The Alternative Tone

Close To Home Records have released a free compilation featuring Moose Blood , Crossings , Donovan Wolfington and many more. Download it here . 

Sampler of various South Carolina bands, most within the lines of folk and indie folk. Download Here RIYL: South Carolina

Sampler feat. Man Overboard; Diamond Youth, The Weeds, Vinnie Caruana and more! Download Here RIYL: Modern punk music

Pop punk compilation from Broken English Records, feat. Man Overboard, Pentimento, No Trigger, Useless ID, Coasta, Departures, Knuckle Puck and many more. Download Here RIYL: Pop punk

Emo/post-hardcore compilation from Turn Of The Century Records feat. Droughts, whenskiesaregray and many more. Download Here RIYL:  Droughts, William Bonney and whatnot.

Compilation ft. Broadway Calls, Trainwreck, Funeral Diner, Daikon, Ghostlimb, Punch and more. Download Here RIYL: Punk rock!

  Coffee & Cigarettes Clothing Co  have released a compilation on Bandcamp filled with awesome, The Alternative Tone approved bands such as Haverford, Apologies I Have None,   Broadway Calls, A Wilhelm Scream, Indian Taker and many more.  The compilation costs $2, but all profits go to Action For Hunger  so it's a great cause as well as great music. Download it  here . 

1-2-3-4 Go! Records have released an end of year record sampler. You can stream and download it  here .

Very rarely will I say this, but I am saying this now, if you do not instantly download the following sampler, listen to it and love it, you may never visit this site again. It's honestly THE perfect sampler, featuring the following; Pianos Become The Teeth, Into It. Over It, Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate), The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Dear Leap, Sirs, Grown Up, Everyone Everywhere, We Were Skeletons, Prawn, You Me & Everyone We Know, You Blew It!, CSTVT, Defeater, Brave Bird, Snowing, Football Etc, Joyce Manor, Hightide Hotel, Dikembe, Moving Mountains, Tigerscout, Balance And Composure, La Dispute, Former Theives, Warren Franklin, Tall Ships, Basement, Touché Amoré... Phew. Oh yeah, and there's loads of others. 68, to be precise. Download Here  (Unleash the Tweet!) Highestly recommended! 

Indie compilation from Sucking Lemons, featuring Real Estate, Binary, Dear Cavalry, Hands, Duologue, Simian Ghost, TV Girl, Hooray For Earth, Vents, Born Blonde Download Here RIYL: Indie music, The Fly

Indie compilation from Sucking Lemons, includes the likes of Reptar, Alt J, Conner Youngblood, Is Tropical, Dakotafish, Guerre, Seapony, Sacred Animals, Zoo Kid and California Wives. Download Here RIYL: Indie music

Indie Comp from Sucking Lemons, includes the likes of Wavves and Yuck. Download Here RIYL: Indie music

First compilation from Sucking Lemons, featuring: Dry The River, Tall Ships, Yellow Ostrich, Ideals, Dog Is Dead, Fenech Soler, The Cads, These Ghosts, Dutch Uncles and Clock Opera Download Here RIYL: Indie rock; the music that The Fly covers

Indie/ lo-fi compilation from England. Includes: Gorgeous Bully, Slowcoaches, Sisterland, Wild Smiles, Wanderlings, Hazey & The Js, Astronauts ETC, Psycho Horses, Yuno, VLAD, Poledo, YOOFS, Honeyslide, The Soft, Blue Boats. Dowload Here RIYL: English music..

Folk compilation from For Folk's Sake including the likes of Admiral Fallow, The Last Battle, Erica Buettner, The Son(s), Phil King, Songs For Dead Sailors, Georgia Bruce, Jonah Maddox, Gibson Bull, Tiny Birds, Charles Mansfield, Thiago Pethit, Rebel Bran, Just Handshakes (We're British), Emily & The Woods, and Blue Sky Archives. Download Here  (Download each track individually) RIYL: Folk music, music, Britishness!

Pop punk compilation from The Fresh Clothing, including Saves The Day, Transit, The Wonder Years, This Time Next Year, The Story So Far, New Found Glory, Sharks, Title Fight, Man Overboard, Washington Square Park and Maker Download Here RIYL: Pop punk

Pop punk podcast, curated by Man Overboard.  Download Here Man Overboard - Montrose (from Dahlia EP / Run For Cover Jeff Kummer - Grace Period  (available on Your Best Alternative)   Balance & Composure - Kaleidoscope (No Sleep Records!)   A Loss For Words - The Promises You Keep (from The Kids Cant Lose) Smile & Burn - Too Much Hardcore (from Berlin, Germany)   Basement - DUI (UK band on City Of Gold Records)   AYS - Snowblind (available on The Path of Ages from Cobra Records/Germany)   Transit - Atlas (from Stay Home EP / Run For Cover Records)   Tigers Jaw - Heat (Run For Cover Records)   Man Overboard - In Orbit (available on Before We Met from Panic Records)   The Wonder Years - Everything I Own (Upsides / No Sleep Records)   Therefore I Am - Art of Transparency (Equal Vision Records)   James Corbi - Jefferson (demo / album coming in spring)   Man Overboard...

Compilation from the 2011 line up of Fest, includes the likes of Andrew Jackson Jihad, Dads, Pentimento, Braid, Joyce Manor, Dikembe and much more. Download Here  (Scroll to the bottom of the page for the link) RIYL: Emo, indie, punk, whatever tickles your fancy

 Pop punk / hardcore compilation from Coffee & Cigarettes Clothing Co, featuring Broadway Calls, No Trigger, Apologies, I Have None, Stickup Kid, Our Time Down Here and many more. Download Here RIYL: Modern pop punk and hardcore.

Animal Style Records  is giving away a free 10-track digital sampler, which includes songs from all 10 of their bands that are playing this year’s Fest in Gainesville , FL.  Download It Here Below is the tracklisting for the comp which also includes a coupon code for 10% off the Animal Style web store. Below is the artwork which features venues/set times for each of the bands’ Fest performances. Label owner Matt Medina says, "Last year I went to The Fest for the first time after missing it for too many years. I am excited to return to Gainesville again this year joining 10 bands I've had the pleasure of working with over the years. To both celebrate the event and introduce folks to some new tunes I decided to put together a free digital compilation of these 10 bands making the trek to this years Fest. There are some newer faces and some familiar ones that have become my extended family. Each track I picked, selecting my favorite from each release and ho...