Hype Machine is a music blog aggregator that pools from 855 music blogs. It is Located in Brooklyn, N.Y. and started in 2005 . Hype Machine has a great I phone app, but it's $3.99. Otherwise, everything else is free- I think. The site can be a little overwhelming and not everything on here is awesome. There is though truly something for everyone on here and there is truly awesome stuff on here. Here is a list of some of the features
- Latest: What's going on right now in the blogosphere.
- Popular: The most popular artists, searches and blogs on the internet right now.
- Twitter: Interactive music chart of songs being posted on Twitter.
- Spy: Snoop on what other people are listening to on our site.
- Album Premieres: Weekly premieres of unreleased albums
- Music Blog Directory: The complete list of blogs we track, organized by genre and geography
- Labs: Fresh from the lab: new things we are trying out
- Zeitgeist: The best 50 artists, albums and songs of the past year.
- Your feed and favorites: A customizable view of your favorite tracks, artists, blogs and users. This one's Anthony's.- Hype Machine
Available also are some of the most blogged videos. None of the songs are available for download .
The songs are either full songs or samples. It truly is a great way to get a heads up on up and coming music by pin pointing individual categories.and reading the reviews. The songs can be bought from Itunes and Amazon. . Nowadays with so much music available, it is nearly impossible to find out what is worth while and what's not with out the help of music bloggers. It can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
With a free user account you can favorite searches, tracks, music blogs and other Hype Machine users by clicking on the hearts that are sprinkled around our site.
Then if you head to your profile page you can play your favorite tracks as a playlist and catch up on what your favorite blogs have been writing about lately.
Your public URL that you can share with friends is simply http://hypem.com/username. You can use this as an easy way to see what your friends are discovering lately.- Hype Machine
I haven't really set up my page yet, but I will shortly (hopefully). My user name is Spacetruckin.. I'll have more sites like this to review soon enough but the Hype Machine is one of the most essential ones. This site is for the aficionado and the casual music listener. You can't go wrong. Rhett Taylor
Here is a list of the genres
Hi Rhett, this is my music blog http://yo-u-turn.blogspot.com
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