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Paper Beats Rock:
I see that one of the most common thread topics in the music forum seems to be newbies asking how they should get started on the indie music genre.  There's also a lot of 'recommend me a song/album by (such and such band)' threads.

One piece of advice that doesn't come up as often as it should is Get A Last FM Profile.

For those that don't know it's a music community website - http://www.last.fm/ You start by downloading a plugin for the music player that you use and then it sends off details of each track you listen to.  After a while it makes charts, gives you recommendations, puts you in contact with your musical neighbours (people who have similar tastes) and gives you radio stations to listen to based on what kind of music you like.

Jeph has one, he gives his username at the top of RL page, so you can spy on what he's listening to or you can look at people who's music taste you trust to see if they're listening to anything good.  If you find out about a new musician you can listen to their radio station (if they have one, many do) and check out the charts to see which of their albums/tracks are rated the highest.

Anybody have anything to add?  Many people used to their advantage?  I know I have.  Has anyone got any goot reasons not use it?

Spartan Pho3nix:
Nope. My sig pic leads to mine. I love it. I don't really use it for discovering new music, it's just fun to view weekly trends and my friends sites and stuff.

zoidbergslo:
Questionable Content has its own group link.

My profile totally sucks

MilkmanDan:
So, I guess we listen to a lot of indie, huh?

Paper Beats Rock:
Well there we go, there's the answer to all the 'recommendation' threads that get started.  Over two hundred artists and two hundred tracks, in order of how often they are listened to by over two hundred people.

Having said all of this, it kinda irks me a little how people turn up and start saying that they want to get into the indie scene and where should they start.  It's basically just saying that they want to be cool, so they'll listen to the music that cool people listen to.  It's almost as if they're actively trying to make their lifes into something like the QC strip.

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