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Where do you find new music?

April 18th, 2009 | posted by admin | 10 Comments | Posted in Music Trends

Since some of us (and you know who you are) constantly lament the lack of good new music, that begs the question…

Where do you find new music?

For me, it is mostly thru Pandora.com.   I’ve programmed my station at Pandora.com to be music I can listen to while working.  Since I’ve been “teaching” Pandora what music I like for almost 3 years now, it really is very suited to my taste.  I find new new music and old stuff I had never heard before.  But obviously limited by what I have seeded the station with.

I still listen to the radio sometimes.  My favorite stations are the non-commercial WPKN at the University of Bridgeport and the commercial station WEHM in Long Island which is very much an anomaly in commercial radio, just check out one of their playlists.  And every once in a while, I’ll actually hear something on a TV show or movie soundtrack (Once comes to mind) that I like.

I hardly ever try artists I’ve read about or someone else has recommended.    I need to hear an artist for the first time without any preconceived notions.

That’s it for me.  A very small universe to find new music in…

So what am I missing?  Where can you discover more new music?

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

March 17th, 2009 | posted by admin | 1 Comment | Posted in Main

One of my favorite Irish tunes…also known as the Humors of Whiskey:

So stick to the cratur’ the best thing in nature
For sinking your sorrows and raising your joys
Oh what moderation gives hope to a nation
Or brings consolation like poteen me boys.

Full lyrics here:

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Split Enz – One Night on a Leaky Stage

March 12th, 2009 | posted by admin | 2 Comments | Posted in Music News

The band Split Enz reunited today amidst heavy rain to play Sound Relief, a benefit concert for the survivors of the Victorian bushfires in Australia.
History never repeats? For a special cause, it does

WHEN Tim Finn’s five-year-old daughter Elliott saw the devastation caused by the Black Saturday bushfires, she helped raise a couple of hundred dollars at her Auckland primary school by organising a disco-themed fund-raiser.

Father Tim felt that the least he could do was reform his band Split Enz — even though it had said its official farewells on a national stadium tour of Australia in 2006. read more

Here are a few videos from the concert, Message to my Girl and I Got You:

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