artofthemix.org

Web site devoted to mix CDs and (gasp!) cassettes. This is a mix trading site -- so not much to listen too, however, download links for some mixes come through in the blog, I enjoyed all the ones I listened to.

underheard.org

The best community and independent radio programs from all over the country. Listen away, subscribe to podcasts of specific programs, and make donations to specific independent radio stations.

audiri.com

Music recommendations, listening, and some downloads at audiri. I found Treehorse Quads here.

Review of Music Recommendation Services

ExtremeTech published an article in their audio section reviewing eight different music recommendation services (like Pandora). I like their method of comparison, but I'm not sure about their ratings -- how could a site with no music or even music samples be better than one you can listen to?

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen[?] is interviewed by Terry Gross[?] on her Fresh Air program on NPR.

jamendo

jamendo is a showcase for musicians that offers listening and album purchases based on the Creative Commons[?] licensing system, much like Magnatune. Listen to streams, or download via BitTorrent[?].

garageband

Adam Pash pointed me to the garageband website -- you can listen to music, organize playlists, and some artists let you download MP3 files.

About.com's Digital Music guide

Adam Pash is the Digital Music guide over at About. I always find his weekly email newsletter interesting. This week I noticed his article about places to find free music on the web.

Vinyl's back

Read about it here. And no worries -- you can still rip. Check out this USB turntable.

NPR may distribute peoples' podcasts

Frank Barnako, a blogger at MarketWatch, has this story about the latest additions to NPR's podcast directory. As well, some discussion about NPR's plans for the future... seems only right to me that government subsidized radio become more democratic.

Making It in Internet Radio

This story talks about the way it was, and the way it is now, at live365. There you can listen for free to 1000's of radio stations, and 100's of genres. They even classify Birthday Music -- but nobody's streaming that yet.

Hear the coffee

I spent two hours at Starbucks last night, checking out the hearmusic store on Santa Monica's 3rd Street Promenade. There are touch screen listening kiosks all over the store for sampling music and adding tracks to your personal playlist. You can burn a CD for a buck a track, or save your playlist onto your Starbucks card for future tinkering. The visual component makes this more interesting then internet listening. You are surrounded by 100's of tempting looking CD's to sample... plus the "we'll burn it for you" (while you have a coffee) convenience... a computer screen just can't compete with that. Still, I'd like to be able to tinker with my playlist from home.

There's a news story about this here.

earlies mix at D*I*R*T*Y

French music portal D*I*R*T*Y has an entertaining mix by "The Earlies" -- it's a secret broadcast (a la secret agent radio over at somaFM). The Earlies take you around the world in 37 surprise filled minutes. Find many more mixes here.

Sonic Scenery

I missed The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Sonic Scenery program, "Music for Collections" -- good listening grounds there.

Beta Lounge

Beta Lounge is an online new electronic music showcase... a huge archive of listening available with free subscription, and music to purchase here too. Check out the comments about Beta Lounge at del.icio.us.

In Podcast News

Just catching up with last month's news... Marketwatch reports from statistics over at FeedBurner for podcasts they distribute, that there is an average of 35 listeners per podcast. They serve up 47,000 podcasts, 8 times as many as a year ago. I guess I can count myself lucky that I found such a good podcast ([ Zentopia ]) on my first try. I'm not near ready to start finding the podcast in the haystack yet -- but that day will come.

The Hype Machine

I've been ignoring "audioblogs" because I'm more interested in playlists than songs... But thankfully, The Hype Machine has been paying attention... well, aggregating actually. What's that mean? Go there, listen to the last 50 or so songs that have been uploaded to the internet by people that write about music every day, or search for my favorite band, and start listening. Enjoy!

Earhead & del.icio.us

I've been distracted for a few days now because I decided I need a better way to manage lists of links then what is offered in the Blogger template editor. del.icio.us (the social bookmarking site) offers a javascript that, with minor tweaking, implements bookmarks sorted by subject for printing on a website. I won't have to go back to Blogger to update these lists anymore.

I took the opportunity to start organizing all the links I have here -- plus a few that I rely on all the time. It's a work in progress... browse all the earhead links at del.icio.us.

Hawaiian Psychobilly music night

The idiot's guide to online music enjoyment pointed me to c|net's excellent MP3 player section, and Pitchfork, a web music portal that pointed me to a radiohead video from a recent concert in Copenhagen, and a review of Danielson. Danielson peddles Hawaiian Psychobilly music -- worth listening to again.

Simon Posford on Ministry of Sound Radio

Found a program by Simon Posford over at Ministry of Sound (MoS in UK see note below). I think it was Simon Posford that got me hooked on pschedelic trance with a track from the Industrial Suicide Tribe. Great listening here. (Read about Simon Posford here.)

note: Ministry of Sound requires (free) registration and Windows Media Player support (as of today, does not work on Intel Mac).

Audio search

Stumbled across a pretty useful search engine today: Singingfish. Set your preferences and away you go, find music sample files, and even tracks... not sure it's all "legal" though. I noticed that they seem to have mined all the music files at epitonic.com.

Another useful site: looking for a cool airplane taking off sound effect? findsounds.com probably has it.

Holland's Bahamut

40 minute mix (dark ambient) found at psynews.org. Personally, I'd put that in the dronology genre -- whatever! Definitely worth a listen. (Oh... regarding that download link -- find the countdown timer -- wait for an advert to pop up over it -- close the advert -- download the file! Yow!!! There should be a better way.)

Vancouver's DJ Jaspa

75 minute mix (progressive/trance) found at trugroovez.com.

liveplasma music mapping

Find it here. Unfortunately, no listening -- but fun to play with while listening to something else, like say, Pandora, that also helps you find interesting music you've never heard before.

Ishkur's guide to electronic music

Find it here. Browse the main electronic music categories and listen to music samples from hundreds of subcategories. What's your favorite flavor??? (You can find me in the trip hop section).

Don't forget to take the tutorial!

9 Beet Stretch

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony stretched to 24 hours, and streamed from Park 4DTV.

I first heard 9 Beet Stretch at 964 Natoma in San Francisco -- it remained thrilling for days -- weeks actually.

Live Music Archive

35,000 recordings, 2,000 artists -- lot's to listen to here... you sort of have to know what you're looking for... though the site administrators "spotlight" different shows... and the spotlight today is right up my alley... Sarana from Finland. Sample: part04. Or, 10 hours of ambient/drone on m3u playlist.

There's also an audio archive with twice as many recordings, music, speeches, radio programs, etc.

Sarana's website.

Saw Sigur Rós last night

That was memorable... With sweet memories of Yes and Pink Floyd concerts, Sigur Rós has it's own category of music.

NPR offers a live concert recording of Sigur Rós -- though it's hard to hear the mesmerizing lighting and visual effects. There's also an interview with two of the band members on that page.

Find Yahoo's concert photos, and a glowing concert review and more photos at static fiends.

Great link list

Okay -- I'm not going to put another politically charged image here... but check out the music related link list over at BOYCOTT-RIAA.com.

Vivaldi meets Jimmy Page

Dan Sindel plays Vivaldi on his electric guitar.

I found Dan on dmusic.com -- yet another listening stop on the internet.

Official website: Dan Sindel

sample: Star Spangled Banner

France calls for open iTunes

Here is an International Herald Tribune story about the proposed French law requiring Apple to allow iTunes customers to listen to music they purchase on any music player.

Donnedieu de Vabres, the French minister of culture says "When you buy a song or video over the Internet, it should be like a CD or DVD and playable on any machine." Well duh.... Why are the French the only ones that are getting this?

Napster goes free again

Free to listen that is. I saw this story today: the Napster catalog is free to listen to once more... the catch is that if you listen to a song more than 5 times, you have to buy it to listen to it again. The other catch is that you have to download their player, and use their free subscription service.