CLASSIC 1990 PHISH HALLOWEEN CONCERT TO BE WEBCAST & MADE AVAILABLE IN MP3 ON OCTOBER 31ST
Phish & EMusic.com Announce Groundbreaking New Digital Music Alliance
(CPWIRE) REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- October 25, 1999 -- EMusic.com Inc. (Nasdaq: EMUS), the Internet’s leading seller of downloadable music, today announced a new digital distribution partnership with the Vermont-based rock band Phish. To kick off the relationship, EMusic.com and its Internet partners will present a special Phish Halloween Web event on October 31 at http://www.emusic.com. This event will offer Phish fans a chance to listen to, purchase and download a high-quality, full-length MP3 archival recording of Phish`s 1990 Halloween show at Colorado College. ''Given that we won’t be doing a Halloween show this year, we hope that this Web event will be a fun way to keep the tradition alive,'' said Phish bassist Mike Gordon. ''We`re excited about our new partnership with EMusic.com, and look forward to providing further downloadable releases in the coming months.''
''Phish is perennially one of the country`s most-popular touring bands,'' said Gian Caterine, director of business development for EMusic.com. ''We are thrilled to team with Phish to offer their tech-savvy fan-base a new source of Internet entertainment and downloadable music.''
Phish Halloween `99 on the Web The Phish Halloween Web event kicks off on Sunday, October 31 at 9:00 p.m. EST (6:00 p.m. PST) at http://www.emusic.com:
* 9:00 p.m. (EST) - A message group hosted by eGroups.com(TM) will be available for fans to exchange their thoughts and experiences about Phish shows past, present and future.
The EMusic.com site will also feature excerpts from a taped audio interview with Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, talking about the band`s Halloween tradition.
* 10:00 p.m. (EST) -- 1990 Halloween Concert audio Webcast, presented in cooperation with RealGuide Music. Phish fans can listen to the streamed concert using the free RealPlayer software, available at http://www.real.com/products/player/.
* The hallmark 1990 Halloween Concert will also be available for sample, purchase and download in high-quality open MP3 from EMusic.com. The 150+ minute, two-set concert is available for download per song, per set, or in its entirety for $14.99. A free MP3 of the song ''The Landlady'' from the concert is available now for download at http://www.emusic.com.
For more details, visit the EMusic.com Phish Halloween Web site at http://www.emusic.com. Phish fans can also send friends an animated Phish Halloween digital postcard from this site.
About Phish Phish was founded in 1983 when freshman Trey Anastasio posted flyers around the University of Vermont campus, looking for musicians to form a band. Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon and Jeff Holdsworth answered the call and soon Phish was gigging regularly in the Burlington area. The current lineup took shape in 1985, when keyboardist Page McConnell joined the group and Holdsworth left soon after. After that it has been a steady climb from campus club band to regional touring act to bigger clubs, theatres and eventually arenas nationwide. The band signed with Elektra Records in late 1991 and has released nine albums on the label -- selling approximately four million albums to date worldwide. Phish will be releasing the six-CD live box set Hampton Comes Alive on November 23. They will be touring for two weeks in December, and ushering in the new millennium with a special celebration December 30-31 at the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation in Florida. www.phish.com is the band`s official presence on the Internet.
About EMusic.com Since it was founded in January 1998, EMusic.com has established itself as the leader in the growing market for downloadable music. www.emusic.com is a Web site for sampling and purchasing music in the MP3 format, which has become the standard in the digital distribution of music. Through direct relationships with leading artists and exclusive licensing agreements with over 150 independent record labels, EMusic.com offers an expanding collection of over 28,000 tracks for purchase -- entire albums for $8.99 or individual tracks for 99 cents each. EMusic.com features top artists in all musical genres, such as Alternative (Bush, They Might Be Giants, Frank Black), Punk (Blink-182, The Offspring, Pennywise), Jazz (Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Concord Records), Blues (John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Buddy Guy), Hip Hop (Kool Keith, The Coup), Country (Merle Haggard, Patsy Cline), Classic Rock (George Harrison, David Crosby, Frank Zappa), World (Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Lee `Scratch` Perry) and Vintage Pop (Liza Minnelli, Eartha Kitt, Judy Garland). The company is based in Redwood City, California.
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