This podcast is a great way to start the day, like a shot of espresso, only it's indie music from a wonderful college station in Seattle. As the title hints, this podcast offers one song a day from independent artists--sometimes it's a live in-studio performance, sometimes a better known artist's single and sometimes a new band selected by the DJs at this nationally renowned University of Washington station. The range of artists includes The Arcade Fire, Grizzly Bear, !!!, Junior Boys, Beirut, and Okkerville River. This podcast is a great way to get introduced to new bands in a very unobtrusive way: it's one song, with no DJ intro and if you don't like it, you can just skip to the next or turn it off. If you do like, it, you have one free song now!
Live365 is the largest network of free internet radio stations. With a user-friendly search engine, forums, recommendations, customization options, and the ability to DJ your own IR station, Radio 365 is like iTunes for Internet Radio.
Matthew Perpetua's Fluxblog was a pioneer in the mp3 blog world, beginning in 2002 as one of the firsts. Still a great source for mp3s, this blog posts 3 or 4 a day with brief reviews of the tracks, as well as concert reviews and music industry updates. Great diversity if you have the patience to sift through and find what you want. Some recent posts include Ellen Allien, Spoon, Hillary Duff and Jarvis Cocker songs. For a laugh, here is the Wiki entry referring to Fluxblog as a burrito, illustrating the wonders of user-generated content and editing.
Podcasts, blogs, and internet radio change radio’s ability to reach large audiences and produce both more broad and more niche content. These technological innovations make the medium more democratic in many senses of the term. While so many of the developments in this field are decisively for the better of broadcasting, others may finally kill traditional radio as we know it and we may lose some of the benefits it brought.
The range of artists includes The Arcade Fire, Grizzly Bear, !!!, Junior Boys, Beirut, and Okkerville River. This podcast is a great way to get introduced to new bands in a very unobtrusive way: it's one song, with no DJ intro and if you don't like it, you can just skip to the next or turn it off. If you do like, it, you have one free song now!
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