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Listening to music during workouts is essential, but sometimes it can do more harm than good. The problem is, I can't help but run to the beat of the music. Finding a song with a tempo that matches your exercise pace does the trick, but building perfect gym playlists takes time. Bestworkoutmusic.com is a site where you can search for and purchase songs to help solve this dilemma. After starting by figuring out your preferred pace matched to beats per minute (bpm), the BeatScanner feature allows you to select tracks from your library using the bpm rate that you specify. Even better, for all of your favorite songs that don't quite match your pace, there is the Repacer which changes the beat of any song to match your work out, a feature formerly only available to aerobics instructors and DJs. The great service would benefit greatly from a site redesign and unfortunately, it is only PC compatible for now.
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Imagine an online social network that provides free, on-demand online music but without the legal anxiety of peer-to-peer networks. More interactive than conventional internet radio, though not as gratifying as Napster was in its glory days, Jango is a New York City-based music site with a large database of songs and artists and is instantly addictive. Now in its beta launch, there's a waiting...
La Blogothèque's Concerts à emporter (Take-Away Shows) are a collection of live, unedited videos of musicians playing in unusual settings. The artists' unpredictable interaction with the environment and the reactions of often clueless bystanders result in a genius blend of music video and reality TV. With a sharp eye for incorporating improvised performances into unexpected spaces, director Vincent Moon creates and captures moments that...
You may already know, but iConcertCal is very useful and we think it is worth another reminder. With the free plug-in, you should never again miss a show due to bungled dates or forgetfulness. Eliminating the need to thumb through magazines or surf through sites, iConcertCal scans your iTunes music folder to comprehensively detail live concerts in a well-organized and personalized calendar. Available in...
Much like CHV, Practice Space, a series on Vice's newly-launched VBS.TV gives viewers a little more than MTV-style gloss, so we were excited to see the extremely likable NYC band The Virgins as one of the first to be featured. The episode follows Vice host Woodrow Morton to a Manhattan studio for an informal interview that's as interesting for the group's mannerisms and demeanor...
Like a customized online radio, Musicovery is a free flash-based site streaming a playlist of music dictated by an easily navigable set of criteria that the user chooses. Animated star-like graphics, in colors that correspond to genre, map the current lineup and an intuitive sidebar enables quick selection of different criteria. Organized into 18 genres, you can eliminate types you don't like, choose between...
If you've ever noticed a visually arresting Australian photographer, illustrator, or artist on Cool Hunting, chances are it's a contribution from Lost at E Minor, a site and weekly newsletter published by brothers Zolton and Zac Zavos. But, what you see on CH is only a select sampling of the rich finds the two come up with from the smallest continent and beyond. For...
