discoveries thru last.fm so far…
bachelorette
electrelane

as a music lover, i do still go thru phases of “there’s nothing good out there”. sometimes for year after year. I love the discovery of a band seemingly noone knows about but me and makes just the kind of music i wanna listen to in my little headphone world.

what i’ve learnt is that there’s ALWAYS great music out there but often it’s a lot of hard work to find, keeping up with blogs, befriending ‘cool kids’ or record store clerks (whom i always end up crushing on). or traipsing through other peoples collections which are similar enough to my own to offer some new listening possibilities.

ANYWAY… this is why i pay for radio. I pay for RRR-fm because if they ever went anywhere i’d have nothing to listen to in the car (old car, just radio and cassette). It’s not cheap and I probably get an understanding of what’s out there more than discover that magical secret thing I’m alway seeking, but i’m supporting the local community which always makes me feel pious and ‘cool enough for the cool kids’.

But then I heard a lot about people listening to custom radio on their iphone/cancermaker through pandora or last.fm, it goes by what is in your collection and finds stuff you’ll like. Unfortunately after listening up my 30 free songs on last.fm I realised I had to pay if i wanted any more, but it’s cheaper than RRR-fm, and gives me the thing I most cherish in life, new music without all the shit. a radio station that will NEVER play ben lee or hole at me making me nearly have a car accident in order to turn the volume off before my ears bleed.

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