Say what you will about the tendencies of music bloggers toward the "hipper-than-thou," but the Hype Machine doesn't lie: A lot of them also think Chris Martin is 100% dreamy. [Hipster Runoff]
Getting 10,000 people who read music blogs to hit its front page at the same time proved to be too much of a challenge for the music-blog aggregator The Hype Machine, so the powers that be over there abandoned their virtual sit-in and threw open the doors to the new, pretty, spying-enabled version. [Hype Machine]
At least in terms of finding new shit to listen to. This graph is taken from the results of a straw poll put together by MP3 blog catch-all the Hype Machine to find out how its readers "discover new music," and as you can clearly see, the Internet is kicking human contact's ass!
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No one here at Idolator claims to be a genius; heck, we're not even sure how to pronounce the name of our own damn site (which, by the way, we wanted to name enya-thusiast.org). But in an effort to share whatever trifling amount of online-music knowledge we have acquired, we're happy to announce Idolator's Instantly Outdated Guide to Internet Music. As its easy-to-remember acronym implies, IIOGTIM is an ever-expanding list of sites, tools, and sites that are run by tools.
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