Get exposed to a fantastic amount of music for a really trivial amount of money, legally.
The artists get
paid, and
unlikecertainreally crappy implementations of
subscription music services, you get uncrippled files that you can burn
to cd's or copy to your favorite portable
player.
If you're going to piss your life away watching television, you might
as well get the most out of your viewing by reading the recaps and participating
in the forums at this wonderful site.
You'd have to go pretty far to find a better written collection of record
reviews than this. Far beyond the blurbing of most review sites, Glenn
McDonald takes the time to place every release in context, musically
and otherwise, and I can say that he's one of the few reviewers whom I
find to be worth reading even when he's writing about music I have no
interest in whatsoever.
These electronic music fanatics will go anywhere great techno music
can be found, and they have the scrapbooks and frequent flier miles
to prove it. Their forums are a labor of love, and
among the many treats are some exclusive interviews with some
of techno's most talented musicians and a truly staggering photo
collection amassed on their trips around the globe.
You would be hard pressed to find a larger collection of idiots anywhere on
the internet. At the same time, you would be equally hard pressed to find a larger
collection of technologically informed, fascinating personalities. Warts and all,
this humongous weblog is often the first site I look at every morning, like
a series of horrible carwrecks that occasionally produces ingots of purest gold amidst
the carnage.
My current software obsession. Strike a blow against the
Evil Empire and use a pretty
amazing piece of software at the same time. As an added bonus, check
out the cool fansite Mozillazine,
and don't miss all of the really cool
developer's blogs.
Not exactly accurate (the database is riddled with errors, some small, some
horrifying), but this site is the essential reference for anyone
obssessed with western popular (and obscure) music. It contains hundreds
of thousands of albums, with cross-referenced track listings and reviews. Great
for settling bets on questions like "Which Yes albums did Bill Bruford
play drums on?"
Likewise, the IMDB is the movie buff's ultimate research site.
It features cast and crew listings for essentially every major film to
reach general release in the USA.
