Looking for Fresh Music?

[bitflipper]

With the decline of commercial radio as the primary arbiter of what's good, we older folk have come to appreciate the value of human-curated playlists and to mourn its loss. But there are still radio stations that are doing it, they're just scattered around the world. Your new favorite music might be playing right now on a college radio station in France, you just don't know it.

Check out ScrobbleRadio. At the moment I'm listening to a station called SomaFM Folk Forward, and enjoying it quite a lot. Despite the name, it's not really folk music, unless this is what they call folk music nowadays. I wouldn't know. It's a diverse collection, the nearest I can discern as a common thread it that it seems to be heavy on acoustic guitar and melodic. 

ScrobbleRadio's FAQ says the site is oriented toward "scrobbling". I didn't know what that was, had to look it up. For those similarly ignorant, it's a term coined by last.fm for a method of tracking what you've listened to online. Which is why I wouldn't be familiar with it - I don't listen to streaming music, preferring to purchase albums and store them in a portable music player. I definitely never listen to music on my phone. Ugh. 

The service is free and you don't have to create an account. Scrobbling is optional.

[Salvatore Sorice]

Cool!

[OutrageProductions]

I've been streaming several channels of SomaFM for years and love the variety!