{"id":664,"date":"2008-09-01T13:10:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T20:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=664"},"modified":"2008-09-01T13:10:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T20:10:46","slug":"a-spooonful-of-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/01\/a-spooonful-of-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"A SpOOOnful of Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have been joining all sorts of music sites, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\">Last.fm<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imeem.com\"> Imeem,<\/a> because I am obsessed with not just sticking to my status quo.  I gotta tell you though, it&#8217;s tough finding good new stuff.  First off, the radio aside from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.101rxp.com\">101 RXP<\/a> sucks and only plays either crap or songs I already have heard ten to a hundred times.  Second, I don&#8217;t have as much time as I used to to just troll around online looking for gems on e-Music or somewhere in the Amazon \/ iTunes catalog nether regions.  None of the sites I&#8217;ve joined do a good job of recommending new music.<br \/>\nSo, I was pretty jazzed when I heard about a new music site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spooonful.com\">SpOOOnful.<\/a> It has a pretty simple concept which is perfectly suited for my way of life right now.   They send out a free weekly email newsletter that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;introduces you to one great new artist or band at a time. You\u2019ll get a preview of what they sound like as well as links to buy a track, a whole album, even get out to a show. We hope to turn you on to some new sounds from across many genres including indie rock, singer-songwriter, dance\/ electronica, hip-hop, and jam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The best part of this site is that they say they will &#8220;never accept money for our editorial opinions and we\u2019re not affiliated with any record label. Most importantly, we\u2019re going to keep it simple and easy.&#8221;<br \/>\ne-Music sends me a newsletter and while I read it, it&#8217;s all over the place &#8211; a classic case of too much information.  SpOOOnful on the otherhand is focused and already paying benefits as its very first newsletter turned me on to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spooonful.com\/electronic\/santogold\">Santogold<\/a> whose song <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imeem.com\/santogold\/music\/UEzRkw45\/santogold_les_artistes\/\">L.E.S. Artistes<\/a> has been keeping me grooving for a week now.<br \/>\nYes, the three capital O&#8217;s in the name reek of Web 2.0 nonsense and yes, I&#8217;m just dying for looming &#8220;Uma meet Oprah, Oprah &#8211; Uma&#8221; moment when SpOOOnful recommends something by Spoon.  That being said, I&#8217;m really looking forward to seeing what is dished up as time goes by and I feel that overall if you care about music, this site is definitely for you.  As the Tick says:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_l4ZZFzs7VIs\/RmHq91HgP4I\/AAAAAAAAALQ\/mYU4A442vws\/s400\/spoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have been joining all sorts of music sites, like Last.fm and Imeem, because I am obsessed with not just sticking to my status quo. I gotta tell you though, it&#8217;s tough finding good new stuff. First off, the radio aside from 101 RXP sucks and only plays either crap or songs I already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[88,431],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-blog","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}