How would you describe The Hype Machine to a friend?
Just some of the more interesting/entertaining responses:
- “one of the coolest sites on the web; a great place to find new music; well designed; easy to use”
- “Most addictive website. Ever. A great place to hunt down new music and make amazing accidental discoveries.”
- “the best web tool to discovering and finding music”
- “THE way to find the music you want and discover the music you didn’t know you wanted.”
- “A great place to hear stuff that’ll be big in six months”
- “Nearly too good to be true, a fool proof weapon when it comes to seeking new music that you’d otherwise not have a chance in hell of hearing.”
- “It’s not trying to hard to be some amazing revolutionary social music experiment, it just is.”
- “a stethoscope on the chest of aural awesomeness.”
- “The Indie Music CNN”
- “God’s gift to the internet”
- “Everything that’s still good about modern music, minus everything MTV turned into.”
- “The Hype Machine is really what makes the tides work. Screw the moon.”
- “Will change the way you discover music…I have said this on many an occasion!”
- “dude, hype machine solvd my problems, physically and emotionally.”
- “like eavesdropping on a million ‘have you heard this?’ conversations between friends”
Anthony Volodkin
Taylor McKnight
Zoya Feldman
Scott Kidder
John Schimmel
Wish you would post more Classic Rock for us Gibson LP/Marshall players..
Thanks..
June 4, 2008 @ 6:23 am
I’ve been posting new MUSIC and hysterical blogs about my crazy life as an unknown singer/songwriter. The good the strange and the shit.
June 4, 2008 @ 9:08 am
ladies and gentelmen the winner is ……drumroll……..
“a stethoscope on the chest of aural awesomeness.”
June 6, 2008 @ 10:47 am
i wish y’all would post some more Chicken Slaughtering sounds for all us feather pluckers & morons
June 7, 2008 @ 12:03 am
To Lil Mike..
When your done blowing everyone..
Here’s a quarter, go buy a clue !
June 7, 2008 @ 6:50 am
hype,
Can you guys make a feature to search new music by Genre. that would kick ass
June 13, 2008 @ 11:49 am
“A great place to hear stuff that’ll be big in six months”
I’ve discovered so much good stuff here, I can’t even begin to count it all up. Plus, I subscribe to the blogs whose music tastes I live (Scissor Kick, The Yellow Stereo, etc.)
June 13, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
I don’t have friends, hype machinists. Only lovers. With three legs.
June 15, 2008 @ 10:59 am
I second the whole searching my genre idea. But Hype is awesome the way it is, keep it up!
June 15, 2008 @ 2:44 pm
thanks for my sweet t.
June 15, 2008 @ 9:27 pm
“a reminder that there are still people in this world making good music”
June 16, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
It’s like that scene in Pulp fiction where they give her the shot, except Hype machine is the adrenaline.
June 16, 2008 @ 5:39 pm
the pus-filled ass pimple of a hipster douche bag
June 16, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
@ Michael
Hype Machine don’t post any music, it’s basically a search engine for all the music/mp3 blogs out there. It’s up to the blog owner to register their site.
Now, you can save that quarter and buy yourself something pretty.
June 17, 2008 @ 10:44 am
Whatever..
It was a joke,Dufus..
Dude was puttin down rock..
@ PapaJ.I’ll give you the quarter back..
Sounds like you can use the change,prettboy.
June 18, 2008 @ 12:08 pm
I like Hype Machine a lot, but find it frustrating at the same time.
It seems to be either extremely specific- i.e. search for a specific artist and get songs only by it, or else totally random and completely dependent on what’s on the home page or any given blog.
I like random a lot. Last.fm, Pandora and the other discovery sites seldom play anything new for me. I just wish there was a way to moderate it a little.
Much love,
Jay
June 23, 2008 @ 3:58 pm
I think it would be cool if you could play the music through an external media player.(Winamp, realplayer, etc.)
June 24, 2008 @ 11:19 am
More emphasis on the search spy might help Jay, I guess what we really want is a last.fm that knows about all the good music Hype knows.
Sorting by genre would be cool, but what I like about Hype is that I can find new genre’s, and songs which defy genre.
Mike:
You can kinda play it through an external player if you use Mozilla’s Songbird…cheating in a way because it’s basically still like just viewing the web page. Or you can make a web app out of the pop up player and use that.
June 26, 2008 @ 6:16 am
Whats up ?
No posts for over 7 hours ?
Just wondering..
July 9, 2008 @ 9:25 pm
Michael, I think the mp3 podcast was taken down in favor of the radio stream, which is too bad, since i bet 90% of their users prefer the itunes-integrated and compartmentalized podcast. oh well! death of hype machine, maybe?
i thought it was my itunes 7.7 upgrade, but i noticed that the older version on my laptop also shows no new posts. many of the tracked blogs have new posts, and they seem to be in the radio stream, just not on the podcast…
July 10, 2008 @ 11:39 am
Thanks Dan..
July 13, 2008 @ 5:34 pm
Hype Machine would be good if it wasn’t for all the music!
July 15, 2008 @ 9:54 am
play some more lightning bolt, japanther and other noise!
July 15, 2008 @ 10:55 am
heaps of your blogs are dead
please get some new ones, there are so many better ones on elbo.ws that you fail to recognise on hype
July 17, 2008 @ 11:37 pm
I second shaun’s point!
Other than that I love Hypem!
July 18, 2008 @ 1:09 pm