The internet is packed with artists trying to hype themselves. Try browsing today’s popular songs on Soundcloud. Most of what you get is made with laptops, beatboxes and a whole lot of social networking. (Anything acoustic is rare.) It took at least three hours, listening to a few hundred (if not thousand) songs and a [...]
Rosie and Me.
An Analog Affair
There’s some kind of trend in music these days. And it seems it hit the mainstream hard as of last year: elektronic/analog beats with dreamy, indie vocals. The use of this combination was first noticed by part of the public in The Postal Service, a side project of Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard [...]
You have the right to hear arms.
May be the Biggest thing that happened to Soundcloud this week: The Hype Machine is now spotting embedded Soundcloud players. Hypem’s Zoya Feldman already told about it earlier, now it finally happened. This makes The Cloud Player and Soundcloud a killer tool for bloggers. So if you you tend to write about music yourself, you [...]
Pussy and the Mouse.
We’ve all been properly introduced to the mash-up phenomenon by now. That one song that is actually two or more songs but blended into one recording (and hopefully well done). People like Girl Talk or 2 Many DJs pushed the genre to it’s limits and frankly, these days you’ll need to make a really really [...]



