Hypemachine & Muxtape…
Cool Music Site o’ the Day #1: The Hype Machine
I get most of my music these days off of one of the two billion music blogs that are up and running around the webs. “Wouldn’t it be great,” I sometimes think, “if somebody would invent a machine that would search the blogosphere for me and find new music?” Well, somebody did, and it’s called The Hype Machine. It scans hundreds of the most popular music blogs to see what the kids are talking about these days. Plus, you can type in the name of an artist and it spits out links where you can download songs by that artist for free.
Cool Music Site o’ the Day #2 – Muxtape
This site is pretty self-explanatory and also very awesome. Just go through the two second sign up and start making your online mixtape. You can use any mp3’s you have on your computer and order them how you please and that’s pretty much it. Simplicity rules at Muxtape right down to the simple site design. Browse a randomly generated assortment of muxtapes or go directly to a favorite. Here’s mine. I didn’t spend a lot of time on it and there’s no real theme. Just a random sampling of stuff that’s caught my ear lately.
