FIP is Radio France's best kept secret -

The concept behind FIP has scarcely changed since its founding: music interrupted by traffic updates and cultural information with a short news broadcast at 10 before the hour, with no advertising. The broadcasts are presented by live announcers from 7 am to 11 pm, after which a robot replays parts of the music broadcast the previous day.

FIP’s programming is an eclectic mix of musical genres: chanson, rock, world music, classical music, film music, jazz and more, but connected with a theme. FIP is one of the few stations with this type…

My current obsession: Somegirl
Tagged as Electronic, Synthpop, Female Vocalists

What I like about this artist is how, quite by accident / bad luck, each record is fronted by a different female singer, which gives it a very different personality and feel from the last. Their last album, The Velvet Hour, features Laura Mitchell from Endless Blue. Unfortunately there's not a lot of their music on youtube, but I've managed to track down a couple of songs from each release to give you an idea. Most of their music is on Spotify though - definitely worth…

You can create your own custom Last.fm stations using our Radio Query Language and tburny's Combofm website.

http://combofm.de/

Popular Recipes

Adventure Radio: Friends + Neighbours + Recs
(Mainstream and repetition turned down)

Un-Adventurous Radio: Library + Friends
(Mainstream and repetition cranked up)

My (Recommended + Friends + Neighbours ) Jazz Radio ::
(rec:Maddieman or neigh:Maddieman or friends:Maddieman) and tag:"jazz"

My (Recommended + Friends + Neighbours ) Electronic Radio ::
(rec:Maddieman or neigh:Maddieman or friends:Maddieman) and tag:"electronic"

My (Recommended + Friends + Neighbours ) Female Vocalists Radio ::
(rec:Maddieman or neigh:Maddieman or friends:Maddieman) and tag:"female vocalists

Trendsetter radio

We tried to…

One of the most overlooked aspects of Last.fm are groups. Many artists on Last.fm have difficulty with the concept of Last.fm artist pages and wikis, as they're user generated and not owned by the artists. Group pages, on the other hand, have a much closer relationship to the MySpace / Facebook page format you may already be familiar with.

In this short article, I'm going to attempt to highlight some of the key promotional benefits to artists and labels.

What's a group and how do I make one?

As you might guess, a group is a network of last.fm users…

It seems one of things we do pretty badly is actually explaining what Last.fm is to new users, and how to make the most of it. I find this especially the case with customers who are introduced to Last.fm via hardware devices like the Xbox 360, and various internet radios.

So the purpose of this post is simply to serve as an unofficial reference / introduction tutorial for new users. It's mainly geared towards how to use and influence the radio, but I made a fair stab at explaining scrobbling as well. I apologise in advance if this is overly…