May 08, 2006

New Musical Experiment

Seeing as more and more bands have myspace.com pages, I thought it might be interesting to use myspace to keep track of new bands as I discover them.

So, I've signed up for an account, and on it my aim is to link to new bands as "friends" and add an entry to my myspace blog whenever I add someone.

I think it'll give a slightly different angle to the music metadata that I expose about myself. My last.fm page will still be the most definitive record of what I've been listening to (and so any new find should feature pretty heavily around the time that I first find them), but my myspace account will be more of a hint at new people I think are worth a listen. And if you want to stay one step behind me on the band discovery trail (for of course I'm such a trailblazer... ;-) you can subscribe to the RSS feed for my myspace blog.

Posted by Adrian at May 8, 2006 12:47 PM | TrackBack

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You'll find that you end up getting nothing but spam friend requests from 'bands' wanting you to notice them.

Posted by: Damien Ryan at May 8, 2006 02:17 PM

Hey Damien, hadn't realised you were still reading :-)

I can well believe you about the spam friend requests. Still, we'll see how bad it gets...

Posted by: Adrian at May 8, 2006 02:40 PM

I think it's useless. I've just signed up for it too for exactly the same reason, just for the bands, but apparently many people go friend-begging to make themselves look popular. Plus it logs you out all the flamin' time and none of the links follow in logical order so you start trying to do something and can't carry on. I am this close: to cancelling my account.

Posted by: Kate at May 8, 2006 11:55 PM

Well, it's been less than a day and I've already had my first "join our get-rich-quick group" invite. And I have been rather unimpressed with the quality of the actual "application".

Posted by: Adrian at May 9, 2006 10:09 AM
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