Trizzle Project update: featured songs are back

nobody@vox.com(djchall) — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:54:03 -0800

This morning I finally updated the production site with the new code that I've been working for the past month. As a result, the Trizzle Project now sports some new features, including:

You can now review, rate and tag artists and albums as well as songs.
Trizzle search has been enhanced--it's now faster, thanks to the mysql 5 view, and will handle multi-word search strings better–ie, if you search for "zep dog" Trizzle will now return Led Zeppelin's song "Black Dog" whereas before it would not.
The recent reviews page now shows recent reivews of songs, artists and albums.
Feeds! You're probably sick of hearing about them by now, but in case you're not, there is now a feed of the most recent reviews to be entered into Trizzle.

Now that the site has been upgraded, I felt it was time to put some more compelling content on it. This evening I finally added more featured songs to Trizzle, after many months of their being absent. Since there was such a long hiatus, I added more than usual, fifteen in all, including new songs by the Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, the Kings of Leon, Of Montrel, Beirut and more.

Not only that, but every featured song has a high-quality un-DRMed mp3 so you can listen to the whole song (no 30 second samples on Trizzle!) and even add it to your media player of choice (but i f you do and you like the song enough to listen to it more than few times, please do buy a copy of the song from the ITMS or better yet the entire album.)

Click the link below to see what's featured on Trizzle this month:

Trizzle featured songs

Trizzle Featured Songs–Feb. 2007

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Bloc Party "The Prayer" and Modest Mouse "Dashboard" mp3s

nobody@vox.com(djchall) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:07:51 -0800

Thanks to the power of the Hype Machine, I now have proper mp3s of the new Bloc Party and Modest Mouse songs.

The Prayer

Bloc Party

Dashboard

Modest Mouse

Upon first (or third) listen, I'd say the Bloc Party song is the more ambitious of the two, in that it's a lot weirder and darker than their first album. Modest Mouse's song is more of a comfortable continuation of the stripped down, poppified sound of "Good News For People Who Love Bad News." Not saying I don't like it; in fact, I like it quite a lot but that might be the problem–sometimes when I like something a lot the first few times I hear it that means I'm going to get tired of it quickly.

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Trizzle Project update: featured songs are back

Bloc Party "The Prayer" and Modest Mouse "Dashboard" mp3s