edu’s worthless blog :: Discover music for free

“Pandora is a music discovery service that helps you find and enjoy music that you’ll love. Just tell us one of your favorite songs or artists and we’ll launch a streaming station to explore that part of the music universe.”

So I entered Metric and Pandora started playing a song from the band as a sample. Then it played full length songs from bands I didn’t know, but shared certain qualities with Metric. And most of them were pretty damn good. Some of my favorites were:

Mudhoney - “The Straight Life”
The Local Division - “All The Rest Are Boring”
Consonant - “Buckets of Flowers, Porno Mags”
Swimmer - “Dirty World”

It also tells you why the system chose those songs. This is what it stated for “Dirty World” by Swimmer:

“Based on what you’ve told us so far, we’re playing this track because it features mild rhythmic syncopation, a subtle use of vocal harmony, a vocal centric aesthetic, minor key tonality and mixed acoustic and electric instrumentation.”

The Music Genome Project has designed a nice little service here. You can try it out for free on the home page without registering.