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Andy Meek
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- For anyone who likes to listen to music online and enjoys services like Spotify, there's a free Internet site called Radio Garden that's also worth checking out.
- Radio Garden is basically like Google Earth, except for radio stations. Anywhere there's a green dot on the world map, you can start playing a local radio station there.
- With a simply click, you can start listening to local radio across the US and beyond, with broadcasts everywhere from Moscow to London, Tehran and more.
I love to listen to music online and enjoy services like Spotify and Apple Music for different reasons, but as I write this post I actually have something different blasting in the background -- some infectious dance music with a pulsing electronic beat that's currently blaring on the other side of the globe. I'm listening to Isla 106, a dance and house music radio station broadcasting from Ibiza and Mallorca, thanks to one of my favorite new website discoveries of the coronavirus era.
The website is called Radio Garden, and it's ridiculously simple to use. It's basically like Google Earth for radio -- when you open either the website or companion app, you see an image of the globe, with tons of green dots sprinkled across pretty much every country. Anywhere you see a green dot, that's a local radio station you can start playing. To start blasting tunes from Moscow to Tehran to anywhere in the US, just hit a green dot and see what stations comes up (and there's also a kind of "See more" option that lets you toggle through all the different available local radio stations in that vicinity). This free Internet service has actually been around for a few years now, but I just now discovered it and feel like it's the perfect antidote to the malaise of COVID lockdowns and such around the world -- at the risk of sounding incredibly cheesy, in other words, this is a brilliant site, a must-check-out for music fans, and something that definitely makes the world seem a lot smaller and a whole lot more connected right now.
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This radio website is my favorite discovery so far during our lockdown era originally appeared on BGR.com on Sun, 14 Feb 2021 at 19:47:10 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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