If the kids are Tunited, they will never be divided, to paraphrase completely the wrong band. Midge Ure, formerly of Band Aid, Visage, Thin Lizzy and Ultravox -- of Vienna fame, although we're partial to the spikier end of their back catalogue, such as Young Savage -- has today launched Tunited, a social music-streaming site aimed at unsigned artists.
Tunited offers pay as you go streaming of unsigned and grass-roots artists. Sharing and promoting music earns you streaming credits, with the option to create and share playlists and blog or review music. You can also apply to be a 'Tastemaker', guiding other users on the music you love.
Artists can use tutorials on free music software MUTOOLS, Audacity and Ableton. They can collaborate and rehearse online, personalise their own Tunited shop for music and merch, and get advice on the music biz (as we like to call it). Streams qualify for the charts, should a track become successful.
Tunited is so right-on, it'll even plant a tree to offset the carbon emission of your downloads. It sounds like an excellent way to discover new music, and we hope it does well in the increasingly crowded digital-music space. Tunited is not to be confused with Tunify, which is not to be confused with Spotify.
Midge Ure's Tunited is also not to be confused with Peter Gabriel's The Filter. Clearly a music discovery Web site is the must-have accessory for forward-thinking, ageing rock stars -- we hear Dave Stewart, Nik Kershaw and the accordion player from Mr Mister are planning a social network based around vegan happy hardcore.
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Anonymous 29 July, 2010 10:52
Hey, Tunited is great, we've been on it for a while and love the service. One of the cool things about it though is that it isn't an unsigned site, in fact they say in the blurb somewhere that the term is even banned from the site - which is cool. Apparently it's an independent music site with other indie artists on there like Faithless and We Are Scientists...... There is no signed, there is no unsigned, there is only music - love it!!!
JM Trail of Vapour Trails
Anonymous 12 August, 2010 07:51
Rich Trenholm is one of a growing number of ill-informed, grammatically challenged people who's writings are driven by misplaced dogma.
The first sentence of his "article" demonstrate his dogma which reads: "If it's about music web sites, the people using them MUST be young!"
Really: Seasick Steve, John D. Lewis, Midge Ure -- just three established artists and all of them the wrong side of 50 years old.
Trenholm's child-like ignorance continues with his insinuation that Ure's motivation is to gain some kind of trophy web site. Years of work by Ure and the others behind the site say otherwise, and knowing Ure, the motivation is far from personal gratification or glorification.
Which all leads to the conclusion that Trenholm is a sad old hack with nothing better to do than rubbish things he either (1) doesn't understand ()2) can't be fagged to research or (3) terrify the living daylights out of his limited brain.
anonymous 29 August, 2010 22:03
Blimey, calm down granddad. Actually, anonymous#2, the first sentence is a pun on a song title by Sham 69. You might be aware of them -- they're from the 1970s. I do apologise for being grammatically challenged: please point out any grammatical mistakes in the article and we'll be happy to correct them.
Not sure where you got the idea I'm rubbishing Tunited -- did you miss the bit where I said it's "an excellent way to discover new music, and we hope it does well in the increasingly crowded digital-music space"? Perhaps you haven't got your reading glasses on. Take another look, it's in the fourth paragraph. Just above the bit where I mention Peter Gabriel. I mentioned him not to insinuate anything, but to add a bit of context, and also set up what the kids call 'a joke'.
To answer your points: (1) you're right, I am a sad old hack (2) research? pshh - this is the Internet (3) if taking the piss out of '80s pop stars is wrong, I don't want to be right. Wait a minute - you're not Midge Ure, are you?
anonymous 5 September, 2011 23:23
What has happened to Tunited and what has happened to the money owed to the artists who have sold their music on the site and have never received payment???????