Since I am a mere Padawan blogger I have decided to take a moment to show some respect to the websites that I love to check and that inspired me to join in and yell. Hype Machine is featured due to it’s being a link to blogs from all around the world...
This pill requires you to open about fourteen tabs and put on another pot of coffee. The Hype Machine is a fantastic website run by a team of educated cats from around the states (mostly New Yorkers) who scour the web and read and listen and weed out the crap. These guys and gals post their favorites from tons and tons of real music bloggers from all over the world and most posts have multiple tracks. This is including, but not limited to, bootleg concert recordings old, new, and in all styles. The site also has features that you’ve come to know and love from sites like google and twitter, meaning that you can search your artists by name or track and you can follow blogs and other members whose writing/tastes may pique your curiosity. So far, I’ve dug some Ben Harper, featuring John Paul Jones, doing “Dazed and Confused,” some old Nirvana recordings with half committed covers of groups like The Who and The Cars, and am now following multiple blogs including the Analog Arts Ensemble’s (Unofficial) blog, A Deeper Shade of Soul, and Tortured Souls Unite. The music you hear on the Hype Machine can all be scrobbled to you last.fm account as well so the possibility to find, hear, and keep listening to great new schtuff is extremely high. The reading is also guaranteed to be good because these people are all journalists, techies, and a&r types, not drummers who proofread their own iweb pages...peep game from the real music nerds...
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