The video-sharing website has been taking several strides as of late into the realms of both music (with Vevo, a music video website it launched along with Universal) and its recent foray into movie rentals. Now, YouTube is giving sites like Pandora, Songza and Last.fm a run for their money with Disco.
Disco, much like streaming music sites, finds videos by your preferred artist, and then suggests similar musicians. I tried it out with a recent fave, The Black Lips:
Although the design leaves something to be desired (in short, it's just plain ugly), YouTube did find an impressive selection of videos by the artist, seemingly filtering out fan-made vids in favor of official versions.
My main qualm, however, was that the majority of the videos suggested were from the Black Lips. If this is truly to be a music suggestion tool, I feel like it should, well, suggest more music. Still, I feel like this had to do more with my music selection than anything else. When I tested it again with Eminem, I was given more suggestions -- still, said suggestions included three Soulja Boy Tell Em videos in a row, so I'm still dubious.