Pandora Radio

Reviewed by Living Destiny

So I know North recently did a review of Spotify, the new music app.  I thought I'd jump on that band wagon and do a review of Pandora.  Pandora is a website, not an app, but like Spotify it's a master of music.  The address is www.pandora.com.  Basically, it creates radio stations.  If you really like a song or artist (or, I have just discovered, composer), you type it into the search bar.  If the name is something popular, like 'bad' - which has 100 results - you choose the one you were actually referring to.  Then, Pandora creates a radio station that plays music similar to what you typed in originally.  Just like that, you're provided with a never-ending supply of songs you'll probably enjoy listening to.  And you can make as many stations as you so desire.  Personally, I currently have nine stations, and I'm always meaning to make more.  In addition to making these stations for you, Pandora also lets you 'like' songs, artists, stations or albums, and look at them later.  You can follow friends and see what they're listening to if you want to.  I think the best part is that it tells you everything about everything.  When a song is playing, it lists out the artist bio, the song lyrics, and artists that are similar.  You can click on see more to get a more detailed description.  And if you click the song title it shows the features of the track and similar tracks.  Click on the album and it gives a list of tracks.  You see where I'm going with this?  It has everything.  Not to mention the fact that it introduces you to music you never before knew existed but will soon fall wildly in love with.  I have this station I made from the band Hot Chelle Rae, and it plays tons of angsty punk music which is awesome, but it played a song by The Summer Set.  I really liked it, so I looked them up, and now have their whole first cd on my Spotify account.  Oh snap mixing music sites.  My bad.  It has some ads between songs, but they aren't very frequent or very long.  Since the site itself is free, it needs a way to pay for itself, and the ads are how.  So don't get irritated with them, just remember you're listening to music for free.  You can upgrade Pandora by paying if you want, but it isn't necessary, which is nice.  It's good either way.  If you really love a song or album, Pandora links all the songs to iTunes and Amazon, so you can buy them.  This website is just super convenient and shows you all kinds of new music you probably wouldn't have found otherwise, but will guaranteed love.  I'm gonna go listen to showtunes radio now.  You should go make a Pandora account now.  Seriously.  Do it up.

Real Teen Rating ~ Totally awesome, go make an account!