Muxtape Officially Relaunches as Music Promotion Site

Muxtape, the formally popular and defunct mixtape site, officially relaunched last week with its new service for promoting bands.  With a tiny primary library of 12 bands, including Girl Talk and Reggie Watt, the simple layout is looking to expand for any bands willing to give it a go.

Muxtape comes from humble beginnings and endured a lengthy losing struggle against the RIAA. The site originally allowed users to create short playlists from their own MP3s and share them with others.  Aside from appearances, the new Muxtape carries few resemblances to the mixtape format that made it popular.  It is essentially a simplistic version of MySpace and doesn’t seem to offer many innovations to the already saturated music promotion marketplace.  Hopefully with time and experience the new Muxtape will build from its roots while sharing artists whom we see everywhere from Last.fm to Hype Machine.  It’s great to see Muxtape rise from the ashes, but we have yet to see if this new site can muster its former fanbase.

[via ars technica]