A new addition to the world of online music comes from, where else...Myspace.
Across he top of your homepage you can find tabs for: My Music, Music Videos, Featured Playlists, Shows, Classifieds, and Forums. With everything going on on this site it all looks great. It is a very streamlined site, which is nice to see on a site known for looking very jumbled.
Under "My Music" you can see the last 100 songs you have used as profile songs.You can make a playlist of 100 songs and a pop-out player keeps music playing in the background while you do other things. Also seen on the pop-out player are artist updates which is full of information about songs, concerts, etc. Myspace Music streams full songs and also directly connects you to Amazon.com's MP3 Library for a number of the songs.
Under "Music Videos" there is an excellent Featured Video section, which currently features artists like John Legend (Green Light feat. Andre 3000), Big Boi (Sumthin's Gotta Give), and Hey Monday (Homecoming). Before I move on I just have to say that I really enjoyed John Legend's new tune, Big boi is big boi and Hey Monday's video is full of Scene kids and a lead singer that wishes she was Haley Williams from Paramore.
"Featured Playlists" is full of just that. Artists playlists are featured for all their fans to see. Artists like Lil' Wayne, Fall Out Boy and The Jonas Brothers have playlists ready for you to peruse. You can also see what Tom is listening to in this section.
Potentially, the "Shows" section could be one of my favorites. You can look up concerts in your area and MySpace will be offering concert tickets through their site. Merchandise is also supposed to be sold on MySpace but I haven't seen any yet.
The "Classifieds" section is what you would expect from the classifieds but there is a special "Muscians XChange" which leads you to Music jobs, Band announcements, Concerts, and Instruments just to name a few of the sections of the XChange.
And then there are the forums. The sections are: Acoustic, Alternative, Electronic/Dance, Emo, General, Hardcore, Hip-Hop, Metal, Punk, and Rock. I'm sure other topics will be introduced as more people join in the use of this section of the site.
As with any newborn website there are some things that still need to be ironed out but for what it is I think MySpace has really started something interesting. I wonder what this will mean for the industry as a whole now.
And now I am off to add songs to my playlist. :)
