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 seven 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, but we’re going to be working on Videodrome-worthy and spanking new elements – if you are doing anything particularly cool with videos or social media, drop us a line.

WHAT WE COVER

Music: Single and album releases, news, interviews, 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.

Greg Salter - Albums Editor

Greg has been writing for Muso’s Guide for years, and as of April ‘10, takes charge of Albums at MG HQ. He resides in North London, was born in Manchester but grew up in Middlesbrough, an experience that has warped his outlook, sense of humour and accent irrecoverably. Follow him on Twitter if you like, at @gropg.

Rebecca Schiller – Live Editor

After moving to London from NYC, Rebecca – as of April ‘10 – runs our Live Reviews section. She’s just completed her Masters in music business management, and she loves Placebo, Aaron Carter and quite a lot more. Let’s stress the ‘quite’ there even more, shall we… you can attempt to disprove us by tracking her Tweets at @rebeccaschiller.

GET IN TOUCH

nat.musos@googlemail.com – music reviews, features, interviews, news, competitions, writing opportunities, bookings
greg.musos@googlemail.com – album reviews
rebecca.musos@googlemail.com – live reviews
holly.musosguide@googlemail.com – sponsorship, advertising opportunities, commercial partnerships