Music Websites
There are a number of music websites on the Internet. You should be quite careful of these sites, as many of them have very bad agreements that give them rights to your music that you may not want to grant. If you don't mind the rights that you are granting, they do help you distribute your music to people.
We are currently not on many of these sites because of concerns about the agreements, but we mention the idea to complete our discussion of distribution options for a band.
We'd like to reiterate a message that we said earlier about music sales sites: Make sure that the front of the website is geared towards the listeners and not to bands. If the front page looks like a billboard for services for indie bands, it's probably not legitimate. Keep putting yourself in the role of a listener. If you can't imagine yourself as a music fan browsing the site for music, skip it.
A few ideas
indy.tv
One that we have gotten good results from is indy.tv, which is an interesting site geared to indie music with a player that lets the listeners choose the styles that they like and doesn't have a worrisome agreement. We had one listener devote a blog entry to one of our songs, including posting lyrics and the MP3 file itself. The person said that he found our song through Indy Radio, and then talked about some of the items on our website.
songfight.org
If you like writing songs at the drop of a hat, like we do, you might find the site songfight.org as an interesting option. They post song titles at the beginning of the week and you have to write and record a song in that week. Then, for the week after the submission date, the front page of their site is devoted to those songs. Anyone who browses the site can vote for a winner. (Keep in mind it's called “songfight” for a reason. Don't read the message boards if you are a sensitive person.) There's no prize for winning a category other than bragging rights, but it's a lot of fun and can sometimes give you inspiration to write and record a song.