PUBLIC MARKS with tags music & "music genres"

About: We listen to what people are saying about artists and their music on blogs, social networks like Facebook and MySpace, message boards and forums, Twitter and P2P networks to chart the top songs online everyday. A new Top of the Pops In the offline world, charts are built on shipped albums. Online charts have been a simple count of digital downloads. We Are Hunted is different. We discover new music from around the web and detect sentiment, expression and advocacy to understand what people like and dislike. A Better Way to Discover Music Visually driven, intuitive and simple, We Are Hunted seeks to be a daily destination for music lovers looking to discover their next favorite artist. Through We Are Hunted, music fans can discover new music and more importantly, join the conversation about it.

Channel surf through thousands of music blogs. The web is your player, bloggers are your dj's.

format: * Ogg Vorbis * MP3 * AAC * AAC+ * Ogg Theora * NSV

"Tune in and listen to thousands of internet radio stations. Search or browse for your favourite music genres and play the radio stations in your preferred player."

Not to be confused with the Live Music Archive (see the MP3 Hub section, above), the Free Music Archive is a new (in 2009) resource of free and legal MP3s that was launched by the venerable NYC-area public radio station, WFMU (which is, you should know, the longest-running free-form radio station in the US). The Free Music Archive describes itself as "a social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio." Featuring downloadable songs placed online by WFMU, KEXP, and a handful of other interesting musical organizations, the Free Music Archive can be browsed by curator or genre, but you have to thumb through a lot--there are no easy indexes to get a broad look at the offerings. And while the site claims to have more than 5,000 MP3s available, what's here is decidedly idiosyncratic. Still, as a large repository of free and legal MP3s, it's worth a visit every now and then. [review from www.fingertipsmusic.com]

"Recently I’ve been doing some thinking about genres – what they mean, what purpose they serve, what we’re supposed to do with them. Essentially, I’ve been wondering about how we define genres, and what the results of those definitions could be. Or in an even more meta sense, why we define genres. As a society we have become obsessed with pigeonholing things – tagging them appropriately and specifically so that they can be indexed by search engines to find an audience. But to what end? Is it worthwhile?"

the 25 top level genres: * Alternative & Punk * Books & Spoken * Blues * Children’s Music * Classical * Country * Data * Easy Listening * Electronica/Dance * Folk * Gospel & Religious * Hip Hop/Rap * Holiday * Industrial * Jazz * Latin * Metal * New Age * Pop * Reggae * R&B * Rock * Soundtrack * Unclassifiable * World

Tracks from netlabels organized by genre: Abstract (28), Acid (8), Acoustic (14), Alternative (8), Ambient (121), Breakbeat (14), Breakcore (8), Chiptune (29), Classical (3), Compilation (59), Downtempo (27), Drone (14), Drum & Bass (15), Dub (35), Electro (56), Electronica (34), Experimental (104), Field Recording (9), Funk (1), Glitch (27), Hardcore (1), Hip Hop (6), House (28), IDM (47), Improvisation (34), Industrial (13), Jazz (13), Jungle (1), Live (19), Lofi (10), Metal (2), Minimal (80), News (13), Noise (58), Noise Rock (1), Post-Rock (8), Punk (3), Rap (1), Soundscape (16), Soundtrack (1), Synthpop (1), Techhouse (16), Techno (77), Trance (9), Trip-hop (4), Uncategorized (208), Unreleased (1)

Rate Your Music is a metadata database where musical albums, EPs, singles, videos, and bootlegs are rated and reviewed by users. This data is then used to generate music recommendations for users and to create rated lists of music albums. Weighted averages are used to calculate the ordering for these lists; regular members who write reviews and rate more albums have a greater weight applied to their ratings. It is a wiki in the sense that users can add, edit and remove content; however, the majority of new, edited content must be approved by a moderator. [Wikipedia]

Overviews of music artists, discography's, and recommended recordings. New release information.

David Byrne's current listening playlists are posted at the beginning of each month. They stream for about three or four hours, and then recycle. Recent playlists have focused on: Latin Rock, Eclectic Pop, Country, Old School Club Music, Bob Dylan, Missy Elliot, and Psychedelic.