As part of the pre-release promo fan fair, they are giving away a free as-yet unreleased MP3 from Jon Lindsay and running a twitter contest.

They have set three “milestones”:

1) When there are 500 followers they will give away  10 Escape From Plaza-Midwood albums for download.

2) When there are 1000 followers they will give away another  10) Escape From Plaza-Midwood album for downloads,  5 Escape From Plaza-Midwood CDs and 1 autographed test pressing of the Coping Strategies 7?. There are only test pressings in existence!

3) When there are 2500 followers they will give away another 10 Escape From Plaza-Midwood album for download, 5 Escape From Plaza-Midwood CDs and 5 Coping Strategies 7 records. 

PLUS, if they get 2500 followers by August 17, a custom engraved iPod Nano 8 gig preloaded with Escape From Plaza-Midwood and a 20 song playlist hand picked by Jon Lindsay, will be included as a prize for one lucky tweeter!

All we have to do is twitter the message:

“@jonlindsaymusic Follow Jon Lindsay and to be eligible for prizes incl. a customized iPod. Visit http://tinyurl.com/28r7×9t for details.”

And we’ll get sent the free JL MP3 and entered into the contest.

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Now, you have to know how to find it - but its easy - and anyway, we are gonna show you how!

Firstly you do have to become a member of the site. The site is called AudioBoo - and as its pretty popular for podcasters, you may even have heard of it.

Then all you have to do is put the kind of music you like into the search bar. We have chosen “rock music” as our search term. And we have gotten a LOT of results - including some music uploaded just a few days ago by the Jersy St Band - album 2: Breaking Radio Silence. Check it out below.

There is a heap of other music that you can enjoy as well - and then its “click” and its on your facebook page and with the new Facebook App for iPod Touch, you can then listen to the music on your iPod.

Pretty great - and its sooo easy and did we mention its all free?

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Very happy to be able to share these great finds with our readers. Depending on your preferences you may download only some - or, if you just like quality music, then get them all. No need to sign up for any of these!

First up, is the free song from  Ellis Paul titled “Annalee,” a song from The Day After Everything Changed. The video gives you a taste for the quality of the sound and music:

Or you can listen to the song, below (click this link to get the free download)

Very different, but another great sound is the free song currently on offer from The Washington Projects, titled “Are You Beautiful“.

Tokyo Police Club are also offering a free song  – Breakneck Speed for exclusive download. They have a great sound also - as you can appreciate from the following video:

Tokyo Police Club - Breakneck Speed

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Starbucks have just announced a promotion for their new “Frappucinno” brand to give away ten free songs from iTunes!

The songs are from popular bands - so its a great give away. Its simple as well. Just go to the iTunes store, select “redeem”, enter the code and the songs start downloading straight away!

The bands that are on the “album, include:  Macy Gray - “Kissed It“; Hot Chip - “One Life Stand“; Goldfrapp - “Rocket“; Yoav - “Greed“; Frightened Rabbit - “Nothing Like You“; Shout Out Louds - “Walls“; Wintersleep - “New Inheritors“;  The Bamboos - “On The Sly“;  Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - “Bad Blood“;   Wye Oak - “My Creator“.

So go get yourselves some free iPod music! Sadly - the offer is only available at the US and Canadian iTunes store. Remember to tell your friends!

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First up is you just want a list of all the movies available in iTunes then just click this link and you will get a list of 60300 iTunes movies!

But this is not all that useful because - well - what can we really do with this huge list? We need a way to search for what we want. And that turns out to be super easy as well.

When you click this link you will get:

Which shows the url for the search that generates the 60300 movies that are in iTunes. Now, in order to find particular movies all we need to do is add the particulars of what we are looking for. Lets say we want to know what movies  iTunes has staring Robert Downey Jnr. Then we add that search term in before “site”:

This search shows that iTunes has 14 movies with Robert Downey Jnr (click on “repeat the search with the omitted results included.” to see all 14):

When we click on one of the Google results (in this case the second one in the list) we get sent to iTunes for the details (in this case for IronMan):

Its that easy! Now you know how to easily search for whatever actor or movie you want without having to go through the tedious iTunes search system!

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But all is not lost, because, Soundclick offers a fantastic venue for musicians to show off their music for us - and there are literally tens of thousands of free Mp3 tracks on offer there. The trick is knowing how to navigate the site to find the free music to download to our iPods (they are made available under creative commons license so it is absolutely legal to download them for free)

As you can see in the image, there are over 400,000 free MP3s on offer for download to our iPods - in a wide range of genres. Below is a sample from the “Rock” genre (artist is Code Shred):

The team here at iPodBomb love visiting this site and trying out the different music from the keen musicians there. We have found some truly awesome music. If you need more detailed guide on how to navigate the site then follow this link.

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Take a look at what free music is currently on offer to download to our iPods in some other countries:

Now - as you will soon discover if you decide to check this out further - iTunes does not offer a music store in all countries, so no freebies in those countries. But, as you can see, there are regular freebies available in others.

So the question is: how do we get our hands on these freebies? Well, if you purchase an iTunes card for any of these countries, you can set up an account for yourself there. Now, you need a residential address, so it helps if you have a friend in the country of choice who will let you list their address! Check out iPhonegizmo for more details of how to set up an account this way.

And let us know how this worked for you.

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