Free Legal Music Online

With the upload and download of non licensed copies of music online, free online music has for long been stigmatized as being available only illegally. However, there are some websites that offer free and legal music available for download.

ArtistServer

Artist Server offers free mp3 downloads, videos, pictures, ringtones, forums and people news to its subscribed users. All you have to do is to sign up for an account on the website and enjoy over 7,000 songs freely available.
Link: http://www.artistserver.com/

Amazon.com

There is a small section available on Amazon’s website called amazonmp3. This section gives the chance to subscribed US users only to download free known music. Note that the songs are always renewed, and not archived.
Link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=163856011

eMusic

Emusic offers free independent music to its subscribers. You can get over 200,000 songs to download for free.
Link: http://www.emusic.com/lyra

Internet Archive

Internet Archive offers well known and less renowned music. However, the users subscribing to this site bear the legal responsibility of the content in the country they reside in.
Link: http://www.archive.org/browse.php?collection=etree&field=%2Fmetadata%2Fcreator

Download.com

This website includes a music section that proposes free downloads for a wide range of 75,425 MP3s of less renowned artists.
Link: http://music.download.com/...

Mp3.com

A section of the website will propose you to get free music online either in a stream or Mp3 format.
Link: http://www.mp3.com/free-music/

Free Online Radios

An alternative to listen to free music is to get connected to a free online radio station. The music is usually in a stream format but some provide the option to download the mp3s currently playing.

Yahoo! Music
Link: http://music.yahoo.com/launchcast/

Virgin Radio
Link: http://www.virginradio.co.uk/

Pandora
Link: http://www.pandora.com

AOL Music
Link: http://music.aol.com/radioguide/bb

Creative Commons

Creative commons is a company that has regrouped well known and less known artists (not only music) and use a private right to share their material online.

Jamendo
Link: http://www.jamendo.com/en/faq

Independent Bands Online

FreeMusicSpot
Link: http://www.freemusicspot.com/

Garageband
Link: http://www.garageband.com/

Boostindependentmusic
Link: http://www.boostindependentmusic.com/

IndieReview
Link: http://www.indiereview.net/