And how could I forget?!!

The Hype Machine!!!! Silly me. One of the best... for new MP3s...for free... Explanation: Every day many people update their MP3 blogs with new MP3 links. The Hype Machine (which incidentally has a brand new URL) then collects and catalogues all these minute by minute. Taking time zones into effect means that there is a new couple of songs going on there every few seconds really. You can see a list of all the new tracks on the front page with links to all of the blogs that published them. The redeeming feature of the Hype M is the pop-up player. You load it up and click on a track to play. It will then carry on playing through all the music in a chronological order. I tend to press "play" and do the washing up and wait for something good to pop up. Try it out yourself.

The Hype Machine

The only drawback is that if you're in a workplace with heavy censoring software you may find your path is blocked to this particular palace of MP3-worshipping delight.