Pitchfork

Toyota Yaris and Urban Outfitters may be running the Free Yr Radio campaign due to a good-hearted commitment to underground radio, or they may just be doing it to look cool. OK, whatever, maybe they just want to look cool.

But when those two gigantic companies are teaming up to bring us a compilation of new songs from bands we like and then selling it for a dollar to benefit independent radio stations, who can argue with the results?

To generate money and awareness for these radio stations, next Tuesday, January 27, Free Yr Radio will release The Free Yr Radio 2008 Benefit Compilation (imaginative title!), which features unreleased songs from bands like No Age and the Walkmen and Yeasayer. A lot of the songs on this comp are live versions or, in Tokyo Police Club's case, a remix by garbage-ass Canadian rapper K-Os, but nearly half are straight-up new.

The compilation will be for sale exclusively via Insound, and it'll cost you a grand total of 99 cents, though they're asking you to throw in another buck as a "tip." Because that awareness of independent radio isn't going to generate itself.

Here's the tracklist:

01 !!!: "Must Be the Moon (Live at KEXP)"
02 Chairlift: "At My Side"
03 Yeasayer: "Final Path (Daytrotter Sessions)"
04 White Williams: "Blue Steel"
05 Dan Deacon: "Cave Birth"
06 No Age: "Padded Chair"
07 Mudhoney: "The Lucky Ones (Live)"
08 King Khan & Saba Lou: "Past and Gone"
09 The Secret Machines: "The Walls Are Starting to Crack (Live at KEXP)"
10 The Walkmen: "In the New Year (Live)"
11 Tokyo Police Club: "Your English Is Good (K-Os Remix)"
12 Jamie Lidell: "Rope of Sand (Live at Austin City Limits)"