Discover good music that you might like

My Idea serial ID: 00483

Completely non-commercial underground music archive where only the highest quality submissions are posted. Finding music on the Internet is easy. Finding music that you like is a kin to finding the right needle in a huge stack of needles.

My idea is to create a web site where unknown artists can submit their best work to a board of content editors with expertise in a particular field (or fields) of music. Board members consisting of journalists, musicologists, engineers, genre and content experts (i.e. super-fans), college professors and musicians would listen to submissions relevant to their genre of interest. These board members would rate each submission based on an approved published rating system. Community members could apply for a board position, and based on what they can bring to the table, they will be given content manager status on the site. Who better to review (and potentially bless) the creative output of a new progressive rock band than someone with 1,000 yes albums who still goes to see ELP?

The site would be searchable by genre. The net result would be the absolute cream of the crop in terms of content produced by artists without label support.

Monetization would come in the form of capitalizing on traffic generated by very high quality free music