Not sure how I feel about this, but it has the potential to be extremely cool: according to this article, NPR's new online service "will launch in first half of 2007, and will 'create a unified place to showcase all genres on present and future media platforms.'
The new effort will be a supersite pooling the public radio system’s collective resources…it will have all music forms – including classical, jazz, folk, opera, AAA, electronica and alternative – from its 815 public radio stations around the country and their partner websites." I'm not sure why I'm so apprehensive about this idea, but I'm leery of another music portal showing up, even if it IS from NPR.