Last.fm has introduced a new visual music player that combines its personalized online radio stations with a continuous stream of artist images, music videos and other media of the artist being played. Users can now also create multi-genre stations by mixing music tags - 80s" and Soundtrack," or French," 60s" and Female" for example - to fine-tune their channel. Multi-artist radio enables users to launch stations based on combinations of their favorite bands.
And perhaps just as importantly for ad-supported Last.fm, the new music player also provides advertisers with new visual branding opportunities. A brief video demo: