About us

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 nine years:

We’ve relaunched. Three times.

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 video, 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 (née 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.

Greg Salter - Managing Editor

Greg has been writing for Muso’s Guide for years, and as of April ’10, takes charge of Albums and much more 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.

Melanie McGovern – Features Editor

Sam Cleeve - Live Editor

Gone but not forgotten…

Muso’s Guide wouldn’t be a patch on its current self if it wasn’t for the years of hard work and brilliance gifted us by Catherine Wilson, Natalie Shaw, Rebecca Schiller, Russell Warfield, Paul Brown and Louise Coles.

GET IN TOUCH
greg.musos@googlemail.com – album reviews, singles, applications to join writing team
melanie.musos@gmail.com – features/interviews
sam.musos@gmail.com – live reviews/festivals
holly.musosguide@googlemail.com – sponsorship, advertising opportunities, commercial partnerships