May 2011
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Last.fm's Playground
Last.fm’s Playground is a portion of the free internet radio and ‘scrobbling’ site Last.fm that, akin to Google Labs, includes fun toys for users to play with, pulling in stats from Last.fm ‘scrobbling’ (read: music listening-generated charts) and tagging data. Here are a few of my favorites: Gender Plot Shows the distribution of listening amongst men and women in...
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Independent Music Discoveries: Podcast #2 - Dark...
Yes, this week’s theme is…dark robot party. Just in time for the (supposed) Rapture…Er, anyway, here’s the podcast. Enjoy! Be sure to visit Holy Page and Vulpiano as well (netlabels mentioned in the podcast). Download podcast: click here Soviet Soviet - “Human Nature” Derek Piotr - “Overtaker” Shades - “Hard Fall” Ava Zandieh -...
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Independent Music Discoveries: First-Ever Podcast!
Download podcast: click here New format! Experimentation! In the future, I may cover music news topics as well and bring in guest speakers…Please let me know in the comments what you think about the new format in the feedback and what kind of content you may want to hear on the AFIN podcast. —- Artists and tracks featured: Fire Island Pines - “Heaven Till You Say” Apostles...
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Podcast or 'Bite-sized' Format On the Way...
Dear AFIN Readers, I am considering altering the format of AFIN to contain more brief music news and selections updates on a more regular basis. I may move the site from Blogger to Tumblr since Tumblr’s format would encourage this kind of posting and allow for greater ease of quick audio posts, but I am still considering my options. Another possibility is a podcast, where I might discuss...