eMUSIC SELECTS TO RELEASE FIRST EVER MINGERING MIKE ALBUM

Super Gold Greatest Hits Available Exclusively On eMusic

Daestro also June eMusic Selects Artist

NEW YORK , June 17, 2008 -- eMusic, the world's largest retailer of independent music - and the world's second-largest digital music service after iTunes – announces today that soul superstar Mingering Mike will release his debut full-length, Super Gold Greatest Hits, as part of its eMusic Selects program on June 17. The fascinating story of the discovery of Mingering Mike’s vast collection of artwork and recordings has captivated music fans and collectors alike, and has inspired in-depth features in The New York Times, NPR and other national media. Now, for the first time, fans can hear the compelling music that Mingering Mike created to accompany his incredible artwork.

As a teenager in Washington, DC in the late '60s, Mingering Mike and a few of his relatives recorded a capella songs on to reel-to-reel tapes, using their voices, an afro comb and a telephone book to create their own soul hits. For each batch of songs, Mike meticulously constructed album covers out of cardboard and elaborately illustrated them to look strikingly similar to the soul albums of the era, and reflecting the social themes and political climate of the day.

"That work is instantly recognizable to any of us who have imagined ourselves as singers with a great band but haven’t quite got all the pieces in place yet," says David Byrne, one of Mike’s more famous fans. "Mike instinctively knew that the cover art, the song titles and the narrative that is revealed as one record historically follows another are in some ways maybe not equal to, but at least parallel to, the actual songs.”

“eMusic Selects is all about exposing worthy but little-known artists to our passionate and musically curious eMusic customers,” said Yancey Strickler, eMusic Senior Director of Editorial. “We’re proud to be the first to bring Mingering Mike’s music to a bigger audience.”

The eleven tracks on Super Gold Greatest Hits are raucous and bursting with joy, stomping combinations of rhythm and blues, field hollers and gospel shouts. "Coffee Cake" is a delirious funk jam, Mike and his cousin, The Big "D," chanting the name of the titular treat over and over, creating a kind of jug-band thump. "Hey You" is a simple soul ballad, Mike coyly asking "Hey you – how 'bout a date?" with an unaffected sweetness that would make Marvin Gaye himself proud.

eMusic Selects is a highly-curated boutique online music space launched in February on eMusic that showcases unsigned and underexposed new artists. Detroit electronic act Daestro (Randolph Chabot Jr.) will also be featured eMusic Selects artists beginning June 17.

Each month, eMusic's staff handpicks up to two deserving artists for high-profile visibility to eMusic's 400,000 subscribers. The acts are featured prominently on eMusic's homepage and receive in-depth editorial coverage on the eMusic Selects page and on the site's blog, 17 Dots. Subscribers are able to access a free MP3 download from each act as well. The artists agree to provide their often previously unreleased music exclusively to eMusic in the digital format for 60 days.

About eMusic
eMusic (http://www.emusic.com) is a specialty digital entertainment retailer that has been at the forefront of offering MP3 downloads and customer-friendly prices since its inception in 1998. The company is focused on serving customers aged 25 and older by offering independent music and audio books in a universally compatible format at a great value. It is the world’s largest retailer of independent music and the world’s second-largest digital music service after iTunes, with more than 3.5 million tracks from 33,000 of the world’s leading independent labels and thousands of titles from top audio book publishers. To super-serve its more than 400,000 customers, eMusic provides award-winning editorial content, a vibrant online community and unrivaled music discovery tools. eMusic’s subscription-based service offers free music downloads or one free audio book at sign-up, giving consumers an inexpensive, low-risk way to explore great new music and books they wouldn’t find otherwise. Based in New York with an office in London, eMusic is available in the U.S. and all 27 E.U. nations. eMusic.com Inc. is wholly owned by Dimensional Associates, Inc., the private equity arm of JDS Capital Management, Inc.

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