100 Ways to Discover and Enjoy Music Tue, Apr 17, 2012

Every week Daily Tekk posts it’s popular top 100 tech tools series. This week they focused on “ways to discover new tunes, the best tools and services for creating a perfect music listening experience, tons of concert and live show resources, many ways to enhance Spotify, social tools for getting down with your friends, iPhone and iPad music apps, music locker (cloud) services.”

Guess who was named number one in discovery? That’s right, it’s us!

Get the full scoop here!

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Site of the Day: Music, Musings & Meanderings Sun, Apr 15, 2012

A Tumblr blog that focuses on new music and strives to never repeat the same artist twice. It’s always fresh and tasty here.

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Site of the Day: Polar Sunspots Sat, Apr 14, 2012

Polar Sunspots is a blog that hopes to bring you the greatest in free music from the depths of the internet. It was created with two factors in mind: 1. To help the average web user find good, new music – for free 2. To raise awareness of up and coming artists. Sounds pretty perfect to us.

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Site of the Day: Teenage Vulture Fri, Apr 13, 2012

Warm vibes coming from this West Coast Indie Music blog will have you thinking it’s summer wherever you are. Bask in the sounds of great curation.

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Site of the Day: Owl and Bear Mon, Jan 30, 2012

A San Diego music blog since 2007. Featuring indie acts from all over with a focus on the San Diego’s music, art and entertainment scene.

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Wed, Jun 8, 2011

The L Magazine will be putting on the third annual Northside Festival next week. This event is a mini SXSW in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Much like SXSW there are days reserved for music, film, art, food and ideas (panelist and guest speakers). In the spirit of supporting this amazing festival and giving back to our awesome community we have partnered with Northside to give away three badges to one lucky exfmer. What will these badges get you? How about access to every show taking place during the festival, June 16th to the 19th, in addition to all the Northside ideas, art and film events. Wait there’s more! This year Northside has partnered with the Brooklyn Flea Market. This means that all badge holders will receive an “Eat Free at the Flea” ticket. Tickets can be redeemed at the new critically acclaimed all-food market, Smorgasburg taking place on Saturday or the regular Sunday Brooklyn Flea. Treats for your ears, eyes and tummy! Over 250 bands will play over the four days at more than 25 venues scattered throughout the neighborhood, the majority of which will be handpicked by some of the most respected labels, bloggers, record stores and other independent tastemakers in the community. Highlights include the return of live music to McCarren Park, Guided By Voices set to headline on June 18th with Wavves and Surferblood as supporting acts. Other notable artists such as Beirut, Sharon Van Etten, Caveman, Grouplove, Twin Sister and Atlas Sound will be there as well. How do you become that lucky exfmer? It’s simple; starting NOW until 10:00 pm EST on Saturday, June 11th, just reach out to us on Twitter, Tumblr or Facebook. One lucky recipient will be chosen at random and announced on the afternoon of Monday June 13th. Good Luck! Twitter: Tweet, “Northside Festival Badge Giveaway” with hashtags #northsidefest to @exfm @thelmagazine @lmagmusic Facebook: Visit our Facebook page and write on our wall, “Northside Festival Badge Giveaway” Tumblr: Just “Heart” this Tumblr post! Badges are still available as are tickets to individual shows. Purchase them here in case you miss out on our giveaway. For full list of participating artists and details about the festival head on over to The L Magazine. Don’t forget to catch exfm’s very own Charles Smith speaking on the Concept to Creation Panel - Thursday June 16th, 7:30 pm at Brooklyn Brewery.

The L Magazine will be putting on the third annual Northside Festival next week. This event is a mini SXSW in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Much like SXSW there are days reserved for music, film, art, food and ideas (panelist and guest speakers). In the spirit of supporting this amazing festival and giving back to our awesome community we have partnered with Northside to give away three badges to one lucky exfmer.

What will these badges get you? How about access to every show taking place during the festival, June 16th to the 19th, in addition to all the Northside ideas, art and film events.

Wait there’s more! This year Northside has partnered with the Brooklyn Flea Market. This means that all badge holders will receive an “Eat Free at the Flea” ticket. Tickets can be redeemed at the new critically acclaimed all-food market, Smorgasburg taking place on Saturday or the regular Sunday Brooklyn Flea. Treats for your ears, eyes and tummy!

Over 250 bands will play over the four days at more than 25 venues scattered throughout the neighborhood, the majority of which will be handpicked by some of the most respected labels, bloggers, record stores and other independent tastemakers in the community. Highlights include the return of live music to McCarren Park, Guided By Voices set to headline on June 18th with Wavves and Surferblood as supporting acts. Other notable artists such as Beirut, Sharon Van Etten, Caveman, Grouplove, Twin Sister and Atlas Sound will be there as well.

How do you become that lucky exfmer? It’s simple; starting NOW until 10:00 pm EST on Saturday, June 11th, just reach out to us on Twitter, Tumblr or Facebook. One lucky recipient will be chosen at random and announced on the afternoon of Monday June 13th. Good Luck!

Twitter: Tweet, “Northside Festival Badge Giveaway” with hashtags #northsidefest to @exfm @thelmagazine @lmagmusic

Facebook: Visit our Facebook page and write on our wall, “Northside Festival Badge Giveaway”

Tumblr: Just “Heart” this Tumblr post!

Badges are still available as are tickets to individual shows. Purchase them here in case you miss out on our giveaway. For full list of participating artists and details about the festival head on over to The L Magazine. Don’t forget to catch exfm’s very own Charles Smith speaking on the Concept to Creation Panel - Thursday June 16th, 7:30 pm at Brooklyn Brewery.

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Mon, Apr 11, 2011

Juanes playing to a sold out MSG crowd.Last Friday I got to see Juanes at Madison Square Garden. That name might not ring a bell. It didn’t with me, either. But, it certainly did to the 20,000 rabid fans singing along to every one of his songs. The same fans that have bought over 13 million albums making him one of the most successful Latin American artists ever. That’s when it hit me – the world of music is not just vast. It’s ginormous. There will never be enough time to listen to all the music the world has to offer. Not even close. You will easily not hear more than you do hear. But, don’t let that stop you from trying. Go out and listen to stuff you might otherwise skip. Or even better seek out some music you might never have even thought you’d like. You just might be presently surprised like I was. Because I can tell you know, Juanes puts on one helluva show. 

Juanes playing to a sold out MSG crowd.


Last Friday I got to see Juanes at Madison Square Garden. That name might not ring a bell. It didn’t with me, either. But, it certainly did to the 20,000 rabid fans singing along to every one of his songs. The same fans that have bought over 13 million albums making him one of the most successful Latin American artists ever. That’s when it hit me – the world of music is not just vast. It’s ginormous. There will never be enough time to listen to all the music the world has to offer. Not even close. You will easily not hear more than you do hear. But, don’t let that stop you from trying. Go out and listen to stuff you might otherwise skip. Or even better seek out some music you might never have even thought you’d like. You just might be presently surprised like I was. Because I can tell you know, Juanes puts on one helluva show. 

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Ex.fm may have just found the holy grail of music blogging. Mon, Mar 28, 2011

Many, many thanks to Andrew for writing about us in his fantastic series on Music Discovery and the Web. We highly suggest you check out the entire series. It’s candid, friendly, and easy to digest. We can’t help but feel a little flattered to be included with such great company (HypeMachine, CBC Radio 3, Soundcloud, Last.fm).

A small excerpt from Andrew’s post (reprinted with permission):

I use a number of music services, but I’m actually rather judicious in the ones I stick with. That is, even though I’m active on four different music sites, I’ve tried about three times that, but abandoned the others because they just didn’t offer me much that I couldn’t get elsewhere. Today, I’m officially adding a fifth: ex.fm.

Ex.fm started out as a fairly cool concept in its own right. It’s a Google Chrome extension that scans web pages for mp3s and then allows you to add them to a library that you can listen to as you browse the web, or queue up for future listening. I’ve been using it as a sort of “listen later” for music blogs, and it’s been a happy addition to my playlist management.

Thanks again to Andrew for taking the time to use exfm and provide such great feedback. We’re listening and we’re working every day to make exfm the absolute best tool on the internet for users to discover new music. Come join us.

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Last Week’s Sites of the Day Tue, Dec 7, 2010

Every week will recap all of our sites from the previous week in case you missed any. So much great music to discover:  

Sunday
Hits in the Car Hard to blog and drive! (but we love to listen).

Monday
Stadiums and Shrines A blog about sharing energy – usually tunes, often visuals, always love. 

Tuesday
Keepaway I’ll let some of Keepway’s own tags describe this sweet free EP: mugic visual autumn feelings brooklyn hologram sideways smile swag yellow wings Brooklyn. Artist Tuesday!

Wednesday
Verb ReVerb Verb/re/verb is a blog with the goal of exposing introspective and innovative artists in a relatable and progressive manner that evolves with the rapid evolution of music.

Thursday
Dead Oceans Yes! Dead Oceans mp3’s- plenty of great artists: Bowerbirds, Dirty Projectors, Nurses and the Tallest Man on Earth. So good!

Friday
Owl and Bear San Diego music blog that sees everything fiercely. Great music and tons of show reviews.  

Saturday
Aurora Vibes Songs from the first light of day. Lovely.

Please tweet your suggestions @extensionfm or email them to song@extension.fm
Thanks! 

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Three CMJ Preview Links Mon, Oct 18, 2010

The CMJ Music Marathon brings a massive week of music in NYC this week- Plenty of sources for great information and the three links below from Spinner and Brooklyn Vegan have tracks to get you ready as well.  

Brooklyn Vegan

Spinner Part One

Spinner Part Two

We hope you’re seeing some great music this week!

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