September 21, 2009
Worthy reading: Music Bloggers Roundtable Part 1 & 2

Five years ago, in August 2004, The Morning News asked six music bloggers to talk about “the newest frontier in online music sharing”:

Roundtable: MP3 Bloggers, August 2004

With the help of…

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September 19, 2009
The Miracle in July

The Miracle in July is a modern love story told in the most modern way possible: via a vibrant set of photos, music and maps all published via an elegant Wordpress installation.

The…

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September 17, 2009
First ever free download, new radio show & favorites shuffle!

3 bits of news today:

First free download ever »

Today, we’ve teamed up with Metric to give away the Adam Freeland remix of “Sick Muse”. It’s the first free download we’ve ever given away! Just…

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September 15, 2009
On Integrity & Advertising

Last week, we ran what’s called a “site takeover” for a new single by P. Diddy.  A site takeover, or skin allows the advertiser to customize the look of many prominent parts of a website.  Today,…

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September 7, 2009
Nick Hornby on music blogs

Nick Hornby (the writer of High Fidelity) has much to say about music blogs today in the Guardian Observer:

“But it’s easy. Look at Hype Machine (hypem.com) to begin with: in the top…

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September 6, 2009
Weekly Newsletters are Ready!

We’ve just started sending out the first of our personalized weekly newsletters today.

The newsletters are customized based on what you and your friends do on the site.  The more active you are,…

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August 22, 2009
Yellow Bird Project’s Indie Rock Coloring Book world tour

Our favorite Canadians at the Yellow Bird Project are taking their Indie Rock Coloring Book on the road this month, and we haven’t been this excited for arts and crafts since we…

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Punkphoto.com’s 5th Anniversary Exhibit opening tonight!

Abbey Braden, our kickass radio show host, also takes a ton of concert photos and publishes them at Punkphoto.  Today, Punkphoto turns 5 and to celebrate, some of the best photos are…

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August 11, 2009
Reblog This Concert: A music showcase by Tumblr in New York today
Reblog this Concert!

Reblog this Concert!

Our friends at Tumblr are putting on a show today!

It’s fittingly called “Reblog This Concert” and features The Urgency, Bamboo Shoots, Shinobi Ninja, and…

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July 28, 2009
Hype Machine 2009 User Survey Results

Our annual user survey went over really well this year. Over 2600 of you responded and we gave away some great prizes. Below are some highlights, but check out our demographics page for the full…

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July 14, 2009
Connect your Hype Machine account to Twitter and Last.FM

One of the benefits of having a Hype Machine user account are the cool ways to share the music you discover.

Connect your account to Twitter and the machine will auto-tweet your favorite songs,…

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July 9, 2009
The Interactive Twitter Music Chart

We’ve been frustrated by a few things about music charts recently.  One is the issue of chart integrity, the lines between manipulation & engagement and how to keep such a system honest while…

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July 7, 2009
More on Integrity and Promotion

In just over a week, our post, “On Chart Integrity,” has attracted a ton of attention from bloggers, artists, and magazines.  I am excited that we could start such a conversation about music,…

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June 30, 2009
On Chart Integrity

We’ve recently made some changes to the popular page so that it reflects the number of people who’ve favorited the track in the past three days.

Shortly after we made the change, we were alerted…

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June 3, 2009
The new Popular page

Having reviewed feedback and site activity in the past couple of months, we’ve just published a change to our Popular page.

Here is what’s on the page now:
Popular (default view) - the most…

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