November 15, 2006

Stack It Up

Haystack.com

Expertise? It’s totally your area of expertise. You’ve got the beauty secrets (Visine on pimples) and home-decor scoop (wall decals rule!) in the bag.

And when it comes to downloading new music, you’re searching for a needle in a haystack.

Haystack.com, that is. The new site connects people to songs, musicians, and enthusiasts through personal profiles and streaming audio.

Intrigued by Snow Patrol? Check out the indie poppers’ page, where you can read about the band and listen to songs. Think you and Citizen Cope are kindred spirits? Find out what he’s listening to. Never heard of either? Let those in the know broaden your horizons.

Songs are available in full (no 30-second clips) and are played on the Haystack player. It’s free and legal: Artists get compensated and all songs are streamed, not downloaded.

And since you can search for music broadly (“hip-hop”) or ultra-specifically (“Washingtonians who slow dance to Pavement”), it’ll make finding the good stuff easy.

So soon enough you’ll be an expert on yet one more subject.

Available online at haystack.com.