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December 14, 2005
Musical MySpace Moment
As one who has to look at tons of bands' web sites each week, I'm beginning to think that MySpace is turning out to be a counterproductive tool for the artists. Each site (at least in framework) is a carbon copy of the next which does nothing to combat the homogenous corporate radio atmosphere that kills, in my opinion, the originality and variety so desperately needed in music these days.
While the tools, community and ease of use within MySpace are a recognizable draw, so much of popular music marketing is image and that image should, to me, include the design of a band's web site.
In other words, all hail the independent web designer. You rock.
| By colrus | 03:14 PM
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everything about mySpace is lame.
Posted by: James at December 14, 2005 03:41 PM
I also think myspace is lame. But we've gotten gigs from it, made fans from it, gotten our music heard. Overall its a really good networking tool for bands.
Posted by: John at December 14, 2005 08:06 PM
I agree that band sites are more appealing,
but Myspace pages are free and it's a great tool
for bands that don't have the money to dump into
a full blown site.
Maybe bands should get the masters of myspace
to spiff up their pages.
Posted by: davidm at December 14, 2005 08:24 PM
Frustration #867 about contacting bands via MySpace:
Having to register with MySpace to send a band an e-mail or download a photo of them to use for an article about them that I am writing for a show they are playing. That's right, their free site makes it harder for me to give them free publicity.
This service might be good for intraband networking, but, so far, it blows for band promotion on my end.
Also, the fact that this might be all that bands are able to afford is of no consequence to me. Their reliance on a free service leads me back to a repeated observation of mine: THERE ARE JUST WAY TOO MANY FRIGGIN' BANDS ON THIS PLANET. And roughly 89% of them are kinda good and kinda all sound the same.
Posted by: Bill at December 14, 2005 09:14 PM
Even with all the tech-nerds that could be coerced into creating sites for bands on the cheap, getting that functionality up so quickly is the key. The web, for all its coolness, is still ridiculously hard for laymen to publish on. Hence the blog..
Posted by: cmwillis at December 15, 2005 10:02 AM
Maybe bands could use myspace to have their music previewed by people, which contributes to gig invites and fans, but instead of creating the myspace, just have the music and a link to their own page. I guess that could work for both sides.
Posted by: Sc at January 22, 2006 01:19 AM