It might just be my memory of it but I think of Myspace bands and blog era hype bands as being quite separate things notwithstanding that they happened contemporaneously.

But I would love a whole article about those bands and others from the obvious like CYHSY! to the sadly mostly forgotten Voxtrot. Some great times seeing them and the less good… (here’s looking at you What Made Milwaukee Famous).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSXofLK5hFQ this is peak soulja boy in my opinion

The early years of MySpace were the best. Friendster was always crashing and my space was a great way to meet new people with similar interests. Before bands started mass spamming it was a great way of inviting people out to shows. I booked many tours with decent turnouts using only my space. Facebook always seemed lame to me in comparison and I never made the jump.

Isn’t that the truth? Once Myspace came into the online world, I met many people online and within a few years–they either moved to Facebook or disappeared altogether.

That reminds me…. Myspace: where Grimes got her name!

on myspace ur genre could be grime and u could have 3 genres so i was plural grime, b4 knowing what grime was
— Clear Butcher (@Grimezsz) December 20, 2014

i was very please to discover that i actually loved grime music
— Clear Butcher (@Grimezsz) December 20, 2014

an odd series of events
— Clear Butcher (@Grimezsz) December 20, 2014

i was originally too embarased of this story so i told journalists i was named after frank grimes, who is also very cool
— Clear Butcher (@Grimezsz) December 20, 2014

I am teaching through google classroom instead of edgenuity. It’s easy I just out out assignments and tell them to do it whenever they get to it. Then I started up message board feed back times once a day. And I do a virtual thing once a week. Did a zoom and kids kicked other kids off and posted some inappropriate jokes. It’s was actually funny. I think it’s safe to say education is going to need a mulligan

truly the Karim Garcia of bands

This piece was already too long 😂 but yeah MySpace definitely was a launching pad for so many acts we covered on this site back in the day. Some (Cold War Kids!) are even still around.

(Also FWIW we tried to chat with MySpace Tom for this but he was not willing!)

(Personal Soulja fav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-gYOd_MAfk)

Point taken buddy, will try to be more upbeat in the future.

np:”You are My Sunshine”, although to be honest it’s just that bit from “The Calendar Hung Itself” where Conor is screaming it into someone’s answering machine. Possibly a 4 year old Phoebe Bridgers?

whooooaaa ice cold take brother, have some spatial awareness not the place for this kind of negativity , this is funeral energy

Then again, at least MySpace helped boost those first couple of Los Campesinos! releases, I guess.

My boss has actually been cool about having only one a week. We told him we wanted block schedules after the break, and he was all, “Whatever you all want to do.”

It was a relief.