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.

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  1. 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???

  2. @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.

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