One of my resolutions this 2009 was to listen to all new music, or at least music that i hadn’t heard yet. This was in large part due to the fact that my dear little sister gave me the coolest little Sansa Clip and being 2GB, I wanted an excuse to discover new music, instead of having to choose from my 60GB+ of music on my iTunes. So I backed up my iTunes library to an external drive, started a new one from scratch, and embarked on my search for new music. Some of my favorite frequented pit stops for these discoveries are 3hive, NPR, KEXP, The New York Times, The White House, Pure Volume, Music for robots, Scott Hansen, and Jeff Doe.

These are not the only places I look for music, but they’re some of the more frequented. Some less visited places include virb, hype machine, tranceaddict and dj doboy. It’s March and while I’ve given in to listening to a few old songs that I acquired in 2008, I’ve done pretty good overall. Some of the songs I have succumbed to bringing back from my old library are Belanova’s Fantasía Pop album, Solar Stone’s seven cities, Godskitchen’s 2004 album, and Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean. Other than that I’ve been very happy with discovering new faces and sounds. Later on I’ll probably list some of my favorite new discoveries.