Industry Giants Join Forces, Launch Groundbreaking Indie Artist Support Tool: The Virtual Music Publisher

Rainmaker's Rhonda E. Kelley, GoGirls Music's Madalyn Sklar, and Burn In Silence/3000K's Ben Schulkin shatter the cost/time barrier between independent musicians and critically-important media coverage.

Boston, MA (Billboard Publicity Wire) May 14, 2007 -- The Virtual Music Publisher, the highly anticipated new downloadable music publishers list, launches. Forget the middleman and go direct with this inclusive list of music publishers and music supervisors database with formatted avery mailing labels. With over 600 contacts, addresses, e-mail and telephone numbers. From Bug Music to Disney & Dreamworks. This DIY publishers list is cost effective and direct.

"Anything that empowers musicians to take control of their music careers like The Virtual Music Publisher does, is always a smart move," says Roy Elkins, founder and CEO of Broadjam.com. "Created by working musicians and working publicists; it gives new meaning to DIY."

The founders say that the Virtual Music Publisher reflects the reality of the indie market today: the number of artists vying for attention is exploding; there's an underlying attitude that indie -- once the bastion of do-it-yourself, street-level, down-and-dirty promotion -- has become commercialized; and there are so many new media outlets -- good and bad -- that it is hard to figure out which will work and which are junk.

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