The talk of the week seems to be the activity at MySpace, what with the launch of MySpace Music and their new self-serve ad platform.
Other sites are reporting on these goings-on much more than I care to, so if you’re interested, check out Hypebot’s by-the-minute MySpace reporting for coverage of the MySpace Music negotiations [...]
One of the most popular articles on TheMusicSnob.com is Getting Your Band Featured on MySpace, which was posted to the Industry Wiki several months ago. The original article is an excerpt from an ebook by Nick Jag, who runs a site offering marketing tips on social networking sites.
Because things change quickly online, I’m not sure [...]
Finally, a company to serve those of us that wish more strange musicians would sleep on our couches!
Seriously, though, this actually sounds pretty interesting. Better Than The Van has recently introduced a site to connect touring musicians with people willing to let them sleep on their couches. Whether they are daredevils, sickos, or good Samaritans, [...]
In keeping with Friday’s “casual dress policy,” I’m injecting some spontaneity and humor into the mix here. Don’t worry, our cutting and dry editorial style will return on Monday morning.
Goodbye MySpace
I took great joy moments ago in canceling my MySpace account for TheMusicSnob. I wasn’t interested in spending ANY time on their site, and so [...]
Given how slow and choked with advertising Myspace is, it can take forever just to send one message. They have so many useless features, but still manage to make the most basic ones unpleasant. Since most “friends” don’t share their email addresses, your only hope to convey a message to all your Myspace fans is [...]
The popular social networking blog Mashable has a post of 90+ sites and tech tools related to all facets of making and interacting with music. The comments list is a year+ growing spore of new and obscure and interesting plugs for music related sites. Definitely worth browsing, as you are sure to find some music [...]
We recently interviewed the founder of Staump.com, Tim Staump, to find out more about his site for independent musicians. Staump.com has created a web community of artists that can share their music via download or streams, and offers some interesting features, including:
Aggregation of band materials from YouTube and Flickr.
Tag-based searching / sorting, instead of single-genre [...]
