thesixtyone - a music adventure

thesixtyone - a music adventure

This site has become one of my daily visits. It's another social networking music site. I adore last.fm, but this site is a bit different.

thesixtyone (t61) lets new artists upload 3 of their songs. Users of t61 have points to bump songs that they like. The more bumps a song gets, the greater the chance of it reaching the home page (where it will be seen by more people and bumped further). As a song is bumped, users who have already bumped the song get points (to bump more songs). The earlier they bumped, the more points they get.

As artists songs are bumped, they get points. More points mean they go up levels, and the higher the level, the more songs they can upload...

It may sound complicated - but it's not. And it's a great way of listening to new music. There's a few big names on there, but the vast majority are not major label artists - and I suspect there's a lot of amateurs as well.

As an experiment I put some stuff up of my own and from the band I was in in the early 90s. So if you do pop over and join, then feel free to bump songs by version and The Guild of Thieves.