LOS ANGELES, CA - StartUpMusic.com has partnered with America Online's Winamp and Spinner.com to expand StartUpMusic.com's distribution channel for over 125 independent record labels representing more than 650 artists.

Winamp and Spinner.com will enhance the suite of services that StartUpMusic.com currently offers to the independent record label community. StartUpMusic.com provides a music network for its Member Labels, distributing songs through high-traffic websites. Under terms of the deal, StartUpMusic.com will deliver digital songs from its 125+ Member Labels for download on the Winamp player and Spinner.com's new Playlist-To-Go feature.

"We are pleased to work with StartUpMusic.com, a leading representative of independent record labels," said Josh Felser, General Manager Winamp and Spinner.com. "This deal only reinforces our belief that Spinner.com and Winamp offer the most compelling and genre-rich music on the Web."

In addition to promotional and revenue-generating distribution of digital songs, StartUpMusic.com is offering a suite of b2b and b2c services to record labels, including dynamic websites, opt-in email lists, encoding services and more. The services are designed to save a label time and money, allowing them to concentrate on their core competency: the music.

"Our mandate at StartUpMusic.com is to provide our Member Labels with innovative visibility options for the marketing, promotion and sales of their music to the Internet community as well as through traditional outlets," said Jeffrey Weber, StartUpMusic.com VP of Business Development. "Working with AOL provides us with a dramatic extension of our labels' visibility, and in light of recent transactions, places the music of our member labels in a prime association with the broadest music and technology based company in existence."

About StartUpMusic.com
StartUpMusic.com is a second-generation Internet company that provides a turnkey web solution for independent record labels that incorporates e-commerce, database management, promotion and marketing, as well as business-to-business solutions designed to increase productivity, communication and coordination between record labels and their vendors. Privately held, StartUpMusic.com is located in Southern California's Digital Coast.

About Spinner.com
Spinner.com is the first and largest Internet music service with 130+ music channels. Covering an unprecedented depth and breadth of music programming -- with channels such as 90's Rock, Bluegrass, British Invasion, Chicago Blues, Top Pop, Great Guitar, Jungle and Latin. The Spinner music player displays artist and song information as music is played and provides artist information and related e-commerce. Spinner.com was acquired by America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL), in May 1999, and merged with Nullsoft, Inc. Spinner.com and Nullsoft now reside in San Francisco's Audio Alley. New listeners can visit Spinner.com and download a free player at www.spinner.com.

About Nullsoft Winamp
Launched in January 1998, Winamp is the world's leading high-fidelity audio player, giving millions the ability to listen to digitally downloaded music. Winamp supports playback of MP3, CD, and all popular digital audio formats, custom appearances called skins and audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins. Nullsoft, which developed Winamp (www.winamp.com) and SHOUTcast (www.shoutcast.com), was acquired by America Online, Inc. in May 1999. Nullsoft resides in San Francisco's Audio Alley and is part of AOL's Interactive Properties Group.

Press Contacts:

Spinner.com
Ann Burkart
415.934.2768
ann@spinner.com

StartUpMusic.com
press@StartUpMusic.com