Musical Atrophy
How do you go about finding new music to listen to? Since I commute, and can't really listen to the radio at work, I have to work at seeking out new artists to listen to. I keep meaning to try out pandora.com for that music-matching thing.
One of my latest favorite podcasts is the classical Concert at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum. I'm pretty ignorant of most classical music beyond the famous ones, and I've discovered that classical is wonderful music to cook by, or to just sit with a drink on a quiet snowy day, and should start figuring out which composers I prefer.
My music tastes ossified somewhere in the late eighties, early nineties. Not dead, just... a bit stale.
Bands I've heard and liked (or own CDs by):
R.E.M., The Cure, Midnight Oil, Peter Gabriel, Deathcab for Cutie, Coldplay, Bob Mould, Suzanne Vega, Maroon 5, Maedieval Babes, Bruce Springsteen, Tori Amos...
I'm looking for folk, rock, anything with pianos, maybe a starting place for blues... toss out your recommendations, your favorite mp3 blogs (georgy weren't you going to do another mix?), anything to get a taste of the artists you're listening to.
One of my latest favorite podcasts is the classical Concert at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum. I'm pretty ignorant of most classical music beyond the famous ones, and I've discovered that classical is wonderful music to cook by, or to just sit with a drink on a quiet snowy day, and should start figuring out which composers I prefer.
My music tastes ossified somewhere in the late eighties, early nineties. Not dead, just... a bit stale.
Bands I've heard and liked (or own CDs by):
R.E.M., The Cure, Midnight Oil, Peter Gabriel, Deathcab for Cutie, Coldplay, Bob Mould, Suzanne Vega, Maroon 5, Maedieval Babes, Bruce Springsteen, Tori Amos...
I'm looking for folk, rock, anything with pianos, maybe a starting place for blues... toss out your recommendations, your favorite mp3 blogs (georgy weren't you going to do another mix?), anything to get a taste of the artists you're listening to.