http://venturebeat.disqus.com/News about Tech, Business and InnovationenWed, 08 Oct 2008 20:34:57 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/08/amidst-the-cacophony-of-music-start-ups-reverbnation-echoes/#comment-2949518<p>I was fairly amazed when they announced they had registered 200K bands... according to several analyses there are not that many actively performing bands in the world! <br>RNation is a nice, useful site. One problem with these services, though, is they try to be a one-stop destination. This leaves artists in the unfortunate position of having to enter their basic data into multiple services, beginning with myspace (sine qua non for live music promotion). I wouldn't be surprised to see some kind of consolidation going on with this new funding where RN could buy up some of the smaller sites that already integrate and build on existing gig data, like tourfilter, gruvr, gigblastr, <a href="http://tourb.us" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="tourb.us">tourb.us</a>, etc...</p>gruvr music mapWed, 08 Oct 2008 20:34:57 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/08/amidst-the-cacophony-of-music-start-ups-reverbnation-echoes/#comment-2948853<p>A lot of my artists at acousticvids use ReverbNation extensively, and they love it!</p>melanieWed, 08 Oct 2008 19:41:38 -0000