Oh yeah, MySpace's music!

Lest we forget, amid all the media attention to a different topic and besides the general teen-socializing part, there's another whole "world" in MySpace – a major attraction to members of all ages. That would be music. Garage and indie artists of the pre-Internet era are envious of today's bands' accessibility to fans worldwide and vice versa in this online very interactive space. It's "American Idol" for countless musicians, giving them instant, broad feedback and support, even a chance to develop a significant fan base with no money, even literally to become famous fairly quickly. "Now fans of extreme metal or any other underground genre can discover more new music pointing and clicking in one afternoon than in a year of scanning zine pages and independent record store shelves in the not-so-long-past days of yore," reports the Nashua (N.H.) Telegraph. "For New Hampshire bands far outside the bright lights of big cities with their avant garde underground scenes, the scope and reach of MySpace is invaluable." To me, another indicator that social-networking is here to stay and growing.