Full concerts on MSN Video
I was pointed towards a MSN Music video service called In Concert in a Lenny Kravitz press release sent to The Music Tank.
While the Kravitz show didn’t really spark any kind of interest, I did spend a few minutes around the video streaming service looking around for stuff I would actually enjoy.
For something obviously “Microsoft” and actively targeting a wide audience, they kind of have a nice choice of mainstream artists.
Notably, you can stream the Smashing Pumpkins and Chris Cornell — which mostly does Soundgarden songs — among established artists like Elton John.
Services like these are nice because things are neatly grouped and bow-tied, but it’s not making any effort of posting content that would allow for musical discovery. It’s a service that brings them money first and foremost and the showcased artists are filtered accordingly… and that will always seem inevitable for giant portal websites like MSN.