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Di.fm offers free electronic music, streaming at you 24 hours a day. Woohaa! Free stations from loads of DJs and artists. The usual electronic genres are covered here. You can upgrade for premium service for $4.95 a month, but it’s not essential.

Whole Wheat Radio is a streaming indie radio run out of Alaska. Certainly a novel idea. These guys say they are a non-profit venture and they donate lots of money to charity. Listen at high speed or low speed. Has forums and you can make requests. Pretty cool ideas here.

Radio 3 lets you listen to live concerts and studio jams. Another Canadian website. Haven’t heard of most of the bands, but had a listen and they sounded all right.

Beta Lounge is a cool little radio streaming website based out of San Francisco. Pretty hip beats here. Listen away.

Shout Cast is an awesome streaming-radio website. There are thousands of free radio stations from all over the world for you to listen to. Tons and tons of genres covered. Any style of music you can think of, there is a radio station for it. Just pick a station and listen in.

Realtime365.com used to be a live streaming radio station. Things have changed and there is no more radio, but there are still lots of band links. Decent electornica stuff, from drum n bass to ambient. Shame the radio is off air now.

Polyrad is actually in French. From what we can see, though, it’s like a 24-hour student radio station. You can listen to all sorts of genres, from jazz to dance music. Lots of streaming audio to listen to.

Get involved with live DJs at Krankit.com. You can actually chat with the DJs as well.

Ear Buzz is supposedly the “place to buy independent music”. Lots of cool indie stuff available in the store. It’s all very non-commercial and there are some gems to be discovered. All the money from tracks goes straight to the artists. Songs cost $0.89. Some real hippy stuff in there too.

Into Music has lots of tracks available for download. You can buy them for as little as £0.59. Browse by artist or a standard range of genres (dance, folk, soul, jazz, and so on). When we looked, there were old Bloc Party songs and Stereophonics still in their chart. If you buy 10 songs, you get one free. Lots of cool music on this site, even if it’s a bit behind the times.