Watch Out Pandora, Glastonbury-Based Raditaz Keeps Getting Better

As far as apps go it’s all about location lately.  We’ve seen it in the past with Foursquare and Gowalla.  We’re seeing it now at SXSW.

Raditaz, a Glastonbury-based streaming music company is looking to tap into that with their service.  Within Raditaz a user can access a Google map to see what others are listening to around the country.

Raditaz began three years ago and now operates out of a basement underneath a Subway in Glastonbury.  I spoke with the CEO of Raditaz, Tom Brophy, today via Skype.

In addition to the location-based features, Raditaz also boasts The Echo Nest‘s music intelligence platform, a trend feature and tags.  Tags are applied to playlists by users to describe the music being played.  For example, if the creator of the playlist primarily uses that set of songs while working out they could tag it as “exercise.”

Over 14 million songs are available on Raditaz as well, compared to Pandora’s 900,000.

Brophy told me that he has been contacted by an American car manufacturer to include Raditaz in an upcoming streaming music endeavor (it’s a secret).  

Brophy would like to add lyrics and artist biographies in the future.  He has quite a few other bigger goals, too:

“Our goal is to really make the best music app out there,” Brophy said.

Only time will tell but they’re off to a good start.

Raditaz is available on all iOS devices, Android phones and on your computer at www.raditaz.com.