What happened to the indie folk artist pages and why
The old artist pages on this domain were the catalogue of the independent world, folk and jam music that the earlier site documented, and this page explains what happened to those artist pages and why they are not part of the site you are reading now. The earlier site on this domain ran from 2002 to 2023, and it organized its artists into pages by genre, and the capture record shows an artists path that was live from 2011 to 2016 with 31 captures. The site you are reading now is a new, unaffiliated project built in 2026, and it does not own the old catalogue and it does not present any of those artists as a release it sells. This page follows the artist pages through the era and explains the line between the old catalogue and the new scene reference, from the archive record and nothing else.
This is the account of the artist pages: it traces the artists path through the era, names the artist subpages the record shows, and explains why the new site carries the scene rather than the old catalogue.
What the old artist pages were
What the old artist pages were is the catalogue of the music the earlier site documented, and they were the core of the address during the era. The artists path on the domain was live from 2011 to 2016, and the capture record shows 31 captures of it, which is a steady path and not a one off. The artist pages sat under the artists path, and the record names a set of them, including a New Orleans artist page that received 4 external links, an artist page that received 4 external links, and a set of other artist pages that received 1 to 3 external links each. The artist pages were the catalogue, and they were organized around the artists the site documented in the world, folk and jam music of the small label scene. The catalogue was the thing the old site was built on, and the artist pages were its face.
How the artist pages ran through the era
How the artist pages ran through the era is shown by the capture record, and the path was live across the rebuild and the long tail. The artists path first appears in the record in 2011, which is the year the site moved to the new structure, and it holds through 2016, the last year the capture record shows it captured. The artist subpages that the record names are the individual artists of the catalogue, and they are the pages the external links pointed to, with the New Orleans artist page and the artist pages that received 2 to 4 links each. The artist pages ran alongside the news topics page and the shopping page of the same era, and they were the part of the site that documented the artist and the release. The run of the artist pages is the run of the catalogue, and it is the period the record shows the old site at its fullest as a catalogue of the scene.
What happened to the artist pages
What happened to the artist pages is that they went quiet with the rest of the old site as the capture count fell after the rebuild. The capture record shows the era falling from the peak in 2006 to a few captures a year in the long tail, and the artist pages went quiet with the rest of the catalogue in that fall. The 2023 captures are the last of the era, and they are a parking page, a search page, and an info page, not the artist pages, and the 2024 capture is the expired domain notice. The artist pages did not move to a new address, and they did not transfer to the new site, because the new site is a new, unaffiliated project and it does not take on the old catalogue. The artist pages ended with the era, and the era ended with the domain lapping in 2024. The what happened is the quiet, and it is the end of the old catalogue on this domain.
Why the new site is not the artist pages
Why the new site is not the artist pages is the line the 2026 project draws, and it is the line this whole site keeps. The new site is a standing reference on the independent world, folk and jam music and the small label scene that releases and distributes it, and it is not the owner of the old catalogue and it does not present any of the old artists as a release it owns or sells. The new site writes about the scene, the genres, the labels, and the circuit, and it does not rebuild the old artist catalogue, because the catalogue was the old site's and the new site is a different project on the same address. The artist pages of the era are the subject of this page, and the new site's pages are the scene, and the line between the two is the line the record and the 2026 build put there. The new site is the reference, and the old artist pages are the history it documents, and that is the relationship this page explains.