While listening to a little Grooveshark today at work, I stumbled across the song "I Don't Know" by Lisa Hannigan. I really loved it so I looked up her story. Turns out she used to collaborate with Damien Rice for 7 years until he recently dropped her by saying their collaboration had "run its course". Nice of him.
Anyway, she struck out on her own, creating her first solo album entitled "Sea Sew". Sales really took off when she appeared on The Colbert Report last month and got what is now dubbed "The Colbert Bounce", moving up the Billboard, Itunes, and Amazon charts. To get a taste of her music, check out her Colbert performance here.
So I discovered this website this past week, Grooveshark. The site allows you to stream music on your computer for Free, much like Pandora or last.fm. Unlike Pandora however, there are NO ads and you can play any music you want at any time. There are no restrictions. It just plays whatever song you want and can find on the site. You don't even have to create an account if you don't want to to listen. If you do create an account, you can save your favorite songs and playlists for easy retrieval later. Awesome.
Oh, and it also has a great "autoplay" feature which will play songs for you automatically that it thinks you might like. You can then give the songs a thumbs up or down, helping it decide for you the next song. It works really well and I've already found one new band out of this that I absolutely love. They are called "The Maine", and I've attached some of their music thanks to Grooveshark below. Give it a listen and get yourself a Grooveshark account!
Bon Iver, aka: Justin Vernon originally of my hometown Eau Claire, Wisconsin, sings Lump Sum from his upcoming album "For Emma, Forever Ago". It's being released on Jagjaguwar records and is the best album I've heard in years. Take a listen to "Skinny Love" on his myspace page here, as well as be sure to check out the video below.
