Elbows Music Blog Community

Well see... now you are just getting greedy...

Being a boy, I seem to be able to manage quite effortlessly, however.

I'm ambivalent about the dubstep scene, it feels to me very limited these days... like the trance scene, only churning out 3 to 6 quality songs at most every year and each passing year getting increasingly tiresome with the same bag of tricks. There's very few artists doing something significant and with a style of their own, everyone else seem too comfortable jumping on the bandwagon without bringing anything.



Either way, that's just me.... never been a huge fan of the while thing - I do love the work of artists like Milanese, Deadboy, Ramadanman, Mt. Kimbie, James Blake... - and it's always good to find specialized blogs to clue people into a specific genre. I'm too hyperactive to focus myself on a specific one, it'd drive me crazy.

Anthony I was thinking it'd be cool to have a link to the author's hypem account (when available) somewhere on the blog's hypem page. I'd definitely want to befriend the people behind the blogs if they're active on hypem, follow their loved/last listened tracks.



Actually, and this I know would be much harder to implement it'd be cool to have some sort of shoutbox or comment box in each user's profile (an maybe also on the blog pages) similar to the profiles on last.fm only you know, this would be better as it's in hypem. I mean you already have thousands of users, if you find a way to make them interact between them I'm sure they will appreciate it and it's an incentive to spend even more time navigating through hypem which means more $$$! People love pimping their profiles, showing who they are to the world. The internet is an ego feast. Work it on your favor.

@anthony: a quick suggestion!...and also a bit of a request :-D

Where it now says "Posted 6 hours ago >>," I believe it used to say "Click here to read full post" or "Full post" or something. I feel that that historically made it easy for readers/users of Hypem to understand that they could click there to read the full post on the blog that posted it -- and often get the song for download. "Posted x hours ago" however, doesn't exactly have the same "HEY, click me!" draw to it. Anyone else feel this way?

I know this is sending people away from Hypem, but from the music blogger perspective, having a review well-read/visited can be inspiration to keep posting as much as possible.

So, what're the odds of throwing back a "Click to read" or something similar in there after the "Posted x hours ago"?

As a female blogger from a HM-listed site (Binary) NOT listed in the 'Female Bloggers' category, and then my own pet project which I haven't yet come close to attempting to list, I think the gender-based categorical distinction is a nice addition.

In the case of a blog like Binary or my own, which try to focus on the emotional interpretation of music rather than just 'the facts,' I think making a distinction between blogger genders is a useful tool. For example, take a song (by a male artist) with subtly misogynist themes. As a female, I'm going to have a completely different and unique emotional response to the song than would a male. I'm not saying males can't try to relate. However, as a woman I'm somewhat predisposed to interpret said subject matter differently, perhaps a bit more cynically. Or perhaps the song might take on a different meaning for me entirely. For a male listener the song might represent empowerment, whereas for me it might represent degradation. (Those of you who tend towards political correctness might argue that I'm grossly underestimating gender-related interpretive capability. But let's be honest with ourselves, we all tend to be a little biased towards what we know best: in this case, being a male or being a female.) It's not that we aren't equal in the grand scheme--this is the 21st century after all--but human nature has us make snap judgements influenced by our level of familiarity with a certain subject.
I don't think that Hypem is trying to 'judge' blogs based on writer gender. Rather, what I think Hypem is trying to do is highlight the interpretive nature of music as subjectified by gender, which (fortunately or unfortunately) cannot be escaped.

I do think the point Toad raised regarding aggregating based on race is valid, for the same interpretive reasons that I highlighted above. However, I can understand why they shied away from 'race' categories, as that begins to delve into the realm of TOO politically correct. This shit's supposed to be fun, it shouldn't draw those kind of lines in the sand.

Opinions and assholes, we all gots 'em!

I'm actually more curious how the non-bloggerin' community is taking the new hypems... Is it like Facebook, where everytime they fart a change in your general direction, the status stream becomes a series of rants against the smell?

really? people really just want the most hyped track? That's depressing. So, the "indie-kids" are no better than the Top-40 kids they hate?

I think this trend is pretty well evidenced by the persistent appearance of (really shitty) mashups on the Hypem charts. while the trend seems to be dying down a bit (thank god), i think the main force driving all that chart presence were primarily college students.

>>So, the "indie-kids" are no better than the Top-40 kids they hate?

Yes. Well, kind of...

I know I'm speaking in generalities and stereotypes to say that and I hate myself for it, but the indie/hipster group features a lot of the groupthink/bandwagoning that it despises in the mainstream group (for example, the James Blake leak).

Most of my friends that use Hypem are just listening for songs and not to read anything, even if they're into the indie stuff and not the pop remix side. Generally speaking, of course.

Caveat: the above is all just pure speculation of course!

"Bloggers read too much into things, me thinks." he says while drinking tea, pretending he didn't read every post in the thread & thinking about a Hype Machine shirt with a non-ironic "aging white hipster" tag/category logo...

Sorry Toad, in the states, all non-USians who are into indie-music are automatically hipsters. It's your "euro-clothes" and exotic accents. On the plus side, you get laid, like, ALL the time. Sorry Canucks, the same doesn't apply. No matter how I got abOOt it, at best, it only brings cute giggles.

"And Tsuru giggles a lot regardless of whether she says about or aboot (note: ab*00*t)...And, yeah it is pretty cute when he giggles."

~CB via Tsuru

Sometimes in the blogging world credits cards can't capture moments, and for those moments...

it's just priceless.

*giggles*

really? you just need to get out of the city, nice and north... Best family dinner I had, my wife's step-sister's husband, a fireman from a decent chunk north east of Toronto, was alllll aboot his aboots and ehs! I was mesmerized. Toronto folks don't have much of an accent, just a hearty "sore-ry" for sorry, a slightly pronounced U, and the random eh.

i admit to the hearty sore-ry.. I think I type eh? more than I say it

Hmm.. lovin the subscription option to hypem. Found myself on that site more than I used to be

Quiche - It's how Hype indexes their tracks and the links to eMusic, etc.

(There aren't actual MP3 downloads there...)

We judge you.  We all judge you.

@apocketfullofseeds

thanks mate- check out my music blog - been going for about 6 months now... am seriously loving being a blogger! Anyone else get way more of a buzz out of it then you initially thought you would? Or have i just become a massive geek!?

www.GiveQuicheAChance.com

I actually prefer getting a "buzz" from this:

yeah would be well interested if there had.. my blog not on there yet