myspace music blah

Yes, it's definitely worth setting up a page -- I often direct people there instead of our web site because it's so easy to use and so easy for us to update.

YES. It takes maybe 15 minutes to set up a page and put a few songs up. Without trying, you will have people finding your page and listening to your songs and wanting to be yr myspace palz!

-ROXOR

For o.s. touring, it must be useful surely if you want to hook up with people in various places, sleep on their floor, etc - and return the favour later.

I think it's great - the only webby thing I've done that's really lead to work and even a small amount of $$. Many, many more people visit our myspace site than our website. It's been a lot more useful and cheap for obtaining gigs than S*nicbids too, so far anyway. The latter seemsto me at the moment to be an exercise in paying to be spammed by various festivals around the world, most of which are obviously inappropriate for the style we do.

Were Myspace to incorporate pay-for-download, that could be very interesting.

http://www.myspace.com/youngbloodbrass
http://www.myspace.com/dumate
http://www.myspace.com/dubtrio

speaking of spam here's my band:

http://www.myspace.com/mapsofnorway

(i'm the bald one in the picture not the hott dude btw)

It makes sense from a business perspective. But thinking of all those mediocre, weird haircut bands with 20K+ myspace friends edging more interesting fair makes me die a little. Then again, in the grand scheme of things it will all come out in the wash. Really good stuff will always be really good stuff, and a 'myspace friends' page will reflect that. I'm not trying to make a judgement call on any of that.

The myspace band phenomenon looks to me like an industry transformation on the same scale as say, the debut of MTV. I really think it has that much momentum, for good and for ill.

Note: I am on myspace, but none of my music projects are, simply because I don't really see any need (as of yet) for them to have a myspace page. I'm going to go through and start adding you folks though.

http://www.myspace.com/shimuracurves

I don't administer it or do anything to it, obviously, but I find it interesting because I find out news there (from our record company mostly) that I don't know yet myself!

Yes! I've had a couple of other goth band friend requests, but they had upwards of 2000 friends already! I dunno if that's enohg evidence to start drawing correlations between "goths" and "friend collectors". I still can't get over the first goth boi, who I approved, having 26,000 + friends! It's good having him on the list b/c a/he looks great in his corpsepaint and b/his first song starts with the words "in the deep dark dungeon of my soul", which is obviously the best thing ever. (it is actually prety good, synthpop-ish)

The best music of any band linked to us is:

1/karda estra, who are kind of gothy/early genesis-ish & not 1,000,000 miles removed from the likes of DcD or Eleven Shadows type music:

http://www.myspace.com/kardaestra

and

2/Seth Nemec, who is an analog synth manufacturer - he has this track "demo 1" which is this perfect jolly early mute-style instrumental

http://www.myspace.com/sethnemec

ours is

http://www.myspace.com/vietgrove

but I haven't got any music up yet. A job for this weekend, perhaps.

i saw cowboy curtis was on the bill...i think they draw pretty well..

it sux, i'm actually playing a show that nite at this "club" in the university of minnesota student union....i'm sure no one will be there but we get paid anyway - yay student activities fund!

hope you have a good show, if you ever come back to mpls and need help setting something up or whatever, give me a holler....i think you'd dig playing the turf club....

http://www.myspace.com/watercolordreaming

i dont know how much myspace surfing i'll do in search of bands though. it seems rather tedious.

Consider yourselves all added.

http://www.myspace.com/thehighwaykings

my last one in november was quite successful, picking 9 street trade off the main board (including Raggett, who'll show up to the opening of an envelope)

i'll hit the links on here. if i've greatly offended any of you, please block my request :)

http://www.myspace.com/smilewhenyoudial

is there any way of checking it from your home pooter? these tracks of mine are as rough as a bear's arse btw.

the tracks on myspace are just something that doesn't work for me sometimes, most likely it'll work ok tomorrow, going on past experience.

myspace

does anyone know how we can fix it so we can get into it?? we r so bored at skool and my space is like addictive lol

wb please.......

It makes sense from a business perspective. But thinking of all those mediocre, weird haircut bands with 20K+ myspace friends edging more interesting fair makes me die a little. Then again, in the grand scheme of things it will all come out in the wash. Really good stuff will always be really good stuff, and a 'myspace friends' page will reflect that. I'm not trying to make a judgement call on any of that.

as a promoter myself, im quite wary of booking anyone based on how many myspace friends they have. people have a tendency to be friends with anyone/anything on myspace. i'd like to think that good promoters may use myspace a research tool with limited purpose and that they should really take a better look in-depth by checking out the bands press/accomplishments, going to their shows [if possible], etc. if it's a younger band a promoter's trying to develop, its important to research them and figure out where they fit in the existing musical universe. [ie, post-punk bands on Banjo Night, etc]

these days, im even wary of the purpose of having a myspace account for plain parade. we have 600 folks on it, consisting of people who are interested in our shows, local bands, touring bands who have played with us/that we like, labels and other associated folks that make up the plain parade extended family. [we had our account for a couple years, strangely enough, have turned down more friends requests than accepted them] and despite the number, i seriously have to wonder if it really works, especially when 20 people show up to something [like they did last night - of course, im also aware there were competing shows last night due to pre-sxsw craziness].

don't get me wrong, myspace has turned me onto some cool bands and its great for bands who cant build their own websites [but they really, really should 'cause mypsace is ugly no matter how much you edit it] but the add-centric aspect of it doesn't bode well.

on that note:

http://myspace.com/plainparade

http://www.micepace.com

I can deal with not complying to web standards, but for fuck's sake it's the worst user interface on the planet. Friendster just eats it for lunch in that department... I finally got on MySpace recently, and I could barely get a modicum of information up there before I just wanted to beat the designer with a tire iron.

go go self promotion

(only listen if you don't hate crappy home recording)