so I was at work earlier, posting the thing below about the fab new band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and since Amazon didn't have their usual "listen to a crappy low-fi 'Real' Audio song sample I went looking for someone who did.
Google led me to The Hype Machine, which looked neato. But as I had no speakers at work I just posted the 'Clap' link and called it good.
Well, I got home and checked the link to see if it worked and discovered the Hype Machine is a far greater enterprise than revealed by my cursory googling.
It's a search engine and aggregator of links for mp3 blogs.
Look what happens when I search for another of my favorites, Elliott Smith.
!!!
(Check out the July 5th Needle in the Hay, it's a great version, very clean (soundboard?)and the only time I've heard it performed by a full band.)
and here I discover one of my recent favorites (TV on the Radio) covering another one (the aformentioned Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) on the song Modern Romance (and take a listen to their a capella version of the Pixie's Mr. Grieves while you're there, it's badass).
MADNESS!
Anyway, play around with it, that's what I've been doing.
Some of the stuff you can download, some you can't, but you can listen to it all.
Very nice way to sample tracks without committing $20 for a CD or an hour to d/l an album.
Learn something new every day...
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