Boston Phoenix partners with MySpace Music to name America’s 51 best new bands

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Boston Phoenix partners with MySpace Music

to name America’s 51 best new bands

BOSTON, Mass (July 8, 2010) – The Boston Phoenix today unveiled its 3^rd annual summer feature, “America’s Best New Music,” rounding up the best new musical artist from each of the 50 states.

This year, for the first time, the Phoenix has partnered with MySpace Music to power the online, interactive version of the feature. At http://thephoenix.com/50states, fans can vote for their favorite artist, and also listen to these emerging artists’ audio and video tracks on MySpace Music.

Last year’s “America’s 50 Best New Bands” was recognized by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies as the year’s best converged online/print feature in America. Not only will Phoenix readers be able to enjoy our country’s musical landscape as an online feature and vote for their favorite artist on thephoenix.com/50states, but they will also have the opportunity to listen to these emerging artists’ audio and video tracks on MySpace Music, making “50 bands in 50 states” a multi sensory experience.

The argument-inducing picks include artists who’ve already generated some of their own buzz – including the metallic glitch-pop duo Sleigh Bells (New York) and post-grunge surf rock gal Best Coast (California). In between, the Phoenix shines a light on these fly-over state highlights:

• Kansas: the next great name in mainstream hip-hop, XV.
• Michigan: the gloomy dark-rave of Salem.
• Mississippi: Flight’s distorted lo-fi garage-rock fury.
• Tennessee: the fraternal rock-noise of Jeff The Brotherhood.
• Georgia: Atlanta scene super-group the Constellations.

For “America’s 50 Best New Bands” summer feature visit www.thephoenix.com/50states

More about the PM/CG publications and companies: The Boston Phoenix began as a four-page arts-and-entertainment weekly in 1966. The Phoenix is the flagship property of the Phoenix Media/Communications Group, which in addition to the Phoenix weekly newspapers in Rhode Island and Maine and Stuff magazine, comprises the WFNX Radio Network; Phoenix Interactive (thephoenix.com, wfnx.net, stuffboston.com); Phoenix Sports Books (the sports and magazine group that publishes the official yearbooks for the Boston Bruins, the Boston Celtics, and the Boston Marathon); People2People Group (audio text and social-networking applications); g8wave (marketing and content using SMS and other mobile technologies); and Mass Web Printing (four-color offset printing).

MySpace Music is one of the largest and most popular music platforms on the web offering users the most robust song and album catalog available. MySpace Music allows artists and fans to truly connect and unite around all genres of music both online and off.