How to do the Music Biz
100 Music Sites to Visit Before You Go Deaf
The essential guide to the music communities, music recommendation agents, music discovery sites, music social networks and music business magnets.
All Music Guide http://www.allmusic.com/
The AMG editorial staff, along with hundreds of expert contributors (all music fanatics in their own right), has made allmusic the most comprehensive music reference source on the planet. Content on allmusic falls into the following categories: Meta Data, Descriptive Content, Relational Content and Editorial Content.
AOL Music http://music.aol.com/
AOL music is a comprehensive music portal providing news, features, photos, charts, radio, videos and more. They have a partnership with Napster so you can either purchase or listen to full-length songs online.
Archive.org http://www.archive.org/details/audio_music
An enormous collection of public domain music, expired copyright tracks, as well as some free contemporary music.
Artistlog http://www.artistlog.com/
The Artist Log\'s aim is to encourage communication between musicians and their appreciative followers, actively exploring together the many diverse forms of expression that the video log age offers. Members enjoy a unique insight into the creative world of music making, an intimate understanding of the daily process that makes up an artists life, whilst also granting an opportunity to support and build a direct relationship with the Artists with your own video blog.
Audiobaba http://www.audiobaba.com/
Audiobaba is a next-generation music search and recommendation engine. Audiobaba searches for music by fingerprinting the acoustic and impossible to articulate qualities of every song in its database and searches through them acoustically. They then further refine and personalize results as they receive feedback from users.
AudioLunchbox http://www.audioLunchbox.com
Over 2 million licensed and DRM free song downloads, featuring a large selection of smaller and local acts.
AudioPyro http://www.audiopyro.com/
AudioPyro is a social network site for independent artists around the world so that people in different parts of the world can find new music.
Babulous http://www.babulous.com/
Babulous is a user supported community where users share, distribute, and listen to audio. Registered users can upload music, create playlists, record messages online, friend other users, join communities, save favorites and tag content.
Bandbuzz http://www.bandbuzz.com/
Get the buzz on new and unknown bands, find independent music, discover bands in your area, explore your friends music, share your favorites. Artists can build your profile and upload music that will be reviewed, rated and ultimately heard by thousands.
Bandcamp http://bandcamp.com
Bandcamp helps starving musicians power their online stores and put food on their tables.
BandChemstry http://bandchemistry.com/
BandChemistry is a musician\'s network, where you can make your band and find your sound. Whether you are a musician looking for a band to play in, or in a band and are looking for a musician, BandChemistry.com will help.
Bandmix http://www.bandmix.com/
BandMix.com brings musicians and bands together. As a proven leader in online music service. BandMix.com estimates it is responsible for matching thousands of musicians with each other. With hundreds of new members joining everyday, you\'ll be sure to find the right person for your musical talents and be well on your way to making new friends and new music
Bands That Sound Like... http://www.soundslikenow.org/
Type in a band name and the site will return a bio, Last.fm related artists, Amazon discography, top tracks, YouTube videos, Flikr photos, and links.
BetterPropaganda http://betterpropaganda.com
A music webzine covering hundreds of music labels, and offering thousands of free & legal songs for you to download.
Blip http://blip.fm
Blip is a great resource for building playlists based on your friends\' tastes.
CCMixter http://ccmixter.org
A site dedicated to music that you can download to remix and post your results, all under the Creative Commons license.
ChartU http://www.Chartu.com
Another site for bands to upload their music and let people listen. Tracks play right in the browser and continue to play even as you navigate the pages.
Critical Metrics http://www.criticalmetrics.com/
Every week, artists, DJs, music tv networks, newspapers, magazines, retailers, and bloggers recommend hundreds of their favorite new songs. Critical Metrics keeps track of recommendations and playlists across all media so you can easily find, try, and buy the best new music.
Digitalmusician.net http://www.digitalmusician.net/
digitalmusician.net is the place where the international music business community (musicians and producers) meets and works on joint projects. Their technologies offer you, for example, the possibility to find and sell music jobs via the Internet.
Disc Revolt http://www.discrevolt.com/
DiscRevolt provides physical solutions for digital delivery of media. For artists, DiscRevolt is a way to sell downloads through artist-specific download cards. Artists upload songs to the DiscRevolt site and design artwork for a plastic download card. DiscRevolt prints the cards with a unique redemption code on the back, and artists then sell them to fans at live shows. Fans enter that access code on the DiscRevolt site and receive credits to download that artist\'s media.
Dot.tunes http://www.dottunes.net/
Dot.Tunes is a web-based application that allows you and pre-assigned users access your music from any Internet connection. The latest incarnation does more than work with iTunes files. It also gives you access to any of the files on your computer from any internet connection. The\'ve also included robust features such as RSS feeds and podcasting.
The Echo Nest http://the.echonest.com
The Echo Nest\'s APIs are based on the "Musical Brain," a one-of-a-kind machine learning platform that actually listens to music and reads about music from every corner of the web. We\'re using the Musical Brain to power enhanced music search, recommendation and interactivity for online music services.
Epitonic http://www.Epitonic.com
Explore cutting-edge music, create playlists, and download some full tracks.
Fairtilizer http://www.fairtilizer.com/
Fairtilizer is an online community for people who care about music. the site allows you to search and browse artists and create your own playlists. Playlists can be embedded on your social network profile, website or blog.
FanBridge http://www.fanbridge.com/
FanBride provides free email and mobile list management for bands. You can create custom signup forms for your website, MySpace, PureVolume, etc. and asily mass-import your current fans. The service also lets you send customized html/text emails, send messages to cell phones, schedule future blasts and geo-target to specific areas
Finetune http://www.finetune.com/
Type an artist\'s name, we create a playlist of related songs for you to listen to. you can also create your own playlist - either manually or via auto-complete with their recommendation technology. You can also find other users, share playlists and embed your playlist in your blog or MySpace page.
Fiqi http://www.fiql.com
Fiql is a music community focused on sharing playlists. You can view, listen to, save, email, blog and print people\'s playlists. You can also easily submit your own playlists to the site in a few quick steps. Make friends, join groups, and blog about your music.
Gnoostic Music Map http://www.music-map.com/
Music Map provides artist-based recommendations. After typing in an artist\'s name you will see an expanding cloud of related artists. The closer two artists are, the greater the probability people will like both artists. When you click an artist on the map, the map reloads based on the new artist.
Flyfi http://www.flyfi.com
Flyfi is a free desktop application that works with the iTunes Music Player to analyze each user\'s music preferences based on listening behavior. Flyfi uses this information to create a unique set of matching members whose musical tastes are most closely aligned with those of the user. Flyfi then makes recommendations for new music based on the user\'s and matching members\' favorites.
Grooveshark http://www.grooveshark.com/
Grooveshark is an online service that rewards you for sharing, reviewing, and discovering new music. Grooveshark lets you get rewarded for sharing your songs and music; keep all of your current songs and import your own playlists; discover music and receive personalized recommendations; sync your library with any player from iPods to iRivers.
Hooka http://www.hoooka.com/
The hoooka is a free, portable digital locker powered by indie911 that allows users to share, promote, sell and play their personal media favorites, via the Web. The hoooka combines the community and networking aspects of MySpace with the digital sale opportunities and exposure of iTunes. Anyone, from artists to fans, can easily create a hoooka and post it anywhere - blogs, social networking pages or Web sites - and instantly become their own mobile media store.
Hypster http://www.Hypster.com
Allows you to upload your music, create a playlist and share it with others, even on social networking sites. Let people see & hear the bands they may be missing out on.
IJigg http://www.ijigg.com/
iJigg lets listeners discover new music, rate music you like, download free MP3s and share music with friends. For Indie bands and artists you can post all your music tracks, easily share your music, and make new fans.
iLike http://www.ilike.com/
Get new music by following what your friends are listening to. The iLike Sidebar for iTunes (and other media players) scans your music library, recommends new music, and helps you connect musically with your friends and the broader iLike community
iMeem http://www.imeem.com/
Imeem is an online community where artists, fans & friends can promote their content, share their tastes, and discover blogs, photos, music and video. You can embed your media on other pages (such as your blog, Bebo, etc.) and recommend stuff to your friends and groups.
Indie911 http://www.indie911.com/
indie911 is a leading online media and social network providing tools and resources for thousands of musicians, filmmakers and consumers to sell, stream or share any content anywhere online. indie911 provides original programming, artist services programs, and a social network for artists to interact directly with their audiences and find new avenues of exposure and revenue
Intua http://intua.net/products.html
Intua is the mobile music creation studio for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Jambase http://www.jambase.com/
Jambase allows members to get email alerts, track your favorite bands, access customized news, create personal show calendars and and participate in exclusive contests. Jambase allows you to upload your iTunes music library, top 50 Last.fm artists, and manually add artists to track
Jamendo http://www.jamendo.com/
On Jamendo you can download and share thousands of full albums for free. Artists allow everyone to download and share their music. It\'s free, legal and unlimited. Like some artists? Pay them directly or just spread the word about them.
JukeboxAlive http://www.jukeboxalive.com/
JukeboxAlive is a music-based social network that lets users upload music, listen to music, share music with your friends, and even make new friends. Artists can sell CDs online, write a blog for your fans, and keep them up to date with your own online calendar
LaLa http://www.lala.com/
Originally a CD Trading service, LaLa now allows you to upload your iTunes library to the web for remote access. You can also transfer DRM-free songs from the LaLa catalog directly to your iPod.
Magnatune http://magnatune.com
Listen to over 500 complete albums from independent acts; if you like them, download them for as little as $5.00.
Mashable http://mashable.com/category/music-lists
Mashable is a social media guide which has an excellent section on music lists, resources and how to. It\'s a crucial site for musicians and mini-moguls.
Midomi http://www.midomi.com/
Midomi is a network that makes it easy to discover new music and people. The cool thing is that you can search for music by singing or humming part of a song. All you need is a microphone and you will be able to connect to your favorite music, and to a community of people that share your musical interests. You can listen to other member\'s voices, see pictures, rate singers, send messages and also buy music.
Mixcloud http://www.mixcloud.com
Mixcloud helps content creators promote their radio shows and podcasts, while helping listeners discover new radio content.
Mog is a music community where you can share your songs, music library, videos and thoughts on music with friends and moggers. Mog-o-matic is a plug in that transfers what you are playing to your Mog profile which allows Mog to provide you with personalized recommendations
MP3.com http://www.mp3.com/
MP3.com is a slick, all-inclusive music site that caters to both artists looking to promote their material and connect with listeners, and to fans that thrive on discovering new music and expressing their opinions. The community fuels the site with user-generated content ranging from independent and major-label artist pages with songs, videos, similar-artist lists, photos, and news, to fan ratings, reviews, blogs, and forums. The site also offers robust artist information like discographies, bios, and song clips, plus thousands of free music tracks, daily news, live sessions, exclusive interviews, weekly podcasts, charts, a tech guide, and more.
MusicBrainz http://musicbrainz.org
MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program -- for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections.
Musiclovr http://www.musiclovr.com
Get suggestions based on what you\'re listening to and what similar users play related to that. Also get all the latest news on the artists you love.
Musebin http://musebin.ws
Musebin lets you share your favorite albums and artists over Twitter using exquisitely tiny URL that link to a simple page about the artist or album that includes information about the year of release, record label, cover art, links to additional info, and a stream of tweets about the artist.
Musiclovr http://www.musiclovr.com
Get suggestions based on what you\'re listening to and what similar users play related to that. Also get all the latest news on the artists you love.
Music Nation http://www.musicnation.com/
Music Nation is the online home for independent and unsigned artists. They play host to career-making music competitions that have already given heavy exposure to three unsigned artists. It is also an online music community, a haven for independent talent and a place for fans to discover and interact with new bands. Artists can reach more and more fans with our high quality embeddable video player and other groundbreaking feature
Music.com http://www.music.com/
Music.com is a catalyst for exploring, expressing and connecting through music. As a member, you can build your own personal profile page and create favorites lists. This presents other users with a musical mosaic of who you are. From there, you can begin making connections, exchanging ideas and adopting new influences. The music.com affinity engine uses your ratings and lists to determine who and what you might like. Your activity within music.com directly serves to shape your experience with the community.
MusicIP http://www.musicip.com/ http://www.musicip.com/playground.jsp
MusicIP\'s business offerings are aimed at those involved in music distribution and sales, enabling them to unlock the value of their music catalogs. MusicIP\'s comprehensive product line provides services for music identification, search and discovery as well as direct-to-consumer exposure.
Musicmobs http://www.musicmobs.com/
Musicmobs is all about letting people know what kind of music you\'re into. Grab Mobster, log in, then click the sync button. Within a few minutes your Musicmobs page will be updated with more information than you ever thought you wanted to know about your awesome music taste. You can also find, play, tag and publish playlists and listen to them via your Rhapsody account.
Musicovery http://www.musicovery.com/
Musicovery is an innovative tool that lets you visually explore and listen to music. The Musicovery player lets you control a variety of parameters such as date range, mood, tempo and genres
MusicPortl http://www.musicportl.com/
MusicPortl tells you about almost every known artist by featuring wikipedia articles, links to recent blog posts, photos, videos, available releases by an artist, similar artists, genre names, and much more.
MusoCity http://www.musocity.com/
MusoCity is a music-oriented social network. It provides accounts specifically designed for music fans, artists, musicians, music retailers and music venues. MusoCity is completely free to join and you can start browsing members profiles to make friends, discovering new artists, getting in touch with musicians in your area and finding events and music stores near you.
Mystrands http://www.mystrands.com/
Mystrands website isn\'t a great solution for actually listening to music, but if music discovery is your goal then the recommendation engine is top notch. Based on songs or artists you either upload from your iTunes playlists or add as favorites on the site, MyStrands will recommend similar songs, albums, and artists that you can add or exile as you go.
The Next Big Sound http://nextbigsound.com
The Next Big Sound Sign up to thenextbigsound.com and you become a record company "mogul", with 10 slots to fill on your virtual label. You can then listen to scores of real-life unsigned bands who\'ve uploaded their demos.
NuTsie http://www.nutsie.com/
nuTsie provides the ability to upload your iTunes library and access your playlists via your mobile phone. You can use the nuTsie Web player to listen to your music wherever you have a connected PC, even though you\'re away from your iTunes collection. And you can share your nuTsie page with others so they can listen to your music too.
OneLlama http://onellama.com/
One Llama Media is a leader in audio analysis, search and discovery systems. The company develops acoustic analysis, cultural analysis and collaborative filtering tools for music and video navigation, discovery and search. One Llama provides its software to online media aggregators, distributors, and stores interested in improving the way their customers navigate and search for audio assets. Additionally, the Company provides its tools direct to the consumer through its website, www.onellama.com for building and sharing music playlists.
Pandora http://www.pandora.com/
With Pandora you can explore a vast trove of music to your heart\'s content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and it will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you. You can create as many "stations" as you want. And you can even refine them. If it\'s not quite right you can tell it so and it will get better for you.
Phling http://www.phling.com/
Phling! is the mobile music community service that connects you to all the music, podcasts, and pictures stored on your PC, to your friends, and to everyone in the phling! community. You can use your mobile phone to listen to your music anywhere, anytime without having to first synchronize with your PC. You can also let up to six phling! friends listen to your music, and they can let you listen to their music. You can read and submit song reviews, find out who is listening to what, browse user profiles, and stay in touch by posting messages to your friends\' bulletin boards and your own.
ProjectOpus http://www.projectopus.com
A site focusing on spreading the word of local acts from countries all over the world.
Project Playlist http://www.projectplaylist.com/
Projectplaylist.com is an information location tool similar to Google® and Yahoo!® but devoted entirely to the world of music. Its also a social network where you can create playlists, share your playlists with friends, and browse playlists of others. You can post your playlist on your social networking webpage or any other website.
PumpAudio http://www.pumpaudio.com/
Pump Audio is a new kind of agent for independent musicians, digitally connecting them with buyers in the mainstream media. With Pump Audio, artists can license their music into productions without giving up any ownership, while TV and advertising producers can discover new music ready for use.
PureVolume http://www.purevolume.com/
PureVolume allows independent artists to create an online presence on their site by uploadings music, videos, blog posts, photos, tour dates and more. Users can listen and download music, explore bands, make friends, blog and add comments. plus its from the folks behind Virb, so you know its slick.
Qloud http://www.qloud.com/
Qloud provides player plug-in software that helps you organize your own library better. So you\'ll be able to find the right song at the right time. Through the plug-ins, Qloud aggregates the music habits and thoughts of a community of users. The on-line service then allows you to search through that community\'s collective intelligence.
Radeo http://www.radeo.net/
The Radeo Internet Player provides access to more than 10,000 stations, 20,000 shows, and 800,000 episodes-- broadcasts, webcasts, and podcasts worldwide-- including both audio and video.
Rate Your Music http://www.rateyourmusic.com/
Rate Your Music is an international metadata database where musical albums, EPs, singles, videos and bootlegs are added, rated, and reviewed by users. This data is used to generate automatic music recommendations for users, create lists of compatible users, and to create lists of top-rated music albums.
Remix Wizard http://remixwizard.mixmatchmusic.com/wizardgallery
Remix Wizard allows fans to create new tracks instantaneously out of pre-released stems.
ReverbNation http://www.reverbnation.com/
ReverbNation is a place where artists, fans, labels and venues interact with each other for mutual benefit. Fans can create and share playlists, promote the artists they love, and track the success of artists over time. For artists, ReverbNation is more than just a place to do self-promotion, its an invaluable source of information about their fans, venues and other similar artists AND a place to conduct the business of being a musician including tools for distribution, merchandising, and communication. For Venues and Labels, ReverbNation gives you an outlet to promote yourself, and tools to understand, locate, and interact with artists and fans.
Riffin http://www.riffin.com/
Riffin\' is a free music discovery and playlist service, based on a 4.3 million song database, approved by all Major labels and hundreds of independents. Registered users can save favorite webjockeys, save playlists, purchase music. Webjockeys can create and publish playlists and get paid cash when user buy music from your lists.
SeeqPod http://www.seeqpod.com/
SeeqPod empowers users by allowing them to search and discover music and video all over the Web. Their playable search is made possible through biomimetic search & discovery technology, an approach which relies on context by finding the hidden relationships in digital content and data. Users can find songs and add the to playlists which can be shared via widgets.
SellaBand http://www.sellaband.com/
Artists and fans have one goal. Make music and money together. Artists upload their music and profile. Fans find artists they like and believe in. $10 buys them a piece of the action. $50,000 gets the artist in the studio. Fans get an exclusive CD send to their homes. Artists make their dream come true. From now on bands and believers are in business together.
Shazam http://www.shazam.com/
Shazam\'s world leading music recognition technology lets you use your mobile to recognize the stuff you don\'t, and then go on to shazam.com to manage your discoveries, explore the music universe, publish your own reviews, and find out about other members.
Shoutcast http://www.shoutcast.com/
SHOUTcast Radio, the home of free Internet Radio. Tune-in to thousands of free streaming online radio stations from DJs and broadcasters around the world.
Sideload http://www.sideload.com/
Sideload.com is a website that aggregates popular free music tracks on the web that have been sideloaded into Oboe, the online music locker from MP3tunes. Sideload.com is an easy way to find great MP3 files from bands all over the internet. You can quickly preview tracks and store them permanently in your Locker with one click.
thesixtyone http://thesixtyone.com
thesixtyone makes music culture more democratic: artists upload their work for review, but, rather than allow a stuffy suit in a boardroom to decide what\'s good, thousands of listeners do.
Slacker http://www.slacker.com/
Slacker provides "Personal Radio," which enables users to customize their own radio stations and listen to them wherever they happen to be. The service offers Wi-Fi and satellite music distribution, as well as DJ intelligence embedded in portable players. Slacker users can play highly personalized, continuously refreshed radio stations everywhere they go.
Slicethepie http://www.slicethepie.com/
Slicethepie enables artists to raise money directly from their fans to professionally record and release an album. Artists can raise money directly from their fans to professionally record albums. Fans can become emotionally and financially involved at all levels of the music industry - scouting, breaking, investing in and influencing real artists. Investors can gamble on, trade in and profit from the success of these artists. Artists who secure finance pay Slicethepie a small royalty on album sales but keep all their copyright and publishing rights.
Snocap http://www.snocap.com/
Snocap is the trusted solution powering the global marketplace for digital media. Through the Snocap Digital Registry, all rights holders (large, medium, and small) can register their content and manage its distribution by placing their Snocap MyStore on any website as well as by selling tracks through a variety of online retailers. Online retailers also gain easy access to content they wish to sell.
Songlist http://www.song-list.net/
Song-list provides lists of songs performed by various artists. For each song it details the different albums it appears on. They point directly to the versions on online music libraries. You can download (or play if you are a subscriber) the song directly from: eMusic, iTunes, Rhapsody, and Napster
Song Tapper http://www.songtapper.com
Use your computer keyboard to tap the rhythm of the song. SongTapper.com will help you find the name of the song. All you have to do is tap the song rhythm and SongTapper does the rest. After tapping is complete you will see a list of matching songs. If we they identify your song, you can teach the system by entering the song name.
SongTwit http://www.songtwit.com
SongTwit lets you share music on Twitter as you search imeem and YouTube for songs, point to MP3 links, or upload an MP3, M4A, WAV, WMA, OGG or ACC file.
Spool.fm http://www.spool.fm/
Spool.fm is a completely free community oriented website whose goal is to make sharing music simple. You can start listening to music right away by searching for an artist or a song and clicking on one of the result. If you register to Spool.fm, you can save the playlist you create, share them, and even allow anyone to listen in realtime to what you are currently listening.
Stage.fm http://www.stage.fm/
The Hype Machine http://hypem.com/
The Hype Machine tracks a variety of MP3 blogs. If a post contains MP3 links, it adds those links to its database and displays them on the front page. You can purchase CDs and individual tracks by using the "amazon" and "itunes" links that appear next to most tracks.
Tunefind http://www.tunefind.com/
TuneFind lets you discover the song that was played on a particular TV episode or movie. Listings are posted and verified by the community.
Tuneglue http://audiomap.tuneglue.net/
Last.fm and Amazon data power this mind-map style music visualization tool. You begin by typing in an artist name. You can click on the artist to reveal related artists and view album releases. Related artists float within the space and you can click on them to see their related artists, ad infinum.
Twones http://www.twones.com/
Twones is an online matching platform where people meet people though their music taste. The Twones application software uploads a users playlist to the Twones database. At Twones.com you can view other users tunes and see with who you match by music taste. You can connect with their connections, read their profiles and make new friends.
Twiturm http://twiturm.com
Twiturm (the "urm" stands for "ur music") is really aimed at artists looking to share music with their fans. The site lets users upload MP3 files, or point to existing MP3 links on the web, then share them directly on Twitter via a shortened URL that links to a Twiturm player page. The player page allows visitors to play, download, or retweet the tracks, and keeps stats on how many plays and downloads each song gets.
uPlayMe http://www.uplayme.com/
uPlayMe is free software that works with your media player like windows media player, iTunes, Winamp, and then tells you by sending an alert message to your desktop that someone else is playing the same song or video you just played. Then you can speak with each other through anonymous e-mails, instant messages or social network sites like MySpace.com.
Upto11 http://www.upto11.net/
Upto11 helps music fans discover great new music that is relevant to the way they listen to and collect music. The way that we do this is to "poll the audience" and enable like-minded music fans to help each other find great new music to listen to.
Yahoo Music http://music.yahoo.com/
Yahoo! Music is a streaming music service that allows you to create custom playlists. It also allows you to listen to all Yahoo! LAUNCHcast and CBS stations free with no restrictions on how long you can listen.
Zaziggy http://www.zaziggy.com/
Zaziggy provides free advertiser sponsored downloads. Every time you see an advertisement when you download a song, that advertiser has just paid for your download, and the artist gets a portion of the proceeds.
Zooped http://www.zooped.com/
Zooped.com Is a new Business Music and Personal Social Network. Connect with old friends, make new friends and connect with local businesses. Build your own play list up to 15 songs for your profile page. Musicians can share up to 10 songs with their fans.
ZuKool Music http://www.zukool.com/
ZuKool Music provides highly relevant, personalized music recommendations. They use advanced AI to create intelligent taste agents that, through user interaction, evolve to embody a user\'s musical taste profile. Smart taste agents can search through large music libraries to provide automatic, proactive, taste-specific music recommendations that can cross musical genres and artists
