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I'm actually about 8 months late or however long it has been since Fox bought it up, but as I muddle through the wasteland of useless trash that exists on Myspace, I officially give up trying to use it to find bands for my radioshow.

Lets do a search for the zip code 75201 which I'm told is Dallas, or at least part of it. Now how about we try within 50 miles, genre: Indie, and listed alphabetically...

OH HEY! look at that, the first band that pops up for me is Durden followed by 6 bands that don't start with the letter A and a band that does.

Shocker.

Ok, Ok, lets rank them by recently updated...

Great...half a dozen bands they just put up their new Myspace account.

Then there's the 190 pages of CRAP I have to churn through before I see, oh hey the Deathray Davies have a Myspace, sweet! I love that band...but I already know who they are.

Myspace is becoming more and more like the real music business, tons of filler making it impossible to see anything good inside it. The blog-o-sphere it seems is the only place one can look to anymore for comfort. I actually find the Texasgigs catalog to have plenty of stuff I haven't heard of just yet. I find that sites like this may well be the only answer any given scene can hope for as far as internet presence when you are small. Luckily Texasgigs is not alone, just a couple examples:

The 515crew in Iowa

and their slightly more flashy friends at Iowa Rock

Sorry guys, I've been crushing pretty hard on a select few Iowa bands, but Texas owns my heart...and my liver...

Anywho, I think we need to start pushing these types of sites elsewhere in the nation. Maye they already exist, I couldn't begin to tell you I haven't looked hard enough, but Cindy has proven this sort of thing can be done. If we use Texasgigs as our base model, each of us can tell our cousin/friend/band you played with everywhere in the country to try and establish an internet focal point for their particular scene.

Can't get local radio play? Screw it, podcast that shizbah and get it to a central point that everyone wants to advertise.

Call me crazy, but it looks to me like the revolution is gonna start right in our own basements, and oddly enough it's gonna be pretty cost efficent.

I wish I were this cool when I was a kid