Muso's Guide

Musos' Guide or musosguide is a UK-based online magazine. It was launched in 2003, and has been re-launched four times. It is an editorially independent magazine.

Muso's Guide was first launched on June 30, 2003, by then amateur journalist, Holly Noseda.

According to the site’s About Us page, “it was launched for a number of reasons, namely the lack of coverage of classic music alongside new releases, the oh-so-obvious press release drivel in a lot of music mags at the time, the desire to create a website full of city guides with music tourists in mind and the desire to get to listen to promo CDs all day."

"In November 2012 ownership of the site passed from Holly to Joe Watson and long-time contributor Kenny McMurtrie with a view to maintaining the already high quality of coverage and expanding the site’s reach. We still want to cover the classics and the best new music. We still bristle at the press release drivel and regurgitated guff but city guides have died a death. Now we listen to Rdio all day and have resurrected our Underexposed tab to get closer to the grass roots of the music scene. How things have changed ..."

The online magazine has 150 registered contributors, but a smaller fraction of these are active.

Since 2003 the site has had a number of editors in all areas - Catherine Wilson, Natalie Shaw, Greg Salter, Louise Coles, Paul Brown, Russell Warfield, Hayley Scott, Danielle Gibson and Holly Seddon née Noseda.

As of December 2016 the Editorial Team consists of:-

Kenny McMurtrie - Editor-in-Chief

In November 2008 Kenny felt the need to contribute in writing to the music industry. No one tried to stop him and look what it's led to ... He has a day job, is older than he looks & lives in Edinburgh.

Joe Watson Jnr - Performance Manager

Joe operates out of Barrhead in Glasgow & will clean the table with you at both chess and poker.

Rosie Duffield - Managing Editor

Cat Schaupp - Features Editor

Cat lives and lurks in Edinburgh, where her lowly life of academic research is enlivened by fiction writing, foraging for new records, and drinking endless cups of tea.

Dave Beech - Live Editor

Having spent the last three years cutting his teeth at various online publications as both a writer and editor, 2015 saw Dave regain at least some of his soul by handing his notice in at a retail job in order to enter the glamorous world of A&R and live promotion. Not that he's giving up writing though, he's far too arrogant and would miss seeing his name atop his articles.

Kyle McCormick - Albums Editor

Marky Edison - News Editor

Lee Hammond - Photography Editor

Carris Boast - Deputy at Albums

In November 2009, Muso's Guide was shortlisted for Best Digital Publication and Best Blog in the Record of the Day Awards.

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