Streeter Seidell is a comedy writer and (mediocre) drummer living in Brooklyn, NY. During the day he edits the front page of CollegeHumor.com but when the sun goes down he takes his place at the helm of the Indablog. He maintains a personal blog at StreeterSeidell.com and wants to make sure you know he once wrote something for the New York Times and that it was, in the words of his mother, "Amazing! You're so talented!"
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Underrated Magazine
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ll the news that fit to print ... about music, that is. -
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Friday June 27, 2008 at 06:00 PM |
Though I write for them occasionally, Metro - the free daily newspaper distributed on the New York Subway - isn't really a great paper for music news. However, today they ran a nice article taking a look at the various mixtape-influenced sites on the Internet. They discussed three sites in particular - seeqpod, muxtape and fuzz - giving each a short description and highlighting their various pros and cons. Now, I'm friends with Muxtape creator, Justin Oullette, so, naturally, I tend to think his is the best out there, but Metro does present some downsides to the super-simple design and functionality. It is difficult to find specific songs since the site is so personalized and it can be tough to gauge what tunes might be on a given muxtape thanks to fanciful names.
Seeqpod, on the other hand, is all about searching. It hunts the Internet for the songs you tell it to find. I think perhaps the author of this article has a rather loose definition of "mixtape" though, since seeqpod is more of a music search engine along the lines of G2P or TheHypeMachine. Fuzz is somewhere between the two. I'm sure, too, that they left many sites off the list, a testament to how fun the idea of online mixtapes are.
Anyway, go give the article a read if this at all interests you and play with each site to find the one - or none - best suited to your needs. By the way, you can catch my Muxtape at Streeter.Muxtape.com. Have a great weekend, everyone and, no matter how you do it, listen to more music.
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