Want to be a music tastemaker? Want to have your friends envious of you because you're able to pick the up and coming bands months before they hit the big time? Well, you need to be listening to the right source for free music.

The right source is KCRW. They are the exclusive owners of the crystal ball that rotates CDs when you look into it. Either that or they've kidnapped a number of radio executives and are torturing them to play the songs of their choosing. And now they have a song-of-the-day podcast featuring some of the best music o' the future.

The podcast is brand new, so it will take some time to get a good selection of music, but I daresay it will be awesome.

Grab KCRW's Top Tune Podcast.

I'm not entirely sure whether this is within copyright laws, but there is an awesome podcast on iTunes this week that offers many of the videos from Jack Johnson's new album: "Sleeping through the Static". If you download it, you can watch all of the videos for free. Pretty sweet deal!

The podcast itself is in French, but that doesn't really matter. Free videos! Check it out quickly.

Sub Pop Records may be the most successful indie label of all time. It's certainly my favorite. Sub Pop first achieved fame in the 1990's signing acts like Nirvana, Soundgarden, and MudHoney. You'd think that once grunge was over, it'd be difficult to see that kind of success ever again.

But Sub Pop has proven extremely resilient, reinventing themselves repeatedly, and signing amazing Seattle talent. Today their roster boasts artists like The Shins, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, Rosie Thomas, Band of Horses, Modest Mouse, Wolf Parade, Rogue Wave, and dozens of other notable names.

With such a strong repertoire to choose from, it's no wonder that the Sub Pop Records Podcast boasts a free treasure trove of talent and great indie tracks.

It looks like they post music a little sporadically, but that doesn't diminish the quality at all. Great music. Free music. Check it out right away.

If you haven't seen Flight of the Conchords on HBO, it's a bit difficult to fully describe how entertaining this show is. It's kind of...quietly hysterical.

Basically, two New Zealanders who have a band move to New York to try to make it. They have a single fan, who stalks them mercilessly. Their band manager works at the New Zealand Tourism Bureau and calls attendance at the start of every meeting consisting of the three of them. The curiously side-splitting songs their band writes are interspersed into the episodes.

And their rap names? Hiphopapotamus and Rhymenocerus.

iTunes has a free Podcast promoting Flight of the Conchords that includes a number of the music videos from the show (including the Robots one above), and the video blogs of their crazed fan Mel.

If you want a bit more, iTunes is also offering an EP collection of a number of their best full songs for $5.94.

One of the best ways on iTunes to get access to free tracks is through the Podcasts. This week, we are featuring a podcast that comes from iTunes themselves.

If you were living under a rock, you might not have heard how Radiohead made history by offering their latest album, In Rainbows, on the internet for "whatever price you felt like paying" (plus a not-frequently-publicized $2 transaction fee). Gazillions of people got the album for "free", but many others chipped in lots of cash.

The album is now in stores for a normal amount of money, but Radiohead demonstrated how they could break the cd business model and still make bank.

Well, they're at it again. Not satisfied with breaking the mold in one way, Radiohead is now offering their item up for free AGAIN. This time as a podcast. Yup. You can download the entire podcast, and listen to the album as often as you want to. For free.

In truth, it is a great album. Radiohead gets a lot of idol worship that may or may not be undeserved, but this is the first album of theirs in a while that actually feels accessible to me. Their last few, I kind of appreciated the music for its complexity and innovation, but I wasn't couldn't really get into it. It was like Thom Yorke was executing some inside joke that only he and a select base of fans were privy to. I wasn't moved by it.

This record is a pleasure to listen to. Pick it up for free and rediscover the genius of Radiohead.

This is the time of the week where we remind everybody that one of of the best ways to get access to free music on iTunes is to download music podcasts.

One of my favorites is the IndieFeed series of podcasts. This week, we are featuring the IndieFeed Alternative/Rock Music podcast.

These podcasts are fantastic. They aggregate some of the hottest and upcoming acts in music and feature one great track a day. The result is a collection of music that would be extremely pricey for you to acquire yourself. It's a cheap way to broaden your tastes and find great music.

And what do they get in return for this great deal they're giving you? Nothing really, as far as I can tell. So support their true altuism and download their podcast.

Get the podcast.