Music: Suggestions, discussions, and opinions

Im guessing everyone probably already knows about this site but.
http://www.pandora.com/

hotnewhiphop...nice not many people use it but its an awesome site

All I do is torrent everything. I love pop punk, punk, rock, and others haha you should listen to blink 182 or motion city soundtrack. New found Glory is also really tight.
You listen to Atmosphere? Also tight!

Be careful about the ones you link to via a social media site like Facebook or Twitter since you may inadvertently send a status message to all your buddies every time you like a tune.  They use you like that.

+1 for grooveshark.  It has all the benefits of Pandora with none of the commercials and limit on how often you can skip songs etc.  It's a good way to discover new music.

Originally posted by biz_NASTY Mason- I've used mixtapetorrents.com before. But i sort of had a run in with the torrent police once (for movies not music) so i try to stay away from that stuff now, shook me up a little bit and its not worth the consequences. Zabisket- Definitely looks like I'll be adding that site to my book marks. I just don't like how you can't listen to the song before you download. edit. you can listen to some of the songs, not all though

Originally posted by SirGounder +1 for grooveshark.  It has all the benefits of Pandora with none of the commercials and limit on how often you can skip songs etc.  It's a good way to discover new music.

I just checked out grooveshark and its awesome!! Definitely better than Pandora.

Originally posted by zabisket Originally posted by biz_NASTY Mason- I've used mixtapetorrents.com before. But i sort of had a run in with the torrent police once (for movies not music) so i try to stay away from that stuff now, shook me up a little bit and its not worth the consequences. Zabisket- Definitely looks like I'll be adding that site to my book marks. I just don't like how you can't listen to the song before you download. edit. you can listen to some of the songs, not all though yea whitefolksgetcrunk changes their audio provider all the time, for the longest time they used to not allow you to listen and only download from mediafire, then last year they switched to zippyfile and another one, now it looks like they went back to mediafire which sucks...they should just use limelinx like hotnewhiphop would make things soo much better

Ya, I've noticed that they use a large variety of audio providers. It seems like they are starting to use soundcloud though, which IMO is one of the better ones.

http://last.fm is good for exploring artists who are similar to what you search for.
http://hypnotika.org  is good for club music like trance,breakbeat, dubstep, etc

oo yea one more, that you probably know, but i'll still post to share
http://hypem.com/#/twitter/popular and http://hypem.com/#/popular

Originally posted by zabisket oo yea one more, that you probably know, but i'll still post to share http://hypem.com/#/twitter/popular and http://hypem.com/#/popular its a good one to check once every week or two, not everyday, but you can still some sick mixes/new songs on here...only some allow downloads but its still a great way to hear the song

I didn't know about this so thanks for sharing. There's some really good stuff on there.

The Prodigy!!!!

not many people know about them

Here is one of my favorite songs:


but this song is probably better for snowboarding

Wow, this thread is awesome. Why haven't I found it earlier! Thanks for all the useful sites guys!

Originally posted by zabisket Originally posted by biz_NASTY So I came across another style of music that I realized Im into a lot. Rap songs that sample older songs for the beat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCDVEpZmOUU www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wiz+khalifa+the+thrill&aq=0 The Theophilus London is dope, that is an awesome song...wiz is well known too me and is sick but im really liking that Theophilus song...nice post

Glad you enjoyed the Theophilus London song.

Here's another one from him, sampling 'aint no sunshine'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lfELNbWpkY

More suggestions. Dont know how I forgot to post these before.

This dude OnCue has been getting real big on internets over the past couple of months and his last mixtape 'Cuey Sings the Blues' was unreal. Anyways, pretty much every song on the tape samples other songs, DMB, Tracy Chapman, MGMT, and many others. Definitely worth download, one listen and I think you'll agree.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc6yi0inh_o

i checked out grooveshark recently as well which is indeed better than pandora.

+1 for grooveshark.
and i like beatles

Try http://www.datpiff.com for free rap and hip-hop mixtapes.  It's pretty awesome, they have tons of artists.

For electronic music like dubstep and the like, I like to use http://www.house-mixes.com.  They have user submitted mixes in a ton of electronic genres, including original songs by users and mixes from artists in the genres.  And of course they're all free as well.

Kind of off topic here, but another website I've found quite useful is http://www.zamzar.com.  What zamzar does is convert video files from youtube into mp3s, so you can extract the sound from any youtube video and put it in your music library.

I use purevolume.com
It has a lot of unsigned bands or unknown signed bands, with a few established bands. They usually have some free downloads too!

just search soundcloud.com/grime the intense music you will experience is amazing. just look up dubstep. seriously. dubstep. its soooooo coool

I had never tried soundcloud till reecntly. It's pretty good. I'm liking it better than pandora.

Originally posted by biz_NASTY So idk how many of you are familiar with barstoolsports.com, but it has become quite large over the past couple of yrs and has started expanding from their one original site. But they have a newish site called barstoolu.com which has a music player at the bottom of the page which are songs that are posted by the people who blog on the page. I've found that a lot of these songs are the type of music i've been into lately. So if any of you are fans of thissongissick.com or thekollection.com i feel like this might be a good place to go for music as well.

So how many of you out there know, or know of, someone from your town, your city, w/e that raps or sings, DJs, plays an incredible set on the drums etc... Thought it might be interesting to include some of these people here in this thread. I've got a feeling that there might be a lot of posts in response to this so lets see what everyone out there's got.

So the first artist I want to post is Kyle J, an artist from a small town near me. He's been going strong and really starting to emerge into a larger scene (in my opinion). He raps about real experiences, relationships, trying to make it and none of that nonsense bullsh*t that a lot of rappers tend to do now-a-days. Not saying everyone will enjoy his music, but definitely take a listen.

Below is his website, which has links to his two mixtapes and some videos.
http://www.kylejmusic.com/

And here is a direct link to some of my favorite tracks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQJdT7iVcy8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQtgdvJCn-4&feature=related

And a link to one of videos,more of a day in the life of rather than a music video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1GDnR9-1_0

Bump. Lets get some discussion in this b*tch

You should definitely check out Girl Talk. He does some of the craziest mashup remixes I've heard, and his new album is worth checking out.