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You can find the comic I was talking about here. Would love to hear what you think, feel free to leave a comment.

Listen again to my latest show.

1. The Books w. Jose Gonzalez ‘Cello Song’
2. Emmy the Great ‘Where Is My Mind?’
3. M. Ward ‘For Beginners’
4. Akron/Family ‘Ed Is A Portal’
5. My Latest Novel ‘Pretty In A Panic’
6. Camera Obscura ‘Super Trouper’
7. Mugison ‘The Great Unrest’
8. Woodhands ‘Electric Avenue’
9. Shout Out Out Out Out ‘Guilt Trips Sink Ships’
10. Justice ‘D.A.N.C.E.’
11. MODESELEKTOR ’200007′ (Paul Kalkbrenner’s Tap Sum Bong 20009 Remix)
12. Royksopp ‘Happy Up Here’ (Boys Noize Remix)

This just made my day. I feel that this is exactly what 2009 is about: not talk about old issues and keep discussing ideas that might or might now work. Now is about getting things done, work hard and (hopefully) making some money. Talking about the next big thing will not pay the bills in tricky times.

via xkcd

This is what I forfor to mention on my last show: The Hype Machine is of course essential to find mp3 blogs. Also, you should check out mokele.co.uk to see how artists can distribute their music as a podcast.

You can listen to the whole show here.

1. Vetiver ‘Everyday’
2. The Long Lost ‘Finders Keepers’
3. The Twilight Sad ‘Three Seconds of Air’
4. The Chairs ‘Flume’
5. Emmy the Great ‘Where Is My Mind?’
6. Mokele ‘Say There…’
7. ShiSho ‘Punk Rawk Boy’
8. Camera Obscura ‘Super Trouper’
9. M. Ward ‘For Beginners’
10. Micah P. Hinson ‘Patience’
11. Le Tigre ‘Deceptacon’
12. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone ‘Old Panda Days’ (W/ Nick Krgovich)
13. Mogwai ‘Summer’

I talked about this on my radio show this morning and I wanted to publish this on here as well in case people couldn’t write down the links: these are some very easy ways of finding new music using on the internet. Those are not the only ways for me to find music but I use these tools every day discover songs that I want to play on my show.

Many readers of my blog will be aware of all the sites below so this might be more relevant listeners of my show on Tide 96.0 in Hamburg.

First of all, if you want to discover music easily on the internet you of course need a Last.fm account. I’m scrobbling everything I listen to to my Last.fm account in order to get events and new music recommended to me automatically by the system. This is a must have.

Over the last few months Spotify has become an essential tool for many people to listen and discover music. I used to use it only to listen to tracks that I knew already but more recently I started using the the shared playlists to find new tracks – I’ve started a heute:pop:morgen collaboratice playlist, feel free to add tracks.

I’ve been talking about Peel before on here. It is basically a software that automatically goes through a bunch of mp3 blogs and finds all the mp3s for you so you can easily download and listen to them. It safes me a lot of time every week when I want to find new songs to play on my show although I still have to go through a lot of tracks that might not be suitable for heute:pop:morgen. Mp3 blogs that I check out regularly include  Captain Obvious, Music Is Art and Song By Toad.

I actually still like reading print magazines but after my subscriptions ran out (I must have had at least 10 at some point) I never renewed them. I don’t mind paying for them but having all that paper around is a bit of a inconvenience sometimes. I pick up (print) magazines when I travel but don’t read any on a regular basis any more.

As you can see, what I produce every week is a very ‘traditional’ way of recommending music: putting together 13(ish) tracks, talking about those (amonst other topics) and playing them on the radio. But as much as I enjoy creating this I also still appreciate this as a way of finding new music: the BBC shows are something I listen to on a regular basis but only after they went on air in the iPlayer or (where available) as a podcast.

What am I missing?

This week I talked about how I discover music on the internet and I promised I will add a summary here. Should be up later today.

You can listen to my show again here.

1. Mr. Scruff ‘Nice Up The Function’
2. Shuttle ‘Tunnel’
3. School Of Seven Bells ‘Iamundernodisguise’
4. Bloc Party ‘The Pioneers’ (M83 Remix)
5. The Antlers ‘Tears Are In Your Eyes’
6. The Long Lost ‘Finders Keepers’
7. Leonard Cohen ‘Avalanche’
8. Stina Nordenstam ‘Now That You’re Leaving’
9. Feist and Ben Gibbard ‘Train Song’
10. Internet Forever ‘Break Bones’
11. The Twilight Sad ‘Three Seconds of Air’
12. White Lies ‘To Lose My Life’

Thanks to everyone who came down to our OpenMusicMedia meet last night. Anyone who missed it can check out this short interview with Songkick‘s Ian Hogarth which nicely sums up what we talked about.

Big thanks to Andrew Dubber for recording this, I think there might be some more footage coming. Thanks also to David Emery who took some great pictures and added them to our flickr group.

Ian Hogarth – Songkick from Andrew Dubber on Vimeo.

I should have mentioned on my show this morning: if you are in London tonight, make sure you come to our OpenMusicMedia Meet. Should be a good night.

You can listen to my show again here.

1. Animal Collective ‘My Girls’
2. Fuck Buttons ‘Bright Tomorrow’
3. Internet Forever ‘Break Bones’
4. Loney, Dear ‘Airport Surroundings’
5. Vetiver ‘Everyday’
6. The Whitest Boy Alive ‘Island’
7. Destiny’s Child / 10cc ‘Independent Women Part 1 [A Capella] / Dreadlock Holiday’
8. Dolly Parton / Röyksopp ’9 To 5 / Eple’
9. School Of Seven Bells ‘Iamundernodisguise’
10. Lykke Li ‘Tonight’ (YN Piano Version)
11. Ida Maria ‘Keep Me Warm’
12. Hauschka ‘Blue Bicycle’
13. Common ‘Inhale’