I recently discovered this website called 8tracks. Maybe I'm a little slow to this internet radio thing, but it has totally changed my life. And no this is not some internet advertisement where I peddle the latest sleazy drug to enhance parts of the body that nobody really wants to know about but are somehow rampant throughout the internet, although if you believe those ads, having an extra 2 inches or cup size really "changes your life'. Wow.
Well, the best way to really experience this new website is to try it out yourself here so you can see what I'm talking about.
Basically, 8tracks is a site where you choose up to two labels, and then it generates a bunch of playlists that match those labels. And the really amazing thing about this site is, it allows you to leverage on the music tastes of literally thousands of people, who have curated their list just so people like you and me can approve it. And the top lists that I've discovered so far are nothing short of awesome, as long as you don't be a douchebag and go click happy + pop and then click disney channel or something similar. Because what you then get is the kind of shit 13 year old girls play, like Hannah Montana and Bieber.
And as I have mentioned before, you can't trust anything that comes out of a 13 year old girl's mouth, or anything she does for that matter. Anybody that camps in a garbage truck hoping to crash a Bieber concert via the waste disposal route is beyond retarded.
From 8tracks, I discovered gems like Someday by Joe Brooks, that I'm featuring a live version of, on 987fm no less. I thought that channel was full of hiphop garbage, but it seems that they have upped their music taste recently. Somehow, songs with a name like Someday never disappoint, like the two other great versions by Sugar Ray and The Strokes, which were my chill jams in secondary school and university.
The other song I'm featuring is Let Her Go by Passenger. The dude has a funny voice and looks like a hobo, which is probably what it takes to have some credibility as an indie singer-songwriter. I mean, have you seen Samuel Beam from Iron and Wine doing his live performances. Yeah, definite unwashed hippy/hobo/weed stoned junkie with a beard that could rival Jesus, but the dude can sing.
Loving 8tracks so far. And I can't say enough how much it has added to my musical exposure.