I decided to take part in a little contest that MOG, the popular music streaming service, recently organized for it’s network of music bloggers as a promotional campaign. Pretty smart if you ask me from a marketing perspective. Hip2besquare has been a member of this network for around two years and while at first I didn’t go to the site very often, recently I’ve been finding myself heading there to listen to new releases or to delve into classics.
I’ve also been playing around with their mobile application which, besides letting you stream music, lets you download music temporarily to your phone’s memory as long as you’re a subscriber. To have both the mobile app and access to stream all the music online in full costs $10 bucks a month. I’ve started to contemplate ditching the eMusic account and going this route. I have found that I do own a lot of music that sits in my external hard drive collecting dust.
Being a music junky has it’s ups and downs and more often then not I get interested in a band for only a fleeting moment. It makes sense then to go through these phases and let the music be floating online versus taking up valuable space in my hard drive. When I make the decision to own the music I can walk down the street to my local record store or hit up Amazon for some DRM free MP3s.
The mix I created for this contest (which you can listen to here) focuses on what I consider to be my musical heroes of recent years. Going back to my sophomore year at college in 2000 and leading up to the end of the decade, I’ve seen my musical tastes expand – at times almost too much. But no matter what, I always come back to these tried and true sounds.
Tracklist
Artist Song
Yo La Tengo – “Our Way To Fall”
Wilco – “Impossible Germany”
Hot Chip – “Crap Kraft Dinner”
Andrew Bird – “Masterfade”
Stephen Malkmus – “Craw Song”
Phoenix – “Girlfriend”
Johnny Cash – “Folsom Prison Blues”
Tom Waits – “New Coat of Paint”
Same Cooke – “Chain Gang”
Huey Lewis & The News – “Heart and Soul”
Listen now to my playlist – Here’s To My Heroes
