This has to be the best music search / play tool so far!

I thought LastFM and MixTurtle were good but Spotify is amazing. So quick. A small download and you need to register but the free version has only modest advertising. Create playlists and you may agree that this is truly excellent and maybe the shape of how we listen to music in the future.

All I need now is a portable version.

Find and browse music

Nice site where you can play a full-length track. Good range of artists and quick search facility. There's a video and radio area too. LastFM has been around a while now and gathered some truly great resources.


Also worth a look is SEEQPOD which seems a little slower but allows iPOD integration and links to a whole lot more stuff you may like.

Don't miss Johnnie Walker 9pm Saturdays

A great idea - Johnnie Walker takes to the pirate airwaves again in this well-produced and realistic two hour delight. With jingles and extracts from his amazing library of recordings and snippets of information it sounds like the real thing and you just know he's enjoying himself.

I loved the 'breaking news' that a new station was to be launched with DJ Simon Dee in 1964, named after John F Kennedy's daughter, followed, of course, by The Fortunes' track which he suggested might be a suitable theme song for the new station.

All the news and excerpts are from the period and it makes listening to the radio fun again.

Previous week's show available on BBC's iPlayer and if you get hold of Total Recorder you can record it too for a few quid.