A little over a year ago, I posted about how incredibly crappy the radio is around here in northern Virginia. This, as far as I know, hasn’t changed. It’s still crappy music radio and possibly even more crappy. The good news is that I’ve found a few sources of new music. First, I eventually did get XM, although kind of ironically, I spend most of my time listening to the comedy channels. The 80s music station just serves to remind us that, while there was a lot of good 80s music, a lot of it as crappy too.

To me, the most interesting discovery was Salon Audiofile. Just about every day, the provide at least one link to some free MP3 download from somewhere around the Internet. Every-so-often, they’ll have an exclusive track. I’ve heard a huge amount of good music from them and got turned onto Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Brujeria, Clap You Hands Say Yeah, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Brendan Benson (the links I had have expired), Alex Chilton, and Great Lakes Myth Society (reminds me of being in Buffalo, for some reason), to name just a tiny few. It’s highly worth the $35/yr membership cost.

I’ve also recently discovered Stereogum. They have a download feed like Salon’s Audiofile, but it’s free. I haven’t had the time to listen to the tracks I’ve gotten from them yet, but it looks promising.

So anyway, this past year’s been pretty good musically. Not the best, but definitely the best in at least 10 years. It’s pretty refreshing to hear all this great new stuff.

Now that I’ve been laid-off, a fire’s been lit under my butt to get my resume done. I hate doing resumes as everyone has a different opinion as to how things should be, what should be said, what should not be said, where things should go, etc. Nevertheless, I’ve talked with Lis about this and made some changes and I’d like the three or four people who read this to help me too. Would you read over my resume and let me know what you think? Any errors or improvements? Better yet, any jobs?