My inflow of new music is about one new band every three days - I usually keep up to speed on indie artist through 3hive, Last.fm and poking around MySpace. But today I stumbled across the greatest... thing... ever. Note the "..." to add dramatic pause.

If you use iTunes to listen to music then you should download the iLike sidebar - when you start listening to a song in your library, iLike instantly brings up 3 or 4 similar artist (from the iTunes store), that in and of itself would be pretty cool - but on top of this, it also displays several similar indie artist that you can download for free with a single click.



All the suggestions displayed can be previewed right in iTunes (and it auto-pauses the song you were currently listening to while it previews suggestions). It's fan-tas-tic. It also has a friends tab that let's you see (real-time) what their listening to and gives compatibility details.

Note: If any of you out there actually try this out (and in case you're wondering, yes, it's free) then be sure to add me as a contact. Just search for mike1630 [at] gmail [dot] com.