musicplasma and "popular"
Slightly later than planned - because we were too playing Mario Party and trying to work out where all our Nutella went - are Monday's exciting music-based presents. Yay!
Stop reading this. Darren Hayes' frankly ace new single, "Pop...ular" (you'll see why the punctuation in a couple of minutes), is available to download, via Afterlife and Yousend it, here. Go get it. Now. Then come back and finish reading this article.
(Afterlife's been running this whole get-MP3s-of-songs-we-like for a couple of weeks now, with mixed degrees of uptake. But this week the sheer amazingness of "Popular" meant we needed a simpler system, and therefore from today on we'll be offering a different MP3 every Monday, for the whole week. Let us know if you get any problems and the trusty Messenger'll get used instead.)
Second up, and actually nearly as exciting, is Music Plasma, one of the best music search sites I've ever seen on the internet. Type a band into the box, wait a bit, and it comes up with a particularly pretty visualisation of where they fit in the scheme of things and (most excitingly) bands that you've never heard of that are similar to them. I spent a happy hour or so discovering exactly how emo I've gotten (disturbingly, very, without me even realising) and that, thankfully, the Fast Food Rockers fail to make the cut. Thank the Lord.
Let us know what you think of Popular in the box below...
Posted by matt at July 19, 2004 06:40 PM
I'm not sure which category they fit into, but both Death Cab and, particularly, The Postal Service have my eternal respect.
As for emo, apparently it's American soul-searching melancholy indie-rock. Hurray!