Category: Digital Music

Stream: Garbage covers U2's 'Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses' for 'Achtung' tribute

Stream: Garbage covers U2’s ‘Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses’ for ‘Achtung’ tribute

Now we get our third taste of Q magazine’s full-album tribute to U2′s 20-year-old ‘Achtung Baby’ in the form of Garbage’s slow and simmering cover of the record’s fifth single, ‘Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses,’ which you can stream here.

Free MP3: The dB's, 'Revolution of the Mind' — 'Falling Off the Sky' album coming in 2012

Free MP3: The dB’s, ‘Revolution of the Mind’ — ‘Falling Off the Sky’ album coming in 2012

The dB’s this week released a new song as a free MP3 download — the rocker ‘Revolution of the Mind,’ featuring Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan on guitar — and announced plans to issue ‘Falling Off the Sky,’ the band’s first new studio album in 25 years, sometime in the spring of 2012.

Free MP3: Jane's Addiction, 'Underground' — opening track from 'The Great Escape Artist'

Free MP3: Jane’s Addiction, ‘Underground’ — opening track from ‘The Great Escape Artist’

The new Jane’s Addiction album ‘The Great Escape Artist’ arrives in stores today in the U.S., and to mark the occasion, the band is offering up the record’s opening track — the throbbing rocker ‘Underground’ — as a free download via Lollapalooza’s website. Get it here.

Stream: Skinny Puppy, 'Village'  — first track released off upcoming 'hanDover' album

Stream: Skinny Puppy, ‘Village’ — first track released off upcoming ‘hanDover’ album

With their 11th album arriving next week, electro-industrial icons Skinny Puppy offer up the first taste of the record via a stream of the song ‘Village.’ The track, which premiered at RevolverMag.com last week, can be heard here.

Stream: R.E.M., 'We All Go Back To Where We Belong' — new single off 2CD best-of

Stream: R.E.M., ‘We All Go Back To Where We Belong’ — new single off 2CD best-of

It’s not due for release until Tuesday, but the brand-new R.E.M. single ‘We All Go Back To Where We Belong’ — one of three new tracks on the band’s upcoming, and posthumous, best-of — hit the web Sunday night, and you can take an early listen right here.

Free MP3: 65daysofstatic featuring The Cure's Robert Smith, 'Come To Me'

Free MP3: 65daysofstatic featuring The Cure’s Robert Smith, ‘Come To Me’

The last couple years have seen Robert Smith of The Cure in mad collaboration mode, and one of those tracks — 65daysofstatic’s ‘Come To Me’ — resurfaced this week when Pitchfork posted it as a free download to promote the upcoming, and belated, U.S. release of that band’s 2010 album ‘We Were Exploding Anyway.’

Stream: Cassettes Won't Listen releases cover of Duran Duran's 'Ordinary World'

Stream: Cassettes Won’t Listen releases cover of Duran Duran’s ‘Ordinary World’

Cassettes Won’t Listen is no stranger to ’80s alternative fare, having covered, in recent years, The Cure’s ‘Let’s Go to Bed’ and INXS’s ‘Need You Tonight. Now comes a brand-new cover of Duran Duran’s early ’90s comeback smash, ‘Ordinary World.’