Press Release: Phish & EMusic.com Announce Groundbreaking New Digital Music Alliance
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Phish & EMusic.com Announce Groundbreaking New Digital Music Alliance
Classic 1990 Phish Halloween Concert to be Webcast And Made Available in
MP3 On October 31st
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- EMusic.com Inc. (Nasdaq: EMUS -
news), 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.
* (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990602/LAW064 )
``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 198
5, 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.
Any forward-looking statements contained in this release involve a number of
uncertainties, risks and other factors which may cause the actual results,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements to materially differ. Factors that could cause actual events or
results to differ materially include, among others, those set forth in the
Company's S.E.C. reports.
SOURCE: EMusic.com Inc.
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PhineGrey
by Phish to open up the live archives.
So, anyone not happy with the Hampton release, it looks like it will be the
first of many.
Brian