 Pearadio revives the adventurousness of FM radio's free-form golden age. The Pearadio play-list blends funk, progressive rock, world music, reggae, blues, and folk with country, Tex-Mex and jazz. A quick peek in the Music section will reveal artists like Alpinestars, Ani Difranco, Grateful Dead, Beatles, Bruce Cockburn, Casanovas, Coldplay, JJ Cale, Peter Green, Counting Crows, David Byrne, Staple Singers, Nick Drake, Mazzy Star, Louis Prima Jimmy Reed, Johnny Cash, Thievery Corporation, Pearl Jam, and Yo La Tengo just to name a few.
Spanning decades of great music from the 30's & 40's to today's breaking independent artists and B-sides, Pearadio streams an eclectic blend of music in high quality stereo. The rotation is also light years behind today's corporate FM muck-- on average sets are held to 4 days instead of 4 hours.
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This is the new PEARadio.com home. It was high time and long overdue to retrofit the old site with something a bit more accommodating and functional--so here we are. There are a few sections of the site that are still under construction and some of the proposed features (song ratings and comments etc.) are not available currently but will be forthcoming asap.
There are a few transition glitches (mainly with the Internet Explorer) so bear with us--I'm working on those issues and expect them to be cleared up shortly. Of course the best solution is to do yourself a big favor and just stop using IE and upgrade to Firefox. Not only is it a better browser in all respects---the PR 2 site will appear as it was designed both functionally and visually.
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The Amazon MP3 store allows you to search their catalog of more than 4 million songs, browse by genre and price, view top sellers and new releases, and explore song, album, and artist pages. In a most welcome revelation, all tracks are DRM-Free and start at .89 per track. Price ranges for full album downloads are categorized from $4.99 and under to $9.00 and above. Some really great finds include Fela Kuti's Expensive Shit for only $4.95 and Massive Attack's Bite Size for $3.68.
Higher quality sound than brand X--Almost all other digital music stores only offer 128k quality at one set price. Amazon's MP3 tracks are encoded at 256k VBR (variable bitrate) and there are many at 256k fixed mp3 at no extra charge.
Getting started with amazonmp3 is pretty straightforward and seamless--especially if you have purchased anything through Amazon.com. They offer a helper application that will automatically integrate your downloads into your iTunes or Windows Media Player library--but it is not required for single downloads. Bonus points there for all you non-ghom freaks! For most people the helper app may be convenient for one-click full album purchases, but I found that the downloads and song previews are extremely peppy so at this point I saw little reason to install this "manager".
Amazon's MP3 store now offers non-copyrighted music from all four "big labels" so their selection is just as deep as "you know who". Oh! Did I mention that there's no need to clog your rig with some bloated piece of proprietary file stamping, copy-protecting song management software? Yes...I did but it bears repeating. I'm sure once you test drive Amazon MP3 you'll be hooked.
Here's a great post from Ian Rogers that succinctly sums up why this long awaited offering really rings the bell. Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses |
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