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To: DAY TRADER who wrote (371)	7/22/1999 1:33:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 1116

Competition: Tunes.com Posts First Rolling Stone, the Source Unsigned Artist Picks 07/19/1999 PR Newswire (Copyright (c) 1999, PR Newswire) CHICAGO, July 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Tunes.com, a leading Internet music network, today announced the first "future legends" picked by editors of Rolling Stone and The Source magazines, based on MP3 tracks submitted by unknown artists to www.RollingStone.com and www.TheSource.com. Tunes.com launched its "Download This" sections six weeks ago, giving undiscovered artists the ability to create searchable profiles and upload tracks for review by music's most widely-read critics. There are already approximately 4,000 songs from over 2,200 signed and unsigned artists available for download on the Tunes.com network of sites. The first ten rising stars and their tracks featured in "RollingStone.com Picks" are (in order of their rankings): -- Clokworx "Mental Flux" with the top rating of 8.5 (on a scale of 1 to 10) -- Mickey Dean "Big Rigs" -- QC "Crossover Factor" -- Digital Overdrive "Blade" -- DJ Devious "Criminal Minds" -- Granian "Immune" -- Big Angry Fish "Ephedrine" -- Laundromat "Devil's Martini" -- Hatem House "For the Sake of Love" -- Helva "Gangmasters of Fun" The complete list, with genre, rating and a link to download each song, is at www.rollingstone.com/downloadthis. The first tracks selected by The Source editors for the site's "Unsigned Hype" feature are (in order of their rankings): -- Clokworx "Mental Flux" with the top rating of 4 microphones (out of 5) -- Zion I "Inner Light" -- Classified "Now Whut?" -- P.U.C.K. "Cheese N Pot-C: Unsigned Hype" -- Bawston Strangla "Shamrocks 'N' Glocks" -- DUngEon SquAd "Beware" -- Big Mowf "Nix 4 Trax" -- DirtyDevil "Doomsday" -- Smokin' Joint Productions "Y?" -- Unhatable Jonz "Recognize the Real" The complete list, with rating and a link to download each song, is at www.thesource.com/downloadthis. When notified of the band's top rating on both RollingStone.com's RS Picks and on TheSource.com's Unsigned Hype, AmsOne, lyricist for Clokworx, said, "I believe that MP3s are the future and our E.P. will drop in the MP3 format." Tunes.com's "Download This" gives music fans an intelligent head-start on sorting through thousands of MP3 tracks by featuring and rating the most promising unsigned artists. Users can search the entire Tunes.com collection of MP3s by artist name and musical influence (who they sound like). About Tunes.com Tunes.com (www.Tunes.com), formerly JAMTV, is a leading online music network that provides music fans with extensive and exclusive music content and personalized tools for music discovery. The Tunes.com hub site is supported by and integrated with genre-specific Web sites developed in collaboration with top industry publishers Rolling Stone (www.RollingStone.com and AOL keyword: Rolling Stone), The Source (www.TheSource.com) and Down Beat (www.DownBeatJazz.com). For more information, please see our online pressroom at www.tunes.com/about/press.asp. Contact: /CONTACT: Michelle Zenner Kohler of Tunes.com, 312-642-7560 x149, michellek@tunes.com; or Rachel McKosky of Niehaus Ryan Wong, 650-827-7089, mrachel@nrwpr.com, for Tunes.com/ 08:20 EDT