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Author: Dave

  • Big updates to Hype Machine’s Sonos app

    We use our wireless Sonos speakers every day. This is why we’re excited to finally bring a much more complete Hype Machine experience to these devices.

    Today’s update includes:

    • Favorites: now with your three playlists (Up, Down, Weird)
    • Album premieres: hear our exclusive album streams
    • Stack
: our weekly mix of interesting new music
    • Friends: favorites from the people you follow
    • Zeitgeist
: the most-blogged artists each year since 2008
    • Special Features: the place for various artist spotlights like Ones to Watch
    • Elegant icons for easy naviation

    To add Hype Machine to your Sonos, open your Controller, go to Add Music Services > Hype Machine.

    Sonos

    If there are more features you’d like to see, do let us know!

  • Introducing: Stack Live

    Stack Live

    For the past year, Hype Machine has sent out Stack, a weekly newsletter highlighting some of the most interesting new tracks we see on the site. It’s an easy way to keep tabs on what’s exciting in music right now, and we think it’ll be even more fun to experience in person.

    Stack Live is a series of shows coming to Chicago, Boston, and Brooklyn this fall, featuring performances from blog favorites like Kero Kero Bonito, Pure Bathing Culture, GEMS, Sepalcure, and more.

    RSVP/find tickets here.

  • Ones To Watch 2015½

    With more than half of 2015 behind us, it’s time for the latest Ones To Watch. This feature takes a look at the most blogged artists of the year so far and identifies the names newest to the set—the ones who made their biggest splash in recent months…the ones to keep an eye on. We apply two simple qualifiers: it’s the artist’s first appearance in the data, and they’ve yet to release a full-length LP. More on the science behind the series here.

    It’s fun to revisit past features and spot names that went from went from the pages of blogs to the posters of major festivals, along with the sounds they introduced: Sam Smith, Tinashe, Yumi Zouma, Years & Years, Gorgon City, Tove Lo, to name a few.

    January 2014: Ones To Watch 2014

    August 2014: Ones To Watch 2014 ½ with BBC Radio 6 Music

    January 2015: Ones To Watch 2015

    And now, August 2015: Ones To Watch 2015 ½

    Who will stand out a year from now? Share your favorites on Facebook and Twitter, or embed this player on your site:

  • Happy New Year/Thanks Austin + Portals

    Living Spaces Austin
    Living Spaces Austin

    2015 opened on a vibrant note at Austin-based creative space, The Museum of Human Achievement. The 3rd installment of Living Spaces, Portals’ traveling showcase series, featured sets from JUBILEE, Ellie Herring, Holly Waxwing, and Wez, with an installation by artist Beth Link. We’re thrilled, as always, to have supported it.

    Piece together (or relive) the night via this photo essay by Daniel Dorsa, and the sampler mix below.


    Living Spaces Austin

  • Portals’ Living Spaces: Austin (NYE)

    LivingSpacesBk
    Living Spaces

    Living Spaces is a traveling showcase series organized by our friends at Portals. Their next destination is Austin, on New Year’s Eve. We’re once again happy to be supporting the event, as the first two, in Brooklyn (pictured above) and Baltimore, were exceptional.

    In their words, what it’s all about:

    “Reaching out to old and new friends, we’ll move from city to city, occupying a unique independent space in each one. For each event, we’ll collaborate with local visual and multidisciplinary artists to construct large-scale spatial installations. Our overarching intent is to create inhabitable space for live performance–space where everyone can engage wholeheartedly with the present experience. We hope to include both more familiar and less familiar visual artists, musicians, audiences, and places.”

    Explore the sights and sounds of each artist (and RSVP if ringing in 2015 in Texas) here.