As a music fan and promoter, I would like to encourage my friends in bands to continue to use and update their myspace even though its "dying" . Heres Why:
1. It remembers my favorite bands better than I do: I have seen hundreds of bands, but can only remember a few dozen off the top of my head. Thats a lot for me, a super fan, but not for the general public. Thanks to the shows page, I can put in my zipcode, select bands I'm friends with and find shows that you I may have missed amongst the random birthday parties, dj nights and food crawls on facebook.
2. There is no better way to have people listen to song samples: You guys are awesome. Many bands are not. The other day I spent 4 hours listening to 96 bands on myspace to see which ones I liked. If I had tried to look them up individually, it would have taken a month and I would have given up and not given them a chance. When I get to say, just a bands facebook or blog or twitter page, its way too much work to click on a video link and wait for it to load. And I work harder than the average music fan.
3. I can find you when you are on a random tour and I am on a random trip: Thanks to the zipcode function again, I was able to find favorite bands on tour and find a relatively obscure 2 day music festival in North Carolina, and a 2 day punk, hardcore and garage festival in areas I was planning to visit. To this day, it is still quite difficult to put in say, "live punk rock boston" or "live garage rock wisconsin" and find a show that you know right away you want to see. Facebook certainly doesn't do this. Last.fm may have some shows, but not all. Myspace keeps it all in one place. I can actually visit a town, put in shows near this zip code, pull down garage rock from the menu and discover new bands that I want to see. This is how we wound up seeing two touring minneapolis bands in Columbus Ohio last year, and I hope we can continue to discover new bands along the way..
So please bands! Continue to post and update your myspace!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Please bands! Keep posting on myspace!
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