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Garageband.com wins Wammy for New Talent Website
25 September 2000

The first annual Wammy Awards for music-related Web sites and services were presented this past Thursday at San Francisco’s Palace Of Fine Arts. The proceedings were part of the first annual Music On The Net Conference sponsored by radio industry publication Gavin.
    Jerry Harrison’s Garageband.com beat Universal Music Group’s Farmclub, Atomic Pop, SpinRecords, and MusicChoice for the Best New Talent Website award. Harrison, who founded Garageband.com a year ago, played with The Modern Lovers and Talking Heads before venturing out as a producer. He, Tom Zito, and Amanda Lathroum Welsh created Garageband.com to leverage the accessibility of the Internet for the benefit of emerging artists. Bands post songs on the site. Then fans and other bands vote on the songs. Winners—along with any bands hand-picked by Harrison—get recording contracts.
    Vivendi-owned Universal Music Group quickly stole the idea and formed Farmclub.com, which debuted earlier this year. Dreamworks followed suit with DreamworksDigital.
    Other winners at the Wammys included Napster for Website Of The Year and Best Music Application, the Steven Spielberg/Jeffrey Katzenberg/David Geffen owned Dreamworksrecords.com for Best Indie Label Website, and Eminem for the Listen.com Most Downloaded Artist. | Garageband.com | | Wammy Awards | | top of page |

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