Oct 2nd, 2008
Discover New Music and Musicians Free on The Sixty One
Some of my Twitter friends have been participating recently in The Sixty One. It’s a Web site that’s both social network and music site, allowing users to not just listen to musical artists, some well known (like Kanye West), some cultish (like Jonathan Coulton) and some unknown, at least by me, but also set up radio stations (kind of like Last.fm or Pandora), and vote for their favorites in a sort of Digg like system. It seems to be gaining pretty rapidly in popularity, so I checked it out tonight.
In a word: Wow.
There’s full versions of songs there for you to review and “bump” (which is like a “digg”). You also get “points” depending on how many songs you listen to (as well as a few other bonuses). The site is free, although they do have the customary PayPal Donate button and apparently are Amazon affiliates for MP3 sales of the music featured on the site. You certainly can (and really, if you like the artists, strongly consider) buying the music, but listening is no charge, like radio. But no commercials, and lots of artists and songs you’ve never heard before.
This is going to require a lot of time to look into, but I’m looking forward to it!
