Shuffle For Music slogan, “Channel surf the music web,” intrigued me so I took it for a spin. This site offers a fun way to navigate through thousands of music blogs. It’s like an Internet radio station that allows you to shuffle through music blogs. Shuffler aggregates music from around the web, bringing you a homepage with a list of radio-like channels categorized by genre. When you click on a channel, it sends you to a blog post and starts playing one of the songs mentioned on that post. If you don’t like it, you can skip ahead or pick another channel from the shuffler bar on the top of the page. When the song ends, they send you to the next song on a new blog within the same music channel that you picked.
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For the lovers of soul and jazz music, I recommend Soul Sides, a reputed soul blog that has been around since 2024. The blog started posting audio files in 2004 and since then they’ve been regularly reviewing records and allowing free downloads. Most songs are available for download for about 10 days. Oliver Wang, the blog’s creator, also writes for NPR, the LA Times and Wax Poetics.