OK, my first post in the all-new music blog.
Pandora is a free online radio that is tailor-fit to suit your musical preferences. Just enter any song or artist and a station will automatically created containing music that matches it. You can then customize the output by giving feedback to the songs, indicating your preference with a raised or lowered thumb. There are premade genre staions you can listen to, as well as stations created by other users. The variety of music is amazing. They have bands not present on Wikipedia, which is an uncommon experience for me. Although they continually add new songs toi the database, I was disappointed that the International House of Prayer artist Misty Edwards as well as the Christan progressive metal band Touriniquet didn't exist. I've discovered so many new bands on there, it's cool. They analyze each track for characteristics, i.e. time signature, solos, structure, arrangement etc. and find songs with simliar traits. This site is an interactive part of a larger project called the Music Genome Project, which attempts to find the reasoning behind musical taste. Although their music liscenses don't permit rewinding or selecting a particular song, it's possible to bookmark interesting songs and purchase them through iTunes. My profile is here. Some sweet bands I've discovered include: Citriniti, The Third Ending, Behold...the Arctopus, Kamelot, the Black Mages, Guapo, Fromuz, Circus Maximus, King's X, Arena, Racer X, Nightwish, Vanden Plas, Sonata Arctica, Enchant, Blind Guardian, Andromeda, Derek Sherinian, Pravda, Ebu Gogo. Many are obscure and you probably will dislike most of them. Some people rave about iTunes' new Genius thing...Pandora's far superior. Sorry, Apple geeks.
Yeah, so anyway, check it out, you'll be glad you did. That's all the time we have for today, folks.
Until next time, God bless!
-Will
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