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=== Artist pages ===
=== Artist pages ===
Particularly the actual pages which provide artist descriptions.
Particularly, pages which provide information about performing artists.
* Official artist sites:
* Official artist sites:
** [http://www.theshinsmusic.com/about.html The Shins Official Site] Bio page-- lifted from allmusic.com

Revision as of 21:26, 30 June 2006

Music Examples


The Problem

What is the purpose of this exploration?




For the purposes of this discussion "artist" refers to the performing artist. That is, the individual or group that performed a particular sound recording rather than the composer or writer of the song (although, in many cases, they're one in the same). This has more to do with the association between performers and particular sound recordings and the nuts and bolts of music copyright than actual artistry.


Emphasis on Practical, Simple, and Minimal



  • Actual examples in practice on the Web with URLs to the originals (note, all *-examples pages should be like this, but previous attempts at documenting media info examples have mostly ignored this requirement, and thus it is necessary to be explicit).
  • Representative of very common publishing behavior on the Web. This focus on common, representative examples is essential. If possible, include an estimate of the number of similar examples. E.g. ~10k.
  • Simple and minimalist. As simple as possible. Go read the microformats principles right now before proceeding any further.



Table of Contents

Real World Examples

Commerce Sites

  • TODO: Links to Amazon, buy.com, etc.

Music Journalism

  • TODO: Links to NME, Rolling Stone, Paste, Q, Pitchfork
  • TODO: Links to collaborative music review sites

Artist pages

Particularly, pages which provide information about performing artists.

Record Label pages

Release Sites


Music database sites

  • TODO: Musicbrainz, AMG, Muse, etc.

Social sites

  • TODO: Last.fm, Myspace, LiveJournal?