Wow - I spent most of my weekend pursuing new music via: a new application, an endless trail of music blogs, and a bunch of download sites.

For those of you in Europe, check out Spotify (or see if you can get a friend to email you an invite).  It's an iTunes-like player that taps into an online library of music.  Unlike Last.FM or Pandora, you can pick and play any song you want, and skip or stop at any time.  They don't have a complete catalog, but it's very extensive already.  (Remember, when I say "complete" I'm referring to my esoteric Brazilian percussion tunes.  Otherwise, it's pretty complete...)

Wandering out from my Gilles Peterson discovery last week, I tapped into a series of rare groove soul / funk / hip-hop /  house music web sites.