Muso’s Guide was launched in 2003 by journalist, Holly Noseda. The early version was built, nay, hand-coded, on a dying PC perched in her kitchen. It was launched for a number of reasons, namely the lack of coverage of classic music alongside new releases, the oh-so-obvious press release drivel in a lot of music mags at the time, the desire to create a website full of city guides with music tourists in mind and the desire to get to listen to promo CDs all day.
Fast-forward five years:
We’ve relaunched. We still want to cover the classics and the best new music. We still bristle at the press release drivel and regurgitated guff and our city guides are around the corner. And now we listen to last.fm all day. How things have changed…
The new site is a work in progress, with lots more planned for the coming months. We have used some emerging technologies, enabling us to provide a broader, more multimedia-rich site with streams, videos and embedded user-generated content from across the breadth of the web.
If you work PR, it’s important to know that we’re going as green and digital as possible by completing most of our reviews without CDs. This will save you guys postage, and will hopefully make it quicker and easier for us to review more stuff. So wherever possible, please send us digital links to new music.
Back in ‘03 there was no such thing as YouTube (and wasn’t for another two years) so we were very ahead of our time to have a dedicated video section (Videodrome). By 2006 our little video section was a veritable dinosaur, so we’re going to be working on a Videodrome worthy of 2009 – if you are doing anything particularly cool with videos, drop us a line.
WHAT WE COVER
Music: New releases, white labels, classics, re-releases, news, interviews, unsigned news, features.
Film: New releases, re-releases, news, interviews.
Comedy: DVDs, live gigs, news, interviews.
Videos: Dazzle us.
General: Columns of assorted ramblings.
WHO ARE WE?
Since starting Muso’s in the dull summer of ’03, she’s gone on to write online and off for The Guardian, The Sun, Daily Mail, Metro, iVillage and some others too. She’s also written a book – but this has nothing to do with mooosic.
Catherine Wilson
Muso’s Guide’s News/Live Editor, Catherine has been hanging around like a bad smell since back in 2003. After stints in indie bands and orchestras she has retired to a life of writing, and currently works for a very large travel company.
Natalie Shaw
Natalie joined Muso’s Guide as Reviews/Features Editor in July 2008, after writing variously for Teletext’s Planet Sound, Drowned in Sound, Clash, Time Out and Gigwise, amongst others. She considers the term ‘music snob’ redundant, because her music taste is infinitely better than yours. She also has the tendency to drone on a little.
Stuart Anderson
Stuart writes stuff about film and music. He’s probably one of the few people in the world that really likes Brian de Palma movies and thinks that The Beatles are rubbish.
GET IN TOUCH
caz.musos@googlemail.com – news, live, comedy
nat.musos@googlemail.com – music reviews, features, interviews, competitions, writing opportunities
stu.musos@googlemail.com – film
holly.musosguide@googlemail.com – metrics, comedy, bus dev., advertising opportunities
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