
For fans of Colin Meloy, Bright Eyes, Bob Dylan, Iron & Wine, Okkervil River, M. Ward In today’s Friday Download, we have music from Elliott Smith: The widely-celebrated folk-punk singer with a huge cult following. Beloved by fellow artists, his songs fill the soundtracks of critically-acclaimed films: Good Will Hunting, American Beauty and The Royal…

In this edition of FDL: on the road with Young Roddy. Download the torrent, and unlock the new Roddy X Curren$y mixtape, Bales, plus tour art, the I Kno What I’m Doin music video, and new footage from the Red Eye doc. Grab it here. The torrent will instantly download – just drag it into…

Life was hard before the Internet. But thankfully, Coronet Instructional Films were there to be the Wikihow and Lifehacker of a long gone era. For this week’s Friday Download, we found a portal into pre-Internet, post-war America with instructional videos for teens from the forties. Preserved by the Internet Archive, these Coronet Instructional videos are…

They taught your grandparents one of the home truths of comedy: a poke in the eye always defeats sharp wit. Or a dimwit. Now it’s your turn to learn how to laugh from the masters of slapstick. For today’s FDL we present to you the short films of The Three Stooges. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw0riLqQBj0&w=570&h=370] Before you download,…

In this week’s Friday Download, we have three free, downloadable classics from one of the most important figures in film: Charlie Chaplin. We’ve got his first feature-length picture, The Kid, alongside his beloved earlier works–The Vagabond and The Rink. Fun note about The Rink, you get to see Chaplin show off his roller skating skills….