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Okay, so I hear about Pandora all the time and so today, I’m in my office, about to start on some heavy proofreading and editing, so I go to Pandora and tell it stuff I like in hopes it will play me some stuff I’ve never heard/never heard of that’s new and interesting and wild.

I tell it I like Okkervil River and Elliot Smith. It plays me: Iron & Wine, Pedro the Lion, Belle and Sebastian, The Shins, Radiohead, Wilco, The Beatles and Nick Drake. Songs I easily could have played from my very own iTunes. Songs I easily could have heard on various alt-40 radio stations.

I thought the point of this was to find new music? Um? Hello?