FitzyRadio Fires Up a Mountain of Online Radio

Since the beginning of recorded history- music has been woven into the culture of every society, helping people to express themselves and confront the varying challenges they met. The mystical craving for a steady injection of music into our lives is a strange consistency across humans from every culture, background, and location in the world.

With the advent of the internet we have been granted access to a broad range of diverse music from artists in every corner of the world. We all have our favorite artists, genres, and tracks that we repeatedly return to, but with this access, I often find myself frantically combing through the clutter on the web in an attempt to find some new soul stirring sounds.

To date, however, I’ve found the process of blind searching largely arduous and unsuccessful; a bummer when you think of all those satisfying grooves that got away. This all changed for me with the recent unveiling of FitzyRadio.com. A free service which indexes thousands of online radio stations into one central location, FitzyRadio allows you to search its massive database of stations by song, artist, keyword, genre, or station name and listen to high quality music for as long as you like.

While there are plenty of other music services on the web, I particularly enjoy FitzyRadio because it is not limited to an algorithm of songs you might “like”, contained on a limited database. Each station is run by actual DJs who play music from their own collection- giving you the opportunity hear extremely obscure tracks from anywhere in the world.

FitzyRadio is also working on an interactive component to be released soon. You’ll have to hold tight in the meantime thought – Mr. Fitzy would have my head if I spilled the beans. So tune in and you might be lucky to stumble upon Edward Sharp and the Magnet Zero’s, some Dutch house beats, or a little known group from Nigeria that makes your day.

How do you navigate the sprawling landscape of music on the internet? What sites or services do you use, or do you listen to your personal collection? If you have a question, comment, or suggestion for FitzyRadio, fire away!