PUBLIC MARKS from garret with tag indie

College Radio Day: "The day we all come together". Links to lots of stations around the world.

The Cloud Player is a web-based music player that let’s you... * Find and play all tracks from SoundCloud * Save playlists to your Google Account * Make smart playlists based on genre, BPM, etc * Share your ready-made playlists with your friends * Collaborate in making the best playlists ever

The winner will be announced on Woodies.MTV.com on November 18th 2009

"The FADER, or FADER, is an United States-based music/culture/fashion magazine that covers hip-hop, reggae, independent rock, pop and dance music from around the world. Founded by Rob Stone and Jon Cohen in 1998, The FADER is a freestanding, independent New York City-based magazine." Wikipedia

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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.

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.

"This is a list of the best mp3 blogs from around the world."

Playable archives (June 10, 2005 to July 27, 2007) of Dave Kusick's radio show on KPSU before its name was changed to That Sound. Visit http://www.thatsoundradio.com/ for recent shows or to subscribe to a podcast.

"Audiobaba is a next generation music search engine that allows you to find songs by acoustic similarity." Only plays 30 second samples. Artists can upload music, so it might be a way to discover independent artists, if you don't mind sorting through the haystack. Shows album covers which is kind of cool.

Listen to archives of Dave's excellent weekly radio show on KPSU that features recent music from mostly independent artists. Playlists are provided for each show, and include links to each band's website or Myspace page. You can also subscribe to a podcast for the show.

"There is an absolute ton of excellent music in the world, but relatively few good outlets. For several years, radios have been satisfied to pump out the same old stuff and people are getting sick of it, I certainly am. In the last year, Podcasting has seen a huge explosion of awareness for many independent musicians, but for all the podcasts out there, there's still a miniscule amount of the population actually listening to them.

Indie-Friendly Radio Database is a database of "indie-friendly" radio stations. "Indie-friendly" means they accept and play unsolicited music from independent artists, small labels, et cetera." Categories: college, community, high-school, commercial, public radio, indie, other.

Indie rock.