a free track we think is worth your attention. Audrey Assad, a Christian singer/songwriter from Phoenix, makes the kind of mature, achingly beautiful, acoustic folk tunes that are right at home on Lilith Fair. Set to a murmuring piano accompaniment, “The House You’re Building” shows off Assad’s ability to wax and wane from falsetto to breathy in the space of a minor note.
IMPORTANT: Downloads are only free on iTunes for approximately 1 week from this post date. 
What better way to herald the end of the world than with a jaunty polka, you might ask? Well, not with just any old polka, but one featuring a contrabassoon, electric bass, French horn, violin, percussion, and, oh yes, an accordion – played by musicians plucked from Canada, England, Israel and the American Midwest. Apolkalyptic indeed! If you like the track, check out the album.
IMPORTANT: Downloads are only free on iTunes for approximately 1 week from this post date. 
Can a song be shy? With its tentative, almost hesitant opening of syncopated guitars and hypnotic, subtle changes in percussion, “Push to Freeze” takes a while to come out of its shell. Gradually adding sonic layers while maintaining a spacey, wide-open quality, Sorcerer (a.k.a. Daniel Judd) shows a great flair for creating inviting atmospheres and scintillating textures – and breaking the ice, so to speak. If you like the track, check out the album.
IMPORTANT: Downloads are only free on iTunes for approximately 1 week from this post date.
Still only juniors in high school, Comic Book Heroes already have four years of music experience in their gig bags. Don’t let their youth fool you, though: This is by no means teen pop. Citing collective influences that range from Charles Mingus, the Rolling Stones, and David Bowie to Dream Theater, Nirvana, and Franz Ferdinand, the quartet from Reading, Pa., perfectly combines sassy vocals, strutting guitars, and confident beats into a rumbling, grown-up rock ’n’ roll declaration. If you like the track, check out the album.
IMPORTANT: Downloads are only free on iTunes for approximately 1 week from this post date. 
