Well, I finally did it gang. I've upgraded from my slow-moving PC to a shiny new MacBook! I’ve only had it a week and I’ve already spent countless hours video chatting about nothing. I’ve taken millions of pointless pictures in cool sepia and thermal tones just because...and of course, I’ve made some home “movies” along the way. Now that I have the ability to create serious films (such as my untitled project from this morning in which the new Mac captured my bff and I discussing the previous night’s events in my kitchen) I’m in need of some cool tunes to score my masterpieces.

As some of you may know it costs a lot of money to use tracks by major label artists for TV and film. But let’s face it, there are a lot of amazing, undiscovered artists out there just waiting for you to play their music in your next student film. However, if you don’t have the time or energy to find those gems, fear not my friend, because famed electronic artist Moby has come to the rescue! This kind soul has created, Moby Gratis, an extension of his website dedicated to free music originally composed by Moby himself.

His intentions were to provide original compositions for student filmmakers and new Mac owners like me. All one needs to do is sign up for a free account and you’re ready to get started. I believe there are roughly 90 compositions already uploaded to the site with more to be added soon. All music is free as long as it is used for non-commercial purposes. (If my untitled project were to take off and sell to a big fancy studio, then I’d have to pay the licensing fees.) But the cool part is, all the proceeds go directly to the Humane Society. How sweet is Moby?

Keeping with the “electronic” theme of this blog (Moby and my new baby), we can’t let this Sunday go by without discussing some L Word jams. A majority of tonight’s episode was scored with ezgirl’s stellar music but there was one wonderfully placed track that deserves a mention--Freezepop’s Swimming Pool. Hailing from Massachusetts, the band describes its sound as, “kinda like kraftwerk, meets ladytron, who dates abba, who spoons with takako minekawa [and] whose parents are the human league.” I’ve been taking a listen to a few of their songs from their latest record, Future, Future, Future Perfect and let me just say, I think ezgirl found the best track out of the bunch.

If you’re looking for a great underground, female-fronted band may I recommend Grand Ole Party instead. Let me add a disclaimer--their recorded stuff isn’t the greatest. It’s their live show that will get you—hence the YouTube video below. A friend of mine invited me to their show a few weeks back. The only thing I knew about the band at that time was that their manager was interested in working with my friend’s band and she was going to the show in support of her potential new roster-mates. Lucky for me, the band was insane (in a good way). My mouth dropped to the floor and literally stayed there the whole night. As my friend put it, their lead singer Kristen, “has a set of pipes!”