This is a great problem to attempt to solve, for a few reasons. First, there's heaps of audio content out there with friendly licensing already. Second, there's huge amounts of metadata and related text available. Third, there's so many different angles of analysis to tie things together with. Fourth, everyone's got at least a few devices that can access some or all of that content.

I share your belief that someone can do better than the current offerings in this area.

However, right now your site is not giving me a lot of useful response. I am seeing no results for some pretty popular instruments (I searched 'hang' and 'sitar' and neither had any results). I am seeing very little of a lot of genres out there. And when I do get results, they are not presented in an easily reviewed manner (eg. with Google-style text snippets, many results visible per page in an uncluttered, single-direction-scannable results list).

Here's some random ideas: - consider search by artist, individual within an artist group, instrument, instrument genre, time, event, venue, genre, review text, reviewer rating or location or age or something - consider limit by 'has upcoming events near me' (good monetization path) - timeline of genres - timeline of releases by an artist - links to wikipedia background - metadata from same (+wikidata, etc.)

Good luck developing this further, I think there's a lot of great work to be done.

Thank you very much for your feedback. I agree, the site is very basic right now, and we have grand visions for it that we're actively working on to make a reality.

We do believe that we can fine tune and help people discover all kinds of music, and some of the things that you mentioned were absolutely terrific ideas.

Would you be interested in reviewing at a later date to see how we did?

If not, I truly appreciate you taking the time out to let us know what you think :)

Sure thing, feel free to send me an email when you'd like me to take another look.

I'm a music journalist so I read a LOT of music blogs, constantly. I'd like to get behind this idea but I can't really differentiate Radcircle from others given the current offering. What's your methodology for songs that make the front page (& email list) - are they just users submissions, sorted chronologically? Are they vetted by other blogs, e.g. Hype Machine? I read your about page looking for this but it was a bit fluffy and didn't give any info about how Radcircle works.

I'm always excited about new music projects so I'll be watching you guys. Just subscribed!

Are you going to be adding more genres yourself? Or are you waiting for more people to submit songs?

I think it would be cool to have a search by band member so you could see what other bands someone has played in.

I do have to say, it looks pretty cool, but with a bit more features it could be a kick-ass site.

We have two launches coming up in this year, and the first one will see a lot of genres added by us as a team.

The second one will be our new platform, and that's where we'll let people define their own genres and whatnot.

Would you be interested in giving us feedback when these launches occur? I really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with me :)