Grooveshark Lite
Well I am back from a week in the Mickey Mouse world of Disney, and I am going to share an excellent site I recently came across.
Grooveshark Lite is an excellent site to listen to your favorite music all for free.
It works basically by you typing in the name of the band you want to hear, it will then return all the songs it has on the artist and allows you to play the song or add it to a list. It lets you view the results by album as well which can help you find songs from artists who have been around for a while.
The quality of the music is much better than most internet radio sites. Its not grainy and the downloading is very responsive. There is not more waiting forever for the song to buffer just to find out the player decided to stop working(damn yahoo music… terrible). The user interface could not be much better as well. It is done entirely in Flash so it is very fast and very slick, but it is not to busy or distractive like many flash sites can be.
However there are no ads on the site, and I see no way for the site to generate income. So this site might not be around for very long, but who knows. I hope it will because this is by far one of the best free music sites I have come across.