Now that we have all the formal stuff out of the way I think it’s time to move onto the music. First off I will share what channels I have created and what I’ve liked so far

I have stations (channels) from everything from Counting Crows to Van Halen to U2 to Live. But I’m going to talk about a station that I recently created (around January 20th or so, if not that date). I call it “Chilling Music” because well, it is. It’s a mix of rock that isn’t soft to the point of falling asleep or hard to the point where your trying to turn the bass down (I mean that literally too). I seeded the channel with a band called Third Eye Blind and listened to more music from them. If you’ve never heard of this band or don’t know too much about them then check them out here. From this station I have found new songs by Third Eye Blind such as Deep Inside Of You, Blinded, and Burning Man. Now granted these are more secular than I like they still have a solid beat and fit into the tempo that I consider “Chilling Music.”

Now as for new artists I have found (or artists I already know and again new songs I didn’t hear from them) here is a few. At the top of my list would have to be a group called Tonic. Tonic is more of a less secular band that has great riffs and beats along with the tempo I like, obviously. I have found a few songs by them that I like but one that stands out to me is Take Me As I Am. Let’s just say this band has found a spot on my iPod.

Another band that I have found is called Stereo Fuse. This band is almost exactly what I would call a more “laid back” type of music. It’s not heavy rock nor is it un-instrumental. They combine everything into a nice flow. One specific song that I have thumbed up on Pandora is Everything. I think it’s a good song, although not something I would call outrageous or an absolute hit. Either way it’s still book-marked on my account on Pandora.

The final thing that I would like to mention is Puddle of Mudd. Now granted this group has been around longer and is more popular than some of the groups I have been mentioning but I have found a song by them that I didn’t hear before this station. That song would be Drift and Die. This song, too, has found its way onto my iPod and into a Playlist that I now play in my car. Overall it’s a heavier rock song than the previous mentioned songs but that’s alright because you need something heavier every now and then in a Chilling mood.

As you may have already noticed I linked to all the bands I mentioned as well as the songs. So if you would like to hear a sample of each song just click the link and Pandora will play a clip of it for you. Thoughts? Comments? I’d love to hear what you think, just post a comment to this post. Enjoy!

Now that I have made this place somewhat more easy on the eyes with the new banner and rearranged things, I think it’s time to get started on business. I mentioned in my previous (and first) post something called “Pandora.” Pandora is basically the following as quoted from their website:

Can you help me discover more music that I’ll like?

Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started joking that we were now their personal DJs.

We created Pandora so that we can have that same kind of conversation with you.

In a nutshell this is what Pandora was made for. So people like me and you could find new music. If I had to sum up what listening to Pandora does it would be this: In addition to listening to the radio and talking to friends to find different music, Pandora speeds up this process by throwing song after song and artist after artist at you specifically designed to give you a variety based off of what you told them. That’s the experience that I have had with Pandora and I’ve only been using it for a handful of months now.

Some notes about Pandora that I would like to throw at you. One, it is free and there is no charge to listen to this music. Two, the license that they have to share this music only allows them to skip a song, pause, and play it. You can’t go back a song and listen to it again (just like you can’t on a radio and this is basically what it is only designed for your listening). Three, all songs are the original and not the clean version, so that’s just a warning incase your the type to listen to clean lyrics. Last, Pandora makes you a profile where you can “bookmark” songs and artists and you can view your profile and review what you’ve bookmarked.

Pandora also has a feature that “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” a song based on if you liked it. Thumbs up means they’ll play it again and thumbs down means they won’t. You can also make more than one “station.” Each station is based off the first song or artist you put in. So if you want to listen to Van Halen instead of U2 you can make two stations or if you want you can put both artists on one station and hear new artists and songs based off of both Van Halen and U2.

That’s pretty much about Pandora that I can give to you without being their spokesperson. So go on and check it out. Here’s the link again. Check out Pandora. Oh one last thing. If you noticed on the right hand side at the bottom of all the links is my Pandora list of bookmarked songs. There’s your first taste of what’s to come post wise and what songs I’ve liked so far.

I decided to start this blog on the basis of music and finding new music to share and listen to. I would first like to thank a great invention called Pandora that helped fuel this initiative. Pandora is a website that, when you enter your favorite artist or song, it will find more music like it based on hundreds of attributes of the song or artist, whether it is a completely different artist or a song by the same artist. It doesn’t stop there, it then plays these song and keeps track of if you liked it or didn’t like it. Try it out yourself all it requires is an e-mail address and your off. I have found numerous new artists and many songs by artists I already like that I didn’t know existed. I will post more about Pandora at a later date.

Now that you understand the reason for this blog here is the purpose. I will post every so often (hopefully more than twice a week) something new I have found on Pandora or in music in general and talk about it. I would love to hear your comments about it and if you agree or disagree. Granted it is all constructive and mature. And to keep things rolling, I will post something non-music related about once a month or so. It will be anything from technology to politics to science to what the heck happened to my socks (ok so it won’t be the last one, but you get the point).

With that said, welcome to my blog! You probably won’t see a music related post or any post for that matter for a bit until I fix this place up into something that actually looks attractive. Until then…!