A Last.fm Alternative

It may be finally time to leave last.fm. It hurts me to say it, but it's true. Unless you are one of the lucky few who live in the UK, the US or Germany (those lucky few numbering in the several hundred million), you may have noticed you have to pay now to listen to music on last.fm.

This trend was started last year when Pandora decided to block all non-US listeners. Pandora was quite the useful tool in finding new and interesting bands, but since it didn't have the social aspect to it, never had the same appeal to me as Last.fm did.

In fairness, last.fm are only charging €3 a month to listen, so it's not that bad, but that's still infinitely more than free. Though all the rest of the site (the charts, the gig listings, the whole social side of it) remains free.

One interesting alternative, is Deezer. Deezer seems to be quite similar to last.fm in many ways, except it's a little flashier (There's a pun in there for all you web nerds). Although I like it, it just doesn't have the ease of use that last.fm does and although I'm not sure, it doesn't have half the cool awesome indie people.

So I might just stay with last.fm anyway. It mightn't be free, but it's home. And home is where the indie is after all.