Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

Introducing Musicplasma–a visual search engine for music. Enter the name of your favorite band or musician into the little search box, and you get to see some beautifully rendered search results. Colored orbs with the various bands names position themselves close to your chosen artist based on similarity. A nice added feature is that the size of the orb indicates the band’s popularity (though I do wonder how they determine that–record sales?)

There’s definitely a popular music bias, but I did find some old obscure eighties bands. A lot of the bands listed also feature an Amazon-linked discography over on the right side (but some of these were incomplete).

I suggest taking a look–if only to get some good recommendations based on your current favorites. And if you want to know more, read Chris Sherman’s review at SearchEngineWatch. Thanks for pointing out this resource Chris!