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More Music Discovery

January 7, 2007 in music by JDA

While we’re on the topic of music discovery, I thought I’d take this opportunity to point you to a new concept in music discovery that I think has definite potential after a little refinement. Family Band is a new concept in music discovery that allows you to explore bands that are in some way related to the band you enter into the service. It breaks bands down into band members, and then you can see other bands the members are affiliated with in some way. As you can see in the screenshot below, this creates a visual map of related bands. In my search I started with Wolf Parade which led me to Frog Eyes and Swan Lake (both pretty good bands), based on the affiliations of members of Wolf Parade. It’s a really cool concept, that I hope gets developed further.

Family Band

Family Band gets bonus points for being started by one of my family members, you can see more of Tom’s work at WorkingIdea.