There are some amazing music services out on the interwebs these days :-) There is Pandora, which I'm listening to at the moment, Up Around the Bend by Credence Clearwater Revival was playing when I started this post. Pandora plays a customized blend of tunes on stations you make for yourself so you tend to get music you like most all of the time, and it turns you on to music you might not have known about that is similar to what you have been marking with a thumbs up as you go along. There are occasional ads that play but not nearly as many as on over-air radio. You can listen for 40 hours per month for free, if you happen to use up those hours in a month you can pay 99 cents and listen as much as you like for the rest of that month, which is pretty reasonable I'd say. I have never yet used up my 40 hours though. Another cool thing about Pandora is that I can listen to it on my Blackberry, which makes walks and bike rides and commutes a pleasure, though you have to have signal and parts of the BART underground are still not accessible.
Another cool music service is SomaFM. Lots of interesting stations there, and it's all free. I listen to Groove Salad , Secret Agent , Doomed and Space Station Soma on this site, all full of stuff you will never hear anywhere else for the most part. Pretty cool spot to chill in the evenings.
An old fashioned online radio station that plays a nice selection of rock and stuff is Radio Paradise. I used to listen to that more in the past but with all the other places to hear music I don't get to Paradise as frequently as I once did.
A good site for mobile listening, like on my Blackberry, is Slacker Radio. Custom stations, genera stations and such. Very good.
Oooh... Pandora is giving me Hey Jude by the Beatles right now. Ah... now it's Every Breath You Take by the Police, old fashioned rock on the station I made called "My Kinda Rock"
Finally my newest find, via Pastor is Lala. This service allows you to upload your music to the web, and browse and listen to new stuff too. Sort of cool because you can then listen to your own music from your computer at any computer you happen to be on at the time. So I can listen to my music on the computer at work or in the front room on Lora's computer or wherever. You also have several ways to buy music on this site. You can buy 'web only' music that you can only hear via Lala for 10 cents a track, or you can buy no DRM MP3's for 79 cents more if you decide you want to burn a CD of the track, or you can actually buy the CD itself with the web album included free. More options is a good thing. No sign of mobile capability that I can find yet, but it's free and way cool.
Those are the music services I use now, there are others of course, but really if I'm using these you know they are the best :-)
Another cool music service is SomaFM. Lots of interesting stations there, and it's all free. I listen to Groove Salad , Secret Agent , Doomed and Space Station Soma on this site, all full of stuff you will never hear anywhere else for the most part. Pretty cool spot to chill in the evenings.
An old fashioned online radio station that plays a nice selection of rock and stuff is Radio Paradise. I used to listen to that more in the past but with all the other places to hear music I don't get to Paradise as frequently as I once did.
A good site for mobile listening, like on my Blackberry, is Slacker Radio. Custom stations, genera stations and such. Very good.
Oooh... Pandora is giving me Hey Jude by the Beatles right now. Ah... now it's Every Breath You Take by the Police, old fashioned rock on the station I made called "My Kinda Rock"
Finally my newest find, via Pastor is Lala. This service allows you to upload your music to the web, and browse and listen to new stuff too. Sort of cool because you can then listen to your own music from your computer at any computer you happen to be on at the time. So I can listen to my music on the computer at work or in the front room on Lora's computer or wherever. You also have several ways to buy music on this site. You can buy 'web only' music that you can only hear via Lala for 10 cents a track, or you can buy no DRM MP3's for 79 cents more if you decide you want to burn a CD of the track, or you can actually buy the CD itself with the web album included free. More options is a good thing. No sign of mobile capability that I can find yet, but it's free and way cool.
Those are the music services I use now, there are others of course, but really if I'm using these you know they are the best :-)
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