Artists House Music

I think at this point if you're still using MySpace to share your music, you look like you don't know what you're doing.

July 19 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Miguel Caetano, Jason, Craving and Rob Michael (Atmos Trio) liked this

Sorry, but I can't agree with you. I use myspace as a band/musician, and I do it because while it is quite bad as a platform, the community that floats around it is big and useful. Make everyone swap to somewhere else and I'll go. As it is, I am at myspace specially because I *have* to be there. I could sat that failing to realize that, you look like you don't know what you're saying ;-) - Marcos Marado

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There are many other platforms which support vast music communities. Last.fm, thesixtyone.com, the list goes on. Promoting music has very little to do with infiltrating social networks where 'everyone' is. - Artists House Music

They serve different purposes. MySpace is more useful to me than Last.fm for non-fans relationship (labels, other artists, promoters, venues), even if I prefer and actually use more Last.fm. It's just a question of "scale", and "who's where", not a platform issue. Nowadays even if I don't do nothing I'll get introduced to new contacts on MySpace at a rate of more or less 10 per week.... more... - Marcos Marado from fftogo

My friends band not only found their singer via Myspace but got booked for a 3 show gig at a local pub. Just because you are on the cutting edge doesn't mean everyone else is. In Australia, we don't have access to a lot of services. Casting broad assumptions with possibly unintentional backhands makes YOU look like you don't know what you're doing :) - Johnny Worthington

What Johnny said, mhm. - Anthony Citrano

I had been making the mistake of dis-regarding myspace when it comes to music and bands. I was wrong. For that it is a good platform, due to its widespread adoption and portabilty. Case in point. HoneyHoney. :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Artists House Music

@stuartnewman I'd argue that the fans and connections that matter probably aren't using MySpace either

July 19 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

do you have any facts or testimonies to back ou that argument? Because I'm not the only one *feeling* that there are important connections *on* MySpace... - Marcos Marado

I think it's only important in so much as MySpace is where the masses are. The musicians I know who are supporting themselves off of their art are not using MySpace. On the business side of things (A&R/booking/etc), they only listen to music on MySpace if there is no other alternative offered, and it often ends in a bad experience (auto-play, multiple-songs playing, visual obnoxiousness, spam, obtrusive advertising from MS, etc). - Artists House Music

Vaughan Rivett

Wondering why people are follow me on friendfeed all of a sudden.

May 7 - Comment - Like - Share

Same here...within the last few days I've had a steady stream of subscribers...I had gone months without any... - Artists House Music

I have not been working on building friendfeed but have been getting emails of about 20 a day over the last 3 days saying that people are subscribing to my feed. - Vaughan Rivett

Interesting. I am starting to think that it is a bit of a step up from twitter - Vaughan Rivett

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