Pandora

Pandora is one of the best reason to have a web browser. Seriously.

I love music. Pandora gives me gems of music over and over and over. Between Pandora and suggestions from a few co-workers, I have dove down this rabbit hole of amazing inde groups/artists. Sometimes when I mention the band, I feel like I am the last one to the parade, because these groups have been around for a while, just waiting to be inserted into the next Apple campaign.

I have created several stations but they tend to center around the following groups/artists:
Tegan and Sara, Cat Power, Lilly Allen, Kate Nash, Frou Frou, Imogen Heap, Regina Spektor, Camera Obscura, Jenny Lewis (w/ and w/o the Watson Twins), Rilo Kiley, The Postal Service, Feist and probably several others (which I may update later).

And for most of these artists I have bought at least one album, solely because of Pandora. Yet, the labels want to charge a huge sum of money for them to continue, when it gives them sales. My only guess is, they want more control over what is played, and something that plays what people want, not what the labels want, could impact their bottom line, or more likely, move the industry back to real artists instead of over-produced, over-controlled and over-commercialized manufactured drones.

Oh, also speaking of the web, twitter is great! Much better than reading a ton of blogs to find out what somebody had for breakfast. Now, I just get the important information, "eggs and toast - yum".