Spot-On: 65 Days of Static (streams)

65daysofstatic (also known by the abbreviations 65dos, 65days, or simply 65) are an instrumental post-rock and math rock band from Sheffield, England comprising Paul Wolinski, Joe Shrewsbury, Rob Jones and Simon Wright. The band has released five studio albums: The Fall of Math, One Time for All Time, The Destruction of Small Ideas, We Were Exploding Anyway, and Silent Running

Initially, the band interspersed heavy, progressive, guitar-driven instrumental sections with live drums and off-beat sampled drums akin to those of Aphex Twin, although since their second album they have developed their work to include keyboard parts.

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The Spin Room - The Dreams We Keep (album stream)

One of PureVolume's most tireless self-promoters, fortunately Nick Miley, AKA The Spin Room, has the chops to match his drive. He spent big chunks of this year giving away some or all of his music on PV, and the pure passion in his lyricism -- he told us in a PV Q&A "if you blend love, passion, drive and old school Taking Back Sunday together in a bowl and add some sugar, that's The Spin Room" -- has us thrilled for whatever he releases next.
-- Purevolume's Top Unsigned Bands of 2011

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The Travelling Band - Screaming Is Something (album steam)

The Travelling Band’s shimmering blend of cosmic-country-pop, understated psychedelia, vocal harmonies and nu-folk has made them one of the most talked about artists to emerge from the Manchester music scene – "If you consider the term Mancunian Americana to be an oxymoron try listening to The Travelling Band. Brilliant."
-- Marc Riley BBC 6 Music.

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Fuzzy Freebies #156: Free Downloads Of The Day

Today's selection of free and legal - because: official - downloads....
Nedry - Float (Edit)
A Lull - Some Love (Brothertiger Remix)
Lovely Hearts Club Presents: Conveyor - Mukraker
RSLBLOG.COM presents Boston's Best Rock Lineup - New Years Eve 2012
Holy Ghost! - It's Not Over
Major Lazer ft. The Partysquad- Original Don (Black Cards Remix)
Planningtorock - My Valuable Hunting Knife
Howlin Rain - Phantom in the Valley
Emperor X - Western Teleport
Astronomar- Back To The Beat / Swordfight
Bleached - Searching Through the Past
Thievery Corporation - Unified Tribes (ft. Mr Lif)
Memoryhouse – This Will Be Our Year (The Zombies)
ASAP Rocky – Pretty Flacko

Click Read More below, listen... and if you like them... grab them. Enjoy!

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