Rakista.com

The site was started with no outside funding and continues to be run this way.

HERE’S WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU REGISTER AT RAKISTA.COM:

For the Fans:

• Build Profile.
• Personal picture gallery.
• Public Picture Gallery with rate and comment system.
• Join to artist’s groups and communities.
• Participate in Bands forum.
• Build Friends list like in friendster*
• Send private message to members and artists.
• Music Gallery where they can listen mp3s and watch music videos online.
• Rate and comments on music.
• Search for music in music gallery.
• Know the profile of different bands.
• Rakista calendar where they can catch the Gig schedule of bands and other major events/concerts.
• Chat with other user in our chat room.
• Post articles, review albums, subscribe to topics, etc.
• Shop online

For the Artists:

• All the benefits of regular members/fans.
• Your own forum being you the moderator.
• Post your profile, biographies, contacts, etc.
• Add links to your official website.
• Unlimited topic posting.
• Reach a greater audience using the internet.
• Post/gigs events at Rakista calendar.
• Photo Gallery with ratings and comments system.
• Your own group, where you can monitor or group your fans.
• Promote your music at Rakista Music Gallery where you can host your music (mp3, wma, etc) or link to your music videos with ratings and comments system. You can also attach lyrics to your songs.
• Be recognized, your band will be featured on homepage. Featured artists will appear for one week, first come first serve and in rotation. Or whomever we decided.
• Customize the look of your forum.
• We have a non-exclusive agreement; you keep the rights to your music.
• Chat
• Constant communication with Rakista.com.
• Sell your merchandise/CD’s.

And more to come

To register simply email the following information to webmaster@rakista.com or hp_solomon@yahoo.com: 

• Name of the band.
• Rakista username account.
• Year Band started.
• Gigs/Events played.
• Official Website (URL)
• Music Genre.
• Music category. UNSIGNED or SIGNED. (To maintain the balance of the force, Indie bands who had released albums to major record stores will fall under SIGNED)
• Profile
• Biography
• Photos for your Profile
• PSD/JPG images files for your own header image of your website. Or send us many images and band logo that we can use and we will do the design.

ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

To prevent SPAMS and FAKE BANDS, your account will be validated and processed for 1 day to 1 week before appearing on Rakista.com, depending if we got drunk from a concert or we got spank on nights gimik!

Registered bands are subject to our Terms and Agreement, please read it >> http://rakista.com/agreement.php?mode=register or simply visit www.rakista.com!