Last FM is rather odd. It seems to work by collecting data from people who sign up to it about the tracks they are listening to - they call this 'scrobbling'. This helps them to identify similar music and to share their playlists. Artists can upload tracks for people to listen to. However it can't distinguish between different artists of the same name.

Three Howard Joneses share the same page. One is the 1980s English singer-songwriter, one is an American 'metalcore' singer. The other is me.

My band's page is tagged as "Czech", because there is another band of the same name. There were some tracks listed, but not to download, which were nothing more than rehearsal recordings which had been 'scrobbled' from a band member's computer - these now seem to have disappeared.

The biggest problem from an artist's point of view is that you have only partial control over the content of your own page. You can add your own biography etc, but it seems there is nothing to prevent someone else from commenting on it. Tags and 'sounds like' are derived from what other people who have listened to your music have also listened to - which may be nothing like your music (especially if you share a page with other artists!)