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Internet Radio Stations offer Free Online Streaming Music

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:27:20 +0000

Music has a therapeutic effect on people after their day work. People enjoy listening to music as it brings to them entertainment programs that can simple leave them mad. There are various types of entertainments. One of the best ways of entertaining yourself is listening to live radio. The radio stations that we get to listen on live radio unites people across a region and infuses entertainment in their lives.

The Internet has developed and made many changes in our culture including personal MySpace pages, individual blogs, the way we trade information as well as the way the public finds and listens to music. One of the forthcoming and most popular formats is Internet Radio. Internet radio stations have been online for more than three years and offer listeners an option to “subscription radio” and commercial radio because of the eclectic music formats and unique opportunities for independent bands.

Now the availableness of live radio with these websites allows people to tune to scintillating radio programs that are broadcast by various radio channels from time to time. The radio jockeys also have a great purpose to play for the entertainment of people. Their enchanting dialogs fascinate the listeners. The radio jockeys are also known to tell becharming stories of happenings and incidents in and around them. Thus people are exhilarated with joy on listening to their marvelous tales. Moreover, the websites support several channels of radio. Thus users find immense ambit to listen to live radio programs on any of these channels.

People all over the world can tune to live online radio programs that are broadcasted by various FM channels. The websites help people to access them from anywhere. Now it becomes possible for people to access radio channel from anywhere simply by opening websites. As these sites also serve the communication purposes, thus people get the chance to communicate with friends while listening to the radio.

The Midnight Funk Association, the Last Great Radio Show

admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:45:59 +0000

The Midnight Funk Association was the 12 a.m. one hour segment of the legendary late night Detroit radio DJ Electrifying Mojo, a.k.a Charles Johnson.

An entire generation of faithful fans and listeners from the late 70’s through the early 90’s recognize the radio show for shaping the musical tastes of listeners in the Metropolitan Detroit Area, Northern Ohio, and Eastern Ontario Canada.

Mojo broke many artists in the Detroit market including Prince, The J. Giles Band, The B-52’s and turned audiences on to classic legends like Pink Floyd and Peter Frampton, artist previously unheard on radio stations that were labelled as “black”, or “R and B” .

Nightly at 12 a.m., Mojo called to order The Midnight Funk Association, an homage to some of the great funk bands of the day and of all time. He frequently played original long versions, and entire sides of albums by George Clinton and Parliament / Funkadelic, Prince, Rick James and many other all time great bands and artists, as well as local groups like Ready For the World.

At the top of the show, Mojo opened membership to the MFA, and members new and old were asked to stand up to show solidarity.

* If you were driving you were to flash your headlights.

* If you were at home, you turned on your porch light.

* If you were in bed listening to the show, you were required to dance on your back.

And every night for years, people did it !

To become a card carrying member of the MFA, listeners wrote in the radio station and would receive their official MFA I.D. card.

Electrifying Mojo, and the Midnight Funk Association was one of the last great radio music shows of our time. Many fans of the radio show credit Mojo for being fans of music that they would have otherwise never heard of. He was a huge influence in turning millions of listeners into Prince fans, and many say was responsible for a six show sell out at Cobo Hall in Detroit in the late 80’s.

It is common to speak to fans of the show that will credit him for turning them on to Peter Frampton, The B-52’s, Pink Floyd, and many other artists that were never heard on Detroit’s “R and B” stations, yet he also supported emerging rap artists like Eric B and Rakim, Run DMC, Whoodini, L.L. Cool J, and the many styles of music heard of the show fit together semmlessly as if they were mean to be enjoyed together.

The Godfathers and Originators of Detroit House and Techno Music, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, now known and respected around the world as groundbreaking, credit Mojo and the Midnight Funk Association as an early influence in their musical development and he frequently supported and played thier early and history making tracks that launched Detroit techno to the entire world including Inner City’s “Good Life”, Derrick May’s “Strings of Life”, Cybotron’s “Cosmic Cars”, Model 500 “No UFO’s”, “Technicolor”, “R9″ and so many others.

Mojo was known to support and embrace electronic music in it’s early stages and frequently played artists like Africa Bambaataa, Kraftwerk, and New Order as part of his nightly radio show.

Common segments of the legendary radio show included:

* 10:00pm – The Landing of the Mothership. This was the intro to each show with spaceship sound effects and related dialog. Sometimes the music heard during the first hour was indicative of what you’d hear that night; sometimes it would be completely random.

* 11:00pm – Awesome ‘84, ‘85. In the mid eighties, Mojo played an hour of brand new music (hence the year in the title) and a lot of new songs were introduced.

* 11:30pm – Lover’s Lane. A half an hour of “slow jams” for lovers.

* 12:00am – The Midnight Funk Association. Consisted regularly of Parliament-Funkadelic, The Gap Band, Zapp and other funk bands of the era.

From 1:00am to 3:00am (2:00 am on Saturday nights), Mojo’s show was different every night. Sometimes, the MFA would stretch well beyond 1:00am, other times Mojo would introduce segments such as:

* Star Wars – A classic “artist vs. artist” set, where Mojo would alternate selections from two different groups or artists, and the listeners would call in to vote for their favorite.

* Journey – Sometimes a multi-night segment, where Mojo played songs by a single artist or group, spanning their entire career. This usually included a mix of hits and obscure songs by that artist.

* Shout-out – Everyone that called into the station during his show was the recipient of a “shout-out”. He would go on for as long as it took rattling off the first names of every single person who had called in to the show.

* 35-35-35 – Mojo would take suggestions from listeners about their favorite artists and bands. He then would choose the three most popular groups that night and play thirty-five minutes, commercial-free, of each group. This segment often gave airtime to groups that no other radio station in Detroit played.

At other times, Mojo would spend the last 2 hours of his show showcasing live mixes on two turntables, by bringing in local DJs to do the same. One such DJ, Jeff Mills, began his career with Mojo as “The Wizard.” Mojo also would air music by local groups at this time.

In the Metro Detroit Area, The Midnight Funk Association was more than a nightly radio show, it was an event that listeners looked forward to every night for years.

It was common to see cars flashing thier lights at midnight and horns honking on the streets all over town at Midnight.

Mojo crossed color lines and did not adhere to a play list like today’s prepackaged radio stations and while broadcast on stations marketed toward the African-American market, his programming was an inspired blend of the best soul, funk, New Wave, and rock that defied standard radio industry formats and genres.

He believed that good music had no color, and should not be packaged into “Black” stations, and “White” stations, a concept still lost on today’s radio station owners, and program managers.

Electrifying Mojo and his Midnight Funk Association was the last of the great radio shows, and the last show that had any originality, and independent thought outside of a prestructured play list or carefully crafted demographic studies.

By following his love of music and adhering to a standard of just playing what was good, Mojo accomplished something that radio has been unable to do since. Capture a cross section of music lovers that encompassed every age, race, and finacial demographic, and create listeners andloyal fans that tuned in simply because they loved the DJ and the music.

Most recently, Mojo is serving as Program Director for a handful of Detroit radio stations – he does not publicize which ones – and he was in negotiations to bring his show to XM satellite radio in 2006, but so far nothing has been heard about it.

Fans from all over still speak of the legendary radio show, as well as, others who have heard about it and what it meant to so many, for so long.

For those of us that were there, The Midnight Funk Association will live in our hearts forever, and we will always be card carrying members.

It was truly one of the last great radio shows of our time.

Strategic Music Downloading

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:15:22 +0000

s have portable music players. And we spend a lot of time filling them with the most popular music we could ever find. For players with a big storage capacity, the number of MP3s to put doesn’t matter as we don’t really have to select which music to save. But for music players with limited drives, it is best to choose the tunes that we really like to hear. You can also do this even if you have ipods with large storage capacities so that you can get rid of those tracks that you often skipped anyway.

The next time you go online, you must have the “popular music download” plan. But how are going to accomplish this? Here are the ways.

Most music players have a built in FM receivers so you can listen to the radio if you are already tired of that same MP3s playing over and over again in your ears. The first step to downloading popular music is to hear the tracks first. Not all the newly released singles are pleasing to our ears so we have to select which ones are good enough for our auditory needs. Then take a mental note of the title of these tunes including the artist who sang it. You will need it later as keywords for your download.

Now you can start downloading. No matter which platform you are usingitunes, Kazaa, Limewire, Napster, or direct site downloadyou can search for the song through its title. Most likely that you will get a lot of search returns. This is where that name of the artist comes in handy. Go through the list and look for the right song and then download it.

Once you finished downloading all the tunes you need, don’t just go saving them in your music player just yet. First, you must take a peek at all the contents of your music player. Plug it in a computer and view the files. Delete all unwanted songs and other unused stuff (but make sure to back it up on your PC first before deleting). For easier access, it is good to organize all your tunes. Depending on your musical preferences you can create folders for jazz, rock, alternative, RnB, hip hop, classical, instrumental, ballads and so on. Create a separate folder for your popular music downloads and name it “new hits”. This is a technique that some of us put to good use. More often than others, these are the songs that we like to hear since they are new releasesno matter which category they fall under. Plus it will save us the trouble to browse through all the music categories just to search for them.

Another good way of looking for popular music to download is to look for billboard top 100s and other radio music charts. It most likely that you’ll find the most popular tunes included in those lists. Some charts even have separate charts for different music genres so it is even easier to look for songs from specific category.