PUREVOLUME

'PureVolume' is a website for bands and musical artists to promote and advertise themselves. Each artist/band has its own miniature website which usually includes news, photos, upcoming shows, background/biographical information, contact information, and music for free listening and downloads. Over 500,000 artists house such profiles on PureVolume, most of whom hover around the rock genres, particularly alternative rock, indie rock, and punk rock and its subgenres.
PureVolume is promotional grounds for mostly fairly obscure, minor or up-and-coming artists, but also boasts a selection of signed mainstream bands as well, including The Receiving End of Sirens, He Is Legend, Hawk Nelson, The Fray, Alkaline Trio, Atreyu, Jimmy Eat World, Thousand Foot Krutch, Relient K, Sum 41, Hot Water Music, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, Underøath, Fall Out Boy, Hawthorne Heights, Panic! at the Disco, Cobra Starship, Story of the Year, Audioslave, Adema, and Jack Johnson. PureVolume also hosts some well-known indie bands, such as Hellogoodbye, Vogue In The Movement, The Academy Is... and Daphne Loves Derby.

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Features

There are two types of accounts for artists: a free membership, and a paid Pro membership, as well, as a free membership for a listener.
Artists can host Mp3s and/or downloads, make friends with other artists, and promote shows and events on their subpages.
A listener's membership gives one the ability to create his own user profile, start a blog & photo album, leave comments (on both artists' and listeners' pages) or add friends, and post on the forums. Listeners can pick their favorite artists which will be displayed on their profile. Whenever one of their favorite artists adds a new show, blog entry, or song, a notice will appear on their member home.
To see if other listeners are similar, users have a list of their favorite genres as well as tags on their profile that others can search for.
People can sign up free as an artist.
On Purevolume's mainpage, bands can be featured either by paying for a "Pure Promo" or chosen by the Purevolume staff for a "Pure Pick".
Purevolume also features charts of rising unsigned artists as well as charts for signed artists. These charts are broken up by most popular artist by profile visits and most popular artist by songs downloaded. The charts are also split into different music genre categories.

External links

★ PureVolume.com

★ Virb Inc.

★ Backstage (the official PureVolume blog)