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Your support makes all the difference.Swedish indie outfit The Radio Dept. overtakes LA rockers Warpaint to become the most popular act in the blogosphere, according to The Hype Machine on September 22. New in the top ten this week are indie bands The Fresh and Onlys and Twin Sister.
San Francisco-based garage pop band The Fresh and Onlys has just released a new track, "Waterfall," from the upcoming album Play It Strange, set to be released October 12. "It's an eerie number," reviews The Needle Drop (http://www.theneedledrop.com). "There's a bit of surf rock guitar bounding around the mix, too." Music blogger 32Ft/Second (http://32ftpersecond.blogspot.com) adds: "Shambling and mournful, [the new song] explores the Western edge of the indie rock frontier."
New York fivesome Twin Sister is back in the blogs this week after releasing a free download as part of the Shaking Through series, produced by Philadelphia nonprofit Weathervane Music. Every month Weathervane handpicks a rising indie artist to record for a few days in a studio with engineers and producers for free. Twin Sister recorded the track "Meet the Frownies," in 12 hours, along with a video documenting the process. "What started out as a band inside joke has now turned into a soothingly smoky melody," blogs Melophone (http://www.melophone.com) of the new song.
The 10 most blogged artists on The Hype Machine on September 22 at 10:00am GMT:
The Radio Dept. (+1)
Warpaint (-1)
Kanye West (unchanged)
Chromeo (unchanged)
Blackbird Blackbird (unchanged)
John Vanderslice (+3)
The Fresh and Onlys (new)
Mayer Hawthorne (new)
Twin Sister (re-entry)
Deerhunter (unchanged)
Launched in 2005, The Hype Machine aggregates information from more than 1,000 music blogs worldwide. Known for identifying up-and-coming artists, the site enables music fans to easily find out what music is hot in the blogosphere and to instantly hear and buy mp3s.
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