1. Indieland is a site built by musicians for musicians to provide an online indie music community connecting the FANS, ARTISTS and VENUES.
2. Indieland wants to provide a safe community where original material can be seen and heard. We want you to be able to share these with your friends at home and around the world.
3. We have built in RSS personalized subscriptions, get feeds on the music/band/genre/ in the location you want to know about anytime it comes in. Find out more in the RSS box on the home page - and no you don't have to pay for this kind of subscription!
4. Indieland also understands how competitive the music industry is, so we want to help you get your music exposed. We run a FREE monthly competition where you can enter your original songs in audio or video format. Your friends and fans can VOTE FOR YOU ONLINE. At the end of the month the overall song with the most votes will win that month's song contest. There will be a prize for the runner up as well.
5. We are always looking for great prizes to keep the competition interesting and so far we've been able to offer our artists facebook campaigns, european releases and feedback from top industry professionals.
6. At the end of each competition your votes are reset to zero, but your number of views always remains and accumulates. We will give you statistics on how you went.
7. Everyone can have a free page. You can sign up as a FAN, where you will have a home page where you can create your own playlists of songs, add your favorites, send messages to your friends on the site and just find the music you like by browsing and searching the site.
8. As an ARTIST you get BOTH an Artist AND a fan page as well. So with just one login you can have your own page to network away on and your artist page where your music can be seen and played. You can upload as many songs as you like and create or order them in your own albums. You can add photos and edit your upcoming gigs. People can add themselves as your fan and you can build a fan base from home and around the world. Even better you can manage all your fans with a fan base mail out, just send all your fans a message when you want to let them know about new songs and gigs etc. Get industry attention as you fan base builds.
9. COPYRIGHT is an important issue. YOU retain control of your own copyright material – any melody, lyrics and images – what we call 'your catalogue'. You grant us a temporary, NON exclusive license to broadcast and promote your catalogue online and around the world. You can remove any of your catalogue items at any time. Of course should you be found to have uploaded material you don't own, this will be reported and you may lose your account with Indieland. You need to tell us if you have publishing or royalty commitments to any collecting bodies such as apra/amcos (or others around the world).
10. We are also including home pages for VENUES! We know you want to get out there and perform live…. And your fans want to see you…and we all know the venues are looking for both of you….so we are putting you all together. You can favorite any of the community. So if your favorite venue is not on here, tell them about us.
11. Yes you can link to your own website, or to your myspace or youtube page.
12. Check out the FAQ's on our home page to find out more.
1. Indieland will not spam you in any way, nor do we artificially inflate votes or views. We DO NOT sell your email.
2. Check out the terms of use and privacy policies on our homepage for more information on how we respect your rights.
1. Indieland (formally MySongCast) was founded by Janine, Helen and Dean and bought to life by Rob, our talented software engineer.
2. Janine is our director and she has always been passionate about music. Janine has had a long standing interest and involvement in songwriting and performing. Janine has recorded her own CD in the past, and undertaken a number of songwriting and recording courses. Janine was also in a band in Sydney and all of this experience and knowledge of what is required as an upcoming artist is behind the creative vision of Indieland. Janine developed the concept of Indieland in 2006 and has seen the project through from concept to execution. Janine loves interactiing with the artists, she listens and comments on the new material added to the site on a regular basis and she has personally organised many live nights and attended many performances to support our local artists.
Check out more of her profile under Nene on the site.
3. Helen has helped organise many of the less fun but very important aspects of the site including financials and legals. Helen is a classically trained singer and she has a love of music in all genres, there is also a rumour that Helen was once in a band as well (if anyone can find footage we are keen to see it)! Helen is very active on the site listening to all the new talent, interacting with the artists and attending local events wherever possible, Also she makes a mean salmon loaf without which it is unclear whether this site would have gone very far! Maybe we can convince her to reveal the recipe on the site?
4. Rob - is our amazing software engineer who has put in big hours to deliver this to you! Rob built the background code from scratch and got the team addicted to the Nintendo Wii, and chocolate cookies and cups of tea (well he is from the UK!).
5. Dean did all the original graphics for the site. Dean was a professional musician for many years in Australia. Dean's band 'the Aardvarks' won a triple j unearthed competition in 1998 for their song 'fly away' (the song you hear on the sign up page) .They are on the triple j unearthed album number 7. He knows what it means to have people hear and see your music and is excited to see what success we can help you achieve on Indieland. Check out his profile under the Aardvarks on the site.
6. Indieland also have other friends and helpers to whom we are very grateful that support us. A few key people to acknowledge and thank include, Lauren & Mia for helping wth the original launch, Tan for being a #1 fan, Alice for helping to organise events & promote the site and Kyla for helping to organise the team and keep the project focused and ensure that the site is being improved on a regular basis (which is much easier said than done at times)!
A: Navigating your way around the site
1. There main tabs at the top of the site make it easy to find the information you are looking for: Home, Music, Artists, Fans, Comp, Live and Forum.
2. There are a number of other links on the bottom of the page that you have probably seen, where you can find - terms of use, privacy policy, copyright, contact us, FAQ, shop and resources.
3. The Login and signup links are at the top right hand side of the home page.
B: Home page
1. We have a number of areas for you to look at, at the top right are the signup and login links, and once logged the site will always show your username and artist name (if signed is as artist). Also an inbox showing any mail and a friend request box, if you have any of these pending.
2. At the top left is our Newsfeed so you can stay up to date with what's new and happening on the site.
3. We have an interactive box in the top right corner, which has some of the key annoucements from the site rotating, these include upcoming events, highlighted artists and other special offers.
4. At the top in the centre is a section for Featured Artists, these could include comp winners as well as other artists that are selected by the Indieland staff for being fabulously talented and also to showcase artists that get involved in the Indieland community. If you would like to see your face here then start uploading your songs, interacting with the site and building your fan base!
5. We have included a 'Hot upload' where you may be featured if you gain a lot of views in the last 24 hours.
6. There is also information on the current competition and prizes up for grabs. Also from there you can click through to enter the competition, vote and to check out the next months prizes.
C: Artist Pages
1. Under the Artist tabs in the menu you can easily search for music you like by genre or by artist and you can also see what's new and popular on the site.
2. When you search by genre you wll see a drop down list that you can choose from.
3. To see what's new and popular you can check out the most downloaded, most played and most recent pages.
4. There is also a directory so you can browse around by letter to find artists you are looking for...
5. Check out the Gigs Guide to see what upcoming events are booked in.
D: Competition Tab
1. There is heaps to look at in the competition page... well songs in the current competition but in all sorts of ways... like the top 10, top 100 and most voted genre, the songs with the most views. Stuff like that.
2. Also there will be past winners once we have some... This hopefully won't be too far away!
3. YOU VOTE ONLINE for you favorites... just sign up and login and you are away. One vote per login/per song so as to make the voting credible and less spammable (is that a word?)
4. Also another way to enter the competition and the current prizes.
5. Here we will have a RISING STAR – where the song with the most votes in the last 24 hours will be featured. Of course if the site gets really busy this may become hour by hour!
E: Forums
1. Get involved with our forum to share your point of view, discuss the music and ask any questions that you have and most importantly... have fun chatting to the other users.
F: Resources
1. Here we have a hand selected and personally checked out... collection of the sites that are most useful for you as a musician and music fan... so everything from writing a better song... and there are some great sites out there... to buying sheet music to finding out about copyright and music magazines. We have tried to put these into useful categories and link to all the ones we use ourselves.
2. Let us know if there are... and I know there are plenty... of useful sites we should add, and we'll go check them out.
G: About the Black bar MOST's
1. We have put together all the MOST's we could most think of... so most viewed/recent and favorited. In these you can show them by time frame or filter them by genre.
2. Also this is where you can quickly see the RSS feeds....that is the orange button that says RSS... it will take you out of the site to the feeds... click back to get back to us.
Are you still here? You really deserve credit for making it all the way to the bottom!
Well for more detail on your pages and what they will have on them or the rest of the site check out the FAQ's at the bottom of the page, or click on the ? at the top for help.
If you want to contact us at Indieland, email admin@Indieland.com. You can even write to us at:
Indieland
MySongCast Pty Ltd
P.O Box 506
Milsons Point
NSW 1565
Australia
Our company phone number is +61 447 668614
Bye for now... Keep checking back at this exciting page as I will continue to update the page with exciting news of new buttons to look at.