Tons of steaming sites out there can stream all of your favorite tunes, like Spotify and Apple Music. However, not everyone has an awesome data plan to let you stream music all the time, and not everyone wants to pay for music. What’s more, mainstream artists are great and all, but there’s a whole world of music that you can find that isn’t played on your local radio station. There are artists out there who are as good, if not better than Taylor Swift — yeah, I said it — who just haven’t found the national spotlight just yet. That’s where free music download sites come in.
Now that Spotify is officially a public company, it has to continually make more money year-over-year to appease shareholders. As of now, the best way for the company to make more money is to get You see, it’s 2018, and a wealth of sites are out there to help the lesser known artists put their music out there, and help you — the music aficionado that thumbs your nose at the mainstream — find wonderful new artists. It’s unfortunate these sites didn’t exist when I had my own band — we could’ve been a contender! Shattered dreams aside, there are artists out there just dying to get into your eardrums. Don’t get me wrong, some of these sites carry popular, mainstream music as well, but these kinds of sites typically offer more indie artists. So let’s dive into some of the best free music download sites out there, just waiting to fill up your SD cards.