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While the Internet is good to hobbyists like Carvalho, commercial Web radio has fallen upon draconian times. SORRY YOU MISSED US! reads the Web page where the Net radio source iCAST once stood. Like Imagine Radio (subsumed by Sonicnet, which was bought by MTV's interactive division) and Launch.com (being acquired by Yahoo!), it's one of the many Internet radio sources that have gone out of business or been taken over by large corporations in the past several months...
That's where talent-scout websites come in. A growing number of sites on the Web specialize in finding unsigned bands. Among the best such sites are Riffage, iCAST and Jimmy and Doug's Farmclub.com They all feature more than just new music. iCAST, for example, has news stories, chat rooms and other services. Most important, however, they offer guidance in locating low-profile, high-quality performers (also, the downloads these sites serve up are done so with the artists' permission). For fans exhausted by the frat rock/tot pop dominating the charts, these online destinations are an exciting alternative...
...iCAST also has a "track of the day" (a recent pick by the alternative-rock duo Tegan and Sara was particularly good). In addition, the site held a "Land Your Band" contest in which groups were rated by iCAST users, with the highest-rated act (the rock group Laughing Colors, based in Annapolis, Md.) winning meetings with major-label executives. "I kind of laugh at all this Napster stuff," says Laughing Colors lead singer Dave Tieff. "At our stage, offering free tracks makes sense. We're trying to get noticed, and promotions like this are a tool." Tieff says sales...
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