Post by lmofle on Mar 24, 2005 23:43:04 GMT -5
Launching Monday, Mar 28th, 2005!!!!!!
Some of you know what me and some other partners have been working on for the last 10 months and some of you don't. In a nutshell, we are opening a website that is essentially like ITunes except we are targeting the Independent Artists/Labels and focusing on the Texas Country/Red Dirt/Americana genre with more genre's to follow in the future. The Ryan Turner's, the Jackson Parten's, the Mando Saenz's of the world where they have a CD to sell but only at their shows. It costs the artists nothing to sign up and join the site (except for a CD of theirs so we can "host" it) and we will pay them back based upon revenue generated per month. You, as the fan, will be able to download singles of songs or full CD's. The singles will be $1.00 each and the CD's are priced by the artists but we suggest $10 so some are more, some are less.
Right now we have a small list of artists that are signed up but we anticipate that growing exponentially over the next few months as we catch on and some of my contacting of the artists comes through. The artists we have so far are South Austin Jug Band, Travis Linville & The Burtschi Brothers, Mark Jungers, Doug Moreland, Mary Reynolds, Louise Goldberg, Miss Brown to You, Ryan Bingham, Fallon Franklin, Blake Powers, and 10 City Run. I have been in contact with most every major band/artist that comes in your head. The same is true for one of our partners, Lance Thurman (Txisalive on the site here).
Some other great features we have is Out Of Print CD's (such as the South Austin Jug Band's 1st CD), live recordings from the Blue Door in OKC (soon to come), and pre-release albums. What these would be is after someone cuts a CD, all we would need is the digital version of it and we can have it on our site so you, the fan would be able to hear songs (not sure about purchase yet) BEFORE they are even pressed on a CD - maybe even help the band decide which single to lead with.
We can use all of y'all's help in that if you are friends or know and artist that would benefit from this, have them contact me here at GW or my email address in my profile or even at lmofle@ourtracks.com. All we ask is they have a studio CD for sale (or more - Doug has 6 CD's on the site I believe). The bottom line is ANY money they get from us is money they did not have...
This is a great thing for the Texas Country/Red Dirt/Americana fan and we hope it to be a great thing for OKOM in general. I go to so many shows to meet these guys and talk to them about it so we hope that you enjoy the site as well!!
If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
Some of you know what me and some other partners have been working on for the last 10 months and some of you don't. In a nutshell, we are opening a website that is essentially like ITunes except we are targeting the Independent Artists/Labels and focusing on the Texas Country/Red Dirt/Americana genre with more genre's to follow in the future. The Ryan Turner's, the Jackson Parten's, the Mando Saenz's of the world where they have a CD to sell but only at their shows. It costs the artists nothing to sign up and join the site (except for a CD of theirs so we can "host" it) and we will pay them back based upon revenue generated per month. You, as the fan, will be able to download singles of songs or full CD's. The singles will be $1.00 each and the CD's are priced by the artists but we suggest $10 so some are more, some are less.
Right now we have a small list of artists that are signed up but we anticipate that growing exponentially over the next few months as we catch on and some of my contacting of the artists comes through. The artists we have so far are South Austin Jug Band, Travis Linville & The Burtschi Brothers, Mark Jungers, Doug Moreland, Mary Reynolds, Louise Goldberg, Miss Brown to You, Ryan Bingham, Fallon Franklin, Blake Powers, and 10 City Run. I have been in contact with most every major band/artist that comes in your head. The same is true for one of our partners, Lance Thurman (Txisalive on the site here).
Some other great features we have is Out Of Print CD's (such as the South Austin Jug Band's 1st CD), live recordings from the Blue Door in OKC (soon to come), and pre-release albums. What these would be is after someone cuts a CD, all we would need is the digital version of it and we can have it on our site so you, the fan would be able to hear songs (not sure about purchase yet) BEFORE they are even pressed on a CD - maybe even help the band decide which single to lead with.
We can use all of y'all's help in that if you are friends or know and artist that would benefit from this, have them contact me here at GW or my email address in my profile or even at lmofle@ourtracks.com. All we ask is they have a studio CD for sale (or more - Doug has 6 CD's on the site I believe). The bottom line is ANY money they get from us is money they did not have...
This is a great thing for the Texas Country/Red Dirt/Americana fan and we hope it to be a great thing for OKOM in general. I go to so many shows to meet these guys and talk to them about it so we hope that you enjoy the site as well!!
If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
