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Finding new music

Now I’ve taken to cycling to work, I’ve cut my last link with popular culture: listening to Radio 1 in the car  on the way to work.  Though really that only introduced me to the narrow range of tunes that they happen to think is suitable for the drive-time slots; personally I always preferred the stuff I’d catch in the evenings on the way to/from rehearsals, particularly the slot on Wednesday night (now shifted to some ungodly hour on wednesday mornings) hosted by Bobby Friction and  Nihal from the Asian network.  (That’s me admitting to a secret love of bhangra).  Other than occasionally finding something that I was interested in on the radio, my other source was keeping an eye on the We’re All Neighbours board, which has introduced me to Regina Spektor amongst others.  However, now I find that a chap I know is writing for a few record review sites, and he also keeps a blog, Cambridge Sucks in the SummerUPDATE: now at The Line of Best Fit, which should help me keep up with the indie kids… now I need to find a good source for electro and house stuff, and I might be sorted.  At least with the existence of Myspace  I can now check out random bands easily, hopefully reducing the amount of “Bought the album on the strength of the single but then find it’s shit” I have to put up with; for instance I narrowly avoided buying The Feeling’s album after discovering there was a bad vein of Supertramp in them.  A close shave.

posted by Si in Music and have

Comments (2 Responses)

David Trent on March 10th, 2007 at 7:48 am

Hell. O.

I find out everything I ever need to know about music from here.

+ the Feeling album is great, but I know what you mean about Supertrampism.

Si on March 19th, 2007 at 10:34 pm

Ah, Pitchfork, a site I’d heard of but not actually looked at. Thanks, I’ll check it out.

Of course, the instant I link to Rich’s old blogger site, he ups sticks and moves to a brand new domain, The Line of Best Fit.

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