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This site is associated with the Creative Commons and offers musicians an opportunity to share their unsigned songs with the world. You can sell the tracks through Sound Cloud or you can just distribute them to share with a genre specific audience or accross the entire range of music styles that are available to SC's members. Obviously the selling of tracks can be very beneficial but the distribution of your music via this site is a great way to promote your band or music to the world. Sound Cloud is a relatively new resource, it only sprung up last year and Nine Inch Nails were the first major band to try it out, see what they did.

triple j Unearthed is all about fresh Australian music. Here at triple j we've been discovering new Australian music for over 30 years and Unearthing acts for more than a decade. So far, we've unearthed over 100 artists from all over Australia and launched the careers of artists like Missy Higgins, Killing Heidi, Grinspoon and Endorphin. Unearthed today is taking it one step further, one blow stronger, one shout louder. You can now listen to ALL the music right here on the website, and also contribute your own stuff anytime.

Support Act is a social support organisation of people who work in the music industry, generally Support Act is a social support organisation of people who work in the music industry, generally you have to have worked in the industry for a number of years before you can be eligable for a grant from them. But it is useful to know about the organisation and to become a member from when you start off in your career.

he Muso Network is a voluntary advisory and management group of young people whose primary role is to organise music-related events and services for young people on behalf of the City of Greater Dandenong. Its secondary role is to provide an informal 'life and vocational skills' training ground for young people where they can learn a whole range of skills whilst enjoying something they love - music!

This site has a month at a glance gig guide that can be added to but it is only as big as its user group. The gig information is supplied by the bands and musicians themselves rather than being a "managed" guide that supplies the gig info itself. its a bit like Gig Pig in that it is relying on its membership base to add flesh to the bone. On the Community tag there is an extensive bibliographic list of their blogs, Soulshine has a very large membership but I suspect that they are essentially music fans rather than musicians judging by the small amount of gigs. So the more musos the better, there are over 1000 members here already.

Gigpig is a great resource for local musicians and punters. It's a mashup of data contributed by its users and is basically a huge database. "Every member is encouraged to add bands, venues, gigs and pictures". Gigpig provides "forums, a gig calendar, music news and a powerful search function". CH

Before there was facebook, there was my space. My space is the original social networking site. Of particular interest to artists and musicians is the fact that you can set up a profile, upload vidoes, pictures and music, get your own web address, send bulletins out to your contacts and get access to blogs, instant messaging (IM), and forums. My Space provides an avenue for artists and musicians to network, stay connected to what is happening, and advertise and market themselves directly to their audiences. CH

This site is for the performing arts generally but especially for music. It features quite a good interactive gig guide.

A site that provides a listing of Melbourne bands and a classifieds service for bands looking for members and equipment or artists looking for groups. There is also a listing of people teaching music privately for those looking to learn.

Your Gigs is a comprehensive gig guide covering all of Australia. Users are able to search by music style, date/day, and location (including areas of the major cities, eg Melbourne Inner-West). Musicians wanting to promote their own gigs are invited to complete a submissions form, which can also include a link to the musicians web or myspace page.

A online listing of all gigs across Australia. This is a link to the 'add you own gig' page. This is an affiliation of Australian Gig Guide.

*Now taking expressions of interest from music artists, solos, duos, trios etc for acoustic shows!** Please send an email to the above address with name, bio, contact info and link to your myspace page or alternatively post or drop a demo into Noise Bar, 291 Albert St, Brunswick 3056. Thanks.\n

Whitehat aims to to be a comprehensive listing of every thing to see and do in Melbourne. No one site is going to be able to cover everything, but Whitehat does a give a very good overview. Its particular strength is its market listings, but it also covers festivals, music, exhibitions, theatre and more.

Fiercely Independant Radio Melbourne Australia

This little dancing robot is as cute as cute can be. I had to post this video of it dancing to music. It was developed by scientist (Hideki Kozima and programmed by Marek Michalowski) as a learning aid for children. The design of Keepon is very simple, just two eyes and a button nose It will certainly be a big hit when it goes onto sale in 2010. 

The Australian Film Television Radio School offers courses short and long in all these areas of the Arts Industry.

Destroy all Lines holds band nights in most cities around Australia and 3 nights in Melbourne. NEXT and BANG are two nights held in the city and are combined on public holidays to form one night called PLASTIC. ANTI is a night held in Ringwood in the Eastern suburbs and BADA BING is in Frankston. All these events are held in venues and any band can apply to play these gigs.

This site is a database of Indigenous Australian musicians. It is something like a myspace for indigenous Australians

This is a good site for emerging entrepreneurs and bands to check out venues for special events.

To have your gig listed in this guide you need to have the info submitted before noon on Monday for the week of your gig. We also have an on-air gig guide which is broadcast Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm and Saturday and Sunday at 6pm. Due to time constraints not every gig that appears on the website will be broadcast on the on-air gig guide.