Josh Reisner

I hope this blog is helping you to find music that you wouldn’t have otherwise! But if you want to take your music game to the next level, you could try moving up one layer of abstraction to The Hype Machine. They’re like a huge mega-blog that aggregates hundreds of other blogs. (Sadly not this one, but hopefully that’ll change soon!)

I’m very impressed with their music player (try hitting ‘play’ next to a track). If you sign up for a profile, you can scrobble those plays into your last.fm profile. Amazing, right? Maybe the web is the new iTunes!

Belle & Sebastian – Seeing Other People

How fresh is this thing on the sidebar? The six tiles are my most-listened-to artists of the week. The source data is courtesy of my last.fm music profile, which monitors the music I play in iTunes. The WordPress plugin is written by Gary Fenstamaker.

This is an example of the awesomeness of open source software and, in particular, the developers in the WordPress community.

(I should note that if you have a non-WordPress blog, you can still get the widget because the author also provides a standalone PHP version.)