Thought I'd send ya a link to a band that I'd like to see on the player. Hope this isn't the wrong place to do it.

They're a band from North Carolina.

Weedeater

You can find one of their songs here:

http://www.myspace.com/weedeater

hey tim, i so enjoyed meeting you the other day. i think your work is revolutionary. actually, i want your job, but you're way more qualified.
i was going to write the story on pandora for the burger, but megan liked it so much she snagged it from me. we'll be sure to mail you a copy. thanks again!

The "Thirsty Hippo"? It MUST be fabulous with a name like that :)

I love your site, but curious why you never made it up to Seattle, a well known music city?

Pandora is the first website featured on the New Model Weblog. Yes, we liked it alot.
http://newmodelweb.blogspot.com/

haha u guys are famous even here in singapore!! my friends introduced me to ur station..seems u guys quite agood following here :D ...hope to hear more great music from pandora!

jackie - thanks for the great write up - please pass my thanks to Megan. enjoyed meeting both of you. Good luck with the paper...

sue - we'll get to Seattle... how could we not?!

JS - thanks so much for the support. Great that you're enjoying the site so much. I'm making sure the team sees the feedback/thoughts you laid out. Much appreciated.

aveis hecho un buen trabajo! (good work! i think that it's a great proyect!)

Hi Tim

So where is "The Prodigy" in your otherwise great music database.

Well done

Kim

THIS IS THE BEST ONLINE MUSIC STATION EVER. NOT JUST THE WELL KNOWN TRACKS BUT SOME DEEP CUTS. I REALLY ENJOY THIS STATION. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK.

I just joined up at Pandora, and I love it! the only problem is that you guys seem to have no classical music at all. I realise that it may not be as popular, but there are those of us out there who like it a lot! I am really enjoying the stations that I have though, and I am finding music that I didn't even know I liked! thank you!

I can't sleep without Pandora, I try to find a different jazz station each night before I sleep, but last night my virus check kicked in and my computer couldn't handle pandora/macromedia with all the resources being used up, suffice it to say I didn't sleep well.

This is by far not only the best idea for internet radio I've seen but also the most well done. Not only is the system smart and accurate, the interface is entirely intuitive and slick. Most independent web applications have sparse, ugly appearances, and if that's what Pandora looked like I'd still be a huge fan, but you guys went the extra mile and produced a completely polished product. If I could make a suggestion, you should have a section on your site for user raves like mine, everyone I know who uses Pandora loves it!

I Live Here In Bordentown New Jersey & I Found You By Accident & I Do Love My Country Music Along With Some Rock & Roll. I Am Very Happy That I Found This Station. I Listen To CMT Country Radio. I Was Borned In West Virginia . I Am 69 Years & I Love My Music So Thank You Very Much. There Is A Lot Of My Old Favorites That I Listen To. Makes you Want To get Up & Dance Which I Do. I Just Enjoy My Music. Thank You Again.

Oh my god, you are a genious. This is the single coolest thing ever. So long have I been stuck either listening to the radio and not likeing half the songs and wanting my own station, or listening to my music and getting bored of it. This is exactly what I have been looking for. I cannot compliment you enough. I do think it'd be cool to be able to see the inputs you made and see how what you like in music has changed over time. Like I started with one type of music and now it brings up music from other generes that I didn't necessarily like before, but now I do. It's pretty cool.

hey guys, love the site, have recommended it to just about everybody i know and they love it too!

one thing i would suggest however is a slightly more refined track choosing system as i put in an emo/screamo band and came out with power metal, which altho nice to listen for a change wasnt exactly what i was looking for.

perhaps some sort of 'loose genre' choosing system? nothing too constrictive, but just so that you get what you want as i'm sure there are millions of bands out there i havnent heard of yet in my preferred genre.. guess i'll just have to keep listening to pandora :o

anyways, keep up the good work :)
xox

The new contemporary classic music made in the world by brazilian composer. please, listen to my music named: "picture of death?." it is like a movie (film) soundtrack. 08. Pictures of Death?!
......a. Dead?!
......b. Gravitating
......c. Valley of the Souls
......d. Encounter with the Creator
......e. Return
http://www.robsound.mus.br/en/discography04.htm
lullaby and other music cd
by robson dos antos, brazilian contemporary classic music composer.

for when portuguese musics? If you need support on this let me know

Hi Pandora guys
first of all i want to thank you for the amazing experience you gave me by using your outstanding tool.
well done!
as for requests an comments ,i would be thankful if you will be able to expand your Hebrew music collection.
respectfully yours
Asaf Vizner
Israel

Just wanted to let you guys know that your idea is awesome. I love it. I do have just one request. My absolute favorite composer is John Williams. He has written the music for great movies such as Star Wars Episodes I - VI, Indianna Jones Trilogy, Jaws, Superman, and many others. I found that he is not on your site. When you get around to it, it would be awesome if you added him. Thanks!

-Mike

To the Pandora guys:
This website is one of the most amazing and innovative uses of the internet and media I have seen. I am curious to see how much the company grows in the next few years. I hope the best for you all and congratulations on having such an awesome team to build this site.

Priscilla

Hehe, the Thirsty Hippo is really amazing name ;D Damn nice Service and also great Musik. Maybe u gotta get more hiphop musik. Maybe german, too ?

Heey, I'm loving pandora :) You have a great variety of songs and artists, I´m amazed by that! Try and look for Portuguese artists, they're great too (David Fonseca, Clã, Blind zero ...)

Congratulations ! :)

This is a fabulous resource but why not try Canada.We have a great scene up here.

They're not from the US but Bleeker (www.myspace.com/bleekerband) are pretty good. No offense but the suggestions for people that were in the same genre as Massive Attack sucked :p

We love this "Pandora". Thanks.

Hi,

Just discovered Pandora recently. Its like having someone play what you want and not mind all the truoble.

Glad to have people who work on stuff like this.
Was really feeling down and out of late. Pandora was like a new friend. Well..in fact better than that!

Rachana

Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank you Thank You, Pandora has rescued my faith in humanity. Imagine, haveing something Good, just for the sake of being Good. A Noble contribution of Quality!Thank You again!

No email address on the main site. Just wanted to say that Pandora is a brilliant site. Absolutely brilliant. As you can see, I LOVE music. This is a great place to discover new stuff.

If you're in Mississippi, you might want to come through Jackson. I live in Jackson, and the music scene here is really strong. Hattisburg is great too, but I really thing that the Jackson scene is the best in Mississippi.

Here are some of the best Jackson groups.
Colour Revolt- www.myspace.com/colourrevolt
King Elementary- www.myspace.com/kingelementary
Go Fiction- www.myspace.com/gofiction

wow, what else can I say other than I'm overly impressed with your inivation. here's something my father would tell me when I do something right in life, he'd tell me that I'd 'done well,' so since I know you'll probly never talk to me or even read this, I'll leave you with "you done well." you definately did it right, and you did it well.

Hi Shawn,

Thanks for the incredibly nice note; we do read everything... hopefully we'll get to meet you one day as well as we're traveling around looking for great music.

Tom
CTO @ Pandora

Not sure when you'll hit Chicago but if there in the summer head north to Milwaukee for Summerfest! It's June 29-July 9. Great music festival! If you make it contact me.

Hope to see you guys hid mid-state NY (Newburgh) area. Been part of pandora for a long time ..even have some t-shirts you sent me! Love the muic, love the site, love the staff....Keep it up! Thank you for some wonderful music of MY choice.

Thank you for remaining available to an admirer in Canada, running an old Mac 6500/250 through an ethernet modem. I've got the Virtual Memory cranked up and the modem gets pretty busy sometimes, but the most wonderful music continues to play untended. And the site just keeps expanding and improving! I am very impressed with your achievement, and hope you will soon be accepting paid subscriptions in your neighbor country to the north. Best Wishes.
Herb

I would like to see more Brazilian music.

Daniela Mercury, Gilberto Gil, Elise Regina, Vanessa DeMatta, Marisa Monte are superstars which are awesome vocalists, backed by great joyful rhythms.

Pandora can introduce new worlds to people. The advantage to world music is that they have not abandoned melody or real instruments.

hey dude,
If you are going to make the effort to Chi town, you gotta make an extra hour and half trip to Milwaukee. You have a place to stay here close to the city, the airport, and Lake Michigan. I'm sure to steer you in the right direction to an outstanding Indie record store called Rushmore Records let alone some killer music venues. Let me know if'n you can make the trek.

Cory Erickson- Milwaukee

Hey!! aren't you thinking in SouthAmerica?

Hey, just wanted to mention that your Illinois page seems dead:

http://blog.pandora.com/pandora/archives/illinois/index.html

Maybe a mis-spelling on the directory?

I agree with Cory BTW, Milwaukee is a great place to visit (I live there too) and we have Summerfest, a huge, week-long music festival at the end of June. You guys could check it out. :-)

Hey Tim,

C'mon out to Denver, buddy. We got tons of music, tons of beer, and if I have anything to do with it, tons of Pandora fans. Also, some pretty killer indie stops along the way (then, there is always Red Rocks, the gift given to us solely for music and good times!!!)

Spring is underway in the High Country and I am sure some Pandora-presence with us at altitude is not a bad way to spend an afternoon.

Enjoy the trip. All the best.

I see that your route will be crossing close to either of the cities I would call home: either Louisville, KY or Columbus, OH.

It's a beautiful time to come to the Midwest. If you are passing through - contact me and see if you want to take a day or two to hang out and see what's up here. There are tons of interesting local bands at a variety of notoriety and even more music aficionados (fiends) who would love to talk music with you... not to mention beautiful women out in droves, great food, a free couch to sleep on, and whatever else. No pressure, but it would be fun for us and probably for you as well.

thanks!
-alan-

Hey Tim,
Have you considered visiting Oxford, MS. Fat Possum records is located there, which has been the home label for many blues musicians like R.L. Burnside.

hey tim!
i know jackson, ms wasn't on your trip plan but two popular local bands are "Go Fiction" and "The Rockwells" they both have albums out (on amazon and itunes respectively) so if you have time, give them a listen!

Hi Tim,

Thanks for your work at Pandora - it's inspirational - and thanks for visiting my hometown, Hattiesburg. The answer to your question about the first rock and roll recording can be found in Wikipedia:

Birthplace of Rock and Roll

It is a little-known fact that a number of music scholars consider Hattiesburg to be the historic birthplace of rock and roll. As noted in the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, Hattiesburg was a recording location of Blind Roosevelt Graves and his brother, Uaroy Graves, who, along with piano player Cooney Vaughn, recorded two songs in 1936 that "...featured fully formed rock & roll guitar riffs and a stomping rock & roll beat." The Graves Brothers and Vaughn--performing as the Mississippi Jook Band--recorded the songs 'Barbecue Bust' and 'Dangerous Woman' for the American Record Company, reportedly at the Hattiesburg Train Station.

http://tinyurl.com/ns5lw

Just throw'n this name out there...I guess they are becoming more well known, but if not, you should definitely check out a North Mississippi All-Stars show. They're a great blend of blues, rock, and even rap. I've personally seen them play in Oxford, MS at the Library. Always a great show; lots of energy and crowd involvement. I think they may be under Dave Matthews' label ATO Records, but I'm not quite sure. --Timmy J

I can't believe you were around my neck of town and I missed it. I hate that I joined in too late. I have to say I have tried many stations that say they cater to your style, but you beat them by far. I hope you enjoy the visit here in MS and remember one thing--- BUG SPRAY!
Love ya

Congrats 'Downtime' you got it. Cool piece of trivia.

Mississippi had a very strong scent of history for me. Spent a lot of time must wandering the neighborhoods. Feel much richer for it.

Tim (Founder)

thought i'd leave u a comment about a band you dont have on here that i thoroughly enjoy, i'm not sure where they're from at the time but its on their purevolume home page the band is Demise of Eros and their purevolume is purevolume.com/demiseoferos see if u can get them on here for me thanx

there is an insanely awesome local band from jackson i think u should check out, it is called a living burden nice job with pandora, it rocks

I am a student at USM, and I'm excited that you enjoyed visiting!! Here's some info on a band I think you should check out. Think you may like them. I would love to see them added to this site.

www.goodmancounty.com
www.myspace.com/goodmancounty

Keep rocking

Tim...looks like you drove north to Memphis. Just found this project (genome), and this blog. I'm in Grenada (north central Mississippi where the hills meet the delta) It's a big country you're lookin' at, but it's musically bound together by the Mississippi Delta and the blues she sings! Thanks for seeing our State, and PLEASE come back! Your project is simply tremendous..I LOVE IT. Merry Christmas!

pandora rocks

Well, I see there haven't been any postings here in a while so I thought circumspectly to revive the scene here in Hattiesburg,MS.
Let me again, just say thanks to the hard working crew who have set this amazing program into motion. It Pandors Rad io is awesome!
As has been said many, many times, music is a universal language in itself. Well we look forward to another visit from those who contribute so much to this here project. Did that sound redneck enough? LOL