Cults, Fleet Foxes dominate the blogs with new tracks

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New York indie duo Cults rises to the top of the Hype Machine's most blogged artists charts on March 23. Seattle's famed folk-pop band Fleet Foxes reenters the chart in second place, while Canadian pop-rockers The Weekend, from London, Ontario, take third.

Pegged as a hot breakthrough band at Austin's South by Southwest last week, New York two-piece band Cults is described as a "saccharine sweet but still very grunge-tinged act" by The Culture of Me (thecultureofme.com). The duo has a new album set to drop in May, and they just released a track dubbed "You Know What I Mean" that according to blogger Breaking More Waves (breakingmorewaves.blogspot.com) is "divinely nostalgic."

BBC Radio1's Zane Lowe recently premiered a new Fleet Foxes song dubbed "Battery Kinzie" from the band's upcoming and highly anticipated second album, Helplessness Blues . The new track is "a denser Granddad's barn stomper than their last Helplessness Blues leak," according to blogger The Fader (thefader.com).

The 10 most blogged artists on The Hype Machine on March 23 at 12:00 GMT:

Cults (reentry)
Fleet Foxes (reentry)
The Weekend (+2)
The Strokes (+2)
The National (-4)
MSTRKRFT (-4)
Daft Punk (-2)
Acid House Kings (reentry)
Jamie Woon (-6)
Friendly Fires (new)

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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Watch the Fleet Foxes perform "White Winter Hymnal" from their 2008 self-titled debut LP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQRS40OKNE