Cherrypeel reminds me of a lot of other music discovery sites, but it has a few features that set it apart. Likethesixtyone.com, the site’s home page recommends new music based on popularity.

But where thesixtyone.com is basically a multiplayer game assigning points to users based on which songs they vote for, cherrypeel uses the digg.com/reddit.com system of upvotes and karma to reward users for participation. I think the best description I’ve seen is “cherrypeel is reddit for music”.

I’ve been using thesixtyone.com for a while now, and really like it, but have one big problem with it: when I’m listening to the newest music available, I cannot filter by genre. So if I want to hear the newest of the new, I can’t just play new music from genres I care about.

Well, I can do that on cherrypeel.

It’s weird to me. I want to dislike cherrypeel based on how much I like thesixtyone, but I just can’t do it. The UI is incredibly clean and simple, and it just works.

I like it. A lot.