MP3.COM.AU relaunches today with features that it says will delight music lovers and artists alike. The updated site offers thousands of free and legal tracks available for download, and promotional tools to help budding artists ensure their music receives the attention it deserves on a global scale.
Established in 1999, MP3.COM.AU was designed as a promotional and networking tool to help artists find an audience. The website relaunches with additional features to provide artists with more opportunities to get their music heard.
MP3.COM.AU gives Australia’s emerging artists and fans the following new promotional features:
· Upload your tracks and videos as free streams and/or downloads
· Create and manage a profile page
· Post the latest news or blog about your band
· Submit details on gigs
· Post in the new, improved forum
· Have your music reviewed by fans, peers and our music editors
· Fans can download tracks for free and create playlists they can save or share with friends
Like My Space music and other social networking sites, MP3.COM.AU offers users the opportunity to have direct access to their favourite artists. By subscribing to artist pages, users receive the latest music and news of their preferred bands as they post it on the site. These updates are supplied via email, RSS or to the subscribers’ personal homepage and include new blog and news entries, photos, reviews, gigs, tracks, albums and videos
Destra CEO Domenic Carosa says: “Any band that signs up to MP3.COM.AU is guaranteed that their music will be shared with the hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors to the site, as well as the multitude of record labels, booking agents, managers, promoters and musicians who frequent the site. MP3 can contribute to an increase in gig attendance, fans and music sales.”
MP3.COM.AU has long been known as the home for Australia’s independent bands such as British India, Young and Restless, E.E.S. and The Wednesday Society. “By subscribing to artists pages and downloading their tracks, users can help discover the next crop of Australia’s indie artists,” says Carosa.