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Online Music Sites

An Online Music Site is a web site that provides a virtual platform for artists to do various things: upload their music, sell downloads, CD and merchandise, add in Gig dates, collect fans and keep people informed of events surrounding the release and performance of their music. Usually these sites are created by musicians or music related companies, for musicians. Some of these sites are free for musicians and some offer packages that deliver different services. Musicians are encouraged to use these sites to spread the word and use tools provided to promote their music to music lovers globally.

If you have recorded demos of your voice, music, songs etc. or you have finished product (IE a CD for sale), a great way to get exposure is to upload these songs to OMD’s (Online Music Distributors). This is an excellent way for any artist to gain exposure to industry, potential fans and other musicians. You can meet others to collaborate and do many other things when you upload your music and begin to promote yourself online. Don’t forget to set up your own web site so that you have your own personal “home on the net” (i.e. your “bandname.com” or “yourartistname.com”).
This way fans can have one central place to keep track of your releases, shows, and other important info. If you want excellent web hosting for a very reasonable price, check out HostingZoom or Interactive Online (for Green Hosting) and for affordable music web site design, contact MBSTIA, Inc. (tell them Natalie Brown sent you!). Good luck out there and don’t forget that you get out of your career what YOU PUT IN!

Remember that you can make use of any Online Music Distribution site as long as your music fits into the theme of music that site supports and you make sure you have read the Terms of Service for each site before you join and actively promote your music. Make sure you read through and completely understand the user agreement you sign when you join. Some of these sites charge to host your music and some do not. Due to the nature of OMS’s coming and
going, some companies may not be in business. Please let me know if you find a dead link by using the form at the bottom of this page. Thanks :) PS: some sites are more Social Network oriented than OMS oriented, so those are listed HERE.

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AcidPlanet.com Electronic
mainly. For users
of Acid & SoundForge software mainly, but open to all. Heavy trance/techno
bent, as one might imagine. It’s a community site where you upload
your music and get feedback.
Open
Afternight Database Online artist database.
Open
Alt. Sounds The world’s most comprehensive source for alternative bands and artists. Featuring free MP3 streams and downloads, music samples, artist information, download charts, sponsored record labels, and more.
Open
Alternative Addiction General music site with unsigned band section. Email to get featured on site.
By Application
AmazingCDs List CD for sale in online store. ALL CDs are accepted — ALL styles of music.
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Amazon.com Amazon Advantage Music program. Sell your CD’s and downloads at Amazon.com
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Archive.org The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections.
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Artist Gigs Artists may upload profile, songs and images. Open to all genres.
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ArtistLaunch.com ArtistLaunch began as a clearinghouse for internet broadcasters, but has quickly evolved into an Internet radio network which draws its material almost exclusively from independent artists, and has further developed into a promoter of the artists, providing them with Live Showcases, internet and real-world radio outlets, reviews, and Artist Pages.
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Free & Paid Memberships

Artist Server ArtistServer is a social media site with a focus on independent music. We offer FREE and upgraded accounts for both artists and non-artists, whom we’ll just call ‘members’ or ‘music fans.’ We’ve been providing services to artists and music fans since 2001 (launched 12/05/2001). The first 5 years we existed as an electronic music site under the name ElectronicScene.com, then in 2nd quarter 2005, we scaled up to include all genres of music and took on the name ArtistServer to better represent the direction of the site and services.
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Free & Paid Memberships

Artistopia At Artistopia, music artists, musicians, and songwriters across the world come to display their talent and professionally manage their music careers. Launched with the undeterred focus of building an independent music community that “also” attracts industry professionals, Artistopia is quickly becoming the one-stop shop for artists and professionals to meet under one roof and speak one language – potential success. Artistopia takes pride in pioneering the next revolution in the music industry: how independent artists and musicians are discovered. Mission Statement: To build and foster a proactive online community where artists and professionals from all corners of the music industry come and develop opportunities.
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Free & Paid Memberships

Audigist.com Audigist is THE place for musicians, bands and independent record companies to sell their music for one of best royalty rates on the internet!
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AudioStreet.net AudioStreet.Net offers a complete solution for bands & artists looking to make a strong internet presence. Our services include mp3 hosting (streaming and downloading), full artist pages with your albums, songs and lyrics, news, biography, press and reviews, event listings, photo gallery, a fan subscription service, and much more. We also have many new services in development including artist message boards, a pay-per-download service for selling you mp3′s, and a full merchandise storefront for selling your merchandise.
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AustinTXMusic.com Artist accounts for Austin bands are FREE and include 15MB of space. Features include the option of having MP3s available for streaming, downloading or both, a band image, song images, a bio, a page for show dates, a page for messages, and a store to sell CDs, T-shirts and other merchandise.
Open to Austin, TX artists.

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Bandcamp Bandcamp is a publishing platform for musicians. We’re your fifth, fully geeked-out Beatle, who keeps your website humming and lets you get back to making music. Open
Band Universe Want to promote your band on the Internet? If you want to drive more traffic to your web site or don’t have a web site at all and just want a presence on the Internet, then The Band Universe was designed just for you! The Band Universe is a promotion engine for bands, groups, and individual artists. You can enter detailed information: bio, roster, upcoming gigs, recordings and MP3 audio. Or, you can just link The Band Universe to your web site Either way, you’ll be instantly visible to visitors to The Band Universe. Also, each week new artist’s names are added to a page crawled by the search engine’s spiders so that search engine users can find you.
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Beatmaka Around spring 1999, when sites like mp3.com started getting big they also got more and more filled up with acts and tracks of questionably talent and quality. At this point we started to think about a way to extract the essential acts and bring them together in one place – beatmaka.com. A place dedicated to quality music. beatmaka.com is a source for a fine selection of authorized digital music on the Internet. beatmaka.com gives musicians a free opportunity to offer their music to a wide range of Internet users by creating a direct connection between artists, other producers and the audience.What Do You Do Exactly?

The main goal of beatmaka.com is to deliver a site with high quality content. We do everything possible to select only the best music without compromise. Our Review Panel checks each incoming track and assures that only the best ones get online.

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BET.com Ya Heard This is the home of the most talented unreleased artists. Unsigned artists upload your original songs and create your own personal artist page and tell all your friends and label reps to check you out on Ya Heard?
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Blip.fm Artists can uplod music and become a DJ and ‘blip’ out music. Also interfaces with Twitter. Open
Broadjam How does Broadjam help musicians?

Broadjam helps its tens of thousands of musicians and bands promote their music online. Musicians use Broadjam to:

* Sell music downloads

* Deliver music to film & TV supervisors, radio stations, and pro reviewers

* Build a fan base of Broadjam listeners

* Enter contests to win prizes and exposure

* Get a musician’s web site

* Much more!

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Free & Paid Memberships

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Canadian Music Artists Loads of great features for artists to promote your stuff, event calendar, message board, photo gallery, blog section, your audio files. We support much more than MP3′s, and offer Micro Payment Digital Downloads.

Check it out now all this for GRATUIS – FREE

Canadian Artists Only
CD Unsigned CD Unsigned is an innovative all-in-one online CD retailer and music web site, based in Worthing, (near Brighton) on the South Coast of England, specialising in CDs by new and emerging and unsigned bands.
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Christian Mp3 Our mission: Christian Music Entertainment Group, LLC. is dedicated to providing the best selection of Christian music in modern media formats at an affordable price. Christian Music Entertainment Group, LLC. recently purchased ChristianMp3.com, ChristianMp3s.com, ChristianCds.com and ChristianMusicGear.com. We are dedicated to offering Christian music download in modern formats including MP3 and Christian music CDs and more. In the near future we plan to offer Christian Music from artists big and small in MP3 format at affordable prices. We will be offering some FREE MP3′s as allowed by the artists. The future plans also include selling Christian CD’s and Christian Music Gear (T-Shirts, posters and other swag).
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Digital Sounds Upload music and profile.
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DMusic Upload music and profile.
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eFolkMusic.org We are always
looking for exceptional music and artists. efolkMusic is a “filtered” site, just what we call the “good” stuff. We’re certainly not the judge and jury as to what’s good and what isn’t (or what is folk music and what is not!), but the Internet needs some sorting. Our mission is to promote good music and the artists who create it, any way we can.

We want to hear what you are doing. Application to our roster is simple- send us a link to where your music can be heard, or send us a CD (101 Evans Ct, Carrboro, NC 27510 USA)

Open to Folk Music Artists
eMusicBlast Upload music and profile.
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EuropaMP3 EuropaMp3.org boosts the launch of new labels and musicians by remunerating its subscribers for the essential work that they carry out for the distribution of your music!
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Facebook This is a popular social networking portal that also offers “Fan Pages”. This is a great way to socialize with and keep fans informed
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Five Miles High If you play good Rock n Roll / Punk / Rock and you think you deserve a link from FiveMilesHigh or even a full page send us a CD, a brief biography and your contact details.
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Fish The Music Japanese site focusing on indie music. Has radio and podcast shows and artist listing.
Funender Upload music and profile.
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Garage
Band
Upload music and profile. Music is rated by community members.

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Free with Some paid services

Got Local Music Our goal is to connect you to awesome local music in your area. Beginning in Santa Cruz, California and growing nation wide. We are seeking talented unknown artists. In doing this we will promote the heart and soul of local areas. Got Local Music.com is a privately run web site Got Local Music.com is part of a network of music web sites that concentrate on a local presence. Got Local Music.com will bring a new dimension to the local music scene. It will help bands get gigs, and gain new fans locally, where it matters most.
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Guitar Create your profile. Discover what music and gear your fellow guitarists are into, watch and chat about user submitted videos, music videos, player generated lessons, other sites, bands, whatever you like. List the music and gear you love for others to discover and if they buy based on your recommendation, you get a commission. Write your blog, use it for education or amusement and earn advertising revenue from the traffic you generate on it. If you’re a musician and love to chat about and discover new music, musicians and gear guitar.com is your new home.
Open To Guitar Players

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Hit Quarters A&R Resource, All Genres, Paid Membership Only
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Hot Bands Since it was founded in November of
1998, HotBands.com has established itself as a leader and visionary in
the way music will be delivered and enjoyed; both live and via the
internet. We have pursued affiliates and partnerships in the music industry to
develop a family of music-oriented web sites and businesses able to
provide the artist with a complete resource for all of their music
needs.

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IAC While we are looking for great music, we are not rigid on production standards or musical perfection here. Our emphasis is quality songwriting. We appreciate and we expect to get a lot of well-produced, radio-ready music, but we also want to encourage the art aspect – ideas that may not necessarily be in final form – great performances – original even if somewhat incomplete. IAC is a center for artist development.
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iLike iLike is a leading social music service that provides the most popular music app across social networks. With over 50 million users, iLike helps you share music recommendations, playlists, and get personalized concert alerts.
Open
IMEEM imeem is the world’s largest social music service with millions of free streaming songs and videos. Make playlists to share with friends and embed anywhere.
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Indie Charts Indiecharts.com A Social Indie Music Community , Community for Musicians and Music lovers and fans of Indie Music, Unsigned Musicians and Independent Music Artists Create Profiles and add Fans and get Your Music Reviewed and Ranked on indiecharts, Indie Musicians and unsigned Artists , Create your Profile and Get your Music Reviewed, Indie Music community and top Indie Music Artists and top indie musicians, Unsigned Talents profile pages and best independent musicians and best indie music
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Indie Music Review IndieReview.net is a music community of independent artists and music fans designed to showcase independent music from around the world to new audiences.

IndieReview.net provides independent artists with free promotional tools to help them get their music out there! Well it’s been a year and a half and we’re proud of just how much great music is being promoted here at IndieReview.net!

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iSound Sign up for FREE as an artist to get your music heard by 1,000′s of site visitors.

  • Instantly create your own professional band/artist web site.
  • Upload your mp3s, videos and photos.
  • Put your music anywhere on the internet with our portable player.
  • Sell your music downloads and keep 100% of the net profits.
  • Instantly sell your mp3s as ringtones.
  • Get exposure to record labels.and much, much more…
Open

Free with Some paid services

Into Music Intomusic.co.uk is one of the UK’s most established independent music download sites. We sell both music downloads and mp3 players. All these tracks are unrestricted mp3′s allowing you to transfer them to any mp3 player or Ipod and copy to CD-R. Tracks from our recent catalogue are encoded at 256kbps.
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Last.fm The world’s largest online music catalogue, with music streaming, videos, pictures, charts, artist biographies, concerts and internet radio.
Open to most countries
Let’s Talk Music Letstalkmusic.com
is dedicated to serving independent musicians, songwriters and producers while helping to develop and promote a career in music. Upload your music for review, find opportunities, join the community, read music news, get a whole pile of advice, and loads more. What ya waiting for? Register now!

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Free & Paid Memberships
Listen 420 Headies who enjoy an alternative lifestyle use Listen420 to find and post Music, Videos, Pictures, Blogs and sell their Gear. Bands/Artists get 30MB of webspace for FREE Members get 10MB of webspace for FREE

- Post Music

- Post Videos

- Post Pictures

- Post Blogs

- Online Store

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Local Band Network Information about local bands and local music venues… no matter where “local” is to you.
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Mac Jams MacJams is an online community of people who are interested in creating or presently create music using the Macintosh platform, as well as people who are interested in listening to such music.Our goal is to create an online environment where musicians and aspiring musicians can come to improve their craft and gain exposure to their music. At the same time, MacJams is a repository of fantastic music for listening and download by anyone who is a fan of good music.
Open to Mac Music Makers
MacIDOL Macidol is a Mac Music Revolution for musicians and music lovers who use Apple GarageBand, Logic and the iPod.
Open to Mac Music Makers
MBus MagicBus.com is a musician listing and resource.
Open
MediaKinesis Media-Kinesis, your source for legal music streaming and downloads, radio stations, top 40 listing, artist directory, free mp3 hosting. Stream video using .wmv and music using mp3
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Mikersi Finnish music site. Upload songs and profile.
Open
Mixposure Music promotion for indie bands, includes mp3 hosting, band pages, gig listings, a music forum, reviews, contests and fanmail.
Open
Monster Vox Bands and artists create a profile, upload songs and there is a voting/rating system. Monster Vox pays out money to the highest rated tracks.
Open
Moto Gator Upload music and profile. Alt., Roots, Zydeco and other alt. genres accepted.
Open
Mp3 Artists Online Upload music and profile.
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Mp3.com 100MB of free space to upload your original music.

10MB of space to upload photos.

Unlimited space to upload your original music videos.

The ability to associate yourself to other artists across the spectrum and allow the MP3.com community to vote on your relevance.

Artist blogging tools and your own Forums boards.

An automated RSS feed so that Fans can subscribe to your latest available music tracks.

See how you rank on our daily global Artist charts.

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Mp3 Australia Australian Mp3 site. Upload music and profile.
Open
Mp3 Germany German Mp3 site. Upload music and profile.
Open
Mp3Lizard Upload music and profile.
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Mp3.tv MP3.TV is committed to developing this web site with you in mind. MP3.TV recognizes that the Internet has a strong saturation relative to the availability of mp3 files. We invite you to search for mp3 files through this site, as well as all other web properties that offer this service. This web site is committed to creating an online community for individuals with varied musical interests.
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Mp3 Lizard Bands and artists can upload music for exposure.
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Mp3 Unsigned Mp3unsigned.com was created to showcase unsigned bands, allowing them to distribute free mp3 downloads , and to get feedback from other musicians and listeners. There is no charge to signup, and artists can put 3 free mp3 tracks on their page. So what you waiting for, upload your mp3s, and download some top quality free mp3s
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Music Hype Online Artists create a profile, upload songs and get exposure. Ecommerce options available.
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Music Places Artists create a profile, upload songs and get exposure.
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Museeks Comprehensive listing of musicians and CD’s
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Music Builder Upload music and profile.
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Music By Music Upload music and profile.
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MVine Artists can upload music and videos.
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My Own Music German site where artists can upload music and profile and get ratings/reviews by other artists.
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NESS Mp3 Artists can upload music and get feedback from site members.
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New Music Canada As a key starting point for thousands of musicians, New Music Canada is the launch pad for today’s best-loved Canadian artists, reaching local, regional, national, and global audiences. With more than 9,000 artists and 43,000 original songs, NMC is the largest collection of independent Canadian Music in the World. From basement demos to professional recordings, from local shows to national tours, New Music Canada is one of our country’s leading supporters of emerging music.
Canadian artists only
Number One Music Number One Music
offers 2 different accounts (trial and full membership) which gives you your own web site and web address, for example www.numberonemusic.com/yourbandname. This will provide you with the platform to promote your band and to get noticed within our community and the music industry. It will include your bands’ profile, history, a ‘music’ page where you can upload up to 10 songs, and a ‘shows’ page to announce dates and venues you will be performing. We also offer a ‘photo’ page, where you can display up to 10 photos, and a contact page and message board for fans, promoters or record companies to get in touch with you from. Unlike some other music portals dedicated to the promotion, we provide you with a unique targeted e-newsletter service which helps you to fuel your constant exposure by using our database. Upon registering, you’ll receive a username and password, enabling you to login to your web site and edit it as often as you like.

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Free and paid accounts

Number1band.com If your Band rocks, rolls, funks, grooves, jives, wails, swings, flows, or any other creative word that could possibly be used to describe your sound, Then this is the site you have been waiting for! No.1 Band allows you to upload music and video, add bios of your band members, promote your band, interact with your fans, and create your own online store to sell products like CD’s, T-shirts and much more. Sign up for a FREE membership today to join the revolution taking over the music industry.
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Overplay Overplay dedicated to the development and exposure of unsigned bands and artists. Overplay gives bands, artists the platform to be seen and heard and the tools to sell their music online. In overplays music community you’ll find like minded unsigned bands, artists and have your details available for venues, promoters, record companies and management.
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Pandora Social Radio. Pandora is the music discovery service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites. Create custom internet radio stations, listen free. Open to US Only
Project Overseer Productions Upload music and profile.

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Pure Volume PureVolume is owned and operated by Virb Inc. (formerly Unborn Media Inc.); a small, Boston-based social media company. Founders Brett, Nate and Mitchell (all alumni of The University of Massachusetts at Amherst) started Virb Inc. to create fun, far-reaching web sites based around lifestyles such as music, online entertainment and social networking. Virb Inc., now 3 years old, is comprised of over 18 team members; and while still based in Boston, works internationally with rising artists, advertisers and record labels. With the recent redesign of PureVolume in December 2005, the Virb Inc. datacenter supports a growing network of over 4 dozen web and file servers, strategically placed across the United States and Europe, dedicated to delivering PureVolume.com and it’s media content to the masses. In 2007, the superhero-like minds behind Virb Inc. will be launching several new web properties geared towards the same music, film, entertainment and social networking communities.
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Random Artist Artists rating and reviewing artists.
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ReverbNation One of the most robust OMDs out there with tons of widgets to help you spread the word about your music.
They offer many free services and some paid ones.

ReverbNation provides innovative marketing solutions that musicians need to compete, cooperate, and differentiate in an increasingly noisy online environment. Unlike typical “closed” communities, artists use ReverbNation as their home base for approaching marketing and promotion across the Internet as a whole — be it via social networks, blogs, or the artist’s homepage.

Tools like TunePaks, FanReach, and Widgets give the artist the power to spread their music and information virtually anywhere. Real-time stats then provide a 360-degree view of how the music is spreading, who is listening, and which fans are actually passing it on to their friends and posting it on their pages.

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Shit Hot Records Shit Hot Records is an experiment in self supported independent music. Here everyone is created equal and money doesn’t buy status. It is a place of mutual respect and humble opinion.
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Songramp Songramp
is a music community focused on the creative aspects of music and songwriting. The name implies a place where songs and songwriters can advance (ramp) based upon their merit.
The mission of SongRamp is to create a thriving, productive environment that encourages an atmosphere of community, respect, collaboration, and growth for musicians and songwriters of all backgrounds and levels.
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Sonic Garden Sonic Garden, the free home for independent artists & indie labels, featuring music, pictures, videos, tour info, reviews, interviews and a music super-store with thousands of CDs & merch from your favorite independent artists. Tons of promotional opportunities for artists & labels and always free for artists, labels & music fans!
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Soundclick SoundClick – the best free artist music community. Exclusive top stars and unsigned bands. Free member pages including unlimited free webspace, free MP3 download and hosting, streaming audio, personalized news, charts, tour calendar, auctions, ecommerce, music greeting cards, and tons more.

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Free and Paid accounts

Soundlift Upload Mp3s and profile.
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Free and Paid accounts

Sound Sauce Write music? Play or Sing in a band? Join now and upload your mp3s for free. 100MBM per account; play your music on other web sites by using our embedded flash Player; Sell your music via your own page and our online store, and much more…
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StarPolish At StarPolish, we are dedicated to educating and empowering artists, with an emphasis on artist advocacy and artist development. We are also committed to supporting the arts by rewarding and highlighting the most hard-working and deserving artists. StarPolish is a collaborative effort between artists and music industry professionals.
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The Sixty One Find your new favorite song in less than five minutes a day. thesixtyone tracks the web’s musical obsessions in real time, delivering the best to your doorstep.
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ToneStac ToneStac offers unique, fee-based products and resources necessary for independent musicians to build self-sufficient lifestyles within the music industry. ToneStac starts by reinventing radio. ToneStac offers reasonably priced radio advertising for full length songs thereby replacing all commercial breaks. Streaming, the live broadcast, allows “out of area” musicians to time shift the value of late night programming into their daytime zones.
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Tune Vault One-stop source for independent and/or cool music – news, reviews, MP3 downloads, on-line merchandise purchase, classified ads, contest, features and a whole lot more!
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Tunes Baby A free signed and unsigned artist promotional web site. Email site administrator to get featured on the web site.
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Unsigned Music Chart Unsigned Chart and the UKMusicsearch network which includes www.unsignedchart.com is the next generation Music Social network where members can stay in touch with their Bands, Venues, connect with friends, share photos, discover new interests and just hang out.
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UK Bands Upload music, video and profile.
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Ultimate Band Listing ARTISTdirect has relaunched UBL as the ultimate online destination for independent and unsigned bands, their fans, and the music lovers and industry insiders who want to discover them. Upload music, images and profile. All genres.
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Unsigned
Band Web
Upload music, video and profile. Site patrons review music.
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Urban Joint Founded in early 1999, UrbanJoint.com was launched as a web site devoted to the varied essence of urban talents. UrbanJoint.com offers a venue to showcase talents, via the growing electronic media. We represent a community of aspiring creative artists of all mediums and talents. UrbanJoint.com offers its members and online visitors a unique look at the urban perspective. The site is filled with helpful information, entertainment, news, interviews, music, movies, health & beauty, fashion, views and opinions. Additionally UrbanJoint.com has the unique ability to network with many of the entertainment industry’s up and coming decision makers.
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Virb Virb is a community website that combines social interaction with music and entertainment exploration. It’s a great way to keep in touch and meet people with similar interests. Use Virb to discover music, videos, cool companies and organizations… then share what you find with your friends.
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Who’s Next Online Upload tracks and get rated.
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ZeBox The idea behind ZeBOX is simple: to create one great efficient music engine on the net that is self-driven by the artists themselves, where everything is instantaneous, all artists pages automatically created, all updates instantly implemented.
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