I’ve been testing out YottaMusic’s new streaming music service built on top of Rhapsody. I highly recommend this to anyone who is already on Rhapsody and it’s another good reason to subscribe to Rhapsody if you aren’t currently a Rhapsody subscriber (Sonos is the other big reason). The biggest advantages over the standard Rhapsody client is that it is that the player is browser based and they are building in a lot of cool social networking features, similar to last.fm. Fred Wilson has a good post on this here.
Today they rolled out a YottaMusic badge that shows your recently played tracks and a link to your profile. The service is still in Alpha mode so expect some instability here and there and lots of new features.
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Here’s another video from The Album Leaf show that I attended at Mezzanine last weekend. One of the cool things about their live performance is the accompanying background video. Warning: The audio is pretty rough on this video. Check out Hype Machine for a preview of this track, which is called Outer Banks.
I’ve had The Album Leaf in heavy rotation for the past few weeks. If you live in the SF Bay Area, check them out at Mezzanine on Saturday (I will be there). If you haven’t heard them before, think Sigur Ros with some beats and piano mixed in. Go here for a good profile and some mp3 goodness.
One of my favorite new bands is Band of Horses. Check them out on Hype Machine. If you haven’t used Hype Machine before, just click on a song title and then click the play button under Listen.
Here’s their video for Great Salt Lake.
I saw them play at the Independent in SF back in March…
The video of Obadiah Parker‘s acoustic cover of Outkast’s Hey Ya was posted on YouTube over two months ago. Yesterday the video was featured on Digg’s front page and the popularity of the video has sky rocketed overnight. The video has been viewed 139,707 times as of today and the band (currently unsigned) was mentioned today on Spin magazine’s blog.
8/22 Update:
Here’s another example of the power of Digg. Someone uploaded a video called Slowest Man on Earth to YouTube. After two months of decent traffic (about 8,000 views), the video’s popularity went through the roof after it was dugg to Digg’s video front page. As a result, the video was featured on Good Morning America.
Last night I saw one of my favorite bands from the 90′s – Toad the Wet Sprocket – at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga. I’ve seen Glen Phillips a couple of times in the last few years but I had never seen Toad play live until last night. Overall it was a great show. The band sounded great and the venue was perfect.
Here’s some VERY rough audio from the show, recorded with the voice recorder on my digital camera:
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