Here's an experiment. When I was at Zap Your Pram 2008 over the weekend, there was a very nice representative from Last.fm, the internet music social network thingie. I've been playing with it ever since, loading music into the library, figuring out which bands are like the bands I like and learning where exactly they are keeping all the good banjo music. The internet is full of traps.
One of the worrisome things about the internet is how much of its promise has come to nothing. Most social networking, the darling of 2007, is already getting a bit stale - even if not to the degree that video blogging, the pet rock of the web, collapsed the year before. But there is something about Last.fm that is immediately compelling. Maybe it's the access to a huge library of free music I like. Maybe it's having a group that is actually about something more than just being in the group. Or maybe its because it is a heck of a lot like how at parties before the advent of CDs you always checked out the lp's in the milk crates to see how good the party was likely to be.
And there was beer at those parties as I recall. So, I created a group - A Good Beer Blog's Hootenanny. I want to see how good craft beer intersects with good music. Join up if you like.