Anyone know a good source for downloading, local, independent music. Specifically, I’m looking for Minnesota-based or MN, WI, NoDak, SoDak, IA music. Thanks
Update 27 April 2007:
I’ve Googled for answer to this question and come up with a number of local music directory projects – some clearly abandon, others just useless. All of these projects (alive or zombie) assume I know who all the musicians are.
I don’t…that’s why I’m looking.
At minimum, I’m looking for a Last.FM search or Pandora stream filtered by geography. A steady stream of recommendations – like AmigoFish for local music, not an alphabetical directory of meaningless artists names.
City Pages is posting more and more local bands, and I think the Current does also.
While it’s not entirely oriented to downloads, I have spent time digging through the CDBaby page for Minnesota, which has something like 2600 entries.
http://cdbaby.com/places/9MN0
Of course, their navigation sucks, forcing you down to very specific categories to see anything.
So, Garrick, wanna partner and build an upper midwest music site???
@J Wynia,
Thanks. There are a couple projects in the works locally along these lines. I’m hoping to get a demo of both in the near future.
All of this means there’s an opportunity, I think it’s the same opportunity as the block-by-block news opportunity. Both need viability and sustainability at a very small scale.
So, yes, I’m interested in having some involvement in a project like this.