Found via lifehacker , ghack has posted a list of free sites to find music. For those of us you who like to avoid the recording industry and are looking for new sounds to explore this list is fairly extensive and lets you know which site offers downloads, streaming audio, and other little bits of information. Here is a link to the article, FREE MUSIC WEBSITES .

And the list;

NAME		COMMENTS
3 Hive		review site with downloads and streams
Altsounds		great assortment, not all songs downloadable
Amazon Music Downloads
Ampcast		only streaming
Archive.org Netlabels
Artistopia		downloading and streaming
Audiostreet		Streaming and Downloading
Audiri		great assortment, not all songs downloadable
Bluebeat		only streaming
CC Mixter		only mixes
Cd Baby		only streaming
Feels like Christmas		christmas music
Classic Cat		provides links to download sites
Dance Industries
Digitalsounds		downloads and streams, german language
Dmusic		downloads and streams
Download.com
Epitonic		Streaming and Downloading
Etree Live Concerts		bittorrent downloads
Etree Live Music		only live music
Foem
Free Kids Songs		songs for children
Free Sound Project		free sound samples
Garageband		good selection, hard to navigate
Gigatracks		downloads and streams
Into Music		downloads and streams
Iuma
Jamendo		bittorent or emule downloads
Kahvi
Karadar		classic music only
Legal Torrents		bittorent downloads
Magnatune		downloads and streaming
Mixposure
Mp3.com.au		downloads and streams
Mp3 Jackpot		downloads
Muzie		japanese site
Overclocked Remix		computer and video game remixes
Oddio Overplay		links to artists homepages
Oggle		google like search engine
One Netlabel
Op Sound
Purevolume
Remixwars		electronic music
Singfish		only streaming, lots of known bands
Soundclick		few downloads, mostly streaming
Soundlift		streaming and downloading
Starfrosch		german site
Superhits		german, mostly german songs
Tonspion		german site
United Bands
Vitaminic		only streaming
Weed Files		only wma