Custom Streaming Radio - Discover New Music

I stumbled upon Pandora, part of the Music Genome Project. (That's marketing speak) But, this system is absolutely incredible. Type in any artist or song, and it will produce a custom radio station with other artists, many of which you may not know. Click play, and start enjoying the endless stream of new artists. In my opinion, it's pretty impressive how extensive their database of music appears to be. Best of all, the music stream is FREE!!

One cool feature is you can pause the streaming music, and, when you come back and hit PLAY, it picks up right where you stopped. Basically, it's streaming radio, only better, much better. Even streaming radio seems to have some kind of playlist. Not on Pandora, each time, you get a new, original playlist.

From their 'About Us' Section:

For almost six years now, we have been hard at work on the Music Genome Project.
It's the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Together our team
of thirty musician-analysts have been listening to music, one song at a time,
studying and collecting literally hundreds of musical details on every song. It
takes 20-30 minutes per song to capture all of the little details that give each
recording its magical sound - melody, harmony, instrumentation, rhythm, vocals,
lyrics ... and more - close to 400 attributes! We continue this work every day
to keep up with the incredible flow of great new music coming from studios,
stadiums and garages around the country.
We've now created an interface to
make this available to music lovers so they could use this musical
'connective-tissue' to discover new music based on songs or artists they already
know.

Discover Music - Pandora and listen to streaming music for FREE