Friday, August 26, 2005

Find Recorded Musicians Similar to....

Last.fm does a good-looking job of listing artists similar to one you enter. I have been using MusicMatch for the past year and they're similar artist results are not nearly so broad, especially in mixing big-names with obscure names. Musicmatch appears to weigh the notoriety of the musician more heavily than their similarity to your chosen musician.
My standard test is the "Leonard Cohen" test, which I think works well because you expect to see obscure names in any list of Cohen sound-alikes. If you see only big-names, you wonder how comprehensive the search is.

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