{"id":1959,"date":"2011-11-13T18:53:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T22:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2011-11-13T18:53:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T22:53:37","slug":"music-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2011\/11\/13\/music-102\/","title":{"rendered":"Music 102"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bored of that playlist you automatically reach for when you want music? Overwhelmed by the constantly changing industry? Confused by the visually over-stimulating portion of the internet that is supposed to be showing you new music? Or maybe you just aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t very social and have never heard of Pandora? Whatever the case is, if you are looking for ways to find music that won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cost you any money and are easy to work with, here are your answers. Happy searching.<\/p>\n

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Welcome to the Hype Machine, my absolute favorite and most used website. Hypem is unique because it serves as a funnel for the rest of the music blogosphere (or at least the important parts). When certain noteworthy blogs update new songs, they automatically feed into Hypem\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website. The songs get placed into the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Latest\u00e2\u20ac\u009d tab, for members to peruse and judge. If you particularly enjoy a certain song, you can click the heart button and add it to your favorites. The songs that get the most clicks as favorites get transferred into the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153popular\u00e2\u20ac\u009d tab, which is where I suggest looking, and where there will be the best collection of new songs. www.hypem.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Downsides: Extremely remix heavy (sometimes they are great but it gets extremely frustrating). Duplicate heavy (if two or more blogs update the same song they will all show up on Hypem).<\/p>\n

\"\"Recently, you may have heard people talking about this new program called Spotify. Beginning in Sweden and now operating in about ten countries across the world, Spotify is an amazing service. Listeners can search through thousands of full, studio quality albums and stream them all for free. Legally. Tons of major record labels have agreed to let Spotify stream their music. Spotify is great for listening to new albums in their entirety without having to buy the whole thing. www.spotify.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Downsides: Starting a couple months ago, unless you pay for a premium account you only have 10 hours of streaming per month. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let this stop you, but just a heads up.<\/p>\n

\"\"If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in the game of playlist making, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re about to switch up your style (unless you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard of this already, and now I just look foolish). Grooveshark has a massive library of music, and is a great place to build playlists. Create an account, assemble that playlist in the comfort of your own computer, then later log into that account on any other computer and start blasting those tunes. I also use it to create playlists I want to share with other people, which I do by sending them the username and password. They can then add songs to the playlists or create their own on the same account. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kind of like tapas food, great for sharing.\u00c2\u00a0 www.grooveshark.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Downsides: A lot of poor quality songs, make sure you sample before adding to your playlist.<\/p>\n

\"\"Sunset is one of my favorite music blogs. They have a great selection of hip-hop, indie, mashups and dubstep. Their team of about 5 or so writers does a fantastic job working together to ensure a constant source of new, good music. www.sunsetintherearview.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Downsides? Good question, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really think of any. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just really into this blog<\/p>\n

Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a list of other blogs if you aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t satisfied with all of this. Just google these names:<\/p>\n

Pigeons and Planes –\u00c2\u00a0Pretty Much Amazing –\u00c2\u00a0Good Music All Day –\u00c2\u00a0Some Kind of Awesome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bored of that playlist you automatically reach for when you want music? Overwhelmed by the constantly changing industry? Confused by the visually over-stimulating portion of the internet that is supposed to be showing you new music? Or maybe you just aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t very social and have never heard of Pandora? Whatever the case is, if you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}