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MFT Fall Newsletter- Band Sign Up/Access and more

This was sent out to about 3000 people on the MFT newsletter list. Dear MFTers,
We have been hard at work here at Small Box on the latest and greatest version of Musical Family Tree! If you haven't stopped by recently please do, a lot has changed and I think you're going to like the changes.
Beyond the new,… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on September 30, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

MFT seeking Writers and Curators

Interested in writing/creating content for MFT? Doing band profiles, interviews, photos, videos, show or album reviews, etc? We want you! There may even be a little money in it. Contact Jeb at musicalfam@gmail.com Also, we are looking for trustworthy people to help curate the MFT MP3 archive. In particular we are looking for people to help document under-represented scenes on the site- Evansville, Richm… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on September 30, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Submit A Band to the MFT Archive!

I'm really excited about this one! We finally have a band submission form set up so that bands, current and past, can easily set up their own page including uploading images and MP3s as well as noting which bands they are related to. The form then cre… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on September 15, 2009 at 4:30pm — 12 Comments

The New MFT! What do you think?

As you probably noticed we have made some major changes to the site. I want to go over these changes in this blog and let you give us some feedback on what we've done and input on where it's going. First off... Design- we have implemented designs that Kevin Fitzpatrick created for the site. Although we couldn't get the community to do everything we wanted it to in terms of design I think the changes are a vast improvement over the previous "design". The new look and feel extends to the… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on August 24, 2009 at 10:00am — 11 Comments

New MFT coming soon

MFT 2.0 or is that 3.0 has been under daily development for the last few weeks. After a couple false starts the last year or so we have been able to consistently free up one of our developers at Small Box, Jordan Wilson, who is also a great designer and flash developer. A triple threat he is! We are working from the Kevin Fitzpatrick designs for the overall look and feel of the site. I expect to launch the site by the end of the summer. I want to get it rock solid before going live if possible.… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on July 2, 2009 at 10:07pm — 14 Comments

Band Of The Week Profiles- give us your lists!

Hey MFTers, we have an intern at Small Box this summer!

http://www.musicalfamilytree.net/profile/JustinShimp Justin Shimp, from Ball State/Muncie, will be helping with various tasks and one of them is updating… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on May 18, 2009 at 10:00am — 32 Comments

New Music on the MFT Archive

Git yer hot fresh new music here!

We Are Hex
Gloom Bloom

Prizzy Prizzy Please
Self-Titled album

Prizzy Prizzy Please
The PPPPPEP

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Added by Jeb Banner on March 6, 2009 at 11:12pm — 1 Comment

So how you doing?

Life has been busy for me lately and I feel like I've neglected this beloved little site. I thought I'd give you guys an update on things MFT related. We are still finishing out the band access. We got a little sidetracked with a fun project we are finishing up- check it out at www.recordgeeks.com. It will be a cool vinyl review site when it is done. Or plan is to quickly return to band access to the archive which has been a priority forever but never ye… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on February 22, 2009 at 6:35pm — 5 Comments

All MFT CDs/Records 50% Off! 2/4-2/11

We need to pay some MFT related bills so it's time for a sale! For one week only, 2/4-11, everything in the MFT Store is half price. So grab all the great Indiana tunes you need while the sale lasts and support a good cause, this one!, along… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on February 5, 2009 at 9:30pm — 4 Comments

MFT Archive is working....again

it appears we had some code linking to a site that no longer provides a service that we were using for streaming the songs. I'm not sure exactly why it broke the players but it did so after much consternation the archive is back up and running, again. enjoy! http://www.musicalfamilytree.org/band_list Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on January 26, 2009 at 6:53pm — No Comments

MFT is Turning 5! Some people I'd like to thank...

On January 31st MFT will be 5 years old! Like one of my kids it's hard to believe the site is only 5 since I can't seem to imagine life without MFT at this point.

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Added by Jeb Banner on January 16, 2009 at 2:00pm — 14 Comments

New Profile Questions and Thoughts On New Members

I added a new profile question tonight. It's a private question which means that the person signing up to be a member just fills it out for review by the admin in order to join (admin=me and about 5 other people). The new question asks what is the user's connection, if any, to the Indiana music scene. Another question is "Original Hometown" since many of us grew up in Indiana (or wherever) and moved wherever (or Indiana). The goal here is to screen out any really good spam bots and individuals… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on January 13, 2009 at 2:00am — 18 Comments

Give MFT a Tip!

I have added a really cool little feature to MFT today. It's a tip jar! It's an gadget powered by TipJoy.com that let's regular visitors to a site help support with a small donation. I have the tip jar set to 25 cents right now. Obviously you can leave a bigger tip but we'll take whatever you want to send. Here is some more information about Tip Joy http://tipjoy.com/ I removed the Blog Ads from the site since it isn't bringing the revenue I wanted. Also, I wou… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on January 11, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Trying Something Out- please give me your feedback

A number of you have mentioned that they aren't too crazy about your present and past lives being all over Google via MFT. Although I think this is the way that many people find the site it is also a hassle for people who want to keep their personal and professional lives somewhat separate. I can sympathize. So I changed the settings on the site to only allow members to see beyond the home page. This means all the profiles, discussions, photos, etc are not going to be indexed in Google (I think… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on December 24, 2008 at 2:00pm — 44 Comments

MEAT FLAG: Would Love to Know More About Band

If anybody knows more about the Indy band MEAT FLAG, please let me know. Their webpage seems to be down and I'd LOVE to get/hear even more of their music than what's available on MFT—if it's available from someone, somewhere... Also: would simply like to know more about the band.

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Added by Ed the Meat Poet on December 11, 2008 at 6:30am — 2 Comments

The MFT MP3 Archive Is Back Up! sorta

We have restored most of the MFT MP3 Archive after a near death experience. Bottom line we had a horrible, awful server experience with a company called, ironically, Host I Can. They are very unsympathetic to our plight and have told us to basically get lost. Bummer. Now, we are not without fault here. I should have been better in keeping active back ups for this project. We did have 90% of the site archived but had not backed it up recen… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on December 10, 2008 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

MFT MP3 Archive is Down and will be for a while...bummer

Our host company, ironically named "Host I Can", has pulled, without warning, all MP3s off of our server. They gave us some lame excuses but it came down to them admitting "we say you can have as much space as you want but in reality you can't". Hence forth they shall be called "Host I Can't". Anyway I'm pissed. They promise they will get us a back up of the site so we can reload it to another server. This could take a few weeks. I'm going to take the Archive off line until then since there is… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on November 10, 2008 at 3:30pm — 19 Comments

MFT Featured on Ning's Blog

As many of you know, the community side of this site is run on the Ning platform. I was happy to see that MFT was recently featured on the Ning blog as a featured site. Here's a link. Show you support by leaving a comment! http://blog.ning.com/2008/10/indianas-musical-family-tree.html Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on October 6, 2008 at 8:46am — No Comments

BBC: "Artists head for MySpace 'exodus'" (30 Sept 2008)

According to a recent article from the BBC news service, "Independent record labels have cried foul after failing to reach a deal for their acts to appear on MySpace Music." The article quotes Bob Frank of Koch Records, "MySpace continually states that it is embracing the independents—it's a pretty listless and cold embrace." [more at LINK] (Me, I like MFT.) Continue

Added by Ed on September 30, 2008 at 9:00am — 7 Comments

The MFT Store is LIVE LIVE LIVE!

We have relaunched the MFT store, stocked full of goodies including some upcoming releases that are only available on MFT, for now... Please take a look, buy something and let us know what you think. It's right on the top Navigation under "Store" or you can go to store.mftrecords.com BTW the server speed is a little slow right now, we are looking into that. Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on September 23, 2008 at 3:05pm — 4 Comments

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John P. Strohm commented on Jeb Banner's blog post 'Best Albums of the Decade'

Andy, yeah, I know what you're saying...the Lemonheads then instantly faded into multi-platinum obscurity. That's such a great perspective when most people have no idea the band even existed pre-1992. If anyone bothering to read this hasn't heard t…

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BURD commented on Jeb Banner's blog post 'Best Albums of the Decade'

Ha! I knew it.

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Kurt/Yukki commented on Jeb Banner's blog post 'Best Albums of the Decade'

I'm not crazy about Michael Jackson or modern-day indie rock, but I will sing the SHIT out of some prime Manilow. Burd, you nailed me. I write the songs that make the whole wooooorld siiiing....

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Andy "The Brit" commented on Jeb Banner's blog post 'Best Albums of the Decade'

ahhhh Bullet Lavolta,their 1st 12" almost bordered on being the new Jerry`s Kids !!! Then they hit the UK with the Lemonheads & they both fell away.....those were the days lol What gets me is people forget that punk/hardcore was NOT a private party…

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John P. Strohm commented on Jeb Banner's blog post 'Best Albums of the Decade'

Burd, I would never accuse you of being shy about speaking your mind. And I doubt anyone would have thought me anything but a raging snob from way back. And with the anti-Manilow snobbery of the post below, we continue to have plenty in common. FTR:…

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BURD commented on Jeb Banner's blog post 'Best Albums of the Decade'

John, it didn't seem like good natured to me when I went back and looked. It reeked of pretentious snobbery. Haughtiness. The funny thing is; I'd probably step up and say something if someone was doing it to you. Incidently, there are all sorts of t…

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