I know Pandora has been up for a while… but people STILL don’t know about it! I’ve been telling people about it for about 4 years now, before it has advertisements up and when their library was slim. The first thing I loved about it was the non-invasive advertising. The music continues to play without bullshit.

In my opinion, Pandora Radio is the best free internet radio available. Especially if you’re into discovering new music. I guess I’m a little obsessed. If you are into music, this is something you should use. It uncovers great new musicians/artists that have been hidden behind all of the mass media campaigns for superstars.

If you like a song, it’ll add more like it.
(by genre, key, and even BPM!)

If you don’t like it, you can banish it from your playlist without affecting other songs.

It’s simple and it’s FREE.
Freakin’ genius.

Pay only $17 for a new iPhone 3G when you swap it with your current iPhone!

Flipswap is the best way to turn your old cell phone (or iPod) into a new one, get cash, or make a donation to your favorite charity, or plant some trees!

Best of all, Flipswap don’t charge for shipping, handling or any service fees. So if you have a cell phone you no longer use, you can trade it in absolutely free!

I got an email about a new site and and the description had me curios-

“Loudvine.com was started for a very simple reason. OK, three reasons:

Discovering new music and artists
Discovering hard to find gigs around town
Discovering new friends, through great music”

Now if you’ve ever been in a band, you know this is good. Once you register, you have access to an incredible LA directory. That awesome, hole in the wall, genuine music lover, hang out venue that you don’t know about? Yep, it’s listed there. Amongst other things the site also has a list of all current/upcoming gigs in the area. It’s built like a social networking site so there’s plenty of opps to meet other bands and plan a show together.

Check out the site at: loudvine.com

Freakin hilarious!

I’ve noticed everyone is making their own music these days. Well for those who aren’t so music program savvy like me, check out Musicshake (http://www.musicshake.com)

Musicshake

It’s “The easiest way to make music in the world”

Just combine different blocks of instruments and vocal samples on a timeline from Musicshake’s large library of samples. I must say, its simple and its pretty dayam addicting.

Check out a sample piece by Jeffarama

Musicshake recently teamed up with Nexon to hold a contest, and winner their song game featured in online dancing game, Audition! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

<<Old PSA telling you not to make mixtapes. Bonus points if you can tell me where this logo can now be found!

I’m loving this website www.muxtape.com not only because Muxtape is touting itself as a digital equivilent of analog mixtapes or because of that uploading a song and creating your muxtape takes a matter of seconds but because of the mixtapes people come up with! (I created http://richandcreamy.muxtape.com/d in under 30 seconds including load time for that one song!)

I think it’s fun to type into google a random search term + muxtape and finding what people have thrown together. You get thousands of results and get to stumble upon links you may have never fallen on top of normally.

There’s one blog that made me feel compelled to share Muxtapes with FR*A and that’s http://www.butterteam.com for giving us

THE ULTIMATE COUGAR MUXTAPE

“A cougar unexpectedly crosses your path at the bar/grocery store. You think quickly on your feet, make a signature move, and she takes the bait. Even if things start to go downhill back at your place (you haven’t exactly tidied up and there’s only one bullet in the fridge) that’s nothing a little Keith Sweat + Patrick Swayze + Rick Astley can’t fix.”

http://www.butterteam.muxtape.com/

Based on my own cougar experiences I’d rate this as a certified panty dropper.

BONUS!

Here’s a youtube video of a strange Sony Walkman commercial: