Looking for great free music to accompany you when you're surfing the web? Check out these two sites:Wolfgang's Vault (http://wolfgangsvault.com/) - Contains hundreds of live concerts recorded at classic Bill Graham Presents concerts. After a quick sign-up, you have access to The Allman Brothers, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Steve Miller Band - the list goes on. They also have a country site linked to Silver Eagle Radio concerts from classic country shows. If you love music from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, this is a true goldmine.
Pandora Radio (http://www.pandora.com/) - I've never seen anything like this before. Part of the Music Genome Project, this site allows you to create your own radio station online. After a quick sign-up, all you have to do is type in a favorite band or song. What the system then does is find that artist, as well as others like him or her, and creates a playlist of crystal clear music for you to enjoy. According to the website:
"We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like."
What that means is when you type in "Bruce Springsteen," it creates a playlist of music by Bruce, Bob Dylan, Dire Straits, and Neil Young just to name a few. Simply put, it's magic. A great way to hear amazing music and learn about some bands, as well.
So enough reading. Go check them out and enjoy.
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