iTunes: Free Tuesday
Welcome to this week's edition of iTunes: Free Tuesday featuring a new collection of free singles from around the world. Each week we send out our dealgnomes to the furthest corners of the Earth to find and retrieve iTunes freebies from all the International stores. Here's what's new today: Nothing on the video scene but lots of lovely singles. Okay. I lie. Some lovely singles. No, that's still not hitting the mark. A very few lovely singles. Nothing this week in France, the UK, Australia or New Zealand. And the Canadian single is all messed up.
Music
US: Ambush by Rampage
Each week, we find a track from an artist or a band who's on the cusp of success and bring it to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. A member of Busta Rhyme's Flipmode Squad, Rampage has taken the solo route before, but this title track from his upcoming long-player shows that he's more serious and ready to take on all comers. Armed with a thick brassy backbeat from DJ Blaze, Rampage uses his solid baritone to cut down all the fakers around him.
US: Become Who You Are by Mainstay
Our Discovery Download puts the focus on a different genre each week, offering up a free track we think is worth your attention. "Become Who You Are" is the title track from the sophomore release from the melodic Minneapolis alt-rock group Mainstay. The track is a big, energetic rock tune, in line with the heavy crunch of the Foo Fighters, but with a non-secular slant to the lyrics. There's a bare honesty to the tune that makes the idea of "becoming who you are" a universal sentiment.
US: "The May Fire"
Some problems with this item. Check the link again later. I'm guessing that this is the iTunes Latino SOTW but it's hard to tell right now.
Canada: Time Breaks Down by Bend Sinister
Each week, we find a track from an artist or a band we've been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. This time out it's Vancouver's Bend Sinister (named either for the Fall album or the Nabokov novel) that get the honors. "Time Breaks Down" starts off like a melodramatic piano ballad, but quickly switches gears into a stomping, high-kicking, glam rock party. The tempo-changing third act that's all prog-rock showmanship seems inevitable. Like Chris Martin fronting Queen? Perhaps. (The Canadian iTS is having some trouble with this single this morning. And it still hasn't gone "free".)
Video
Honestly, nothing new. Move on. Nothing to see here.