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There was a lot of hype surrounding the launch of Mog. Lots of big name artists are said to "hang out" there. (I'd almost bet that 90% of users hopped on there in the hopes of "chatting" with the singer from Death Cab For Cutie - and he hasn't posted in almost two years.) The site was founded by a former executive of Gracenote, MTV, and Addicted to Noise. I was having trouble with the classific...

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mTraks bills itself as "part digital music marketplace, part music community". I'd like to comment on this, but unfortunately I cannot register my band there. When I went to sign up, it rejected my info, stating that there was already another act with the same band name. Upon further investigation, a profile had already been created for my band, and one of my songs was being sold as a download....

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BMI is one of the largest music registration companies in the United States. The other is ASCAP. You basically register each of your songs with them, and they are supposed to monitor radio plays and other performances so that you can collect royalties. I know very few people who make much money from BMI. My guess is that most of the royalties go to the larger bands on popular syndicated radio s...

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ReverbNation is one of the more popular band profile sites out there. Sign up is free and fairly painless. They even allow you to enter your myspace login information if you'd prefer for them to automatically pull info from your myspace account to populate your artist profile. This is convenient, but I'm not quite ready to hand over my myspace login to a company that I haven't worked with yet. ...