Grooveshark

Does anybody remember Napster? That was one of the greatest times in American history until misguided artists and bands jumped on the copyright bandwagon. I myself downloaded a decent amount of albums, mainly the entire library from AFI, and that was on oldschool AOL dialup.

We’re about 10 or so years past that and have some killer services like Pandora and Last.fm. I personally love those sites, but I really dislike how they dont let you chose some of the songs you want to hear. Its kinda frustrating when you have a song stuck in your head that you want to get rid of, but the only way to rid it would be to listen to it about 18 times in a row. That’s where Grooveshark steps in.

I learned about grooveshark a few years ago from a friend I frequently attend concerts with. you can pick and choose your own playlists and listen to them without getting any random songs that you prefer not to hear. I think they might have some limitations. I just looked up Korn and they didnt have all of their albums, but they did for Wicked Wisdom, sevendust, Static-x and Devildriver. I guess it depends on the record label of the band you are looking for.

The only downside, obviously, is you can’t download any of the tracks so you can load em up on your iPod unless you buy them and there is no IOS or Android app version. There does seem to be a mobile browser version for your mobile device here.

http://grooveshark.com/
http://mobile.grooveshark.com

Does anybody have other suggestions for online music streaming?

Metal Music on the Rise

With the announcement last week of Chris Jericho, from Fozzy, being on the next season of Dancing with the Stars, its apparent to me that Metal music is getting more popular year after year.

Metal, the red headed stepchild art form of music, has always seemed to be a shunned genre. Mainly shunned because of subject matter, looks, and crazy antics of the musicians. A great deal of the rock stations i listened to while driving cross country seemed to push it on the back burner so they could play more trendy recycled garbage. I do have to admit that I caught a few small stations here and there playing Slipknot, Flaw, and Static-X. The better smaller stations i experienced were in Baton Rouge and Las Vegas.

With extremely popular groups like Slayer and Lamb of God being nominated at the Grammys, and given tv shows Like the Osbornes and Gene Simmons Family Jewels, our genre is getting harder and harder to ignore. Hopefully some day in the near future we can get a station here in Los Angeles that will cater to the metal crowd, or the current station can start playing some metal instead of sponsoring all of the shows but have no intention of showcasing of the bands on their station.

Metal Tonite August 6, 2010

Songs Played on the show this week

Bullet for my Valentine – Hit the Floor
Strapping Young Lad – Love
Cavalar – Going for It
Adastra – Get Back to the Ring
Ill Nino – My Resurrection
Wicked Wisdom – Dont Hate Me
Autumns Eyes – Downfall of Giants
Twisted Method – The End
Darklight Corporation – Ramrod69
Corwen – Basel Brennt
Soil – Halo

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Metal Tonite July 29, 2010

Songs played on the show

Static-x – Otsegolation
Inner Surge – Maggots And Liars
Divine Heresy – False Gospel
Broken Soul – Messiah Complex
Thine Eyes Bleed – Consequences Unknown
Elevator Death Squad – Beyind Reach
Caveat – Within This Weakness
slayer – Angel of death
In Silence – For All My Friends
Twins Crew – End of Forever
Asesino – Amor Marrano
Prong – Whose Fist is it Anyway?

Next weeks show will be on Tuesday and it will be much better.

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