Monday, August 24th, 2009
Techcrunch recently posted a post about music sites called "Your Guide to Music on the Web -- Part 1". Here are the sites it includes:
Pandora
Last.fm
Deezer
Finetune
Amie Street
Jamendo
SoundCloud
TheSixtyOne
Project Playlist
Jiwa.fm
Jogli
MixTube
Lala
Musicovery
CitySounds.fm
Jango
RadioBeta
TheRadio
Aupeo
Tun3r
Play.fm
Some of the sites/services are very similar and some are naturally better than others, but all are worth briefly checking if you admire tuneage. ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
I signed up for and have just been invited to beta test the Free Music Archive. The Free Music Archive has launched into public beta. Right off the bat I must say it is by far the best designed and most comprehensive source of podsafe music I've ever encountered.
Jason Sigal, ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Found out about We are Hunted from the 37signal's Signal vs. Noise Blog, who say, basically, the real draw here, the thing that sets We are Hunted apart from other similar music sites is its large album art. But the S vs. N Blog doesn't point out what the site ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Techcrunch has just reviewed thesixtyone. I suggest you go there if you want details on the ins and outs of how thesixtyone operates, but basically the service is like a Digg for indie music on steroids.
A user gets so many heart points to heart up, or help make popular, songs ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
The term "content" -- referring to material that constitutes a publication or document for an audience -- is abhorrent. Applying the word "content" essentially cheapens the writing, music, video or whatever other form of media one is taking in and attempting to gain a life enriching experience from it.
The ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
For streaming music on demand, Rhapsody reigned supreme for a long time. That time, I believe, is now over. For one thing, Rhapsody has no downloadable client for Mac. You must stream from their site. But the biggest letdown is the cash money it costs. Sure, it is a richer ...
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
I've been using Songbird for some time now. It's basically an open source iTunes with Firefox built in. Today they released version 1.0. If you want to know more, check out their website or the TechCrunch post/review. It is a fine piece of cross-platform software for music and audio ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
Dr. Pepper promised everyone free Dr. Pepper if Guns and Roses released their album, Chinese Democracy, in 2008. G n' R at long last delivered, but not Dr. Pepper, at least not for me. I tried foolishly for too long yesterday to get some at http://drpepper.com/freedrpepper . The offer ...
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
I shot and edited this heinousness.
The music is by Leo Kottke, The Old 97's and, I believe, an instrumental by the Beastie Boys.
If anybody is wondering about the title, "Fatwater", I guess it is kind of a play on Blackwater and "Fatroll" which is a nick name of one of ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Author Tom Moon has assembled a book called 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List. I first heard about this project on NPR's All Songs Considered podcast.
The title pretty much explains the book, but the idea behind it and the title itself seem both hugely ambitious ...
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