Streaming punk songs to listen to while reading special issue of Spin
Slacker.com has created a streaming net radio show of punk songs to go along with Spin magazine's October issue, "1977: The Year Punk Exploded!"
The Slacker music player is a little odd. When I skipped a song, a message told me that I had "5 skips left." After that, I guess I can't skip again. Ridiculous. LinkThe Spin Punk station consists of handpicked songs representing the most influential punk music spanning three decades and is the musical counterpart to Spin's punk coverage. The issue includes an article chronicling the rise of punk, explosive interviews with the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten and the Clash's Mick Jones, a definitive timeline of punk in 1977, and much more.
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Phenom, this is the second thread I've seen you spamming on. Go away...
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The skip limit is pretty well spelled out...6 skips per hour. Is this the first internet radio service you've ever tried? They all have limitations like that because the record labels are a pain like that. Take it up with the RIAA.
Slacker allows 6 skips per hour- its not THAT ridiculous for free personalized radio. Much better than listening to ads every two songs, or having Last.FM absolutely butcher your musical tastes. I found its my favorite online radio player, especially in terms of matching my tastes with new artists.
"We're Sorry
Slacker Personal Radio
is not available in your area.
Unfortunately, Slacker Personal Radio is currently only available in the United States. While we are working to extend our licenses to other parts of the world, at this time we can only play music to our listeners within the United States."
Crap!
Is there a way to circumvent this?
Yea! Washington DC gets some props Bad Brains are one of the best bands ever.
Gods, yes!
I deleted Phenom's spam from all the conversations. Sorry we didn't get around to it sooner.
The skip limit is (likely) a function of their webcasting license. Pandora has the exact same thing, attributing it to their license.
Ridiculous, yeah, but RIAA's fault, not Spin's.
PS Though I don't know why buying a premium Slacker account allows them to let you circumvent that limit.
I get the 6 skips they talk about before I ran out... worked for me.
Is it just me, or did anyone else read the headline as "Steampunk songs to listen to..." ??
The playlist, although alternatively acceptable, is scarcely '77 punk - in my 6 songs (skipped 'em all) I got MC5, Dag Nasty, New Bomb Turks, Nirvana, The Bronx, and X-Ray Spex. Only the last one really qualifies, though the first was certainly an influence.
After my final skip I got this message: "You have exceeded the skip limit for this station. Our basic radio licenses only allow us to skip 6 songs per hour, per station." But the song I finally landed on was Gang of Four's "Anthrax." Feedback. Yipee!
It's a limit of six skips per hour (not total) and ROMULUSNR is right about the RIAA.
This was looking awesome until i got there and discovered that, as a Canadian, i am not Slack enough to get the podcast. bummer.
In the 90`s SPIN was one of my staples.
Hm. Slack radio. Sounds like corporate co-opting genuine sentiment and honesty again. Happened with jazz, it's been happening with punk for years.
Yes: punk was/is great. There are bands that deserve to be listened to. Ones that have only associated themselves with what they agree with, don't make a goddamn dime, and still make kickass, life-shattering music more often than alleycats fuck. See Fugazi, to name the popular example.
I worry about this. I worry about magazines like Spin. Not only for their money-driven model, but that the ability to skip tracks is there for the sole reason to push 30-something nostalgia and track sales.
And: 'Slacker' associated with the punk element?! Come on. Without paying attention to the boy-band origin of the Sex Pistols, most 'punk' bands have been some of the most hard-working, honest, music-generating people in the past 20-30 years. I know it's just the name of the player, but don't tell me that there's at least *some* association there.
No offense to anyone who's been introduced to a good band though this promotion, but we've got the internet now, and simply doing a tiny bit of research and digging... at home... at your convenience... will bring up information about bands that you can hold on to and love for a long, long time.
As you can tell, music is important to me. it seems to be one of the only forms of culture that consistently exceeds cliche and banality. I feel like human expression should be treated with respect.
Damn, doesn't work in Europe!
If you sign up for the new premium radio service, you can skip as many songs as you want and you get no ads. Of course, for $7.50/month it may not be worth it for everyone.
Slacker has also (finally!) launched the portable music player after several months of delays. They're available for pre-order on the official Slacker web site, and are expected to begin shipping by December 13th.
The slacker portable players are a bit expensive as well ($200 for 2GB, $250 for 4GB, and $300 for 8GB), but I pre-ordered one of the 8GB units and I'll post a review on my Slacker music site as soon as I receive it. There's also a Slacker forum on my site that's starting to get pretty active.
Dave.