We all can navigate our way around Youtube, blogs, Spotify and sites like Last.FM by now but what other sites can help you find your new favourite band? Digital looks at ten others you should know…
1. Soundcloud – It started as a highly intuitive way for bands and labels to share music with others. Thanks to its lightning fast speed and visual waveform interface, Soundcloud has become the place to catch the latest new tracks, particularly in dance and electronic circles. Try out http://player.thejackplug.com as it shows you the most popular tracks on Soundcloud.com.
2. Tuneglue – An expandable interactive spider diagram that helps you find related artists to who you search for. It’s extremely accurate and is essentially a cool visualisation of the musical landscape and its interconnectedness.
3. Grooveshark – It seems to be operating in a legal grey area but its popularity is not in question. Type in a few artists and build a streaming playlist made up of user-uploaded songs. The library is deep with plenty of remixes and full albums.
4. 14tracks.com – If underground movements and cutting-edge genres are your bag, 14tracks is perfect for you. Handpicked compilations based on themes like Scandanavian disco, cosmic soul, junglist hardcore, UK funky and loads more for about €7.50 each.
5. The Hype Machine – The daddy of the MP3 blogs. Put simply: “Every day, thousands of people around the world write about music they love, and it all ends up here.”
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The Hype Machine Radio Podcast
The popular music aggregator also offers a monthly downloadable digest of what’s happening on the music blogosphere in the form of an hour radio show.
http://hypem.com/radio
Highlife – Kenya
The song of the summer? It’s definitely a contender for best song of 2009 to lounge around on a hammock to. The clue is in the title as White Magic’s Sleep Doug Shaw and co. mine the feel of African guitar music into an indie-pop gem.
Listen at Pinglewood
Cortney Tidwell
Signed to City Slang, home of Broken Social Scene, Nashville singer-songwriter Tidwell and her new album Boys trades in some Bat For Lashes atmospherics. Listen to the free album stream.
Listen to the album stream @ City Slang
Vampire Weekend & Ra Ra Riot collaborate
One quarter of the former and one fifth of the latter collaborate on a synth-pop project. Two EPs are on the way but there are three songs on the Myspace page.
http://www.myspace.com/discoverdiscovery
