Whois & Analysis for hypem.com

Hype Machine is a music blog aggregator created by Anthony Volodkin.

History.

Hype Machine was originally a music database created in 2005 by Anthony Volodkin, then a sophomore computer science major at Hunter College.

The site was born out of Volodkin's frustration with music magazines and radio stations.

He said, "I discovered MP3 blogs like Stereogum and Music for Robots.

I couldn't believe there were people spending their time writing about music, putting up tracks so you could hear them.

And I thought, there has to be a way to bring this all together." In 2005, Volodkin sent his site address to pioneers in the online music domain, including Lucas Gonze of Webjay, in order to gain feedback.

Instead of sending a response, Gonze and others posted the link online.

Volodkin observed, "[Hype Machine] got launched without ever being launched.".

A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the latter term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre.

The pressure from the music industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people.

For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies.

Pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers.

Some songwriters serve as their own music publishers, while others have outside publishers.

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s.

The terms "popular music" and "pop music" are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many styles.

"Pop" and "rock" were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were increasingly used in opposition from each other.

A song, most broadly, is a single (and often standalone) work of music that is typically intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections.

Written words created specifically for music or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics.

If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in classical music it is an art song.

Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants.

Songs in a simple style that are learned informally are often referred to as folk songs.

Songs that are composed for professional singers who sell their recordings or live shows to the mass market are called popular songs.

These songs, which have broad appeal, are often composed by professional songwriters, composers and lyricists.

Art songs are composed by trained classical composers for concert or recital performances.

Songs are performed live and recorded on audio or video (or in some, cases, a song may be performed live and simultaneously recorded).

Songs may also appear in plays, musical theatre, stage shows of any form, and within operas.