NPR Rocks Out! (And Funks Out, Jazzes Out, Notational Musics Out ... )

National Public Radio has a new beta site. It's a big site. It's a pretty site.

The site is ... NPR Music.

Live streams, downloads, videos, interviews, profiles, studio sessions, concerts, photos, blogs ... you name it: If it's music, the NPR Music site has it (that is, if it's been on an NPR station). Here's NPR's PR about the launch.

This morning, I found everything from Nickel Creek to Sones de Mexico (Chicago) to MF Grimm to Minus the Bear to Christopher O'Riley, and more. Also, it has links to the NPR Shop, which I think of as Geek One-Stop Shopping Heaven.

OMG though, there's nothing about Pink Martini. And OPB isn't among the stations being streamed, which isn't a big surprise since it's all talk, but still. Where's the West Coast presence? (No, Seattle/Tacoma can't stand in for the whole 2/3 of the country from the Twin Cities on over ... )

ANYWAY, it's a treasure trove of a site. And it's a test run, so I'm sure the, um, alpha site will have some Oregon presence!

Go download or stream something. It's legal. It feels good. Nothing better for a grey little Friday morning!

UPDATE: OK! I sit corrected. Here is the Pink Martini page! (Tip o' the keyboard to NPR Music's maven, Anya Grundmann, for pointing that out.)