As a last.fm user, I'm surprised you didn't mention it? I've really enjoyed the last.fm radio that lets you enter an artist or tag, and it dynamically assembles a radio station of similar artists. I've found some pretty good music that way!

Hmm. I've never really used Last.fm that way. Maybe it's the same thing and I just never noticed.

Radio actually committed suicide along with television and anything else that becomes too infected with ads and other noise. I've never understood why radio stations feel the need to waste so much time talking far beyond the minimum amount of time they would need to devote to ads to make some money.

I prefer last.fm to pandora...seems like last.fm does everything pandora does and quite a bit more, though I haven't tried pandora lately to see if they've added anything.

Sadly Pandora has been cut off for folks outside the US. While we had access it was yes a way excellent service, and I wish the RIAA would just crawl under a rock and die rather than create problems for an innovative service like Pandora that introduces listeners to so many new bands. (I'm assuming that it's the RIAA that is the obstacle, rather than (say) the EU.)

I wrote up my experiences about two years ago in Opening Pandora's (music) box, including a brief try of last.fm.

And if you live in the UK, you can use Tor to listen to Pandora. Allegedly. I wouldn't know. Hey, RIAA, leave me alone!