So I thought this might be useful to start, as I’ve got a case immediately… you ever come across something on MusicBrainz that you look at and think “I don’t think this actually exists”.
This is for stuff thats beyond obvious “spam”, but for things that seemingly don’t exist.
They added all of the entries under Autophobia and accidentally (purposefully?) linked the recordings to the originals that this band are supposedly covering.
As someone who has a fair bit of interest in 2000’s punk/emo I was curious and started sleuthing…
I cannot find ANYTHING that confirms this band or any of their releases ever existed… and the OP didn’t provide any links or photos.
Are we safe to assume this doesn’t exist and should move forward to remove?
Autophobia is a California based band that doesn’t exist yet. Please help us exist because we suck. Looking for people who also suck/are ok with sucking (so we can grow together)
The albums mainly, because they seemingly don’t exist in any capacity
Ugh this is why I hate web searches in the day of our lord 2025… why does one person get one set of results and another get something entirely different (I’m using DDG btw)
I believe Setlist.fm is user contributed as well and if you look at the editing history this is all from “EnderSSB”
Hmm, not heard of this website
Just odd that the band has what amounts to zero net presence (considering one of the Setlist.fm entries is an online performance apparently) - nothing on Facebook, Instagram… even the smallest bands often have something
That doesn’t seem right, that looks like a hardcore band whereas this band seems to be covering Pop Punk/Emo; also that video is 10 years old and their bandmix page states they’ve been together only 3 years
Maybe, still not sure about the releases that have been added - if they were CD’s then surely I’d be able to buy them somewhere or someone would be selling them on the second handmarket etc.
Oh same I agree big time, but I also know there are people who just add random shit to the database that doesn’t entirely exist - if the context was different (more mature editor, links to other profiles etc.) I wouldn’t be curious
I have CDs released as CD-Rs of bands I saw at festivals. I have then never found them online or anywhere else. Which is a little annoying as I’d like a track list so I can add them to MB.
https://www.bandmix.com/autophobia_band/ lists two members. Some Google searches for one of those names together with the band name leads to https://www.enderssb.com/photo/autophotos, with the title “Autophobia Marketing” and various photos. It seems pretty clear to me that the editor who added the data to MB is one of the members of the band.
As to whether the releases actually exist, I couldn’t turn up anything suggesting that they do. I’ve seen bands add non-existent prospective future releases to MB before, but since these allegedly already existed when they were added, I’d agree that it seems suspicious that there’s no trace of them online.
But I found nothing about releases, apart few hints:
https://www.bandmix.com/autophobia_band/ says in Influences section: Motion city soundtrack, Taking Back Sunday (Fred Era), The Matches, Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards.
