mflow

Hey everyone

I would like to tell you all about a cool new website that I found recently. It is called mflow. It is a social music webstore.

The premise behind the website is that you can recommend music(by creating "flows") to your friends, allowing them to listen to the full song. The really unique point on the website is that if someone who just listened to one of your referrals buys the track, you get 20% back as a commission to buy more music.

Currently they are running three promotions to get users to join:

• While most flows only display on their website, the first 5 songs which you choose to post to either your twitter or facebook will be available as free downloads to you.

• In order to further promote the site they also give you a bonus £1 if you sign up from a referral emailand confirm your address. This also gives £1 to the person who referred you.

• While most tracks cost 99p each, as a promotion with promo code "20x20" for the next 20 hours you can get any tracks you want for 20p each. (they frequently post other promo codes on their blog)

Their music selection seems pretty decent so far with over 5 million songs. While not all songs are available yet(who would ever think 5 million songs could "not be enough"?), some popular artists/songs are not available yet(Greenday etc) but does have some surprising artists (Dozi anyone?)

Another unique feature is the people wall which allows you to find new people to follow:

To keep the wall exciting it has different people each time you refresh, and a pair of "snake" like coloured boxes that stream around the screen.  It is kind of like a Where's Wally? of music listeners (can you spot me?)

If you are interested in joining the website you can sign up with the following link if you want the bonus £1

mflow.com

What is your favorite band?  And the second part of the question is are there any hard to find songs/singles that you are looking for?

Hands All Over

This is my first post in my music themed blog.

Maroon 5 released a new CD at the end of 2010 Called Hands All Over.

The albums first track(and also first single) is Misery. It is about about the singer singing to a girlfriend he has just broken up with. It makes surprisingly good use of the line "I am in misery". Generally I am not a fan of bad English use, but this line just evokes such feelings that I think that it works rather well. One other line in it which I think works quite well is "So scared of breaking it, but you wont let it bend". One of the things that makes this song interesting is it has an upbeat beat to the song.

The title track (Hands All Over Me) is about the singers insecurities. He needs his girlfriend to comfort him that everything will be okay. This song probably has the second best tune to follow(after Misery)

One very surprising track I found was a cover of Alicia Keys If I Ain't Got You. This is a very powerful song about how much he wants his girl, instead of anything else.

The last track is a cover of Queen's Crazy Little Thing Called Love. This song always makes me think of the 50's and Grease

Let me know what you think of these tracks