By MLB banning the use of Twitter by baseball beat writers for anything but baseball topics – and scolding players for any use of Twitter – baseball has proved themselves to be Luddites.

Instant Album Review: Band of Horses – Infinite Arms (May 18, 2010) This is the album that pushes Band of Horses into full-bore mainstream status. Selfishly, I wish it weren’t the case but the band of “Detlef Schrempf” is now the band of “Factory”. The band’s third full-length album, their first on Columbia Records, pushes [...]

There has been a tremendous amount of discourse regarding the sub-genre of music that hopped onto the underground/blog music scene early Fall 2009. Dubbed “Chillwave” by one of the larger music blogs, it’s the new “it” music of the uber-hipster. I was asked last week by a local musician to explain what Chillwave was, exactly. [...]

I believe in science. I love science. My outlook on life is based, in large part, on science. But not in the way you think.

There are moments in life that bind age, creed, color into one unforgettable experience. When the moment called, Jason Heyward delivered.

1993: The year that forms the hazy, golden memory that I will forever look back on fondly. Good and bad, the music of that summer is a huge part of the reason why.

In this editorial, I outline seven step to bring excitement back to baseball. From adding a new League to an All-Star Game draft, my ideas may be a shock to traditional baseball fans everywhere.

Who is Jamie Cullum? If he were an athlete, his stats would look great: Golden Globe, BRIT Award and Grammy nominee. Winner of BBC 2′s Artist of the Year in 2005. He’s sold millions of albums since his first album came out in 1999. His background is as a Jazz musician, which is timelessly cool. So why had I not heard of him before six weeks ago?

One of the best things about running the site is that sometimes I run face-first into an amazing band thanks to a submission by a band member of manager. Such is the case with the Moscow-based band Everything Is Made In China.

If this were 2009 rather than 2010, I would be calling Midlake’s The Courage of Others one of the best albums of the decade.

But it is 2010. Four days into the second month of 2010 – or less than one-tenth of one-percent of the upcoming decade to be exact. Which makes the following statement one that may seem a bit precocious and premature …

If you are a regular visitor to Hype Machine – and if you are reading this interview you probably are – then you recently saw “Nobody Gets Out Alive!” by Le Castle Vania in the top 5.

So what better time to introduce you to the man behind Le Castle Vania, Atlanta-based DJ Dylan Eiland.

If you don’t know what McCarthyism is, look it up now. Done? If you didn’t know what it was, there’s a better-than-even chance that you used Wikipedia. It’s many people’s default Web site to get quick answers to their must-know questions. I, and many others, have a problem with Wikipedia. Like any open-source site, it [...]

Rather than work on my second interview with Nyles Lannon (which will be one of the best interviews to date), I decided to do something I had not done in quite a while: attempt to write an actual article. I Believe in Consonants: My Life Without an iPod Today, as I was looking through a [...]