Local institution Hammertorch have released Big Softies, for free, over at last.fm. You can download it with no strings attached right here. There’s really not a good reason why you shouldn’t do it, so please proceed.

Justin Kase, one of the hardest working local DJ’s best known for his Coach vs Kase nights at 12th and Porter (every Saturday), has started a new project called Fitout. He’s already posted two tracks over on his Bandcamp page – one a remix of Little Boots, one an original instrumental track – and I’ve got a feeling there’s plenty more where that came from. The best part, aside from the notion that someone in Nashville is doing good things with electronic music, is that the official release dates for the tracks are 2012 and beyond.

Heads up via The Cream.

The Holly House collective has been busy! Recently each band was profiled in American Songwriter and asked to record a song that would best befit their own deathbed. The result? A series of phenomenal covers from some of Nashville’s finest. The best part is that they’ve posted these tracks for free download and they’re ready for your consumption.

And if that somehow weren’t enough of a treat to get you through the week they’ve also posted a series of recordings of original songs from a few of the bands that haven’t seen the light of day anywhere else… which are also free to download!

Long story short, go get them all now.

The Covers

• And The Relatives (feat. Caitlin Rose) – Be Here to Love me (Townes Van Zandt)
• Caitlin Rose – You Are My Sunshine (Jimmie Davis)
• Eureka Gold – I Go To Sleep (The Kinks)
• Shoot the Mountain – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel)
• Tristen – On and On and On (Skeeter Davis)

The New Tracks:

• And The Relatives – Fourth Rate
• Caitlin Rose – Shanghai Cigarette
• Shoot the Mountain – As It Goes