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Beyond Spotify — The Best Destinations For Streaming Music

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As a DJ on Apple Beats 1, Ebro Darden gets to decide "how a music flow should go."Emiliano Granado / Redux

by Greg Emmanuel

There are tens of thousands of tracks at our fingertips, but to find the really cool stuff, check out these sites.

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1 / 8

Best Global Sounds

Radio Garden

You can kill an afternoon on this site by choosing from more than 10,000 local radio stations. Never has the world felt this big and small at the same time. [radio.garden.com]

2 / 8

Best Genre Hopping

TuneIn

If you’d rather explore streaming radio by genre or artist rather than location, this is a no-frills jumping-off point. A premium subscription offers the same content commercial-free. [tunein.com]

3 / 8

Best Nerdy Record Chat

Beats 1 The Echo Chamber

The Beastie Boys’ Mike D plays tunes from his own record collection and chats with industry friends like Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig. [itunes.apple.com]

4 / 8

Best App Easter Egg

Google Play Music’s I’m Feeling Lucky Radio

Many streaming apps play music based on your taste, but Google really gets you — and gets better as it goes, playing deep cuts you never knew you loved. [play.google.com]

5 / 8

Best R&B Royalty

Beats 1 OVO Sound

With a freewheeling playlist that ranges from hits to underground faves, Drake brings you up to speed on the state of hip-hop, and plays songs from artists on his Toronto-based OVO label. [ovosound.com]

6 / 8

Best Jazz from the Source

WWOZ

Short of wandering the streets of New Orleans (where this broadcast originates), this is the closest you can get to an authentic jolt of jazz and soul. [wwoz.org]

7 / 8

Best Live Dead

Internet Archive

If you’re the type to debate the best live version of “Scarlet Begonias” (our pick: Rochester, NY, 9/1/79), this clearing house of Grateful Dead bootleg recordings is nirvana. [archive.org]

8 / 8

Best Musical Tinder

Napster’s Playlist Wizard

Napster uses a model similar to other streaming services’, but the novel playlist builder is a plus: Swipe right to add suggested tracks or left to reject — à la the dating app. [napster.com]

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