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Check out these podcasts from WXPN's list: (1) World Cafe Next from WXPN is a weekly podcast showcases new, under-the-radar artists. (2) World Cafe Words and Music weekly podcast has interviews and performances by some of today's most amazing musicians. (3) The Blues File from WXPN keeps you up explores the blues. (4) The yPod podcast has interviews and live sessions with independent rock artists. (5) Echoes, features a variety of styles, acoustic, electronic music, jazz, space music, avant-garde, ambient, and rock. Echoes also has Living Room Concerts, live performances recorded in musicians' homes or in studios. Finally, don't miss npr's podcast directory at the bottom of the page. It connects to over 600 podcasts.

"People's Music Store is a newly launched DIY online music store. It was created by the founder of MP3 reseller Bleep.com, Ged Day. People's Music Store styles itself as "the first music store entirely powered by music fans." Basically the service allows you to set up your own custom-designed record store, with music chosen from a catalogue of indie record labels (so far no major record label music). The idea is that you earn points, equivalent to 10% of the price of the single, EP or album that you sell. These points can only be used to buy other music items on the People's Music Store site. There are more than 650 stores currently, with over 250,000 songs in the catalogue - most appear to be available at $0.99 per song or $8.99 per album. The site claims to be "working with" 4,500 labels, including 4AD, XL, Rough Trade, Matador, Dominio, and Ged Day's own Warp. Other than the lack of major label music, there is another minor annoyance for those of us who don't live in the U.S. - international users will frequently run into a "we're sorry, but this release is not available in your country" message. However on the plus side, all the music available for download is DRM-free and at high quality 320Kbps." [reawriteweb]

World Cafe showcases indie rock, singer-songwriters, folk, alternative country, blues, and world music. World Cafe is produced by NPR Member station WXPN 88.5 FM, the public radio service of the University of Pennsylvania, and distributed nationally by NPR.

"This is the blog version of the Fingertips web site, which is the web's longest-running guide to high-quality free and legal MP3s. Once a week, this blog will feature the three songs selected as "This Week's Finds" on the main site. Occasional other updates to the main site will be posted here as well."

50 best artists, albums and songs chosen by music bloggers. Listen to full albums.

Parisiens, néo-Parisiens, Parisiens de passage, vous en avez assez des guides qui proposent toujours les mêmes bons plans? Not for Tourist est fait pour vous! Sélection 'alternative' de lieux chouettes où sortir, écouter de la musique, manger, shopper...

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What is this? This is a Viennese video/geoblog featuring artists that can be vaguely described by the blurred out term indie.

Origamihero.com tells the tale of a hobby game developer on his quest to make freeware games. (Not an easy journey, mind you.) And since nobody I personally know is actually interested in stuff like this, I thought I'd post about it on the internet!

The best thing about AccuRadio is an abundance of channels and sub genre channels to explore. Sound quality has recently improved making Accuradio is a great way to discover new artists. Artist information displays in Accuradio's pop-up player, which also allows songs to be skipped.

MonsterK7 est un petit label indépendant amoureux des beaux objets musicaux. Son but premier : réhabiliter la K7 audio, support phonographique sacrifié sur l'autel de la modernité au profit du bientôt défunt Compact Disc. Introduite dans les bacs en 1963 et éclipsée par le CD dès 1982, elle n'aura donc eu qu'une grosse vingtaine d'années de gloire. Et pourtant, nous avons tous une pensée émue pour ces chères compilations enregistrées ado sur cassette audio.