MySpace founders being booted? Other music sites for bands

TechCrunch is reporting that most if not all of the original senior exec team from MySpace is being asked to depart from the News Corp-owned property. They write...

"An update to my post earlier today that News Corp., under new CEO of Digital Media Jonathan Miller, is looking to replace MySpace CEO and cofounder Chris DeWolfe. We’ve confirmed that things are actually moving much faster than we first understood, and that a decision has already been made to terminate Chris DeWolfe’s employment with MySpace. We’ve also been told that the core MySpace executive team will follow.

MySpace has a dozen or so “execs,” but our guess is that it’s the very senior team that will be terminated: cofounders Chris DeWolfe (CEO), Tom Anderson (President) and Aber Whitcomb (CTO). Removing any more of the team would be much more than a morale blow to the company - it would also bring operations to a screaming halt.

Our understanding is that a new CEO has already been recruited and is in the final stages of contract negotiations. An announcement could come as soon as this week or next. We’ll be posting a shortlist of who we believe are the likely candidates for the CEO position shortly."

This is sort of important to me, as the era of MySpace as the place to go for bands to pop up their pages, looks to be on the way out. I see so many other sites that are better for bands (old school Sonicbids and new school Our Stage, Republic Project and Reverb Nation, for instance, plus ILike and others.

Time for change coming...

One of my earliest songs from the 90s had these lines, which seem to ring true in these changing times for musicians and their online music:
"Grab the indies, music for minds, not masses,
applied senses, it's time for our time, not theirs..."

:-)