What am I supposed to do now?!? Those were my exact thoughts when I typed in imeem.com and was redirected to myspace.com/imeem. Apparently, this Tuesday, MySpace bought the music sharing and listening site, imeem. I used to be on imeem to listen to all my fave music in user created playlists and a lot of playlists featured full albums. At the moment, none of those playlists are available and it pretty much sucks! Not to mention I hate MySpace and it would be such a compromise to go to MySpace for music. Even the sound of it is completely bizarre!

Now, I’m back at what am I supposed to do without imeem? Very few platforms allow you to listen to *full* albums anytime, anywhere. I asked a few people on Twitter what they used to listen to music and the responses included: Last.fm, Rhapsody, Blip.fm, and Grooveshark. I don’t want another Pandora, such as Last.fm, to put in one song and it creates a radio station. I have Pandora and love it. I don’t want to be required to sign up for platform that only allows me to listen to 20-30 second clips. I just want to listen to as much music I want to – when I want it!

Out of the aforementioned services, Grooveshark appears to be the best. It has user created lists and album lists. You can also create your own listening playlist off of an existing list, add songs, switch up the order, and save for later listening. AND you can do all of that, except the saving of a playlist, without having an account! Grooveshark is where it’s at and that’s where I’ll be!

by Mistah F.A.B.: I was listening to a mixtape earlier and heard this song. I thought my ears were playing tricks on me because it sounded like Blame It by Jamie Foxx. I hit the back button for the track to start over from the beginning. Sure enough – Hit Me on Twitter – was the name of the track and the lyrics suit the title. The track starts off “I follow you, and you follow me, we can get get like one of the homies.” You may think the song is lame, but I like the song because I think it’s real. Dude says he’s “sending updates straight from [his] phone….What’s your government? I see your screen name? Is this really you? People playin teen games.” That line is the truth as people follow celebrities and assume they are the person because their handle says so. People have learned that is not always the case! More than anything, this track lets me know that Twitter is way mainstream. NOBODY has made a track about MySpace or Facebook, although both networks are mentioned in this song. While MySpace is mostly used for artists and models trying to be discovered and Facebook is mostly used for those educated and trying to network, I feel as though Twitter brings together the best of both networks + more. Now that there is a song about it, I wonder how long Twitter will really last!?!