Downloadable: The Karen Cooper Complex

Here's something lovely and odd from the Free Music Archive: the Karen Cooper Complex. It's what happens when a band already trying to msuh together rock and jazz in a useful way then pulls in a proto-punk beatnik to the mix. The band never played live to an audience, but given that their recording sessions were happening-style as-we-go-along events, maybe they never needed to.

Free Music Archive doesn't want to be free

WFMU's excellent project, the Free Music Archive, has gone live, promising 5,000 free-and-legal tracks released under Creative Commons licences.

It's exciting sounding, and seems to be popular. Which is probably why it's showing a database error right now...