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Music Genres on Google Squared
Google Squared is a new Google Labs application for displaying search data in a more organized fashion than those regular ol’ search results. For music collectors, this tool has the potential of being very useful for discovering musical genres.
Let’s say, for example, that you want to add more Rock to your collection. A Google Squared search results for “Rock Music Genres” returns with many suggestions in a very organized view.
Having this detailed view saves you some time in cherry-picking through search results. In a well-organized view you get to see all Rock sub-genres. You’ll be able to tell from this view which genres you are missing from your music collection.
Add comment June 4, 2009
Death Row Albums Now on eMusic
With Death Row record label now on eMusic, west-coast hip-hop classic albums such as Dr. Dre’s The Chronic (4x platinum), 2 Pac’s All Eyez On Me (9x platinum), and Snoop Doggy Dogg’s Doggystyle (4x platinum) are now available at relatively cheap prices (as low as a quarter per song).
Death Row, specifically The Chronic, is responsible for establishing the west coast in hip-hop and popularizing the distinctive style of g-funk.
Add comment May 10, 2009
soundunwound: good for artist information, that’s about it.
soundunwound is a new Amazon.com music site that has been curated with information from Amazon’s own music database, imdb, and musicbrainz. This is a great site to find all the information you need on a certain musical artist. Soundwound is artist-focused, not enough emphasis is placed on genres.
Genres appear on each artist’s page to describe them. This site breaks down the genres in three levels (mainly, quite, hints of), as you will see in the following screenshot for Calexico.
clicking on a genre takes you to a description and top artists on that genre. These are a few criticisms that I have come up with after playing around for a while:
- there is not one page where we can take a look at all the genres together in an organized fashion. It seems that the only way to get to a genre page is to search for an artist, then click on a genre describing that genre.
- many of the genres seem to have no descriptions. Really ? how much would it have cost Amazon to pay somebody to simply copy-n-paste from wikipedia ? It seems that the information for the populated genres has been retrieved from wikipedia – so why not complete them all, or most of ‘em ?
For finding artist information this site has potential – maybe even calling it the imdb for music. However as a site for finding information about genres and discovering music based on genres it lacks some points.
Add comment September 2, 2008
The Digital Music Lexicon
Over at Out Digital Music blog, they have started a series of blog entries to define the most commonly used terms revolving around digital music. Yesterday’s term was “AAC” and today’s term was “Bitrate“, for example. I highly recommend to anybody starting to collect digital music to follow this blog to get acquainted with the Digital Music lexicon.
Add comment August 8, 2008
Electronic Music Genre Tree
Over at techno.org, you can find a well-constructed Electronic music genre tree. The authors claim to “entertain before it informs”, which is how we should really treat any music genre tree. As I have mentioned in the past, music genres are one of the most subjective topics, therefore all music genre trees should be taken with a grain of salt. The tutorial found in this site is a good explanation on electronic music, in general. Have fun there.
2 comments August 3, 2008
Aurgasm – free and legal mp3s
One of the sites on my rss feed is http://aurgasm.us/. Each week, or so, they feature a new artist and a few mp3s by that artist. Recently, they featured a great female vocalist: Melody Gardot. Finding out about her made following this website worthwhile. I just listened to her two songs offered by this post: Goodnite and Worrisome Heart. Now, I must get all her songs.
Add comment July 10, 2008
