The Black Cab Sessions almost won a Webby Award this year but got beat out by a Muppet – tough competition. Beeker’s Ode to Joy (see below) was the winner.

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Even without that win, this is a site worth watching.  Bands pile into a London Black Cab where they perform one song for a spontaneous online music video.  Yes, it’s a mini concert hall on wheels.

All of the performances are inspired and feature bands like The Futureheads, Spoon, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Grizzly Bear, Ryan Adams, Richard Thomson, Badly Drawn Boy, Doves, The Walkmen, The Kooks and others.

I consider this site a great example of creative social media. No, it’s not social media in the sense of connecting people for conversations.  But it is sharing information, fun and music with society.  And it’s more wholesome than HBO’s Taxicab Confessions while still being as entertaining.

The site was meant to be an out-of-the-box online tool for promoter Hidden Fruit to promote gigs.  It has blossomed much further than that concept to share live music with the world on the interwebs from the most intimate setting possible (besides maybe a shower.)

It would have been cooler if they would have set the site up to have comments on the video pages and included a search feature to see all the bands that have been recorded, but you have to give them points for creativity.

Do you think the bands have to pay cab fare?

Fleet Foxes

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Lykke Li

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