Machine Shop

Author: Zoya

  • Flavors.me ♥ The Hype Machine

    Flavors.me is the easiest way to take control of your identity on the web, and one of its most notable features is the ability to display snippets of your public activity on many excellent web services.

    The Hype Machine is now part of that list! Add us to your Services, and easily include your loved tracks, your listening history, and your favorite blogs in your digital self-portrait. Check it out:


    Anthony’s favorite blogs


    Dustin’s loved songs


    Zoya’s listening history

    With this integration, you are now one step closer to having a complete .you.

  • The Hype Machine at SXSW 2011


    (photo by Matthew Ogle)

    Seems like it’s taking us longer and longer to recover from Austin’s week of music and mayhem every year. We’re finally ready to share some beautiful photos and videos with you now, though!

    Clock Opera opened our After-Hours showcase at the Purevolume House around midnight, and the party would keep going well into the early morning.

    Jonquils brought their top brass:
    and played a cover of The xx’s “Infinity”.

    Jamie Woon‘s soulful crooning continued to set the after-hours mood.

    (photo by Nina Mashurova)

    And perhaps no one was more surprised than Mount Kimbie themselves when Shwayze jumped on stage with them for an impromptu collaboration! Check the last video here to see this real-time remix.

    Thanks for coming and partying!

  • WHOA: Hype Machine tattoo

    It’s not every day that we get a photo like this with the brief note, “My tattoo.” But there it is! The Hype Machine phonograph and speech bubble, looking glorious.

    We’re beyond flattered. Thanks, Brett (& the tattoo artist, Alex) <3

  • The Hype Machine at SXSW 2011

    Come party with us at SXSW this Friday! Check out Mount Kimbie, Jamie Woon, Jonquil, Clock Opera, and Baths at our After-Hours showcase. It’s going to be awesome.

    Info and RSVP here.

  • Music Blog Zeitgeist 2010

    The Zeitgeist is here! Our annual roundup of the 50 most-discussed artists, albums, and songs of 2010 launches today. We’ll reveal 10 every day this week, with the Top 10 being released on Friday. Here’s how we made it:

    Top 50 Artists: We’ve tabulated the total number of songs from each band posted in 2010 by blogs on The Hype Machine, and invited 50 visual artists to create illustrations for the musicians. You can view them in glorious full-screen resolution while you sample a track from the band. AND! This year, you can send each gorgeous piece of artwork as a postcard to your friends. It’s the closest you can get to hugging a pixel.

    Top 50 Albums: We’ve pored over 950 blogger Top 10 lists (the most to date!) and thousands of albums to calculate the final ranking. Grooveshark kindly provided the full album streams, and we’ve used CC-licensed Flickr Photos for the graphics.

    Top 50 Songs: We’re excited to present five new mixes of the year’s top songs, created for us by the artists who were dominating the Popular charts in 2010. We’ll also publish the full list of Top 50 tracks on Friday.

    As always, the Zeitgeist is one big community effort. Big thanks to all the music bloggers, who make finding the best new music easier; the illustrators and photographers, who make the Zeitgeist look so good; Jeff from Heart On A Stick, who passed the torch a few years back; David from Largehearted Boy, who is the best at collecting best-of lists; Grooveshark (and @bwc), who power the full album streams, SoundCloud, who power the Hype Machine Radio Show; our incredible friends Cain Norris, Michael Bringardner, Lisa Zuniga, Morgan Kelton, and Emma Tangoren for helping us with data slicing and dicing; the entire Hype Machine team, for working through Christmas and New Year’s, every year, to bring you the Zeitgeist. And you: thank you for always looking for new music to fall in love with.

    JAN 8 UPDATE: You can now download the entire data set (in a CSV file) we gathered to make the Top 50 albums list this year.  The compiled set [CC License] is a more expanded version of our top 50 list that includes some extras, like the average rank given to an album in each post.  The raw set [CC License] has the list of all blog posts we’ve indexed and the albums they’ve selected.  Enjoy!