I have been listening to a whole bunch of new music lately. I kind of feel like I went through a musical rut after attending the SXSW of 2009. After seeing 37+ sets of the good, the band and the interesting, and standing for basically 5 days straight. I felt like I needed a little break. When the "new" artists hit the radio, I was like "they are totally old news". Thankfully that lame time of my life is over and I can go back to finding new stuff to listen to. I realised that not every good new group goes to that festival.
I was also in a rut because of the new last.fm rules: Reader's Digest version: If you live in Canada you can no longer listen to their radio service for free. You have to subscribe and purchase the rights to listen to the music.
It's not that I disagree, but I like free things, and using this service to find and discover groups was great. I still used the site as a great resource for recommendations, band bio's and upcoming events (no site provides such details all in one place), but now I cannot use the recommendation radio, which was a quintessential part of why I used the website.
A few weeks ago, I discovered Hype Machine. Which is extra cool because the music is on the site because of blogs. Now I can read what others think of the music while listening to it. You can simply listen to a list of the most recent, popular, tweeted songs are. They have a radio broadcast once a week of the most popular songs blogged about and it also lets you look up certain artists. It's too bad I have to use 2 sites to find what I want and what is recommended to me. But that's the way it is sometimes. And as a result I have discovered a bunch of new cool stuff.
Here is a new list of the groups I'm checking out at the moment because of Hype Machine:
- Faded Paper Figures - Dynamo
- Florence + the Machine - Lungs
- Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
- The Temper Trap - Conditions
- The Waking Eyes - Holding on to Whatever it Is
Enjoy,
AD
2 comments:
Pitchfork.com.
I swear by it.
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