Stream pad

The stream pad beta lets you remotely access any internet connected PC and play music from it. Sounds like a bloomin smart idea to me. It also lets you listen to concert material from a load of bands and download some of the live tunes in trusty mp3 format.

Nice!

Pandora

Pandora looks intersting in a similar way as Last.fm. It lets you search for stuff you like and then create customised radio stations based upon your tastes. You have to register to use it and it only lets US citizens join. So for us chaps in the UK we have to pretend to be yanks (I was wearing a camcorder round my neck and kept saying "awsome" as I registered) and enter a US zip code. You can get a US zip code here, just enter San Fransico and a popular street, lets say Market Street, the State code of CA and Bobs ya uncle and Fanny is a silly name etc.

Viral Video Chart

http://www.viralvideochart.com/

Does exactly what it says on the tin...

This Fake DIY

Has some worthy free downloads for your perusal

After the post rock

A Norum (nerd forum) for all things post rock

A Top 50 of Instrumental Albums - Decoy Music

I've recently been gorging myself on instrumental stuff such as EITS and Sparrows Swarm and Sing. I am about to embark on a listen through this here 50 greatest instrumental albums of 2005!! I can't as yet vouch for many of the suggestions on this list but if you have any reccomendations from the list or otherwise let me know.

ANyway here are the links to said top 50 pages.
Albums 1-10
Albums 11-20
Albums 21-30
Albums 31-40
Albums 41-50

Another good article on decoy is this here POST-ROCK TOURNAMENT.

Enjoy.

Google Torrents

Searh for torrents using a google mashup.

http://googletorrents.com/

Getting the most out of your PC for creating music

http://www.musicxp.net/ has loads of tips for turning off all the uneccessary $hite on xp that steals all your RAM. It means then that you get all your PC power for the important task of tinkering with music software such as nuendo and reason.

haleyxcore

Haleyxcore has a blog with links to loads of top albums for your perusal. Cheers Haleyxcore

Music Brainz

MusciBrainz is a useful site for making sure that your mp3 tracks have the right meta data (title, artist, etc).

Below is the bumph from their site

"MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections."

Iceland Naturally

Having a bit of an Icelandic fetish as I do I thought I'd better blog the recent Icelandic Naturally festival in Seatte. I didn't get there myself as unfortunately Seattle is isn't a stop on the Merseyrail system but alas you can at least have a listen to some of the bands that played there. The Mugison and Hairdoctor tracks are worth a listen - which can be found on the official site.