I've been listening to a lot of Pandora internet radio at work lately, through the Open Pandora client.
It's sort of the poor man's sirius or XM radio, without the talk stations and with the added benefit that it allows one to add their own favorite artists/songs, rate music, and it'll tailor a music station for you based on your ratings and pick other music that you may have never even heard of, based on similarities between it and the songs you've rated as liking. That's pretty damn cool, if you ask me. Especially as the "similarities" are based on the music genome project, and really get into the nitty gritty details of the music.
Recently they've added a "QuickMix" feature that meld multiple custom stations together into one big mix, without sacrificing the specialization of any one station. Currently mine is set to include 3 substations that I've created:
- Female Alternative
- Male Alternative
- Indie-Emo
My stations can be found by listening to rossruns_pandora on the Pandora website.
Some of the cool bands/artists I've found through my listening lately that I'll probably be buying albums from in the near future:
- The New Pornographers
- The Decemberists
- Kay Hanley (formerly of Letters to Cleo)
- Mon Frere
- The Dresden Dolls
- The Sounds
- Death Cab for Cutie
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