My Hype Machine

It seems like lacking time to update is becoming a recurring theme for this blog but once again I'm too busy to do my weekly music update.  The semester is almost over and the amount of work I need to do just continues to pile up. In fact, I should be working on a research proposal as I am writing this but I guess it shall have to wait.... 

For the kids who visit this blog for music, I decided to add a Hype Machine widget to the sidebar.  It will have a list of songs that I currently "love".  Everytime I choose to "love" a song on The Hype Machine, it will be added to the list instantly.  Updates on there should happen more frequently.  I'm still gonna post tracks here but this is just an additional tool for me to share music with you.

If you haven't used The Hype Machine before, it is a popular music blog aggregator.  Basically, it collects songs from thousands of blogs and posts them as they are updated.  When I first came upon the site last year, I visited the site everyday.  I felt like a kid in a candy store, with countless of options to choose from and not knowing where to start.  There was so much new music waiting to be discovered and I loved finding great songs that I had never heard before.  Without The Hype Machine, I probably would not know some of the artists I listen to today.

I haven't been visiting the site as much anymore because the amount of tracks on it is just way too overwhelming, but I'll try to go to it more often now that I added the widget.  Although I think that The Hype Machine is a great site overall, it takes too much time to listen to each track and filter out the crap from the good stuff, plus not all the tracks are new.  I prefer sticking to my shortlist of favourite music blogs.  Visiting individual blogs is a much more rewarding experience especially once you find one that caters to your exact musical tastes and has interesting commentary.

Hopefully, this blog will be featured on The Hype Machine in the near future....

Til the next episode... Peace

Raf