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Daily Dos Wed, May 16, 2012

Two Tastemaker Tracks Trending Now:

What’s In Your Head by Disclosure

via liveforthefunk.com

Are You Free by Jhameel

via papermashmusic.com

by kirklove

Have a website where you post audio? If so you need to grab our Site Player. While it looks pint-sized, don’t be fooled, it packs real punch. It’s one slick, feature-rich workhorse. Designed in conjunction with top music bloggers it provides a ton of exfm functionality tucked inside a tiny tab of awesomeness.

Visit ex.fm/site-player to grab the code and install it on your site.

Some great Site Player features:

Enter your exfm username so folks can follow you from your site
Check “Play your loved songs” to display all your exfm Loved songs
Customize the Site Player colors to match your site
Just copy and paste the generated code into your HTML
Install instructions for Tumblr, Blogger and Wordpress, too

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by kirklove

Daily Dos Tue, May 15, 2012

Two Tastemaker Tracks Trending Now:

The House You Made by The Walkmen

via gorillavsbear.net

Financial District by Gold Panda

via la3eheure

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by kirklove

Exfm User Spotlight: PaisleyPattern Tue, May 15, 2012

User Spotlight

PaisleyPattern

What is one of your favorite/most magical musical experiences?

Seeing Sade live was an absolute dream come true. I have been listening to the music for a little over 20 years. Sade has released an album once every 4.6 years, 6 in total, albums that I still revisit annually. Ms. Adu’s voice is angelic and she is the most graceful performer I’ve ever seen.

Honorable mention: Lionel Richie opened for Tina Turner’s farewell tour back in 2000. He played all the hits from his solo career and from his time with The Commodores. He had +17000 people on their feet and by the time Tina Turner came out everyone was exhausted. Sorry Tina, Lionel rocked it!

If you had to pick a favorite artist(s) who would it be? (tough one I know)

Here are 10 of my favorite artists, in no particular order: Ali Farka Toure, Lester Young, Miles Davis, Sade, Sam Cooke, Ella Fitzgerald, The Roots, Jay-Z, The Streets, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.

If you had to share one artist right now who would it be? Why?

Big K.R.I.T. is one of my favorite Hip-Hop stars of the past year. He’s rhetorically strong, topically diverse and the production of his music is reminiscent of DJ Premier and Pete Rock. I recommend taking his 4 eva N a Day album for a spin.

What genres of music are you into most?

My heart belongs to Jazz and Hip-Hop, but I find myself increasingly listening to Indie Rock and Electronica these days.

Anything else music related, hobby related, or whatever related you’d like to share?

For three years in college I hosted a Hip-Hop radio show called Revolutions Radio Show. Initially a dear friend of mine had brought me on to co-host the show with him. Once he graduated I continued hosting the show for another 2 years and to this day the experience remains one of the best I’ve had. Nowadays my ex.fm page serves as my personal radio show :-)