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Independent Band Hits The Road Independently

Phoenix, AZ – June 18, 2008 – If you’ve ever been to an Egress show, you know what it’s like to have a good time. Infusing elements of reggae, funk and Latin into their energetic rock band, these guys play to sell out crowds and push spirited fans into a sweat soaked musical frenzy with their intense live shows.

Based in Arlington, Texas, the band is made up of founding members Bobby Liszewski (Bass) and Mark LeBlanc (Drums), and later completed with the addition of Terry Davis (Guitar) and Kali Green (Vocals) in 2005. After their first full-length album, Freshly Squeezed, was completed in 2006, the boys decided to begin touring in support of their newly released album. Egress started a college radio campaign (2007), receiving spins on over 100 stations, 12 of which were in heavy rotation.

Booking all of their own shows, this hard working band plans to be on the road for the next three years. Currently booked throughout June and July, and moving quickly into August, Egress is always willing to put forth the effort to get their music heard and keep their audiences coming back. And it’s paid off – not only do these boys keep the crowds entertained, but their friendly personalities show the fans their appreciation and dedication to their down-to-earth upbringing.

Their album, Freshly Squeezed (2007) features a 12-track list produced by David Hauser a.k.a. Revelle (Iron Butterfly, Red-Bone), with help from Engineer/Producer Tom Gordon (Dr. Dre, Ozzy Osbourne, Beach Boys) and mastering guru Joe Gastwirt (Pearl Jam, REM, 311).  The album dropped in September of 2007 and features Arabian Prince a.k.a. Professor X (founding member of NWA) and Steve Ewing (The Urge). It is available for purchase at www.EgressMusic.com.

For more information on Egress, contact Melissa Ruth directly or visit www.EgressMusic.com

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Website's Stylized TV Commercial a National Winner

TAMPA, FL, May 8th -- Edgy web destination EmergencyPodcastSystem.com has won the prestigious Silver award from the Summit International Awards for their TV commercial, titled “Taste The Noise.” The 30-second spot is a comedic send up of pop culture featuring a whiny, self-absorbed teen in a student-film-style soliloquy. “Taste The Noise” was produced in-house by the Emergency Podcast System team of filmmakers, musicians and artists. The Emergency Podcast System website is growing into an advertising-friendly supersite for the tech-savvy, information-hungry, 14- 34 demographic.

All entries to the Summit Creative Awards are reviewed and scored by an international panel of judges representing many of today’s top creative agencies, including such luminaries as Ogilvy and Mather. The twelve-year-old competition has established itself as one of the premier arbiters of creative excellence. Using rigorous evaluative criteria, this unique competition rewards those firms truly deserving of special recognition. Submissions are evaluated based on the strength of their idea, the quality of execution and the ability to persuade.

The Emergency Podcast System is an iconoclastic “best of” podcast website, and the hub for a cluster of features: music, games, contests, ringtones, music, jobs, social networking and more. Emergency Podcast System is a division of Academy Leader, Inc., a multi-faceted media company and winner of over 40 national and international awards for its endeavors in the field of television production. The angel financed group has offices in Florida, and production facilities in Oregon and California.

Contact: Branding at Emergency Podcast System .com

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Podcast Network Releases Indie Album by Brad Sucks

TAMPA, FL, April 18th -- Release of the indie album, "I Don't Know What I'm Doing" by Brad Sucks, marks the debut of Slo-Monkey, the music label behind the Emergency Podcast System (http://www.emergencypodcastsystem.com). The quirky, witty album's release is backed by a TV campaign on Former Vice President Al Gore's cable network, Current TV. Current TV serves over 20 million households nationwide and has an energetic youth audience.

Smart lyrics and danceable tunes made indie band Brad Sucks an obvious choice for the Slo-Monkey label. Says music contract guy Lil' Dawgg, "If we find ourselves singing the tunes around the office, we know we have a winner."

Slo-Monkey is, indeed, looking to pick winners. They are not playing a numbers game with thousands of indie songs for sale in a vast, impersonal catalog. The group is sifting through the music world the same way they distilled the podcast world into a hand-picked list of the most entertaining and informative selections. What could come out of this is a brand new, powerful music label built to outlast the hype of Web 2.0.

The Brad Sucks album CD, and MP3 album download are available at the Emergency Podcast System website, under "Bands."

The Emergency Podcast System is an iconoclastic "best of" podcast website, and the hub for a cluster of features: music, games, contests, ringtones, music, jobs, social networking and more. The angel-financed group has offices in Florida and production facilities in Oregon and California.

Contact: Branding at Emergency Podcast System .com

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Podcast Network's Mock-Bergmanesque TV Commercial Goes Nationwide

TAMPA, FL, April 1st -- Duck and cover: the Emergency Podcast System is on the air. With an URL that’s a nostalgic play on 1960’s Cold War atomic paranoia, The Emergency Podcast System (http://www.emergencypodcastsystem.com) opens its Internet doors to a national audience with a daring TV campaign starting April 1st.

The scrappy web destination debuts its 30-second commercial, a comedic send up of pop culture, on cable music network FUSE TV, to 42 million households across all 50 states. This savvy spot features a laughably whiny, self-absorbed teen in a student-film-style soliloquy. “That’s our audience,” says producer, web mistress, and podcast DJ, Mix-e. “They’re smart, and they get it.”

What Gen-X and Gen-Y users get is a “best of” podcast site that says bluntly, “if it isn’t here, it’s crap.” The site delivers “cherry picked podcasts that don’t suck” -- entertaining and informative podcasts hand selected by an award winning gang of renegade artists, musicians, and filmmakers, with a bracing shot of attitude.

A podcast is like any audio or video clip on the Internet, with one difference: it can be downloaded to handheld portable players for time-shifted playback. The “pods” as these players are called, can hold thousands of songs and podcasts, hours of video, even entire movies. Most popular is Apple’s wildly successful iPod, with over 40 million units sold.

The Emergency Podcast System offers a dozen carefully crafted categories covering trendy topics like music, comedy, politics, movies, food, even flippant technology discussions. It’s strictly a “best of” list; they dump marginal podcasts unceremoniously. Says Mix-e, “most podcast sites are ‘aggregators’; corporate funded, sterile looking sites that warehouse tens of thousands of podcasts, with a few bubbling to the top of robotically generated favorites lists.”

These guys are not just creatives; they have business backgrounds. “We have one foot in the boardroom, the other on a skateboard,” says Mix-e. The gang filters narrowcast entertainment of all stripes, charismatically branding and developing properties they determine could play wider. “We take the best of that long tail, and promote the heck out of it,” says visionary impresario Lil’ Dawgg, signing a band to a nonexclusive pressing and distribution deal.

For bands, this could be a shortcut to music TV exposure. Next up is a commercial for the first album of their new label, Slo-Monkey.

The Emergency Podcast System also features the social network parody site, “MyFakeSpace” (which openly invites visitors to fib), and Kool Gigz, an entry level jobs site to help new grads find jobs at Fortune 500 companies. Says Lil’ Dawgg, “You should come into Emergency Podcast System...and come out better.”

The Emergency Podcast System is an iconoclastic “best of” podcast website, and the hub for a cluster of features: music, games, contests, ringtones, music, jobs, social networking and more. The angel-financed group has offices in Florida, and production facilities in Oregon and California.

Contact: Branding at Emergency Podcast System .com