How to Find Good Online Music

Finding good online can often seem like a daunting task especially if you don't have a lot of time to sit around and listen to CD's in the local music store. However, the Internet has streamlined this process and it is relatively easy to find free online music that suits your taste. You can listen to free music, and it doesn't even have to take up much time. There are several ways to go about this.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• computer
• internet connection
• open mind

1. First you need to get specific about what online music you want to hear. Decide what kind of music you want to hear. It will help if you focus on one type at a time because a lot of sources on the Internet will focus on one type.
2. Find blogs that suit your online music taste. Why spend your own time obsessing over new music when there are plenty of people that will do it for you and conveniently write it up? There are a lot of ways to find blogs. Simply using search engines is probably the easiest. If you want country music go to Google.com and search for "country music blog." Alternatively you can use a blog specific search engine like Technorati.com. The most important thing to remember is that each blog will be the opinion of one person or a small group so you will probably never agree completely with a blog and if you don't like one blog find another. There are millions. The last thing to remember is that most blogs will have a "blog roll" or a series of links to other blogs that they like. This means that one good blog about free online music can point you to several others that you will like.
3. Use streaming online music services to find bands similar to ones you like. Pandora.com is one of the most popular of these sites and extremely easy to use. It provides a new form personalized internet radio and internet music. You can go and enter a band you like. Pandora will play a song by that band and then several songs that are similar in sound and style. Once you hear something new that you like its easy enough to enter in that band and find more bands that are similar.
4. Internet music radio works the same way and if you find a DJ that you like then more than likely they will lead you to new music. There are also several live radio stations that are now streamlined on the Internet. You can listen to your favorite car stations on your computer.
5. Make sure to use allmusic.com. It is the most detailed online music information database. Type in the name of a band and then you can find both similar artists and the influences of any artist. This will allow you to find free music online including music you are already familiar with and find the bands that influence the music that you like.
6. Finally, one of the best tricks is to find a live music venue that plays the music you are interested in. Find out what the concert lineup is and then you can go back to Pandora and preview some music by the bands you have not heard. This is a good way to find new, good music because live music venues usually hold to a certain general type of music but mix up the individual acts to bring in a more diverse crowd.

Tips & Warnings

• Pandora will only let you skip ten songs an hour so give the song a chance before you hit next!
• Pandora lets you buy music on the internet through Amazon and Itunes
• bring headphones if you're in a public place or work