Music to my ears

Over the last couple of years, I've found it increasingly more difficult to discover new music. Whether it's time, laziness or the shear volume of new music, I'm not sure. Occasionally I'll stumble across something via a friend, the radio or the internet. But more often than not I'm stuck with what I know, and that can seem very limiting.

Enter Pandora. This service maps the genome of a song so that it can recommend like songs. It goes way beyond Yahoo & iTunes, where they simply look at what other people who listen to that song listen to. Pandora will match you with obvious stuff, but also some obscure stuff with a similar sound or genre.

I'm trying it out right now and will give you a review in a couple days/weeks. In the mean time, here's an article about Pandora from Fast Company that talks about some of the behind the scenes stuff.