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Music Sumo Podcast #030
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Featured Artist: The Trespassers
Tracks:
Splinter Creek Breakdown
Roots & Stone
B Miner Swing
Coyote’s Last Stand
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The Trespassers – Splinter Creek Breakdown
Hey everybody, this is “Downtown” Johnny Brown, and you are listening to Music Sumo Podcast #030! Music Sumo is an independent online music store dedicated to promoting and selling all independent artists’ music over the internet at www.musicsumo.com.
Music Sumo is aimed at assisting independent music artists, in further promoting their careers through distribution, marketing, and promotion on the internet. Artists are now able to sell their CD’s and .mp3’s online, advertise upcoming shows and releases, and be featured on Music Sumo’s regular podcast.
Some of the key features that we have incorporated into the Music Sumo webstore are:
• A website where your fans, and the general public, can come and buy your CD’s and .mp3 digital downloads.
• A place for customers to leave reviews of your music.
• An event calendar so you can let your fans know about your upcoming gigs, CD releases, and more.
• A bulletin board system that you can use to get questions answered about the music industry, as well as help others.
• A chat room where you can interact with your fans and other musicians in realtime.
• A way to further promote your band, music, and gigs through links and banners.
• And more!!!
What’s that you say? Digital download sales on Music Sumo?! Yes, that’s right, we finally have started incorporating digital downloads into the store! Yup, Music Sumo can now encode artists’ submitted music to sell and promote on the Music Sumo webstore at www.musicsumo.com! All .mp3 digital downloads are only $0.99 each, and they are DRM-free, which means that you can play them on all digital media players and can share them with your friends and family as much as you like! We are also encoding the files at 256 kbits/s to make sure that all of your favorite music sounds great! At this time we only have files from The Trespassers, but we are starting to add more and more music files from your favorite artists, so come on by MusicSumo.com to check out the great deals on digital downloads or to submit your music today!
With the addition of the digital downloads, fans may now start to sample every song from an artist’s album. We have decided to change the length of the individual sample clips in the store though. All music samples in the webstore are now being shortened from two minutes down to only 30 seconds. We feel that this better complies with the current overall industry standards, and allows us to store more samples of your favorite artist’s music on our servers for you to sample and enjoy for free.
At the start of the show, we were listening to great the Yosemite, CA area Bluegrass group, The Trespassers’, “Splinter Creek Breakdown.” With The Trespassers being the first to have their music up for digital download from the Music Sumo webstore, let’s take a listen to one another track that is by them. This is The Trespassers again with, “Roots & Stone.”
The Trespassers – Roots & Stone
Of course, the new digital downloads are not the only new thing at Music Sumo. We now have a new Apple Dashboard Widget available for download! The new Widget enables users of Apple’s OS X to listen to the Music Sumo Podcast from their Apple Dashboard. You can even have it run in the background so that you can listen to the Music Sumo Podcast on your computer while working on other things! If you are an Apple user running OS X, download the new Music Sumo Podcast Widget today from the Music Sumo homepage. The link to the Widget can be found on the right-hand side of the page.
Also, we recently had our first Music Sumo Podcast listener call-in contest winner for 2008! Congratulations to Darcy Tiller of Brentwood, CA for calling in to the show! You are the winner of a TopSkin iPod cover for an Apple iPod Classic or iPod Video!
Darcy is a huge fan of Music Sumo and all of the artists on the site, including, of course, The Trespassers. So, this one goes out to you D-Man for being such a big fan. Congrats on winning the iPod cover! Here is some more of The Trespassers for you with, “B Miner Swing.” Enjoy!
The Trespassers – B Miner Swing
If you too would like to win something from the Music Sumo Podcast, here is your chance! Just be the third person to call us at (206) 350-5659 and leave us a message with your name, contact information, and why you love the Music Sumo Podcast so much and we will send you a Griffin RoadTrip iPod FM Transmitter & Auto Charger, free!! Just call the show today at (206) 350-5659!
We would like to thank you all who have participated in the Music Sumo Podcast Listener Survey. If you have not taken the survey we would like for you to participate! It will help us learn more about you - - no matter how long you’ve been a listener to the Music Sumo Podcast or how frequently you listen. So please take a few minutes and visit our website at www.musicsumo.com. You’ll find the listener survey link right on the home page, and you can complete the survey anonymously. Thank you!
Have you ever left your house and forgot your favorite media player with the latest episode of the Music Sumo Podcast on it? Well, now all you need is your phone to listen to the Music Sumo Podcast! That’s right, the Music Sumo Podcast has teamed up with Phonecasting.com to bring you the Music Sumo Podcast right to any phone! Just call (650) 293-9133, and you will be able to listen to the latest episode of the Music Sumo Podcast anywhere at anytime!
Of course, you can also call us up and leave us a message to play on the next podcast! Please make a note that our call-in number has changed though. If you would now like to leave us a message at the Music Sumo Studio and request more music from a certain artist, please give us a call at (206) 350-5659. You can also leave us a message about how great we are, give us feedback on how to improve the show, let us know what is happening in your local music scene, let us know about artists we should know about, or just give a shout out to someone. Leave us a message about whatever you want! Just call (206) 350-5659 and leave your name, your contact information, and your message; and we will see about playing your message on the next Music Sumo Podcast! Of course you can always drop us an e-mail too at podcast@musicsumo.com.
Well, that is it for now, but be sure to check back at MusicSumo.com for more digital downloads from other great independent artists. You can also find more music from The Trespassers, find out more about them, and see where they are playing next at www.musicsumo.com!
Before we go I’d like to leave you with one last tune by The Trespassers though. This tune can now be purchased individually as a DRM-free .mp3 for only $0.99 at MusicSumo.com. This is The Trespassers with “Coyote’s Last Stand.”
This is “Downtown” Johnny Brown saying take care everybody, and remember to always have fun!
The Trespassers – Coyote’s Last Stand
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