Playlists

Welcome to the new Listen.com, your web hookup to local music scenes. Listen.com was reborn from a very simple premise: putting a world of music lovers in closer touch with what's musically popping in any given town.

Dig it: the Internet has already been instrumental in introducing musicians to fans looking to discover them. Too often though, it's either single-staff websites or single-minded bloggers calling all the shots. One set of biases = one set of recommendations. Don't get us wrong, these people have turned us onto some great tunes, but we figured there's got to be a better way.

Instead, we've gathered some of the best writers and bloggers from every corner of the country and asked them to forget the things happening elsewhere. It's all about what's happening in their own backyards: local shows, local bands and local clubs. For Listen.com, the local scene is life. So the more of scenes we know about (and the more we know about each scene), the more fulfilling our life - and your Listen.com experience - will be.

And we're not going to do it on our own! We'll be adding scenes from around the U.S. - and, hopefully, beyond - as you tell us to. Soon enough, you'll probably be covering your local scene better than we do - and we'll be the ones paying attention. (Go HERE to tell us which scene we should add next!)

So do what you've always done -- listen locally, rant globally. Check out how the new Listen.com does the same. Then tell us what we're doing right and what we're doing wrong.

Listen to the Listen.com playlist, New York Classics 1. Tunes from the Big Apple, for the Big Apple, by the Big Apple. Enjoy!

Setlist:
Ace Frehley, "New York Groove"
West Side Story, "Jet Song"
Interpol, "NYC"
LCD Soundsystem, "New York, I Love You"
Nas, "N.Y. State of Mind"
The Ramones, "53rd & 3rd"
Velvet Underground, "I'm Waiting for My Man"
Sonic Youth, "NYC, Ghosts & Flowers"
Sonny Rollins, "The Bridge"
Boogie Down Productions, "The Bridge is Over"
Santogold, "Shove It"
Frank Sinatra, "New York, New York"