new music notification

February 14, 2007 12:27 PM

I'm looking for an online service that notifies me, e.g. via email, of new music releases, based on a list of bands that I provide. I'm not looking for recommendations, but rather something that (1) ensures that I don't miss new music that I know I'll want to check out, where I (2) don't have to sift through albums that don't interest me (I already spend enough time doing that). Ideally, it would be automatic, like an iTunes plugin that tells me about new albums by the artists I listen to.
posted by Phatty Lumpkin to Media & Arts (8 answers total)

We had a very similar question just yesterday which may have ideas for you.
posted by shelleycat at 12:38 PM on February 14, 2007

Response by poster: Thanks - don't know how I missed that. EarFeeder and MyHound sound about like what I'm looking for.
posted by Phatty Lumpkin at 12:43 PM on February 14, 2007

I use Myspace - join all your favourite bands, and they'll soon start bombarding you with messages whenever they're playing a new tour or a new record out. Or they just want some coments. Or just want to irritate you.

But yeah, MySpace is very simple to use etc :)
posted by philsi at 1:00 PM on February 14, 2007

Response by poster: EarFeeder seems to be an iTunes Music Store ad. Moving on...
posted by Phatty Lumpkin at 1:15 PM on February 14, 2007

In the iTunes music store, you can have it send "Artist Alerts" based on whatever band you want. Unfortunately, they only email you based on when a new album from that band is added to their store so you might get some false positives from older material, and releases not on a label carried by them won't show up.
posted by mikeh at 1:26 PM on February 14, 2007

Response by poster: Yeah, that's the problem with EarFeeder - It just culls those Artist Alert ads and puts them in an RSS feed. It's not an exhaustive, spam-free way of finding out about new releases.
posted by Phatty Lumpkin at 1:30 PM on February 14, 2007

Response by poster: MyHound looks like it'll give the result I was looking for, but it's pretty cumbersome going through the process of signing up for notifications for each artist. I'd of thought that there'd be a web 2.0 social/taggy site like Last.fm that had this feature built in, based on listening statistics.

Thanks for the suggestions, though, and keep 'em coming if you have other ideas!
posted by Phatty Lumpkin at 2:21 PM on February 14, 2007

Response by poster: er, that's "I'd have thought"
posted by Phatty Lumpkin at 2:28 PM on February 14, 2007