yesterday a friend of mine was talking about a Lordi gig he attended last week. He was particularly enthused by the support band - Turisas - a ‘battle metal’ act who played a somewhat original cover of Boney M’s ‘Rasputin’. He knew nothing about them but wanted to find out more. It actually took me more than two seconds to realise that Sleevenotez was probably the best place to go for a detailed overview of said band. I mailed him nothing more than a link to the Turisas page on SN (a semantically comprehensible link at that), where he could get the skinny on Turisas and even watch them performing ‘Rasputin’ via YouTube. I suppose one might link to Last.fm in these circumstances, but an artist page doesn’t necessarily provide you with a huge amount of background information. While it’s great for providing recommendations based on an artist you’re already familiar with, Sleevenotez is a good starting point for artists you don’t know much about at all. I would love for SN to become the authoritative online music information resource, to the point where anyone referencing an artist instinctively links to the artist page on SN.

On a related note, I really wanted to be able to ‘digg’ the Rasputin video, so that other users would be alerted to its crazed genius. Luckily, we are addressing this very subject in our next iteration.