Your drummer is lazy. Your Moog player, while able to afford and reprogram every pedal under the sun to his liking, seemingly can't manage to pay his wireless bill. Your atonal waif of a singer is internet-savvy, but would rather waste his mid-30's flirting obnoxiously on Twitter with your 17-year-old cousin than update your band's website. And that guy from work who showed you how to set it all up in the first place just got canned.

 

The above scenario may be outlandish, but can't be that far off, so it appears that a musician did something about it. Marky Hladish, member of Chicago-area groups the Felix Culpa and Venna, has gone live with BandBeast.com, a site allowing those with no HTML experience to create and update their own official webpages in real-time. Hladish, who has done print, web and merch work for groups like Paramore and the Hush Sound through his design moniker Midwest Love, has apparently been working on this project for over two years. "It’s nothing ground breaking," he states on his blog, but concepts like Band Beast are becoming the norm, not the exception, for bands wanting to reach their audiences at the drop of a hi-hat.