The Music Genome Project

So I heard about this great website today - the Music Genome Project (located at www.pandora.com). The site prompts you to enter an artist, and then brings up a radio station that starts playing artists that are similar in style. The trick is that it doesn't just use the typical "rock" "pop" "rap" tags, but actually analyzes the song structure, vocal tendencies, and tempo of the group you put in and recommends artists with similar attributes. I put in some fairly obscure artists and was pleased to see the results were actually very similar to the group I had chosen.

Give them a try by either clicking on the link to the side or by typing a music choice in the box below the archives directory on the right.