Failing to live up to its press clippings, we have now had a MySpace page for over 72 hours and have yet to have a single teacher email us naughty pictures of themselves. Fortunately we aren't there to meet women, we are there to write about music. For kingsnake.com users unfamiliar with MySpace, it got its start kind of like a kingsnake.com for bands before it turned into the world's biggest dating site for pre-pubescent teens.
Still, even with all the controversy and press that surround the site, music remains at the core of MySpace and it has become a make or break marketing tool for the music industry. At SXSW06 MySpace parked what seemed like dozens of black tour buses stragically around the downtown area and was almost a dark presence looming over the event, like Darth Vader in the Death Star, waiting to suck unsuspecting bands into its gravity.
That said, we too have been captured by its tractor beam and will use our MySpace page to do some things that we can't easily do here, like running song of the week (or even day) picks, and communicating with users on our "friends" list. We are still investigating all the tools, options, and capabilities that MySpace affords, but for now you can view the best photos from our main photo gallery and listen to songs picked by our editors from MySpace's enormous catalog, as well as see how many "friends" we have (or don't have).
This week's song is by Gang of Four and is a 2005 remix of their punk/wave fav "Natural's Not In It" from their groundbreaking 1979 album
Entertainment, released on 2005's
Return The Gift. Gang of Four played a super secret show at Austin's SXSW in 2006 and to my eternal regret I missed it.
Check it out by going to our MySpace page at
http://myspace.com/clubkingsnake