The Lake Ontario Waterkeeper organization is utilizing music to bring awareness to the fight for clean, swimable, drinkable water. They’ve created a music web site with the purpose of bringing together people who love music and care about clean water.
Founding members of the club include: Broken Social Scene, Sarah Harmer, Bill Frisell, Gord [...]

Something about me you probably don’t know, is that I am absolutely terrible with song names and album names. Personally, I blame my iPod and digital music. You don’t have to pick up an album and insert it into some machine to play it anymore. Lengthy playlists dilute albums and lose them amongst orphaned songs. [...]

The Twitter account for Day & Night Blog is a great source of new music news, and you can follow them in more places than just Twitter. They’re also on Facebook, Myspace, and SoundCloud. Some of the music they cover: M.I.A., The Sea and Cake, Blur, LCD Soundsystem, Broken Bells, Band of Horses and a [...]

Songr is a great new web site that’s basically like Digg for music. People can share what they’re listening to and then users can bump the song up or down. Hit up the site to see what everyone is bumping up and down and be able to play the songs as videos from YouTube in [...]

Chris Bro runs a web site called NEXT that hosts a show that aims to find your next favorite song. Each week, Chris compiles a list of songs which you can then stream from his web site. He also hosts the NEXT show on The Peak radio station in New York. After you listen to [...]

If you are an old-school music aficionado, you’ll know that music on vinyl is unlike music on CD’s or MP3 players. WaxFM lets you find your favorite albums on vinyl without any hassle. Just search by name of the album, artist or catalog number.
If you don’t know enough information to search, just browse through the [...]

Indie Rock Cafe is a great source of information on your favorite indie rock bands. Not only do they have a great, informative, frequently updated web site, but they’ve also mastered the use of Twitter to engage with their readers and other rock related media outlets. They’ve also made excellent use of other social media [...]