Gigulate Launches API, But How Does This Help You?

‘Tis interesting news that Gigulate, the Last.fm, Hype Machine, Techmeme, MusicBrainz inspired interwebs content mashup is releasing the hounds on their brand-spanking new and shiney API, providing general joe public web designer access to the data that runs their site.

But what does this mean for you and me?

Well in short it means the hurdles are being broken down in the kinds of access we get to the swill of related-content floating around the internet. In Gigulate’s case it means that punters get ready access to all kinds of music news, gig details and related ticket links (which allows them to make money and you get gig tickets). Is this ground breaking stuff? Well not really, and kinda represents more of the same, but in theory this is great for those that use the internet.

In a world where musicians usually just want to do what they do best, which is create music, having YET ANOTHER site to pump info into is yet another mountain to climb in the process of hitting the big time. In reality, Gigulate is designed to draw the strands of all these disparate sources together, but who knows what comes from where, and with less than tech savvy artists out there, the site and its service will be little more than a passing blip on the radar.

My on-going struggle with the sphere of music online is one in which the space is becoming increasingly fragmented, making it harder and harder for those that actually create music to reach their audience. If anything bands, artists, musicians and labels need to take control of their own space and destiny online and actually generate the content in a place which matters, that being their own web site. With blogs, feeds, samples and more, the so called “online music revolution” should be able and forced to reach out to the musicians to actually get what they have to offer to the wider world.

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