Online Community Music Site Attracts Hundreds Of Bands


New York, Thursday, October 11, 2007 –

Juxta Digital, a new-media consultancy specializing in content-driven websites and corporate systems, announced today that the community band website www.BestofBands.com, launched by Juxta Digital earlier this year, has now signed up over 300 emerging and independent bands and artists from around the world, each with their own personal profile page, picture gallery, and list of listenable and downloadable music tracks.

Juxta worked with the team to create a unique, out-of-the-box design that would appeal to garage bands and urban artists, along with developing sophisticated behind-the-scenes programming that would allow artists to maintain their own profile pages with features including fan lists and personal event calendar.

The website allows not only bands, but also music fans, music venues (such as bars and concert halls), and businesses catering to the music industry to register, create a profile, and participate in the online community. Community features include a discussion board, personal blogs and the ability for users to post comments, lists of top-rated and most visited bands, and instant messaging with other logged in users. Users can search for bands by music genre, location, and name, and can register for automatic notification when new bands are added in their genre or within a radius.

Currently, Best of Bands is conducting a make my music video contest, in which bands can sign up to have users vote on who should have their music video made by Best of Bands. The contest will be held from August through December of 2007, with the top 5 winners in each of the first four rounds securing a place in the finals, held in December. The Grand Prize winner then receives a professional performance video shoot valued at $20,000 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The website continues to grow and will soon be launching new features, including the ability for bands to sell music tracks directly to users. Juxta Digital is pleased to be a part of this exciting, dynamic site.



About Juxta Digital

Juxta Digital is the professional services division of Juxta Media LLC, a privately held company with offices at 5 Penn Plaza, 23rd Floor, NY, NY 10001. Juxta Digital helps both domestic and international companies extend their brands online, and offers strategic planning, content management, and social network and web 2.0 marketing and development for clients in publishing, media, entertainment, education, and business.

Clients include The Academy of American Poets, the British Broadcasting Corporation, PEN American Center, BusinessWeek, Guideposts' Positive Thinking Magazine, The Financial Times, The Online Publisher's Association, Logicworks, and NextWave Wireless.
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