Saturday, January 21, 2012

What Is Jango, And Why Is It Awesome?


Jango (click here to go there) is a completely awesome website, that, and this is the great part, lets you create your own online radio station. YOU. Meaning YOU get to pick the artists, YOU decide how often they get played, you, you, you.

I love it. My favorite station (you can create several) is called Alternative Ego, actually, and here are some of the artists it features:

Pitbull
Shontelle
Alexandra Burke
OneRepublic
Natasha Bedingfield
Flo Rida
Timbaland
Mariah Carey
The Script
Gwen Stefani
Nelly Furtado
Girlicious
Usher
Chris Brown
Beyonce
Jason Derulo
Rihanna
Anna Nalick
Taio Cruz
Ne-Yo
Michelle Branch
Akon
Kanye West

As you can see, I have a wide variety of singers / bands on here. The other great thing about Jango is that it occasionally does a song by an artist you don't have on your list, and if you like it you can set it to play more. That way you get to know a lot of talented but for some reason not really famous artists. If you look at the list of names - quite a few will seem really unfamiliar to you. I hadn't heard of them before either.
And, finally, the songs aren't repetitive. You don't just have the popular songs - do any of you know Take Me Back or No Other One by Taio Cruz? They were on his first album, and they were (are?) fantastic. Guess where I found them.

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