Scanning my email in hopes of finding something interesting if usually a vain effort. Some time ago though, one of the 3 daily clips from Thrillist at least forced me to raise my eyebrow. To stray off topic for a moment, Thrillist itself has a glutton of strange and hip information on everything from clothes to restaurants to drinking games.
In any case, this wonderful morning left me introduced to Pandora Internet Radio. The service itself is free and the music player is reliable. The database of material is enormous spanning over 10,000 different artists, most of which I've never heard. The beautiful component of Pandora, is that it allows you to create a radio station by way of entering any band you enjoy into its search engine, and then the site produces more songs according to what the band sound likes. Here's an example of how the good people at what they've deemed the "Music Genome Project" regarding the Bronx: We're playing this track because it features hard rock roots, punk influences, a subtle use of vocal harmony, repetitive melodic phrasing and mixed acoustic and electric instrumentation.
Maybe the descriptions aren't quite dead on, but the site's other crucial feature is the evolutionary behavior of each station. You can approve or disapprove of each song with one click and each decision is registered under individual's profiles, influencing the future selection of songs. So if you're interested in finding something to throw on that mix CD after HelloGoodbye - Here in Your Arms, then head over to Pandora and see what you find.
Oh, and if anybody was curious who the Bronx is, here's a sample for your ears' pleasure...
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