New Services for Finding New Music
So, you want to discover some new music? Good luck. While great services such as MP3.com are only shells of their former selves, MySpace, which began as place for bands to connect with fans, has become a cesspool of people and information, very little of which is music related. Fortunately, several new services have stepped up to help you score a fix of new-to-you, and often relatively unknown music. Wired has cobbled together a list of some of its faves, and here's a tastey taste:iLike: We're all waiting for the day that starting a product or service name with a lowercase 'i' stops being an acceptable way to brand, but in the meantime we'll just have to accept it. iLike actually provides a useful service similar to Last.FM, a musical take on social networking. iLike tracks what you listen to in iTunes, and keeps the world abreast of your listening habits via a widget on your MySpace or Facebook page. iLike will also scour GarageBand.com for underground artists it thinks you will like and suggests them to you.
Fuzz.com: Part indie record label, part social network, Fuzz.com lets artists and fans set up profiles, share tunes and exchange messages. Bands can also use Google Maps to pinpoint areas in which they're most popular.
Eventful.com: Eventful is an online repository of upcoming events, just like Yahoo's Upcoming. Unlike Upcoming though, Eventful has some very useful, and automatic filtering functions. Eventful will scan your iTunes and Last.FM and send out an e-mail alert when your favorites come to town.
Check out the rest of the list at Wired.
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