Muso’s Guide was launched in 2003 by journalist, Holly Noseda. The early version was built, nay, hand-coded, on a dying PC perched in her kitchen. It was launched for a number of reasons, namely the lack of coverage of classic music alongside new releases, the oh-so-obvious press release drivel in a lot of music mags at the time, the desire to create a website full of city guides with music tourists in mind and the desire to get to listen to promo CDs all day.

Fast-forward six years:

We’ve relaunched. We still want to cover the classics and the best new music. We still bristle at the press release drivel and regurgitated guff and our city guides are around the corner. And now we listen to Spotify all day. How things have changed…

The new site is a work in progress, with lots more planned for the coming months. We have used some emerging technologies, enabling us to provide a broader, more multimedia-rich site with streams, videos and embedded user-generated content from across the breadth of the web.

If you work PR, it’s important to know that we’re going as green and digital as possible by completing most of our reviews without CDs. This will save you guys postage, and will hopefully make it quicker and easier for us to review more stuff. So wherever possible, please send us digital links to new music.

Back in ‘03 there was no such thing as YouTube (and wasn’t for another two years) so we were very ahead of our time to have a dedicated video section (Videodrome). By 2006 our little video section was a veritable dinosaur, so we’re going to be working on a Videodrome worthy and spanking new community of 2009 – if you are doing anything particularly cool with videos or social media, drop us a line.

WHAT WE COVER

Music: New releases, white labels, classics, re-releases, news, interviews, unsigned news, features.
Film: New releases, re-releases, news, interviews.
Comedy: DVDs, live gigs, news, interviews.
Videos: Dazzle us.
General: Columns of assorted ramblings.

WHO ARE WE?

Holly Seddon (nee Noseda) - Editor-in-Chief

Since starting Muso’s in the dull summer of ‘03, she’s gone on to write online and off for The Guardian, The Sun, Daily Mail, Metro, iVillage and some others too. She’s also written a book – but this has nothing to do with mooosic. She’s tweeting via @hollyseddon.

Natalie Shaw - Editor

Natalie joined Muso’s Guide in July 2008, after writing variously for Teletext’s Planet Sound (R.I.P.), Drowned in Sound, Clash, Time Out and Gigwise, amongst others. She considers the term ‘music snob’ redundant, because her music taste is infinitely better than yours. She appeared on Sky News once for the site, talking about Michael Jackson, and now dabbles in promoting and formulating line-ups for the inaugural, seminal Muso’s Guide Presents… shows in London. She’s tweeting via @natalie_shaw and is also the ears, keys, and mouse-clicker responsible for Muso’s Guide’s Last.fm charts.

Catherine Wilson - Live Editor

Muso’s Guide’s Live Editor, Catherine has been hanging around like a bad smell since back in 2003. Aside from messing about with a range of music and football websites, she plays bass for grungey North London band Paintings of Ships. She’s tweeting via @basslady.

GET IN TOUCH

nat.musos@googlemail.com – music reviews, features, interviews, news, competitions, writing opportunities
caz.musos@googlemail.com -  live
holly.musosguide@googlemail.com – metrics, bus dev., advertising opportunities