Myspace launch label with major backing

by Mike Diver [Edit this content] ▾ 14 comments 10:36 November 8th, 2005

Myspace has launched its own music label, with the help of Universal's Interscope sublabel.

The Myspace label will be marketed and distributed by Interscope, and the first release is a compilation entitled Myspace Records Volume 1, featuring AFI, Weezer (pictured) and Fall Out Boy. Bet that title took hours to think up.

The album's out in the US on November 15th. Myspace president Tom Anderson is currently eyeing some four acts after signing Hollywood Undead. Tracklisting of the comp is as follows:

AFI - 'Rabbits Are Roadkill on Rt. 37'
New Years Day - 'Ready, Aim, Misfire'
Socratic - 'Lunch For The Sky'
Click Five - 'Angel To You (Devil To Me)'
Say Anything - 'Every Man Has A Molly'
Fall Out Boy - 'Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner (Acoustic)'
Dashboard Confessional - 'Hands Down'
Waking Ashland - 'I Am For You'
Weezer - 'We Are All On Drugs'
Hollywood Undead - 'No. 5'
Against Me! - 'Don't Lose Touch'
Tila Tequila - 'Straight Up'
All-American Rejects - 'Stab My Back'
Summer Obsession - 'Melt The Sugar'
Plain White T's - 'Take Me Away'
Copeland - 'Pin Your Wings'
Jupiter Sunrise - 'Arthur Nix'

Myspace currently has over 35 million users and is owned, essentially, by Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp.

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world domination

beckons in the wings...

waves | 8 Nov '05, 10:42 | X | Reply

MySpace...

...is odd. It's great for bands (I run the page for Clearlake) but the personal profiles side of things is just... weird. It's all a bit "Hey! Look at me!"...

Damian | 8 Nov '05, 11:14 | X | Reply

This is an interesting turn of events

Just now I was thinking 'Wouldn't it be good if Myspace did comps?'

They're always just one step ahead.
Those bastards.

Teepee_uk @Damian | 8 Nov '05, 11:23 | X | Reply

...

Against me! are on this! Shame everything else is abit rubbish.

Has anyone actually heard Hollywood Undead? Its terrible.

Stiggy | 8 Nov '05, 11:30 | X | Reply

I bet...

...you weren't thinking "wouldn't it be great if they did comps with Fall Out Boy and Dashboard Confessional on", like.

Myspace is great for bands, though, as long as you avoid the metalcore and Dashboard.

Effloresce_Sean @Stiggy | 8 Nov '05, 11:34 | X | Reply

haha

but isnt myspace mostly just cripplingly average local bands ?

soapy @Effloresce_Sean | 8 Nov '05, 11:54 | X | Reply

WRONG!

No, virtually all bands have pages...from Cursive to Arctic Monkeys to Jennyforever to Bjork...Allthough Myspace is looked upon as a very Emo network, it has grown into a marketing tool for all genres. You can bet your ass that A&R men for majors all over the country are scowling or for new acts as we speak.
One of the things that's started to piss me off about Myspace is that it is evident that so many bands don't actually set up their own page, they are signed to a major and some dogsbody at the label is told 'These guys need a myspace man, look at what happened with Testicicles!'

Grammar @soapy | 8 Nov '05, 12:53 | X | Reply

It's a shame...

But very true, unfortunately. The best Myspace music pages are the ones the band have done themselves (with the exception of Kid Ego) However, it's always cool to be able to listen to clips of songs before you make your mind up, not that one or two songs is always representative of a band's sound but still.

calling3 @Grammar | 8 Nov '05, 16:31 | X | Reply

Yipe!

will it be in gloriously fuzzy myspace-o-sound?

imp_seriouslyover | 8 Nov '05, 17:22 | X | Reply

seems like a

good idea. I would agree that every other band on myspace seems to be pant pissing emo, or heavier than a sack of spanners falling down a mine shaft, gruff as fuck metalcore by bands called "fuck cunt" "thisTragedy", Burned Bodies in the Morning" and "Stab Water".

shucks @imp_seriouslyover | 8 Nov '05, 20:59 | X | Reply

Would all be acceptable metalcore myspace band names, straight edge as fuck with songs about recycling at the bottle bank, tofu foods, newspapers, and fur.

shucks @The_Idler | 10 Nov '05, 21:28 | X | Reply