50 Foot Wave's new EP is freeeee!!!

Epitonic.com, despite not having been updated in a long, long, long time, remains one of the best sites on the Internet to find quality music by lesser-known artistes. What makes the site particularly cool is that it provides at least one MP3 from most of the artistes featured on the site. After all, there's no better way to learn about a band than actually listening to their music. There I discovered great bands like Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Rocket From the Crypt, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sleater-Kinney and 50 Foot Wave, the subject of this post!

What made me sit up and pay attention to 50 Foot Wave were their singles "Long Painting" and "Clara Bow", available on Epitonic.com. The songs were loud, aggressive, punk rock, full of vim and vigour. Just my kinda thing. So I got their 2005 album "Golden Ocean", expecting it to be full of rockin' goodness. It did not disappoint.

Now, as if to prove their complete and utter rockingness, 50 Foot Wave have released a new EP (actually it was released in December and I didn't know about it til now :P) entitled "Free Music." Which is available, for free, on their website. Too cool. And if you like the music, just click on the little donation box on the top of the page. I know I will. Bands who are brave enough to give away their music on the web deserve to be supported. Well, not if they suck. But these guys are the very opposite of suck. They rock. And therefore, deserve to be supported so they can keep on rockin'.