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  • Ads in our mobile apps [updated]

    Users of Hype Machine’s Android and iOS apps will notice that display ads have started running in their apps.

    We are grateful to everybody who’s purchased the apps since we began releasing them in 2011. These sales allowed us to maintain them and develop new features, and we thank you for your support.

    We know that it’s frustrating to see ads in an app you’ve paid for, and we wish we could keep the experience ad-free. Unfortunately, as a small team without outside funding, it is no longer possible for us to keep the app running without the revenue that advertising can provide.

    Hype Machine has supported itself with advertising since 2005, and with these changes, we hope to keep bringing you new music for many more years to come. Thank you for listening with us.

    UPDATE 12/14/16

    We considered many options before introducing ads in our apps, and there are many reasons why subscription/donation/IAP offers were not workable for us at the time (for example, supporting two product experiences is tough for a team of three people).

    Given the strong show of support for an ad-free solution since the announcement, we are looking into ways people could remove ads in the apps. If you are interested, sign up here.

    UPDATE 03/23/17

    Ads in our mobile apps have been temporarily disabled.

  • Sync your Favorites with Spotify

    spotifysync

    We started working on Spotify integration earlier this year, and many of you have already linked your accounts. Now you can sync your favorites and play your Hype Machine finds in Spotify!

    Connect here and enable Favorites Sync to begin importing your favorites to a private Spotify playlist. New favorites will be synced automatically.

    Also follow us on Spotify to hear our Latest, Stack, and Album Premiere playlists, updated with new music daily.

  • Hype Hotel 2016

    HINDS & Bleached at Hype Hotel
    HINDS and Bleached at the DIY showcase on March 15 (Photo: Jesse DeFlorio/Hype Hotel)

    This was Hype Machine’s fifth year of bringing blogger-curated showcases to the SXSW music festival, and from what we’re hearing, it might have been our best.

    Petite Noir at Hype Hotel
    Petite Noir at the Pigeons & Planes showcase on March 16 (Photo: Jesse DeFlorio/Hype Hotel)

    Mazda + Hype Machine’s Hype Hotel 2016 was the place for many exciting debuts: AlunaGeorge premiered two new tracks, “Automatic” and the Flume-produced “I Remember”:

    AlunaGeorge at Hype Hotel
    AlunaGeorge at the Pigeons & Planes showcase on March 16 (Photo: Jesse DeFlorio/Hype Hotel)

    SBTRKT debuted new material during his heroic 95-min (!) set on Friday. SXSW sets are usually capped at 45 minutes, so the lucky crowd got to dance twice as long with the masked DJ that night:

    SBTRKT at Hype Hotel
    SBTRKT at the Cruel Rhythm showcase on March 18 (Photo: Jesse DeFlorio/Hype Hotel)

    Thursday night’s Gorilla vs Bear showcase marked the hotly awaited collaboration of two Hype Hotel alums—Charli XCX (HH ’13) and SOPHIE (HH ’14 & 15) performed together for the first time ever, playing tracks from their new EP. Charli had some kind words for us afterwards:

    hype hotel last night was so fun 🙌 maybe my most favourite show I have EVER played 💣 photo by @jessedeflorio

    A photo posted by CHARLI XCX (@charli_xcx) on

     

    Hype Hotel hosted over 60 artists throughout our five days this year, with even more stopping by to record a set with La Blogotheque in the glass-paneled Mazda Studio outside—people on the lawn started calling these sessions “band in a box”, and they began to draw quite the audience:

    Diet Cig at Hype Hotel Diet Cig recording in the Mazda Studio (Photo: Jesse DeFlorio/Hype Hotel)  

    Elsewhere in the yard, the Hotel crowd (and it was a crowd! NIGHTOUT processed so many RSVPs this year) started their day at Tito’s Bloody Mary Bar, hung out on the beach (yes, we trucked in sand) sponsored by Flip Flop Wines, stopped in for a cocktail at the Don Julio Airstream Speakeasy, grabbed food at the East Side King food truck between sets, and picked up a Bud Light at the bar. They also got in a few photos with the performers passing through:

    Polica at Hype HotelHONNE at Hype Hotel Left: Channy Leaneagh of Polica | Right: HONNE (Photos: Jesse DeFlorio/Hype Hotel)  

    A couple of artists saluted David Bowie this year, with Car Seat Headrest beginning their set at the Stadiums & Shrines x yvynyl, showcase with “Station to Station,” and Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals dipping into “Let’s Dance” Friday night:

    Anderson .Paak at Hype Hotel Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals at the Cruel Rhythm showcase on March 18 (Photo: Jesse DeFlorio/Hype Hotel)  

    In 2016, Hype Hotel’s curators continued to spotlight the diverse new sounds being made around the world, from UK house:

    Leon Vynehall at Hype Hotel Leon Vynehall at the Tiny Mix Tapes x ISO50 showcase on March 17 (Photo: Jesse DeFlorio/Hype Hotel)

    to Chicago footwork:

    to experimental lo-fi:

    Morly at Hype HotelMorly at the Crack In The Road showcase on March 19 (Photo: Jesse DeFlorio/Hype Hotel)

    We love introducing people to music; on our site, in our apps, during our Stack Live series, and at Hype Hotel. If you were with us in Austin, we hope you found something new to love. And if you didn’t make it, we’ll see you next time!

    Metro Boomin at Hype Hotel
    Metro Boomin at the Crack In The Road showcase on March 19 (Photo: Jesse DeFlorio/Hype Hotel)

    💥 #hypehotel 2016 closed down properly by @_health_.

    A video posted by Hype Machine (@hypem) on

  • New chart: Videos

    Hype Machine’s been tracking music discussed on blogs since 2005, bubbling up the most popular tracks of the moment in our Popular charts. We monitor what the Hype Machine community is favoriting, which artists are being posted most frequently, and what’s getting tweeted.

    But there was one part of the music landscape we hadn’t been tracking—videos. YouTube, which also launched in 2005, has become the preferred channel for many labels and artists to announce their new releases. Bloggers may have been talking about them, but they weren’t being recognized on Hype Machine—until now.

    This is our new Videos chart:
    Video chart
    It collects videos being posted most frequently by blogs in our list, and we hope it gives a more complete view of what’s happening in music right now. As usual, you can play the tracks, visit the blogs, and read their posts.

    Try it out, let us know what you think!

  • Hype Hotel 2015: Lineup and RSVP

    We’re back with five more days of blogger-curated showcases, celebrating 10 years of Hype Machine! (Though it’s only our seventh SXSW.)

    Each year, Hype Hotel, presented by Feed The Beat, brings the Hype Machine experience to life with lineups of the best new artists being discussed on music blogs. 2015’s excellent day and night shows have been selected by YVYNYL, Turntable Kitchen, All Things Go, Blah Blah Blah Science, Consequence of Sound, Gorilla vs. Bear, Crack In The Road, Disco Naivete, Cruel Rhythm, ISO50, Unholy Rhythms, and Pigeons & Planes, along with the Hype Machine team and Conflict of Interest.

    Special thanks to our presenting partner Taco Bell, and sponsors #HypeOn Mazda, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, and Miller for providing food, refreshments, and making the event possible. More thanks to ROBE, Orange Amps, and High End Systems for making it look and sound amazing, and Eventbrite for powering our RSVP

    Hype Machine’s Hype Hotel:  1100 E 5th St, March 17-21

    RSVP is now open for free Day shows. SXSW badges/wristbands have priority, but a limited number of Day wristbands will be admitted to Night shows.

    All shows are 21+

    Hype Hotel 2015