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Find New Music at The Hype Machine

The Hype Machine is an interesting website that may be best described as a music blog aggregator site.

The site follows music "discussions" from legitimate online music blogs and collects blog posts and mp3s from thousands of different musical acts and artists.

One of the coolest pages on the site is one that ranks the most popular songs on the site (the ones that get clicked the most by visitors). You can find some cool music here that you would never hear on the radio as well as find songs by bands you've probably heard before.

I like the Hype Machine because of its user-friendly, un-intimidating website. It looks like a simple wordpress blog, which is very inviting and makes the experience there seem easy-going.  It also has a kind of cool digg thing going on that promotes good music and also the blogs where the good stuff was found.

Many free music sites seem kind of involved, confusing, or too widgety. HM, however, seems to have been created by people who like music and wanted to create exactly the type of site they would be interested in using: a one stop shop to find new tunes and music news with an eye to the blogosphere.

If you're a music fan, check this site out and give it a try.