Trolling for New Music?
Recently a friend pointed me to the site The Hype Machine, a site which automatically collects songs posted on music blogs all over the internet and posts them to a list.
You can look through the individual tracks on the site, use one of your media players, or simply use their own pop-up Flash player. Any way you choose, with each track is also listed the blog it showed up on.
I am really enjoying having this on anytime I just need some background music - during work, having friends over, clean up, etc - and I'm finding their goal of allowing people to find new music and artists they will fall in love with is true! It's great to hear a track and then be able to follow it up with seeing who posted it - if it's not the artist themself, then maybe it's someone who's taste I'll enjoy anyways!
It is a very random collection of music; however it seems that there is a certain "what's in the cosmos" feel at any moment. Friday nights people seem to post a lot of dance music, during the day I find a lot of indie rock (or maybe it's filtering in ways I'm unaware).
At any rate, I highly reccommend trying it out!