Earlier tonight, my buddy Dave Wallace tipped me off to a great music site, with an even cooler Twitter app.
Zebra Melody is a new music aggregation site where you can search for and view music videos and hear songs from your favorite artists. For example, a search for one of my favorite bands, Slobberbone, turned up a bunch of songs, including excellent live videos of Josephine and Engine Joe, two of my favorites, and an audio link to Lumberlung, my favorite Slobberbone song.
After finding an artist, there’s a music discovery tab (“Similar”), where you can explore for new music. The “Similar” tab for Slobberbone includes Old 97’s, Uncle Tupelo and the Drive-By Truckers, among others. That seems pretty accurate. There’s also a tab where artists can add tour info and other events.
Now for the cool part. Send a Twitter message containing the name of an artist or song to @getsong, and magically, Zebra Melody will send a reply with a link to the Zebra Melody web page for that artist or song. I first threw a softball by inquiring about Whiskeytown. I got a reply with a link to this page, full of videos and song files. Interestingly, some of the listed songs are covers (see Dancing with the Women at the Bar, for example). This is cool with me, as anyone who has been following my recent Blip.fm covers series would know. Next I threw a little heat by inquiring about another of my favorites, the Deadstring Brothers. I immediately got a reply with a link to this page. More musical goodness.
The navigation (particularly clicking on songs in the “Top Melody” list) is a little shaky, but all in all, I think this service rocks, figuratively and literally. Check out their blog for more (eventually).
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