Videomic is a pretty good all-around (low-end) shotgun mic for use with small videocams (much better than onboard mic for talking), but it'll be a little iffy for recording music. For starters it's a shotty, secondly it's pretty sensitive when run into the mic-in of the camcorder (you may have to attenuate it and the cams levels all the way down under loud conditions), and it's mono (but I think there have a stereo version now, not sure about that one though). You might find for music, you get better results with the onboard stereo mic, it's more ambient, but think of it like an omni b/c it'll pick up everything around you.