Last.fm At Last!

I've made a few minor changes and one major addition to the site today. You've probably already noticed the new Last.fm player on the right hand side of the page. I've spent a lot of time recently wrangling with various online music services inlcuding Pandora, Faces, Streampad, radio.blog.club, and many others. Last.fm is the only one that provides me with the kind of functionality I wanted. The player I've added builds a playlist on the fly based on my personal musical tastes. I have actually been meaning to add the player for a while, but I needed to have a serious number of tracks scrobbled before it only played music I actually like. Even this one isn't actually the one I want to use. Last.fm also provides a player that allows you to build your own playlist, but at the moment it can't handle playlists large enough for my taste. The version I have now is growing on me though. I keep discovering new artists through it, and that's always a good thing. If you like a majority of the bands in the "Artists That Don't Suck" section of this blog, I think you'll have a pretty good time. I know I am.

As for the minor changes, I've shifted some of the components of the site around a bit. Just cleaning up the layout, you know? The one thing I'd like to call your attention to is that the Birmingham Event Calendar link is now on the left hand side.