I'm in love with The Hype Machine. Specifically Hype Machine Radio.

Hype Machine is a music blog aggregator -- indexing the songs and bands written about and linked to on popular music blogs. Hype Machine radio is "a non-stop stream of popular and recent tracks posted by music blogs."

I've tried a lot of different audio streams over the years with no luck. I would rarely (if ever) find new songs and artists I wanted to listen to but The Hype Machine's been delivering that on a regular basis. That's pretty exciting for a music curmudgeon such as myself.

The aggregated aspect is very interesting as well -- I find even if I don't like a song that's playing, it's interesting to me that it's noteworthy enough to have been blogged. So I find I'm a bit more patient and tolerant with the music compared to regular ol' corporate radio.

I had given up on radio but now I need to figure out how to feed this into my living room.

I'm pretty far behind on the blogging lately, let's see...

Amazon launched their DRM-free MP3 download service - good news for anyone who hates DRM. The implementation is nice, the player's decent. Things I don't know: a) how my music got in there b) how they decided on $6.99 for the price of my album (which is a dollar more than 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin') and c) how much I earn out of the sales. Seeing as though I earn about $6.50 from each iTunes album sale I assume this'll be significantly less riches for me.

I'm pretty into Hype Machine lately. My friend Ryan's been bringing me up to speed on the blog house scene. I really don't have the time or patience or really anything to keep up with things so I'm relying on aggregators to do it. Of course now I'm thinking about writing my own as making web sites to enable my own laziness is sort of a passion of mine.

I think I could watch this Cadbury ad about one, maybe two thousand more times:

I think this is the first time I've ever been happy to hear Phil Collins.