Need Your Music Fix Now? Here's Some Great Choices

The ratings below are opinion only and based on usability, ease of navigation, features and extras, that can be enjoyed by artists, labels and listeners alike. The ratings are subject to change, as more information about these awesome music communities is being gathered. This list will only include music sites, that offer free services to either the listeners, or artists and label, or both. The list may be frequently added to and updated, so any suggestions readers may have, are greatly encouraged and appreciated.

Bandcamp: Another wonderful site for musicians to promote themselves freely. If you are a listener or a musician, just a couple minutes into Bandcamps homepage tutorial video, will have you salivating. Listen On-demand, purchase tracks, stats for musicians are very intuitive, visualizations are the best on the web! 8.9/10

Lastfm is still one of the favorites for on-line radio and free to artists, labels and their listeners. Lastfm is very interactive, allowing the fans to help build the artists profiles, if the artists want it set up that way. Link your YouTube videos to your artist profile too! The most intuitive and detailed data and stats for listeners, in the entire world. Fans can create journals, profiles and 'About Me' sections and artists can link those journals to artists profiles. The site itself, takes some time to get used to and the artists/labels will find the music manager confusing and lacking in features, once you have it all down pat, it has plenty of rewards. Artists should thoroughly check out the royalty services 8.5/10

ReverbNation: Full Track Sample Everything! Unsigned, mainstream, obscure artists. Build queues and listen in exact order you put them! Artists may upload their material here completely for free and fans can listen for free! Fan the artists, love tracks, graphs and charts, join mailing lists for your favorite artists, or join their street teams! 8.5/10

The Hype Machine is a MP3 blog aggregator with slick tools to listen and read about music. It gathers songs posted on MP3 blogs and presents them in an easy to understand format. 8.1/10

Jamendo: Free and legal music downloads. 20,000 albums you can stream for free! Artists can belong for free! Jamendo is worldwide and available in many countries. Haven't found anything signed major or mainstream at Jamendo. Build profiles and use some coding(links). make friends and share music(the way LastFM used to) 8/10

Jango: Build several of your own custom radios at Jango and meet and shout with new friends. No BBcode, no html. Supported by advertising and artists pay to upload. Mostly Mainstream, but many independents as well. The radios are very sleek and intelligent radio recos 7.5/10

TrueAnthem: Not very large, but a great place to spend a few days, finding quality new artists. Artists can belong for free after administrative screening and once fans register, they can download all the music for free! Artists are supported at TrueAnthem, by sponsorships through advertisers, that are matched with their musical genre and style. 'Shaolin Temple Of BooM' are sponsored by Wonka Candies! Small site, but nice concept, so.... 7.5/10

Pandora: Pretty much the same as Jango. Mainstream only. Limited skipping and creators of the Music Genome Project(Which some are finding, is not as good as it should be). 7.4/10

SoundCloud lets you move music fast & easy. The platform takes the daily hassle out of receiving, sending & distributing music for artists, record labels & other music professionals. Jury's still out on this one, but it seems to be very populr with artists and industry professionals, looking for collaborations, web hosting or the next great artist. 7.2/10

MIXposure.com: is a Free Music Promotion & MP3 Downloads - Online Interactive Music Community! MIXposure has it's own DJ's and radio programming too and if the DJ's like the music, they can easily put it in rotation for airplay! This site is very popular for musicans, lyricists and producers, who wish to collaborate. Still one of my favorite places for networking in the music industry. 7/10

Our page: http://www2.mixposure.com/The_Cryb_-_EllsbethSToBWoolgather: You can sample three of our artists at MIXposure ;)

FIXT: An on-line muic label, designed for the independent music artists of the world. Weekly music deals, exclusives and single track or entire album purchases, are available at the FIXT Store. Also, near a dozen free downloads available here: Available FREE downloads. 6.5/10