Is is your fairly typical net label that host the usual chip-beat, computer geek, avant-rock, left leaning, non-commerical - you get the idea.

Saddle creek is a great indie label from the mid west that is smart by signing really hot bands that sell a lot of concert tickets. Smart dudes, and girls!

SVC is a post gothic indie label with quite a few releases , and at least 2 downloads per album! That rocks!

This site host free classical public domain mp3s. It looks like most of the music comes from college campuses who have graduate music programs. Therefor the musicians are a motley crew of over achieving white kids who have been chained to their instruments sense they were big enough to hold it. I actually sat next to one of these kids on a plane one time. He was with his really supportive mom, and was polite and very respectful.

this is the annual list of the bands who are performing at SXSW in Austin TX. There are downloads and streams before you download just incase the band sucks and some how their manager was banging one of the convention people and was booked to play under the radar. OK that wouldn't happen. Do you have a better explanation for shitty bands playing at one of the most prestigious music conference in the world? I don't.

sonicSquirrel is a filtering system for net labels, that is labels that distribute free music. The user interface sucks, is ugly, and counter-intuitive. But it does help the user cut to the chase, subjectively, good net labels.

This is a high quality net label from Gremany. A shit ton of good music-mostly dance and electronic.

This is a metal label. There is a lot of sludgy heavy stuff in here. It's all really good though.