Hype Machine

I'm always on the lookout for new music. I've been a Real Rhapsody subscriber for almost two years, and I continue to be an advocate... I have more to say about Rhapsody in a later post.

When I can't find something on Rhapsody - which I'll say is less than 10% of the time, no matter how obscure - I turn to the Hype Machine. You'll want to bookmark the link cuz the URL isn't intuitive, but a few minutes of browsing around will convince you that this is a cool site. Hype Machine is an audio-blog aggregator - it collects links to audio tracks in blogworld and plays them through a simple popup player (in FF 2.0, at least). There are plugins to stream the songs through at least one of your media players, so I wouldn't worry about that... I'd just search for your favorite bands and track down unreleased tracks and live performances. Enjoy.