I thought I’d give the latest online radio site slacker.com (which was introduced this morning at SxSW) a try, and it’s playing pretty good stuff so far on the indie channel. The last three songs it played were “Nearly Lost You” by The Screaming Trees (a little indie-retro!), “Fidelity” by Regina Spektor and “Like The 309” by Johnny Cash. Next up: The Postal Service. Not bad, not bad. I just wish it had a blues channel.
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Skirl | Dan Dickinson 
It’s actually a fairly ambitious undertaking, sort of a iTunes/Pandora/Sirius mash-up. The web-based player is just the start–it’ll be interesting to see if they can execute the rest of the plan.
i was reading about it yesterday. It’ll be interesting once the portable player is out and slacker starts to compete with Sirrius and XM.