MusikFly

"MusikFly is a new service that aims to connect independent artists with writers and critics. Launched in beta just this past March, MusikFly is the product of several music-loving students from the University of Colorado at Boulder, who recognized a basic dilemma musicians face when attempting to grab the attention of blogs – how do you avoid spamming writers whose inboxes are already jam packed?

Many music startups coming out of the developmental woodshed focus on helping artists stimulate their consumers and fanbase. But a large Facebook or Twitter presence doesn’t make a career, as plenty of high numbered accounts with mediocre interaction will reveal. MusikFly’s engagement with the music blogging community tackles fan growth from a far less approached and highly desirable angle.

MusikFly gives artists a fluid method for submitting songs to a wide assortment of music blogs, listed right on MusikFly’s main site. Each is organized by name, location, and stats. A genre section breaks down the preferred style of submissions for each blog, ensuring a quick method to determine whether a blog is appropriate for your music. This bit of info alone cuts down the irrelevancy factor for bloggers and instantly helps an artist’s chances of getting a listen and hopefully, a review.

Similar support is provided to bloggers themselves via a Musikfly widget, which sends submissions from their own site directly into their Musikfly inbox. Material from either YouTube or SoundCloud is sorted together in a neat, uniform list. Any track selected instantly provides bloggers with the artist’s information from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or SoundCloud pages. All submissions from the widget AND from the artists that are using the Musikfly site go directly to one feed, ensuring the blog can manage all of their submissions in one place."  - SoundCtrl