By Jason Epstein
Hearo.fm, a new music service slash social community site and service challenges users to “Join the Music Revolution”. It allows listeners to find musicians and shows and musicians to sell their music directly to fans.
Hearo has a simple layout with three main areas: music, shows, and directory. The music section shows your top artists, top albums, and top songs which you can review to leave feedback or “FAN” to become a fan of that particular entry. Registering for the site allows you to FAN, download, sort your favorites, and even send fan mail. Some current top artists are Andrew Antar, a young violinist, Ronan Delisle, a guitarist, Fast Lane, a hip hop duo, and an alt-rock band called StarFight. Each band page has a newsfeed, fan feed, reviews, videos, photos, albums, songs, show schedule, bio, fan list, and more, putting a wealth of information right in front of you in a visually pleasing and user-friendly manner.
I checked out a song by StarFight called “Carpe Noctem” and found myself tapping my foot along to the thoughtful rock n’ roll tune. Playback can be done right from the main music page or the band’s page. The music is loaded quickly and played through a music player bar that goes wherever you do on the site, allowing you to review, FAN, and access your downloaded songs right from the toolbar.
Next I went to the “Shows” section to search for some local shows. I typed it Manhattan, NY (which the directory found) but the calendar stayed blank. Next, I searched for “All Events” and still, nothing came up. The site is currently in its Beta phase, so we’ll give them a break for now.
Under “Directory” you can sort by type (musician, fan, teacher, and producer), location, genre, and even instruments. I searched for anyone and everyone in the major market of Manhattan and found a grand total of two artists. I found one near Austin, Texas and one in Montreal.
Hearo.fm is a fun, snazzy looking and easy to use service that could be a great tool for recruiting band members, local fans and all types of music-oriented individuals in between. But the keyword here is “could”. They just need to build the community for that first.
Check out hearo.fm to help build that community.
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