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How To Impress The Kids at the July 4 Barbeque 3

by Thomas Houston on July 3, 2008 at 06:00 AM



Muxtape / The Hype Machine

Feeling totally lost in the musical world of iPods, angst-ridden emo bands, and music sharing? Muxtape might be more your style. The idiot-proof site lets you share and explore music in a quick-and-easy playlist form without the trouble of online friending or the inanity of poking, just like the cassette-based mixtape of years past. If you have the Web skills to navigate an upload form, you'll have a shareable playlist of your favorite tracks in no time.

As music genres continue to splinter and grow in new and exciting ways -- you have heard dubstep, IDM and freak folk right? -- the old record charts are increasingly worthless as a guide to finding anything outside the mainstream. If you're in need of an influx of hip, head on over to The Hype Machine, which plugs into the power of the burgeoning world of music bloggers, and listen to the latest and greatest in underground and indie music. While we can't promise you'll be able to keep up with today's name-dropping, genre-hopping kids, you should still check the site any time during the day and you'll be able to see and hear what the current hottest tracks on the Web are, whether it's an obscure new Radiohead live recording or an underground dance hit from Sweden. The kids are going to be really psyched that you know The Killers from The Knife.

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