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Since 1996, Outer Sound has offered musicians, industry folk and fans with the highest quality and most thorough independent music source on the Web.

With over 3,000 pages of material, Outer Sound truly offers something for everyone in the independent music world. Here is just a sampling of what users can find:

Outer Sound University features over 100 articles that offer practical how-to advice to independent musicians and industry personnel. The articles cover everything from copyrighting songs to amplifier repair to setting up a national tour. Over two dozen leading industry professionals - including music lawyers, booking agents, publicists and recording engineers - have contributed articles to the University in their specific areas of expertise.

The Features and In Review sections offer users top-notch original editorial content. Site visitors can enjoy the unique feature stories and interviews, insightful record and show reviews and regular columns that Outer Sound serves up every week.

DIY Center offers users a unique and growing set of tools for the independent musician, including The Studio Finder, a searchable database with detailed technical listings for over 400 recording studios around the US, and The Outer Sound bookstore, which offers over 100 music and music business titles.

Jim Santo's Demo Universe is the world's foremost source of coverage of the underground home recording scene, with a huge and ever-growing searchable database of reviews.

Outer Sound has been widely-praised by the music and Internet industry media since its inception. MTV ran a feature story on the site in 1997, and Outer Sound has been touted by a host of publications, including WIRED, Gavin, The Web, The Village Voice, Magnet and Washington City Paper.

Outer Sound was founded and created, by Intercities, Inc. In 2001, Outer Sound was acquired by SharpFlat.com, a technology company serving musicians and the music industry.

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