background preloader

20 fantastic ways to find new music that you like (no Last.fm & Pandora inside)

20 fantastic ways to find new music that you like (no Last.fm & Pandora inside)
OK, everybody knows that Last.fm & Pandora are great services, but there are a lot of other tools that can help us to find new cool music. Some of them just expose daily musical goodies, others make recommendations based on your very own preferences, and others take the web interactivity ever further. Explore the best 20 ways to discover new music in a web 2.0 world. Live music discovery Wonderwheel Wonderwheel is a new tool that aims to help you find similar artists with the ones you like. Awdio My favorite method to discover new music is listening to the Awdio stream (live music stream from more than 60 clubs from all over the world – including DJ sets & parties) and when I hear a nice track, I tag it with Shazam (explained below) to find out what tune is it. Shazam Shazam gives instant satisfaction for those times when you want to know the song that is playing, learn more about the artist, buy the song immediately – or simply share your discovery with your friends. iLike The Filter Mog Related:  Cool Stuff

25 Killer Websites that Make You Cleverer It’s easy to forget that we have access to a virtually limitless resource of information, i.e. the Internet. For a lot of us, this is even true at our fingertips, thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and an ever-increasing push for online greatness by tech engineers all over the world. As a result, there are countless websites out there that are geared to make you smarter and more brilliant for either a low or no cost. Here are just 25 killer websites that may just make you more clever than ever before. 1. This isn’t the first time I’ve recommended this language-teaching website (and app), and it certainly won’t be the last. 2. Have you ever wanted to pick up a subject you’re not well-versed in, but you didn’t have the money to invest in a college course? 3. Guitar is one of the few instruments out there that’s actually pretty easy to learn if you’re a little older, making it one of the most accessible instruments. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.

The Top 100 Seventies Singles presents ere's the inside story -- along with links to midis, lyrics and videos -- on the Top 100 singles of the Seventies. Songs we listened to on AM radios at home... in cars... at the beach. P.S. - After perusing this list, don't forget to check out our 100 Additional Seventies Singles section for more reviews of great Seventies singles! PLEASE NOTE: All songs presented in "The Top 100 Seventies Singles" are available for purchase on compact disc or digital download.

How to Make Google Translate Beatbox Not sure if this falls in the category of Easter Egg or clever manipulation, but either way, there go our afternoons: Redditor harrichr has devised a scheme for turning Google Translate into a makeshift beatbox machine. 1) Go to [1] Google Translate2) Set the translator to translate German to German3) Copy + paste the following into the translate box: pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch4) Click “listen”5) Be amazed :) For the lazy, just click this link and it’ll be done for you. There’s nothing magical about this particular sequence, and there’s tons of room for experimentation: In German, anyway, “pv” and “zk” make complementary breathy sounds and clicks, respectively. Update: Hacker News reader iamdave has come up with a pretty comprehensive Google Translate beatboxing guide: (Reddit via Create Digital Music)

5 Ableton Communities Worth Checking Out – AbletonOp AbletonOp isn’t the only site in the Ableton Live community worth reading (even if we do offer the best free Ableton resources). Kendall and I read through Ableton blogs every day, and here are 5 places that stand out from the rest. 1. The Ableton Cookbook This is a pretty comprehensive site that covers some unique features most people wouldn’t notice. 2. Although Dubspot isn’t an Ableton-only resource, they do post some great Ableton Live content. 3. This is, in my opinion, the best Ableton forum on the internet. 4. CDM also isn’t an Ableton Live dedicated source, but they do post some of the best Ableton content on the internet. 5. Nick posts some great Ableton Live tutorials on his blog, and goes pretty in-depth technically. Keep up! Add these to your feed reader and keep up with the communities!

IQ Test (Intelligence Test). More than 50 Intelligence Tests for all ages Have you ever asked yourself, what it intelligence? Intelligence can be described as the ability to have skills, necessary to face the requirements and challenges, which man is daily confronted with. According to the Webster’s Dictionary, “intelligence is a capacity to perceive and comprehend meaning, information, news”. Nowadays a new, more complex and extensive conception of intelligence has been developed, and the determination can be simply expressed as: Intelligence is a skill to solve complex problems in the changing circumstances. One cannot say, that IQ = Intelligence, because not all the aspects of the intelligence can be reliably measured. Do you like to have the newest quizzes and tests from this category on your website? Site 1 - 10 of 101 matches sorted by date or sort by rating

Top 100 Best Acoustic Songs Ever -The Greatest of All Time | Acoustic Guitar Music | TopAcousticSongs.com Here is a list of the best acoustic songs ever written. Acoustic music has come a long way over the years, so many are “oldies” and many are “newies.” We are basing this list off of historical album sales, the ever so objective factor of acoustic-ness, but mostly how easily they make us cry. They are mostly arranged in alphabetical order, by song – so make sure you check out the whole list! Feel free to give your input on suggestions, changes, discards, or songs we may have forgot about. Also, for those interested in a serious path to learning guitar, please see our trusted partner, Guitar Tricks: Click the links to listen to the songs. Listen 1-9 Listen 10-19 Listen 20-29 Listen 30-39 Listen 40-49 Listen 50-59 Listen 60-69 Listen 70-79 Listen 80-89 Listen 90-100 **ALPHABETICAL ORDER (Roughly)** 1. 3 AM – Matchbox 20 2. 10,000 Stones – Adrianne 3.

stereomood – emotional internet radio - music for my mood and activities Optical Illusions, Videos, Images, Brain Teasers and more! Good Morning and Happy Monday to everyone! Hope the weekend was good and you had a Happy Father’s Day! Today’s optical illusion is remarkable one because it is going to force anyone that sees it to really look at it and use their imagination! So, what do you all see because you are supposed to see a Native American sitting on a horse right next to his village, and there is a beautiful rainbow overhead, which really adds something to the picture. However, that is not all that people are going to see, and their eyes and brain are immediately going to take this picture and start seeing other things in it. There is one very obvious animal in this picture, but the others are not so easy to find, but oh the fun you are going to have trying to find all the animals, and good luck finding them! Want to see another great optical illusion? Sunday is here, which means one more day of the weekend to enjoy! Ready for another illusion that will make you do a double take? Happy Saturday everyone!

Related: