Broad Audit

so emma has an iphone and they have some fancy new music program called Pandora… its internet “radio”, by request sort of i guess… you type in the name of a band and the program finds bands like the band you typed in and it just makes a playlist of similar bands. its awesome. i did a few bands and i was impressed with the bands it came up with, heres some details… i typed in Tragedy, and bands like Hirax, Disfear, His Hero is Gone, Coliseum, etc came up. for Hot Water Music it gave me The Bouncing Souls, Alkaline Trio, an old Against Me song, and an old Rise Against song to name a few. Cat Power gave me a bunch of stuff like Feist and Regina Spektor but that one wasnt so tuff. nothing VERY obscure yet, but heres the kicker… i typed in a former band of my own, Tarpit, and it gave me Born/Dead, Reversal of Man, and a ton of bad hardcore bands that id never heard of, but the point is that it even recognized a small indie band like Tarpit, and there isnt any Tarpit stuff on her itunes or phone or anything… i was surprised by that. emily had a few other stations programed and said it has been pretty accurate with the mixes it creates.

i only played with this thing for about 30 minutes, but i think its really cool and convenient. my only beef was youre only allowed to skip 6 songs per hour for each “station” and its really hard to not just skip when you get to a song because youre really curious of what song is gonna be next. you dont really need to load up your phone with music to be able to jam out which is cool as crap, and i wouldnt think apple would be cool with that since with this program you dont really need to spend as much money in the itunes store. i support this program to the fullest.