While most music Web sites offer pretentious musical insight, there is still one that offers reviews, features and more, without the over dignified attitude like PitchforkMedia.com tends to offer. That site is TinyMixTapes.com.
The Automatic Mix Tape Generator (which isn't automatic at all) is definitely the site's main attraction. Creating a mix for washing your car or studying for finals may not be too difficult. But, if your boyfriend left you for your sister and they stole your dog, finding songs to relate to the way you're feeling isn't easily done. Never fear — Tiny Mix Tapes' generator is there for you!
Just submit your mix tape request and one of their "robots" — other TMT fans who have signed up to be mix tape generators — will make a track listing to suit your needs. Requesting music doesn't strike everyone's fancy, which is why the previously made mix tape track listings are already posted. With themes like "Soundtrack for a life lived sleepwalking" and "Songs to make my insides dance," there's a little something for every person and every mood.
Tiny Mix Tapes also offers reviews of live shows and albums, interviews with musicians from Girl Talk to ex-Black Flag member Chuck Dukowski and one thing not many music Web Sites have: the DeLorean.
No, the web master does not own Marty McFly's preferred mode of transportation. Instead, the DeLorean is a page of music reviews, updated weekly, of albums released more than a year ago. Two reviews are posted each week, from Elvis Presley's "Complete Sun Sessions" (released in 2007, but recorded in 1953) to Lou Reed's "Transformer" (released in 1972).
Overall, Tiny Mix Tapes is the kind of music Web site that teaches, entertains and inspires people to get out and learn about music they otherwise would have never heard about.
