If you ever wanted to have a website that let you search music blogs and upcoming concerts you’ve come to the right website if it is called the Hype Machine. The Hype Machine is basically a index specialised in music blogs. Whenever a new mp3 is posted on a music blog that is connected to the Hype Machine the index gets updated and the new mp3 can be found by searching for it.

You can alternatively listen to the 50 latest mp3s that have been added to the Hype Machine by various music blogs. The music can be downloaded for various players including Winamp, iTunes, Media Player and Real Player. It is no problem to download single tracks using Winamp in conjunction with Streamripper for instance.

A third option besides listening to the latest tracks and searching the index exists. You can visit blogs directly by visiting the most popular music blogs, the most active music blogs and the music blogs that send in the most referrers.

Playlists can be created for single blogs as well and imported into the usual players. Great website with lots of music and mostly independent artists that deserve to be known..

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