Every month there will be new music from different artists for you to check out and with the help of your purchase of a track, you do a small part to help something that has affected or will affect us at some time in our lives, whether it be a loved one or even yourself. I know first hand how cancer can destroy a family. Cancer goes beyond being a disease in one person; it touches everyone around it in a profound way once it has made it’s presence in a life known, a life that once may have only known innocence will now know sadness, anger, and tragedy.

Because of my personal experience with cancer and dealing with the loss of family and friends who were afflicted, I am supporting TargetCancer and getting the word out today that there is something that everyone can do. Even if you think downloading one song for less than a dollar is insignificant, if we can get the word out, that one song could be added to the thousands or millions of songs downloaded by people who hear about this organization. Remember, 100% of all proceeds go straight to TargetCancer. We CAN make a difference. Will you help?

To help TargetCancer, please check out the following links:

TargetCancer Official: http://www.targetcancer.info

The Right Track: http://www.righttracktunes.org

Twitter: TargetCancer / RightTrackTunes

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/targetcancer

Songs Currently Available from ‘The Right Track: Tunes To Target Cancer’

Weezer – “The Rat Race”
Ween – “DC Won’t Do You No Good”
The Donnas – “Can’t Keep It a Secret”
Cowboy Junkies – “In My Time of Need” (Ryan Adams cover)
Dean and Britta – “International Velvet Theme” (Caledonia Mix)
Buffalo Tom – “Thrown” (Live From Somerville Theater)
Linda Thompson – “Never the Bride”
Mike Viola – “This is Love, This is Life”
Drug Rug – “Coffee In the Morning” (Alternate Version)
The Gravel Pit – “Yellow Light Purple”
Happy Ending – “Through Your Eyes”

You can preview the track and you have the choice of downloading the flac or mp3 file of each song. Each song is less than a dollar but you can donate anything above that if you can, even if it’s just a few more cents.

Please help make a difference today and spread the word.

Cancer kills. Let’s kill cancer with music.

The rules were simple:

1: Name a band/artist/musician you like who’s name starts with a letter of your name and do this for each letter of your name. Example: if your name starts with B, whoever you pick would have to start with B. Continue for each letter of your first name.

2: Out of all the artists you listed, choose a song you like from one of the artists. Doesn’t matter the song as long as the artist was listed.

3: Include your Twitter username and a link for yourself (if you choose).

Not only was this a bit challenging, it was a lot of fun and we all had an excuse to play with Google Wave a bit and learn a little more about each other. The only thing that was the common denominator in all this was that they are designers/web developers who I follow on Twitter and who also use Google Wave. Other than that, I think you’ll find that they are pretty different!

So, without any further ado or in any particular order, here we go!

• Dana Coffey

Twitter: @crazeegeekchick

D: Davis, Miles

A: A Tribe Called Quest

N: Nelly Furtado

A: The Allman Brothers Band

Song choice? Whipping Post by The Allman Brothers Band

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• Matthew Brox
  

Twitter: @MattBrox

M: Mozart

A: AC/DC

T: Tzu

T: Tenacious D

H: Hilltop Hoods

E: Eminem

W: Weird Al Yankovic

Song choice? Rondo Alla Turca by Mozart

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• Ernie (last name withheld)

Twitter: @ernmander

Website: ernmander.com

E: Electric Light Orchestra

R: Rapper’s Delight

N: NWA

I: Iggy Pop

E: Enigma

Song choice? Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra

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• Brian McDaniel (Cheater!)

Twitter: @bkmacdaddy

Website: bkmacdaddy.com

B: Ben Harper, Black Eyed Peas, Bob Marley, Big Brother & the Holding Co., Breaking Benjamin

R: Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers

I: Israel Kamakawiwo’ole (Iz)

A: Amos Lee, Alicia Keys, Annie Lennox

N: Nirvana, No Doubt, Nine Inch Nails, New Order

Song choice? Arms of a Woman by Amos Lee

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• Emily Gonsalves (Cheater!)

Twitter: @emilygonsalves

Website: emilygonsalves.com

E: Evans Blue

M: Maaya Sakamoto, Matsu Takako, Madonna, Maroon 5, Megumi Hayashibara, Michael Bublé

I: Ishida Yoko

L: L’Arc-en-Ciel, LAZY

Y: Yasuhiro Mizushima

Song choice? Dark That Follows by Evans Blue

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• Sarah Whinnem

Twitter: @madysondesigns

Website: madysondesigns.com

S: Scorpions

A: Aerosmith

R: Red Hot Chili Peppers

A: AC/DC

H: Heart

Song choice? Rock You Like A Hurricane by Scorpians

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• Kevin Garcia (Cheater!)

Twitter: @kg_creative

Website: kgcreative.com

K: Kinny & Horne, Matt King

E: Caro Emerald, Emily Haines

V: Vandaveer

I: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

N: Wax Poetic & Norah Jones

Song choice? Fistful of Swoon by Vandaveer

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• Anthony Hortin

Twitter: @maddisondesigns

Website: maddisondesigns.com

A: Avril Lavgine

N: Nine Inch Nails

T: The Veronicas

H: Hepburn

O: Offspring

N: Nickelback

Y: Yello

Song choice? Heresy by Nine Inch Nails

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• Gerrel Saunders

Twitter: @gaksdesigns

G: Gorillaz

E: Eminem

R: Ryan Leslie

R: Ray Charles

E: Enya

L: Linkin Park

Song choice? Valentine by Ryan Leslie

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• Greg Smith

Twitter: @g_twitty

G: Gavin DeGraw

R: The Roots

E: Eminem

G: The Game

Song choice? You Got Me by The Roots feat. Erykah Badu

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• Krishna Reddy

Twitter: @krishnat

K: Kanye West

R: Rihanna

I: Indigo Girls

S: Shakira

H: Hilary Duff

N: Norah Jones

A: Ashlee Simpson

Song choice? None, so I chose Pon de Replay by Rihanna

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• Vaughan Risher

Twitter: @vardenrhode

Website: vaughanrisher.com

V: Vangelis

A: Aphex Twin

U: Ulrich Schnauss

G: Goldfrapp

H: Healamonster & Tarsier

A: Amanda Palmer

N: Nine Inch Nails

Song choice? Goodbye by Ulrich Schnauss

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• April May Nanney (Me!)

Twitter: @OneLuvGurl

Website: dorkmuffin.com

A: Amy Winehouse

P: Peaches

R: Ray Lamontagne

I: Iron & Wine

L: Louis Armstrong

Song choice? You can bring me Flowers by Ray Lamontagne

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Thanks for getting to know us and if you have Google Wave and would like to wave with us, feel free to leave your wave addy in the comments below or you can email it to me at OneLuvGurl [at] gmail [dot] com. Cheers!

Image courtesy of Pasquale D’Silva.

Music + Twitter = Love

Last.fm

Okay, this social music site has been around for a while, but if you use Last.fm and Twitter, why not integrate them? You can add your latest tweets to your Last.fm sidebar or you can use Twitterfeed and feed your last played songs into your profile. Just visit Twitterfeed, set up the account, and grab the RSS feed from your Last.fm page and select how often and how many songs you want to feed from your recent activity. Very cool tool!

If you want to add Twitter to your Last.fm profile page, you can see an example on my profile here. Just visit LastTweet.com, enter your username, style, and you are done!

Another cool site for Last.fm and Twitter is LastFMTweetLove. Here you can enter your Twitter and Last.fm information and every time you “love” a song on Last.fm, it will tweet it to your profile.

Blip.fm

Blip.fm works like Twitter, but instead of just tweeting, you are actually “blipping” a song as well. The cool thing about Blip.fm is that you can not only be your own DJ, but you can set up your Twitter account under Blip.fm’s settings tab and whenever you “blip” a song, it will tweet to your profile. Plus, since this is a social service, you can enter a message that will be included with the link to the song. Very sweet! (If you want to “scrobble” your blips to your Last.fm profile, you can set that up under settings as well.) Follow @Blipfm on Twitter for updates to their site.

TinySong.com

The wonderful thing about TinySong.com is that you can enter any song you want to share on Twitter into the search box, which then gives you a list of songs to choose from. Once you’ve found the song you want to share, you select it and it automatically creates a tinyurl of the song link and auto-copies it to your clipboard which you can then tweet and when someone clicks on it, it will play the song on Grooveshark. You don’t need a Grooveshark account to hear the music!

Twisten.fm

Speaking of Grooveshark, they made a cool site where you can log into your Twitter account and listen to music that people are sharing through Twitter. Their tagline sums it up: “Twisten.fm crawls Twitter for tweets about music. Then you listen to them.” Got it? Good.

Tweettj.com

tweettj.com is a pretty kickass site that lets you “discover the music people are tweeting about”. It lists recent tweets with links to the Twitter profiles and songs, and also lists the top music artist being tweeted. You can follow @tweettj on Twitter.

Song.ly

Song.ly is another very cool, yet simple site to share music on Twitter. You can add the URL of an mp3 file or type in a song name and search. On their front page it states:

Submit a link to an mp3 file you’ve found on the Web. Your followers will get a short link to a page allowing them to play the song right in the browser without having to download it first…

…or just type in a song you’d like to tweet, and we’ll find it on the web!

Sounds cool to me! Follow @Song_ly here on Twitter here.

Twiturm

Twiturm.com is sorta kinda like the ones listed above, but it works differently in the sense that you can actually upload songs that you can’t find on other music databases and then tweet them. Follow @Twiturm on Twitter here.

8tracks.com

Okay, 8tracks.com isn’t really something you just integrate into Twitter, but if you like making and listening to mixtapes, you can make a mix there and tweet the link to your mix on Twitter. People can leave comments in your 8tracks account about your mix and you can follow other DJ’s. You can follow @8tracks on Twitter as well.

Songza.com

Songza.com is a pretty nifty music site that allows you to search for a song or artist. When it pulls the results, you can click on the song you want and it gives you the option to share. Once you hover over “share”, you will see “Twitter This” on the left and when you click it, it pops up a box to add your information in as well as a message and that’s it! Nice and neat! You can also follow @Songza on Twitter.

I hope you enjoyed this list and remember to leave a comment if there are any other sites out there I should add to this list! Share the music and spread the love!