Comments on: MP3 Blog Roundup

MP3 Blog Roundup

dhoyt — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:11:30 -0800

• A far-flung variety of free mp3 singles posted almost daily. Without Sense's roundup I would have never stumbled across the excellent Enchanted Sounds of the Islanders. Equally worth bookmarking: Fat Planet, NewFlux, Pop77, ScissorKick, TangMonkey, TtIKtDA, Tofu Hut, Cocaine Blunts & Hip-Hop Tapes, Music for Robots, Soul Sides, MoistWorks, A Million LoveSongs, Copy Right?, The Big Ticket, TalkieWalkie, Bubblegum Machine, Fingertips, #1 Songs in Heaven, Mythical Beast, Fruits of Chaos, Moebius Rex...

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:17:34 -0800

...and so on. Do you have any favorites? I realize the notion of an mp3-blog isn't exactly revolutionary, but I thought it would be fun to share a bunch of bookmarks among those of us who are always on the lookout for new music & quality reviews...

By: rks404

rks404 — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:31:50 -0800

[this is a freaking great post]

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:43:47 -0800

On second glance, I really should have categorized those links somehow rather than just posting a huge clump of urls, but in general they're all misc-rock, with a few hip-hop and soul (Soul Sides, #1 Songs in Heaven, Cocaine Blunts & Hip-Hop Tapes) and one Asian (Fruits of Chaos), and in general they're all really good.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:43:58 -0800

yay! thanks! (and i love bubblegum machine)

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:45:58 -0800

this is the motherlode !

By: Hackworth

Hackworth — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:52:36 -0800

Don't forget 3Hive

By: will

will — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:53:42 -0800

For command line lovers: MP3 Blogs and Wget

By: Quartermass

Quartermass — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:59:01 -0800

Cool. Great post.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:13:15 -0800

Excellent post. Thanks. May not fit your guidelines but my blogtathon entry from last year had some excellent mp3s donated by some of my favorite artists.

By: carter

carter — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:26:23 -0800

Yup, thanks!

By: jazon

jazon — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:30:02 -0800

A couple of my favorites: Teaching The Indie Kids to Dance Again The Suburbs Are Killing Us

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:42:00 -0800

Awesome.

By: yonderboy

yonderboy — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 22:36:57 -0800

More listed at close your eyes, bloghorrea, thom and a real net music motherlode, dj martian.

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 22:42:52 -0800

That these blogs exist supports my own approach to the mp3 controversy: 1) You hear a song you like, downloaded for free and hosted by someone with obvious passion for it 2) Curious, you read a bunch of reviews and maybe download a few more 3) You buy the album from the band's label's website Result: try-before-you-buy works out perfectly for some people, the artists still get paid, and in the meantime I've passed along my love of the band via word-of-mouth to ten other friends who will hopefully buy the album too. This is an unnecessarily long way of saying: the RIAA doesn't seem to grasp that there are people out there who don't mind buying CDs as long as they know what they're getting first.

By: moonbird

moonbird — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 22:43:19 -0800

Equally worth bookmarking... this thread. Muy gusto, dhoyt!

By: rks404

rks404 — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 23:41:27 -0800

It would be cool if, instead of using wget like will's link (which I believe would just download the links and leave you with a folder-full of unknown mp3s), if you could publish music using an rss feed. That way you could see the image, read the review and then listen to the music. I know it would be hell on the upstream providers and there would be a lot of wasted downloads, but it would be a lot more convenient than checking a number of websites and right-clicking each song. Does anyone know of a way to do something like this? I took a look at the RSS spec and it doesn't appear to support having any kind of file attachments. I'm reading up on the atom spec and I guess if you have the ability to do SOAP attachments you might be able to do it but I'm not sure. I looked around at some of the links and noticed that scissorkick and 3hive had feeds, but it still leaves you needing to download or stream the files. Most of the other sites didn't even have a feed. Any RSS or ATOM experts care to weigh in? The only other alternative that I can see is do some screen-scraping, but that would be far too much of a pain to be worth it.

By: rks404

rks404 — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 23:45:11 -0800

ps - I forgot to mention that any of this would have to be enabled on the server side first.

By: Marquis

Marquis — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 00:24:17 -0800

Ooh-er! Tangmonkey is aka Said the Gramophone, and it's my little online home. Every weekday since November, I've been posting the finest, most wonderful songs that I can find. Everything from indie rock to folk, hip-hop to classical. I do have feeds (here and here), for those who are interested. Recent posts include music by the Mountain Goats, MF Doom, the Arcade Fire, Taj Mahal, MF Doom and Arvo Pärt. I say all this because I'd love for any of you to stop by. Mp3blogs are this totally fantastic thing -- not only are they a source of free mp3s, they're insight into how people listen. You can read about the pleasure the blogger takes in a song, and the places that pleasure emerges from. Mp3blogs have helped me to understand - and to cherish - everything from Usher to New Order to the Velvet Underground. The enthusiasm of the best bloggers is completely contagious. The diversity of taste is inspiring, exciting. Find a blogger with an ear like your own and tune in daily for shots of musical delight; find a blogger with an ear different than your own and be inducted into a brave new world. I'm overwhelmed when I think of the possibilities for mp3blogs: a Scandinavian typepad user who posts the newest cuts by Hedningarna and Värttina; a Mali woman on Movable Type, sharing her country's finest nobodies; a kid at Ibiza (on wordpress, of course), unleashing the fiercest freshest grime tracks. The possibilities are endless - you can explore, learn, sample and then (yes) buy. Across the planet, music-lovers who yearn to bring the world's best songs to your own little music-loving ears.

By: inpHilltr8r

inpHilltr8r — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 03:37:10 -0800

I sense the impending breaking of a butterfly on a wheel.

By: snarfodox

snarfodox — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 04:25:00 -0800

Paging loquacious...

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 05:42:02 -0800

I love EmptyFree.com.

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 05:59:01 -0800

mr.marx has one as well, one that he should update more often...

By: davewiner

davewiner — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 07:15:02 -0800

>>RSS spec doesn't appear to support any kind of file attachments... It actually does, and they're in wide use for exactly this purpose. Here's a pointer to the relevant section of the spec.

By: richard m

richard m — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 07:17:54 -0800

Artists mentioned in the Wire

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 08:31:09 -0800

largehearted boy Coolfer Mystery & Misery

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 08:39:45 -0800

Summer Mixes mixoftheweek

By: rks404

rks404 — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 09:10:57 -0800

davewiner - much thanks! Jeez, I asked for an expert on RSS and I got the inventor of the spec. This is even better than AskMetafilter.

By: milovoo

milovoo — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 09:29:49 -0800

Is it some sort of rule that MP3 Bloggers don't support MP3 tags of any sort? If I have to figure out what one more "Track 01" from "Artist" is, I will go mad. Or is it a requirement to stay below the radar of the RIAA?

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 09:35:09 -0800

I think it's because the mp3s are often taken from band sites, so it's the bands that don't understand the importance of beautiful id3v2 tags.

By: synapse

synapse — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:28:28 -0800

Great post. Thank you.

By: jasonspaceman

jasonspaceman — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 14:17:08 -0800

Thanks for reading yerfatma! milovoo, yerfatma is right. Just about 99% of the mp3s I link to (that bands and labels make available) do not have complete id3v2 information. Here's a couple of my favorites: Vinyl Mine Lacunae

By: perplexed

perplexed — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 14:41:59 -0800

Right now when I go to Mystery And Misery I get a message saying "This account has been disabled." I hope everything gets sorted out, Jason.

By: Marquis

Marquis — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 15:04:23 -0800

I was just about to say the same thing. Hope all is ok!

By: chrid

chrid — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 15:20:06 -0800

Best.. thread... EVAR

By: 40 Watt

40 Watt — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 15:35:48 -0800

Christ almighty. I just lost a day or so's worth of productivity. Thanks a lot.

By: yonderboy

yonderboy — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:12:25 -0800

What happens to good MeFi threads? They become news, of course; looks to have over 60 messages posted on the story.

By: jasonspaceman

jasonspaceman — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:50:09 -0800

doh! No e-mails from my hosting company either, which ticks me off. Doubtful bandwidth is an issue either.

By: jasonspaceman

jasonspaceman — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:53:52 -0800

Sorry to derail this thread but it looks like my hosting company (blogomania) is gone too. Anyone else know about this?

By: mr.marx

mr.marx — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 23:27:50 -0800

forky's got them all down in this impressive mofi post/thread. mr.marx has one as well, one that he should update more often... I know. I will. *blush*

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 09:48:28 -0800

Zong of the Week puts up a new quirky original song every week (I know these people). The current one is one of my all-time favorites by these folks.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:26:24 -0800

womenfolk morrissey music

By: kickerofelves

kickerofelves — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:06:15 -0800

Lacunae is my recent favorite, and Lotsofco and Chromewaves, though not mp3 blogs specifically, post a couple of interesting tunes a week that are worth checking out.

By: yonderboy

yonderboy — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:08:05 -0800

Many of the blogs listed in this thread have their own syndicated feed and are aggregated at MP3Blogs Aggregator, which has its own feed as well.