Last.fm

I'm pretty sure most people have heard of this website but I don't feel like I've managed to get the most out of it because barely any of my friends are on there.


Basically for those who don't know what it is, it's a music tracker which shows your friends what you're listening to and your favourite artists (its kind of like that old MSN 'What I'm Listening To' thing but a big step up). You get recommended music from what you listen to and you can find some pretty cool people. Your profile looks something like this:

I'm on a bit of a Stevie Wonder loop at the moment!

This is where it tells you who your top artists are and the pictures are on a continuous loop so your profile looks different everyday. Yes unfortunately Bieber is on there, I had a bit of a phase last year, I'm trying to wipe him out slowly but surely!! You can also love songs and they'll come up more often when you play your library radio.

You can get the app onto your computer so you don't need to go on the website. It'll always be open counting your 'scrobbles' from iTunes, Spotify and whenever you plug in your iPod. It also goes straight onto the different radios you can listen to.

Its a great little website and you can find some cool new music on there which is the main perk, theres so many free downloads of new music on the website it's silly. So please join and add me so I can stalk all of your music tastes, I'm Springett91! http://www.last.fm

Watch Listen Tell

Watch Listen Tell is one of my favourite Youtube playlists, it has gorgeous shots of singers and bands who are really on the cusp of becoming in the mass audience so its a great one to keep a look at to keep up with new music.

They show artists acoustically who write their own songs and sing so beautifully, they definitely deserve people hearing them.

Some of my most favourite artists star in their videos including their very first post which is an extremely young looking Florence + the Machine with her band and a stick.

{Florence + the Machine 'My Boy Builds Coffins'}

I absolutely love their little intros at the start, you can really see the characters of the artists more than just boring interviews you often see in music magazines.

Here a few favourite videos of mine but honestly they're all just brilliant and well worth an hour of watching!

{Michael Kiwanuka 'I'm Getting Ready'}

{Ben Howard 'Old Pine'}

{Young the Giant 'I Got'}

{Lucy Rose 'Night Bus'}

{Villagers 'Becoming a Jackal'}

{Two Door Cinema Club 'Something Good Can Work}

{Bombay Bicycle Club 'Dust on the Ground'}

Most of these links are bands who have now become household names in the charts so who knows what will happen to the bands in their new videos? Their twitter is @watchlistentell so follow them to keep up to date with their new video updates!

My weekends pretty chocka block full of seeing friends before I go skiing so hopefully lots of lovely thing to report next week! Have a lovely summery weekend everyone, crack the Pimms out!