Category: Digital Music

Free MP3: Dinosaur Jr, 'No Bones' — from ‘Bug Live at 9:30 Club: In the Hands of Fans’

Free MP3: Dinosaur Jr, ‘No Bones’ — from ‘Bug Live at 9:30 Club: In the Hands of Fans’

With the new DVD and Blu-ray ‘Bug Live at 9:30 Club: In the Hands of the Fans’ out next week, Dinosaur Jr is giving fans a little audio teaser in the form of a free MP3 download of the live track ‘Bones,’ which you can grab via the widget below in exchange for an e-mail address.

Stream: Simple Minds, 'Special View' — B-side of debut single, off new ‘x5’ box set

Stream: Simple Minds, ‘Special View’ — B-side of debut single, off new ‘x5’ box set

With their new ‘x5’ box set out Monday in the U.K., Simple Minds today offered up a stream of one of the set’s remastered bonus tracks: ‘Special View,’ the B-side to the band’s very first single, ‘Life in a Day,’ originally released in 1979. Check it out right here.

Stream: Public Image Ltd., 'One Drop' — John Lydon's first new PiL recording in 20 years

Stream: Public Image Ltd., ‘One Drop’ — John Lydon’s first new PiL recording in 20 years

As promised, the first new Public Image Ltd. song in 20 years — a lilting, almost dub-ska track called ‘One Drop’ — received its worldwide debut today via Steve Lamacq’s afternoon show on BBC’s 6 Music. Check out the full track, which will be released on a Record Store Day EP in April.

Stream: Paul Weller, 'That Dangerous Age' — first single off forthcoming 'Sonik Kicks' LP

Stream: Paul Weller, ‘That Dangerous Age’ — first single off forthcoming ‘Sonik Kicks’ LP

Paul Weller today debuted the first official single off his upcoming album ‘Sonik Kicks,’ a fuzzed-out rocker called ‘That Dangerous Age,’ which you can stream here. It’s actually the second track Weller has previewed from the album, but it’s the first single, and will be released March 11 digitally and March 12 physically.

Dexys Midnight Runners announce 'One Day I'm Going to Soar' — first album in 27 years

Dexys Midnight Runners announce ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar’ — first album in 27 years

Frontman Kevin Rowland this week announced that the reactivated Dexys Midnight Runners — the New Wave act still best known for its 1982 smash ‘Come On Eileen’ — will release its first new album in 27 years this June, a record titled ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar’ that will be put out under the shortened band name Dexys.

Video + free MP3: The Normal, 'Warm Leatherette' (ditto.tv mix)

Video + free MP3: The Normal, ‘Warm Leatherette’ (ditto.tv mix)

British communications agency ditto is celebrating The Normal’s ‘Warm Leatherette’ — the first release by Mute Records, and ‘the record that started everything’ — by commissioning this ‘re imagining’ of Daniel Miller’s classic 1978 track, with Really O’Reilly providing new production and ‘electro-lady’ Georgie piping in with vocals.