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Going through the Archive

February 22, 2004 at 1:13 am · Comments (0)

My latest free-time project has been going through the bands in the Live Music Archive. If you haven’t heard me rave about it before, it’s a place where you can download complete live shows in near-perfect quality – legally – for free. As of right now, there are 459 artists and 9103 shows available for download.

I’m the kind of person who loves all kinds of music, and I mean that pretty literally. I’m listening to some jazz/blues right now from the Archive, and I’ve been surveying everything from bluegrass to rock to reggae.

My task was this: go to the site of each band in the Archive and download an MP3 or two to see if I liked their kind of music. I ended up with a list of 76 bands I really liked; there were more, but I had to limit it down to a somewhat reasonable number. The next step is downloading shows, and I think you’ll realize that that’s a pretty big project in itself. As I go through, I’ll post some of the good finds here. Already I’ve been really enjoying Bluestring and Ki:Theory.

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