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December 5, 2005 11:49 AM

mp3Blogs: What are your current favorites? I'm less interested in pop and indie stuff. I want more world, old-timey, novelties. I know they are lots of lists out there but I'd like to know about your faves.
posted by captainscared to media & arts (13 comments total)

Not a mp3 blog per say but theres retro pop goodness at Crap from the Past Its big on pop but the Febuary 11 2005 show is full of novelties.
posted by wheelieman at 12:02 PM on December 5, 2005

I rather enjoy WFMU's Beward of the Blog. It's mostly kitschy, novelty or bizarre stuff.
posted by headlessagnew at 12:30 PM on December 5, 2005

Quite a few are mentioned in this gHacks article (I like 3hive).
posted by ceri richard at 12:43 PM on December 5, 2005

You could also try searching technorati for key words and sift through the dross to find some gems.
posted by ceri richard at 12:45 PM on December 5, 2005

Soul Sides is a fine repository of R&B, soul, funk, hip-hop, and other things to get your booty shaking.
posted by joseph_elmhurst at 12:54 PM on December 5, 2005

My current favorites from searching AskMetafilter (with Yahoo).
posted by klangklangston at 12:55 PM on December 5, 2005

Easily the most eccentric and eclectic (in the true sense of the word; not just hipsters who like
both "indie" and "hip hop") blog around is TofuHut. In the past six months or so, there have been maybe ten posts, but today, John, its author, reappeared and appears to promise more regular output.

Tuwa's Shanty is also reliably excellent on modern American music from Jazz onward.

Worldly Disorientation Is my favourite world music MP3blog.

Shake Your Fist steers reliably clear of the same half dozen indie darlings all the other MP3blogs circle jerk over discovering, but does sticks mainly to (unfamiliar) contemporary British and American alternative (with the occasional foray into Italian hardcore post-rock).

And finally, Stephin's Sources is nominally an MP3blog about songs that have inspired Stephin Merritt, the creative force behind Magnetic Fields. If you're familiar with Magnetic Fields, you'll know that this could conceivably include virtually anything recorded in the 20th century. E.g. this week it's Gilbert and Sullivan, but a couple of weeks ago it was John Cage's 4'33". You need not be a Magnetic Fields fan to enjoy it (but it might turn you into one).
posted by caek at 1:34 PM on December 5, 2005

Honey, Where You Been So Long? has a lot of ace pre-war blues; Spread the Good Word focuses on nooks and crannies of rock & roll, consistently serving up good tracks I'd never heard before; and Benn loxo du taccu posts awesome contemporary African tracks.

There are others I like but they don't fit your criteria. :-) You might take a look at the exhaustive sidebar on Tofu Hut for further picks.
posted by Tuwa at 1:34 PM on December 5, 2005

Hey! That's me! Hilarious.... I'm not sure if I tend to post what captainscared is looking for, though. ... Actually, I'm not sure what I tend to post--whatever grabs my throat and demands some attention, usually.
posted by Tuwa at 1:36 PM on December 5, 2005

Shortwavemusic.
posted by mykescipark at 3:11 PM on December 5, 2005

The Number One Songs In Heaven (old soul, mostly)
Music for Maniacs ("outsider" music)
posted by hootch at 3:13 PM on December 5, 2005

I can't get enough of Benn loxo du taccu (as the author helpfully provides, that's Wolof for "one hand can't clap), a nice collection of off-the-beaten-path African material.
posted by j.s.f. at 5:20 PM on December 5, 2005

Sorta-OT, but my new favorite "find me some music i'll probably like but dont know about yet" webgadget is Pandora.
posted by softlord at 10:01 PM on December 24, 2005