XMPLAY has become my new standard audio player (software)– great sound, intuitive feature set and only (wonderfully unbloated) 300k download.

WinMX has become my peer-to-peer software of choice. Spyware free and decent variety for the kinds of things I typically look for online (B-sides, live tracks, etc). A few of the choice picks:

• Ben Kweller’s cover of The Lemonheads classic “My Drug Buddy”
• Ani DiFranco and Aimee Mann collaborating on Prince’s “When the Doves Cry”
• Elliott Smith’s “Just Between Us” (live)
• Audioslave’s version of “Seven Nation Army”
• “There’s Always Someone Cooler Than You”– Ben Folds hasn’t written a bad song in a long time

I’ve also gone into much-retro-rock mode listening to Motorhead and the newest thing in 80’s butt-rock/hair-metal The Darkness.