If Google Music Search isn’t for you, check out MusicStrands, a young company that relaunched its site yesterday. The company is based in Corvallis, OR (where is that?) and Barcelona, Spain.
MusicStrands had results for every band I threw at it. Lots of stats, and links to buy music from amazon and iTunes. And it has excellent web 2.0 features as well, including social networking, recommendations and user tagging of music. They also have nice support options for small and indie bands, allowing them to get their music into the mix. Basically, MusicStrands is an excellent resource for finding new music.
UPDATE: Klim points out in the comments that Google, unlike MusicStrands, also does lyric searches. Good point.
“Corvallis, OR (where is that?)”
OR = Oregon?
It’s the home of Oregon State University. Go Beavers!
Michael,
Corvallis is in Oregon. It’s 84 miles (S/SE) from Oregon’s most well known city; Portland.
As Jeremy noted, it’s the home of Oregon State University. On the technology front, it’s the home of OSU’s Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org/).
Ya but… where’s the lyric search? Partly what Google is doing is keeping the lyric search alive (from you know who).
Klim,
That is a really good point that I missed. I’m going to pull this up to the post level.
Mike
Hopefully one of Oregon State’s most famous alums doesn’t bode ill for MusicStrand
Dick Fosbury — inventor of the “Fosbury Flop” is an OSU grad.
We’ll see how long it takes for the RIAA to shut down Google.
It would also be nice if MusicStrands worked with Last.fm to import my listening habits and give me autorecs. Man, we so need a social network aggregator. I really do not want to reinstantiate my social network… again!