Thanks for the blog shoutout to Mars Needs Guitars!

Wow. Indie artists. Doesn’t that mean that they suck too bad to make it with a major label? So who wants to listen to them, eh?

Should Indie and less-than-mainstream really be grouped together? I don’t think it should.

Merez: no prob, love the site,
Andy: apprently you didn’t feel like checking out Scum.com before linking to it. Russian brides anyone?
Brian: I just used that ‘description’ to better describe to those that don’t really understand what I enjoy. P.S. check out those links.

And to make it better, why not have an mp3 blog reader:

http://www.getpeel.com/

A post on how anti-establishment / non-mainstream you are? I would have never guessed.

yet.. a pretty cool post.

For someone with such a passive attitude towards most things, it’s shocking that you’d actually listen to music that you have to go out of the way to find / hear.

[...] In posts past “Music for the rest of us….” I suggested (and even linked to) numerous sites that provide a lot of different ways to discover new music. One of these sights that soon clearly became my favorite was “The Hype Machine“. Recently they have redone their system and have provide a new cutesy interface for their users while stripping so much of the functionality that the old user base had grown to love. Within the past week or so I was allowed to participate in the closed beta. I found a couple of minor bugs as well as provided a lot of suggestions as to how the new site seemed to be lacking compared to the old one, as well as suggested features that didn’t exist on the new OR old sites. Today, the new Hype Machine was deployed to the masses, after a somewhat failed attempt to promote their own hype. They wanted users to sit at a page that contained an actively moving counter, and wait for 10,000 continuous users to be viewing that page before the actual site was deployed. Either they got antsy, or realized that they set their sights a little high and just called it good at 3000 some. Upon my arrival to the new site I poked around for a bit, and for the most part it appeared to be the same as the beta that I had been toying with days before. They did fix the bug I found, but there was no implementation of any of the old or new features that I had suggested. Personally I was a little disappointed, secretly hoping that this was/is just the initial version of the new Hype Machine. But as far as I can tell, I don’t think it is. After reading through the comments on the latest hype machine blog post, it becomes quite evident that most everyone feels the same as I do. The general consensus is that we want our flash player back! [...]