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4.5 stars
"Sajama! Pierre Dutioit! Raiatea Helm! Keali'i Reichel!"
Pros: Great content...even for dialup users
Cons: Sometimes it goes down
Summary: The four artists noted in the one line summary section are unknown at other "music & opinion" sites. (www.musicstrands.com knows nothing about Classical music, for instance.) I find the "similar artists" and "poeple who listen to X also listen to y" listings very useful. Here's a site that has admirers of Frank Sinatra, Maroon 5, Michelle Shocked, or Yanni. In addition, one can bring new/local artists into the fold. (Raiatea Helm, for instance.) Forum subjects run from A to Z, which rivals the IMDb message boards for diversity. It's nice to know there are fans of obscure and indie artists. (Sajama, for instance.) I haven't tried the radio station links with much success since I'm a dialup user, but that may change when the Roadrunner rep shows up with broadband access later this month. I run up song/artist play totals from a 4G iPod or iTunes via a Mac PowerBook, while the 3MHz P4 Windows XP tower takes very short trips on the Internet. Last.fm may not have fancy graphics, but that's just fine with me; plain and stable beats "Java/Active X webpage crasher" any day.
