I’ve really been enjoying Blip FM. It’s the closest I’ve come to a real-time DJ experience since my college radio days. Here’s how it works: Let’s say you have a hankering for a song, like “Police Story” by Black Flag. Simply login, do a quick search, and most likely you’ll find the tune your looking for. I’m thinking Blip crawls the web, finds the file your looking for, and then bingo bango 3-seconds later your song is there. Now, it’s definitely more difficulut to find an obscure Hellbender tune, but even then your chances aren’t half-bad. Check out some of the tunes I’ve blipped and you’ll see what I mean.

The interface works almost identically to Twitter, with a couple of other music oriented features. With Twitter you have followers and with Blip you get listeners. The other community aspect is that when someone likes a tune that you Blip — they give you “props”. It seems like the more props and @mentions you give and get — the more listeners one acquires. This makes you feel incredibly important and self-satisfied. There are people on Blip with something like 12,000 listeners. I’m not sure how they’ve accumulated that many listeners; although, I imagine it comes from spending a lot time blipping. This to me — will eventually be the down fall of Blip unless the admin starts practicing a little quality control.

All in all the popularity contest is pretty silly, but I still dig the site as an opportunity to create online play lists for free. And I have to say, there is a certain satisfaction that comes when some random Joe from Dayton gives me props for throwing up an old Avail tune.

Also, I heard the Real Kids today on the Underground Garage for the first time, and was blown away by their sound. And the tune “Glad”, by Traffic, is as good as Grandma’s oatmeal cookies. How about Wire’s first album, Pink Flag? I am ashamed to say I only came to discover that album last month. Not too many bands can say they were doing post-punk before the hey day’s of punk was even over.

Okay, time to feed the baby, and come check me out on Blip if you get a chance.