Debut Podcast Features Original Content From Hard Rock Trio Danko Jones
(May 16, 2005 New York, NY) Razor & Tie Entertainment today announces a label-wide launch of an ongoing series of podcasts. The company is harnessing the new medium to expose fans to new music from the company’s burgeoning roster and to enable their artists to reach a wider audience. The first podcasts are now available on the company’s website at www.razorandtie.com/label/podcasting/
The launch will also include podcast songs from up-and-coming Razor & Tie rock bands, including New York City’s indie guitar-rockers Sam Champion, Brooklyn’s enigmatic metal band, The Giraffes, and Temecula, CA pop-rockers, The Chemistry with more to come. The site will continuously be updated with exclusive tracks, song debuts, tour diaries and more.
“Razor & Tie has always strived to be at the forefront of new trends in the media,” commented Michael Krumper, SVP Marketing at the label. “By distributing podcasts by our acts, it gives them yet another avenue of self-expression that can connect with new fans in an immediate and unfiltered way.”
The first podcast, entitled “The Danko Jones Road Report” is 6-minute audio program recorded by Danko Jones, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the Toronto-based power rock trio of the same name, and offers an unedited look inside the Pandora’s Box of a rock band on tour. Similar to the syndicated radio show that Danko hosts in Europe (www.themagicalworldofrock.com), the singer holds forth on his favorite topic