What are some niche, street credit, cutting edge music sites where new bands can come to be found?

June 27, 2007 3:59 PM

What are some niche, street credit, cutting edge music sites where new bands can come to be found?
posted by herbiehancock00 to Media & Arts (12 answers total)

MySpace.

Seriously.
posted by cholly at 4:05 PM on June 27, 2007

purevolume?

maybe last.fm?
posted by kneelconqueso at 4:19 PM on June 27, 2007

VIRB is pretty cool. They're owned/run by purevolume, which is not as okay, but still okay.
posted by Minus215Cee at 4:30 PM on June 27, 2007

mp3 blogs like Stereogum. Find one that fits your taste at the Hype Machine.
posted by caddis at 4:33 PM on June 27, 2007

and myspace, but now the only bands that get "featured" are ones that pay for that privilege, and that means ones that the label thinks may be able to parlay that into sales. that may not be bad, but i think it diminishes chances for fan driven growth.
posted by caddis at 4:36 PM on June 27, 2007

I find these two message boards to be pretty tasteful and cutting edge:
I love music
Dissensus
posted by subtle-t at 5:31 PM on June 27, 2007

http://20jazzfunkgreats.blogspot.com/
http://fluokids.blogspot.com/
http://discobelle.net/
posted by citron at 8:45 PM on June 27, 2007

I've discovered lots of great music via 3hive. There's a few other blogs out there that simply catalog smaller bands, up-and-coming artists, and the like -- i.e. TofuHut. Check the links section of 3hive.
posted by spiderskull at 12:10 AM on June 28, 2007

I strongly second caddis' comment on Stereogum + the use of hype machine to find an mp3 blog suited to your tastes. I also add Tiny Mix Tapes as well as Music for Robots to the list of ones to check out.
posted by safetyfork at 6:59 AM on June 28, 2007

seconding citron's suggestions along with the following (some of these might be a little electro-heavy for your tastes):

http://music.for-robots.com/
http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/
http://this.bigstereo.net/
http://theyellowstereo.com/
http://myoldkyhome.blogspot.com/
http://youaintnopicasso.com/
http://www.daytrotter.com/

One nice thing about music sites/blogs is that if you find one that you like they tend to link to others that are similar.
posted by boreddusty at 9:16 AM on June 28, 2007

Just look at the highly rated bands on pitchforkmedia.com, then tell everyone you liked them before they sold out.
posted by electroboy at 9:44 AM on June 28, 2007

Lots of good suggestions above. If I had a band, I would probably try to get my music up on all the places above, but I would also post a video of your songs at Youtube, too, and some of the other video sites. You have to be really agressive these days to get heard.

The blogs are a good way to go, but you have to send them something, and hope you get noticed...We provided a fairly good overview at Beatking earlier in the year, on the best of them:

http://www.beatking.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=19444

Hope this helps.
posted by DudeAsInCool at 11:01 AM on June 28, 2007