Featured Blog Aggregators

1) Hype Machine: Hype Machine is a music blog that combines over 1,000 music blogs from around the world. What makes hype machine an excellent music blog aggregator is the interface. For free, and without signing up, a user can stream the latest, most popular songs being written about in music blogs. If a user does sign up to this music blog aggregator, he or she has additional options, such as creating lists of favorites. Overall, this is an excellent music blog aggregator. www.hypem.com

3)Elbows: Another music blog aggregator site that is very popular is Elbows. What differentiates this site is that it tracks hot artists, hot tracks, and hot videos, among other data. This site is more of a collection of blog posts than any streaming music site. Very functional and pleasing in appearance. A recommended site. www.elbo.ws

2)Metacritic: Metacritic combines many blog aggregators in a single interface. A user may click on music, television, movies, dvd's, among others. I mostly have used this for its music blog aggregator, which has a unique scoring system. I don't always agree with the choices, however, it is fairly accurate, imho. The drawback of this blog aggregator seems to be the limited choice. Only the top albums in each genre are included for consideration. I give this blog aggregator an "A" for its breadth. www.metacritic.com

4) XChannel: XChannel is one of the more simple and straightforward blog aggregators that I have found. The latest updates are listed almost in simple RSS form, and there aren't too many bells and whistles. You can choose between album reviews and blog updates. www.xchannel.blogspot.com