Blog: HearYa: An Indie Music Blog

I first heard about this guy named Josh Ritter back in 2000 or 2001 on a little-known website called Audiogalaxy.com. Anyone? Bueller? It was basically a poor man's Napster, with comments and suggestions from other music downloaders. I spent roughly 5,000 hours on the site, scouring it for music. This was long before music blogs like HearYa, so I was fending for myself in this vast music world, stumbling upon artists like John Mayer, Joseph Arthur, and Mofro based on other people's comments. That's when I read a comment suggesting to download a song called "Me and Jiggs" [...]