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Need some hot tunes for the holidays? Grab some from Freegal while you still can

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Freegal is one of the many handy digital resources that Auckland Libraries has subscribed to, allowing you to download three songs per week from the Sony catalog of artists. But that's about to change! Our subscription to the service will cease on January 31st, so get in there and grab some tunes while you can! 

The service is free for all Auckland Libraries members, and if you're sitting at home but not a member, you can actually kickstart the registration process electronically at the Auckland Libraries website and use your temporary barcode number to get your free downloads. From there, you can sign into Freegal over here. There's still weeks to go, so if you've had your eyes on some certain Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Benny Tipene, Guy Sebastian, Pitbull, Miley Cyrus, MJ or One Direction tracks but you're short on cash, why not download them three songs at a time over the break? 

While Freegal will be off the table soon, there's still a number of music-related digital resources available to Auckland Library members, so check out the rest of them here.


NZ Music Month 2012: Every vote counts

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Happy April! We are less than one month from another fine NZ Music Month, and to celebrate some local quality, whether it's NZ On Air funded or not, I will be posting your favourite NZ music videos each day through May. Or I might just post my own favourites. It depends what you request.

In other news, two excellent new albums are online and on the shelves right now for your listening pleasure. Both recorded in Auckland: Tono & The Finance Company, as I mentioned in the last post, and Cool Rainbows: Whale Rocket.

So get commenting below with your music video requests, and while you're here check out one of my favourites for inspiration:

Newsreels

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We've had a very busy week preparing for NZ Music Month 2012, which, I'm sure you'll know is throughout May. This year we're celebrating regionally, with music events in libraries from Wellsford up north to Waiuku down south. I'm looking forward to getting out of the city and doing ukulele classes all over the place. There are also a lot more exciting things happening which I'm not allowed to announce just yet...

Also this week I've been enjoying the new Bruce Springsteen album, Wrecking Ball. While it's not quite as amazing as other recents like Magic or The Rising, there's still a whole lot of beauty and attitude in it. And it features some of the last recorded saxophone of the late great Clarence Clemons. Download some of the tracks from Freegal Music.

The Boss just spent the some time in Texas for South By Southwest(SXSW) which is a music/film/media conference extravaganza held for a week each year in Austin. David Dallas got over there after Pasifika. I hope he saw Bruce play. Here's an interview with DJBooth:

Music 101 on Radio NZ National have done a great feature on SXSW today, as well as other great happenings about the place. Check it out here.

Free Avalanche City

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While we await the beautiful sounds of Christmas (see last week's post), and stage our plans of attack on the local mall, here's a free album download to get you in the summer spirit. Yep, it's a whole album, it's full of toe-tapping singalongs, it's free for all to keep. And who knows, your love for Avalanche City's debut album will hopefully inspire you to donate some cash so they can make more. Definitely check this out. 

Avalanche City : Our New Life Above the Ground