Public Television (PBS) usually holds a monthly or quarterly donation drive to keep the various stations running.  That said, the volunteer-run Public Domain audiobook website LibriVox is currently asking for donations, mostly to cover in-production bandwidth costs.  (The final products are safely stored at the Internet Archive.)  The goal is $20,000, and LibriVox is “already [...]

I haven’t listened to this free album yet, so I can’t comment on its quality, but 20 In 10: Digital Collection [Amazon Exclusive] is a big collection of songs by the same band (Sister Hazel), and it could be worth a listen.  In any case, it’s free.  At the very least, you get what you [...]

LibriVox recently released a free audiobook of The Complete Book of Cheese by Bob Brown.  It is a collaborative effort, and I read three sections from the glossary of cheeses, mangling several languages (including English…perhaps) in the process:
N-Q (37:39)
R-S (46:37)
T-Z (36:22)

Download the MP3 for free!  Courtesy of the Smashing Pumpkins.

Here are 30 free Christmas songs from performers from all over the world:

If you subscribe to the Poderamos Podcast, you’ll be able to download the mono version of Ryan DeRamos’ rendition of “It Came upon the Midnight Clear” (or just right-click and ’save target/link as’).  Ryan recorded four songs for the LibriVox collection (in mono), [...]

Download the MP3 for free!  Courtesy of the Smashing Pumpkins.

Often, at Chord du Jour, we will re-record some of our Jam Sessions with less-messy performances and a full band.  These special downloads from the Chord du Jour Podcast are called Backtracks.
These are all the Backtracks we’ve produced so far, conveniently packaged in a .ZIP file.
Here is one of the Backtracks:

LibriVox has recently released a free audiobook of Hints for Lovers by Theodore Arnold Haultain.  It is a collaborative effort, and I read Chapter 3:  “On Women.”

My brother and I host a series of educational/fun (heavy on the fun) jam sessions at Chord du Jour. It’s both a blog and a podcast, and we jam with whatever instruments we can find to make some noise (on which to build relatively simple music lessons).
Here is the first Jam Session:
Chord [...]