I’ve discovered Last.fm, thanks to prodding from Julian Bond. I’d come across Audiscrobbler and Last.fm before, but not really paid much attention to them. I spent the time today, doing some searches for some of my favourite artists (椎名林檎, 東京事変, Judy and Mary, the brilliant green, Yuki) . After reading about the Last.fm audio player and ’similar radio stations’ I decided to give them a go - and I’m pretty much hooked now.

The most important thing is that it’s giving me a chance to listen to bands I’ve heard of, but not heard anything by. I can see that more of my music buying budget is going to drain away from iTunes towards CD Japan again…