Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Now before you start sending angry emails, don’t get me wrong. I love Pandora. I’ve been using it since the beginning, and have rode along through all it’s trials and tribulations. A music genome project? Awesome! There was a time when my hard drive with all my music on it was out of commission, and with my stations on Pandora, it felt like I was listening to my own library, almost creepily at times!
Read more on Why last.fm is better than Pandora…
I’ve had a MySpace account for a while. A good, long while. In all of those years, I have never once been solicited by a band or musician I actually liked. But alas, after all that time, a miracle has indeed occurred! Ladies & gentlemen, I preset to you Sacramento’s own Agent Ribbons (minus the newest addition, violinist/cellist Naomi):
Read more on Music I Like: Agent Ribbons…
Software makers Chocomoko has pushed their stylish LastFM companion app SweetFM into open source waters, and you can find the free download here on Google Code.
LastFM allows you to keep track of what you listen to in iTunes online, adding a social aspect to your musical tastes. Once logged in, you can see your own top artists, songs, and albums over different time periods, and find other music like it via recommendations, friends, or “neighbors”. SweetFM provides a desktop interface to all this magic, allowing you to stream music and save the songs you like to iTunes in listenable, but albeit 128kbps quality. Perfect for tucking away those tracks you’d like to buy later through iTunes!
Read more on SweetFM, LastFM’s stylish, Open Source cousin…
I was inspired by my turntablist night at the Hollywood Bowl to dig up this gem from the archives. I haven’t heard Orbital in a long while, and Halcyon + On + On is one of their nicest songs.
Read more on From the Archives: Halcyon + On + On (Live Mashup) by Orbital…
I haven’t really listened to much turntablist stuff in a while. There was a golden era a good few years ago, but I guess since computers are cheaper and more accessible, more people are getting down on the Ones & Zeros instead of the Ones and Twos.
Read more on How DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist Blew My Mind…
Olympia is going to rock in the Summer from June 28th to July1st, with their 4th annual What You Got Fest slash Youth Media Festival. It’s the first I’ve heard of it, but it seems like it’s something akin to the Yo Yo A Go Go days of years gone by.
Read more on The 2007 What You Got Fest, Olympia, WA…
