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The other day I was over at a friend's and his roommated streamed a Portuguese pop/indie radio station for several hours, no commercials. It was always the commercials that killed it for me, radio ads are the worst things ever.

I'd not listened to radio for years before I got the iPod and with it the ability to subscribe to podcasts. There are times when I don't want to listen to music, times when I don't feel like curating my own music, and times when I need a higher level of distraction than BGM - standing in line, say. And this way I can catch up on the Harvard Business Review, Scientific American, or Style.com while on my feet instead of being glued to my computer reading/watching the online equivalent, which is a big plus.

For music I have the RA podcast (hassle-free techno sets 4evr), the Fabric podcast (one-off radio shows typically based around an old-skool DJ giving his soul/reggae/early hip-hop/classic rock influences an airing, which is great because intelligent introductions are precisely what I need in these genres), and the Guardian Music Online, which is actually kind of annoying XD, but is designed to give one a grounding in The New Stuff without having to make a concerted effort oneself to track releases down in order to pronounce them not very good. (And sometimes, they are good.) And it is annoying in more or less the same way every week, which is comforting. I haven't found another one out there whose outlines more closely correspond to my general sphere of existing knowledge, anyway.