Radio G String

I was ready to fob it off, after all: when you look up a band, what comes up isn’t exactly detailed in a useful way: a biography; a handful of songs; and a list of associated words. Where’s the discography; the associated acts; credits; awards, etc? There’s very little om the new web music database, Soundflavour, that marks it above its rivals, despite it wanting to be an ‘IMDB for music’. 

Very little. 

However, scroll down and there is something that catch the eye which is very useful: “News”, it says. And it holds this information which had escaped me until now: “Mike Patton and The Melvins to curate ATP Nightmare Before…” 

This means this otherwise completely worthless site is not worthless. It has a quality; a tool; to make it useful along side the pure databaseness of allmusic and Wikipedia, which are, at best, slow to update and have no live news about acts (something they would greatly benefit from, but they don’t need them as they have everything else Soundflavour doesn’t have). 

By the way, The Melvins are playing ATP’s Nightmare Before Christmas and Fantamos are playing the Directors Cut all the way through. See you then! 

Another test reveals that the news service is good, but not as good as it should be: it’s missing collating the metal news site Blabbermouth, which is a massive gap for metal bands. 

Ahh, well. Don’t bother looking at any of them, I’ll just let y’all know when something worthwhile is up. Scar’s on Braodway’s pretty crappy artwork:

ahh well…