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MySpace Means McSpace for All!

By
Mike Farragher,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 4:08 PM
Updated Thursday, July 23, 2009, 5:47 PM

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MYSPACE, the social networking site, launched its long-awaited music service which offers millions of streaming tracks on demand in the U.S. and a list of enhanced video capabilities to make it easier for artists to play them on the site.

There have been many efforts to launch this, but it should stick this time around because Sony, Universal, Warner and EMI have gotten behind the initiative. MySpace gave them an equity stake in the business venture, which the cash-starved labels could ill-afford to refuse.

The labels are also desperate to break the hold of iTunes, which dictates a meager profit for them. Facebook and other online communities are said to be heading in the same direction.

Why, as an Irish music rock fan, should you care about this? It's simple: this bridges a gap between the States and the thriving independent music scene of Ireland.

iTunes and Amazon have set their businesses up into different divisions for American and U.K. operations, while MySpace blurs the global borders to create a global music shop.

On iTunes, for example, you will only get one skimpy song choice from Kildare natives Fight Like Apes, which released Golden Medallion to rave reviews. "To say this is the best Irish album of the year just doesn't do it justice, as pound for pound it's probably the best slab of wax to be released in 2008, period," raved Ireland's Hot Press.

On their MySpace page, you can listen to tracks from their fantastic debut album, view videos of the band and add them to your own page's playlist.

"Jake Summers" is one of the coolest New Wave singles since the last New Wave of the eighties, which I suppose now makes this an Old Wave. It sports tight guitars, jerky stop-start vocals, and a melody that sticks in your brain like wet oatmeal.

"I bought a present for my guy/I bought him/a pair of second hand boots/they were white and not pink/and he liked to think he wore them well/he took them to the park and wore them out and played with the geese." Not exactly Bono-worthy lyrics, I know, but the cartoonish delivery calls to mind Missing Persons, Berlin and every other day-glow band with a hot female lead singer.

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