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Each week we find a track from an artist or a band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. The pop-punk quartet Hey Monday honed its ability to make upbeat music in the warm and humid climes of West Palm Beach, Florida. The group’s spry single “I Don’t Wanna Dance” is a resolute anthem of female free will belted out by charismatic lead singer Cassadee Pope. Frequency-tuning radio sound effects lace a nimble power-pop track meant for cranking up loud.
IMPORTANT: Downloads are only free on iTunes for approximately 1 week from this post date.
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.
Each week we find a track from an artist or a band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Canción de la Semana. Paty Cantu was enrolled in law school when the siren call of the music business lured her away. Now the Mexican singer/songwriter has a new single, “Afortunadamente No Eres Tu,” which could be described as the opposite of a love song. Despite her softly feminine voice, she lashes out against immature guys everywhere to a sturdy alt rock track.
IMPORTANT: Downloads are only free on iTunes for approximately 1 week from this post date.
Each week we find a track from an artist or a band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Canción de la Semana. Polock, a five-guy band from the Mediterranean beach town of Valencia, Spain is — for the time being obscure. But this captivating indie rock single, “Fireworks” from their debut album Getting Down from the Trees, could establish them as a Spanish Phoenix. The drums race along to a heart-pumping canter as the lead singer lifts his raw yet pitch-perfect, faintly Spanish-accented voice to describe the unbridled joy of being young, when anything can happen.
IMPORTANT: Downloads are only free on iTunes for approximately 1 week from this post date.
Each week we find a track from an artist or a band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. It doesn’t get more primal than guitar/bass/drums and the Virginmarys elevate the holy triumvirate and attack their instruments like hungry bears stumbling upon on a fresh carcass. “Bang Bang Bang” is like a cosmic collaboration of Humble Pie and Wolfmother — all gnashing guitar and bass, cymbal crashes, and sweaty, fly-away hair (facial and otherwise) swishing from side to side. Slash digs ‘em, so should you. “Bang Bang Bang” appears on the Virginmarys’ Cast the First Stone EP.
IMPORTANT: Downloads are only free on iTunes for approximately 1 week from this post date. 
