PluggedIn.com - Get Serious About Music News and Media

PluggedIn is a new media and news search tool for music fans. You can use it to find and watch videos, discover new artists, check out your favorite bands' profiles, create multiple playlists and publicize them. The best way to get started is to search for artists you like by name, and then add them to your personal profile which you can create to let others know more about your musical interests. You can check out corresponding videos and audio, as well as see what other PluggedIn users have included which particular artists in their playlists. Scroll down to access a biography and the Wikipedia entry for the artist, as well as news and corresponding blogs, merchandise, musical influences, downloads, ringtones the list goes on and on. Since PluggedIn is also somewhat of a social community, you can connect with other users via the "Fans" tab, and see use the filter by age, relationship status, and what band(s) they are a fan of.

"PluggedIn helps fans easily find the latest media and news from artists that matter most
• Explore Artist Profiles
• Collect Your Favorite Stuff
• Create Playlists on the Fly
• Share Them w/Anyone"

Unlike a of other similar networks, PluggedIn doesn't focus much on words; the site describes itself via images, sounds, and video clips, and users do the same; you won't find obnoxiously long, verbally self-indulgent personal profiles here. This seems to be a serious community for real music fans who are here to connect solely based on musical taste and not because they happen to have, say, a favorite food in common with another user.

When you're on the page of a given artists, why aren't you shown a list of the artist's fans? Isn't that defeating one of the major purposes of PluggedIn?