On the occasions you want a little more predictability than what your shuffle function can give you, these sites below regularly offer you a great selection of FREE downloads or streams in the form of podcasts, mixtapes, DJ mixes, etc. Some are available through iTunes.
[FREE PODCASTS from Anticon Records]
The podcasts available from Anticon are as genre-crossing as their roster of artists and the music they produce. The podcasts reside on their home page, but the link above takes you to their RSS feed page where you can find the download links PLUS tracklists for some of them which are not available on the home page.
[STREAM MIXTAPES from The Artist Mixtapes]
Sister site to Toronta-based music blog Back In 15 minutes, this site is comprised of mixes created on request: artists are asked to share five songs they’ve been listening to lately, and three songs they can’t live without. Most mixes are from lesser-known bands, but participants also include Scattered Trees, Rubblebucket, Jeff Prystowsky of The Low Anthem among many others. Tracklists are included however the mixes are only for streaming, no downloads available.
[FREE MIXTAPES from Check Yo Ponytail]
The namesake of a ongoing party in L.A., the link above will take you the their main page on Soundcloud where these are hosted. There’s a handful of individual songs uploaded to their profile, but many are mixes and labeled as such. Click through these links to catch the tracklist. Mixes are from recording artists cum DJs or vice versa: Javelin, Pictureplane, DNTEL, Andre W.K., The GO! Team and many others. It’s party music spanning the genres!
[FREE MIX SESSIONS from Daily Session]
Daily Session is a blog dedicated to bridging the gap between artist and audience in New York City's 'underground.' Purveyors of funky electronic & dance, the mixes from DS also draw from old soul, jazz, and independent hip hop. The site receives contributions from many of the local record stores. Most, if not all, of the mixes have accompanying tracklists. Make sure to click the "Previous Entries" link at the bottom of the page to go through all of their archives.
[FREE RADIO MIXES from DFA Records]
Who doesn’t like DFA Records these days? Founded by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem fame, the roster of artists includes trendy, pop-friendly-but-riding-the-edge, indie dance acts. They currently host a variety of mixes dating back to 2005, including ones from Claire Evans (YACHT), Shit Robot, Holy Ghost, Jacques Renault, Fall on Your Sword, James Curd and many more. Tracklists included.
[FREE MIXES form Fact]
Fact Magazine out of London avoids the shameless hype you find coming from many of the British music magazines and their website has compiled quite an impressive inventory of mixes/podcasts by DJs and bands. Certainly heavy on the electronic/dance tip, there are nearly 100 to choose from. At first glance, the mixes that have caught our attention are from Cold Cave, The xx, Horsemeat Disco, Cocadisco, DJ T, The Emperor Machine, Subway, In Flagranti, & Kitsuné.
[FREE PODCASTS from Fader]
Like the music they cover, the music podcasts range from electronic to rock to hip hop to dancehall. There's a podcast for for every issue plus a lot of others.
Flavorpill is an e-newsletter and website that highlights the (uh) hip culture in a handful of U.S. cities and London. They frequently (weekly?) publish and post the Falvorpill Mixtape which is always a good collection of indie music of all flavors. Unfortunately, we've been unable to find a single page or section of the website that is a store house for all of the installments. You can subscribe to any number of their e-newsletters here, but none are specific to the Mixtape. Below are direct links to some of 2010's initial installments. For the others, you'll have to Google for them.
Flavorpill Mixtape X
Flavorpill Mixtape XI
Flavorpill Mixtape XII
Flavorpill Mixtape XIII
Flavorpill Mixtape XIV
Flavorpill Mixtape XVIII
[FREE MIXTAPES from Flux Rad]
Paige Maguire is a busy woman, working as a designer, DJ, writer, editor AND the Director of Marketing & Development at WOXY. She's somehow finds time to create and post a ton of mixtapes/podacasts covering the sub-genre bases of rock 'n' roll. There are tracklists and great 'album' art for most of them. Don't miss each of the four volumes from her DJ sets at Chain Drive in Austin featuring post-punk, proto-punk and general punk rock. 
[FREE MIXTAPES from International Tapes]
Brooklyn-born blog International Tapes is, perhaps, an extension of Altered Zones? Whatever the case, there’s an impressive collection of downloadable mixtapes hosted here. The mixers include Janka Nabay, Blood Diamonds, Daedelus, Tennis, BRAIDS, Cloud Nothings, Helado Negro and more. Tracklists included.
[FREE PODCASTS from KEXP]
KEXP's Music That Matters bi-weekly podcast brings you an exclusive mix of new music from the world's best independent artists from one of the world's best indie radio stations. They seem to keep their library up to date on iTunes, but if you download the casts from the linked page above, you can find tracklists for each.
[FREE PODCASTS from Muzzle of Bees]
Milwaukee-based blogger Ryan Matteson co-hosts a podcast with Ryan Schleicher on 91.7 WMSE each week. Aside from great music, you'll find interviews with bands/artists that have included Langhorne Slim, Nicole Atkins, Shepherd Express, Strand of Oaks, and others.
[FREE MIXTAPES from Self-titled Daily]
Needle Exchange is an admirable series of mixes from Self-titled Daily complete with tracklists and info about the DJs/artists that created them who include Cave In, Dominick Fernow of Prurient and Cold Cave, Ursula 1000, Cornershop, WhoMadeWho, and more.
[FREE PODCASTS from Resident Advisor]
Resident Advisor is online magazine based in Europe and dedicated to electronic club music. Podcasts once available on RA include mixes from Matias Aguayo, Frankie Knuckles, an Erol Alkan. The site throws a lot of information at you on any given page making it hard to locate something you're looking for. Go to the page link above, selected the podcast you want by clicking on the image, go midway down the page that you've come to and look for the options to download "via iTunes" or "via Direct Download."
[FREE podcasts from Rinse FM]
Rinse FM is a London pirate radio station. It also broadcasts over the Internet. The station plays grime, dubstep, UK garage, Drum and Bass and other genres. Founded in 1994, it provided the first exposure to Dizzee Rascal and Wiley and later provided a home for dubstep DJs like Skream, Kode9, and Plastician. Simon Hampson of Fact Magazine wrote in 2007: "Without Rinse, Grime and Dubstep would be very different: indeed, it’s fair to say that they might not even exist at all." The station has been described as London's biggest pirate radio station and without doubt the world's leading grime station." There are a ton of podcasts hosted on this site...if you a fan of these genres, you'll be elated at the finds.
[FREE PODCASTS from We Make it Good]
Somehow connected to FADER magazine, WMIG presents a selection—10 and counting—of mixes mostly on the electronic tip with some containing hip hop and old soul tracks. Two of our favorites, progams from Morgan Geist of Metro Area fame and Chris Devlin.
[FREE PODCASTS from XLR8R]
Lot's of great electronic music DJ podcasts from XLR8R and they add new ones every week. Some of our favorites from include selections from Junior Boys, deep house guru Move D, Presets, and Circlesquare.
