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PureVolume is a website for bands and musical artists to promote and advertise themselves. Each artist/band has its own miniature website which usually includes news, photos, upcoming shows, background/biographical information, contact information, and music for free listening and downloads. Over 500,000 artists house such profiles on PureVolume, most of whom hover around the rock genres, particularly alternative rock, indie rock, and punk rock and its subgenres. In historical scholarship, a primary source is a document, or other source of information that was created at or near the time being studied, by an authoritative source, usually one with direct personal knowledge of the events being described. ... In library and information science, historiography and some other areas of scholarship, a secondary source is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing Scale model of a Wheaties cereal box at a pep rally Promotion is one of the four key aspects of the marketing mix. ... For other uses, see Photograph (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Alternative music redirects here. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...

PureVolume is promotional grounds for mostly fairly obscure, minor or up-and-coming artists, but also boasts a selection of signed mainstream bands as well. Look up mainstream in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Features

• There are two types of accounts for artists: a free membership, and a paid Pro membership; in addition to this, there are free memberships for listeners.
• Artists can host mp3s and/or downloads, make friends with other artists, and promote shows and events on their subpages.
• A listener's membership gives one the ability to create his own user profile, start a blog and photo album, leave comments (on both artists' and listeners' pages) or add friends, and post on the forums. Listeners can pick their favorite artists which will be displayed on their profile. Whenever one of their favorite artists adds a new show, blog entry, or song, a notice will appear on their member home.
• To see if other listeners are similar, users have a list of their favorite genres as well as tags on their profile that others can search for.
• On PureVolume's mainpage, bands can be featured either by paying for a "Pure Promo" or chosen by the PureVolume staff for a "Pure Pick".
• PureVolume also features charts of rising unsigned artists as well as charts for signed artists. These charts are broken up by most popular artist by profile visits and most popular artist by songs downloaded. The charts are also split into different music genre categories.

External links

• PureVolume.com
• Virb Inc.
• Backstage (the official PureVolume blog)