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I miss Rdio. It was a great place to listen to music. Now I use Tidal as my streaming music provider; it has no social aspect at all so I need to do more work finding out about what’s new or old and worth hearing. These links are references for me so I can always get to sources I like.

Reviews:

• Alex Ross’s blog: when he has something in heavy rotation, I listen.
• All Music: a fantastic resource, especially given the terrible metadata on all streaming music sites. They review new releases.
• Avant Music News.
• Down Beat: hours of listening in every issue.
• Exclaim!: free monthly print newspaper of music news and reviews, plus lots online.
• Forced Exposure new releases: regular updates from the mail order music store.
• Glass Notes: all about Philip Glass.
• The Guardian’s music coverage: all kinds of coverage, from classical (like Max Richter’s classical-for-beginners playlist) to Dom Lawson on metal.
• Gramophone: hours more listening in every issue.
• Metal: Dangerdog, Invisible Oranges, MetalSucks, The Noisegarden, PD’s Prog Blog.
• Freaky rock: Psych Insight Music.
• Ted Gioia: jazz writer and critic who often mentions on Twitter (@tedgioia) what he’s listening to, and regularly writes for the Daily Beast.
• The Quietus.
• Wikipedia.

Finding similar artists:

• Music-Map—The Tourist Map of Music

Online listening:

• Bandcamp: once you’ve bought something and have an account, you can stream; I’ve found music on there that isn’t on Tidal, and I can buy it and download as FLAC.
• BBC Radio 3: classical. Private Passions has some good guests.
• BBC Radio 4: talk, documentaries, comedy and drama. And the Shipping Forecast.
• BBC Radio 4 Extra: repeats of old comedy and drama.
• CBC Radio One: really I only listen to Metro Morning on my clock radio and Quirks and Quarks as a podcast. CBC Radio is dreadful compared to what it used to be. Still, sometimes there’s something going on where I want live coverage.
• KING’s Second Inversion.
• New Music USA’s Counterstream Radio.
• Radio Aporee. “A responsive stream of sound, a topographic radio that listens, that may (or may not…) recognise and react to events, e.g. new sound uploads, listeners tuning in, mobile app activity, live sessions, phone calls etc.”
• Soundart Radio 102.5 FM.
• A Soft Murmur. “Ambient sounds to wash away distraction.”
• SoundCloud: I mostly use this for podcasts. Wouldn’t be surprised if it disappears soon.
• WQXR’s Q2: “a listener-supported, New York-based online station devoted to the music of living composers.”
• WWOZ: the “Guardians of the Groove” in New Orleans.

Direct links:

• BBC Radio Three: http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_radio3_mf_p
• BBC Radio Four: http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_radio4fm_mf_p
• BBC Radio Four Extra: http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_radio4extra_mf_p
• Radio Aporee: http://radio.aporee.org:8000/aporee_high.m3u
• Resonance FM: http://54.77.136.103:8000/resonance
• Resonance Extra: http://54.77.136.103:8000/resonance-extra
• Soundart Radio: http://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/soundart.mp3
• WWOZ: https://wwoz-sc.streamguys1.com/wwoz-hi.mp3