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MEDILINQ: HELPING ARTISTS DEAL WITH RISING HEALTHCARE COSTS

With today’s rising healthcare costs it’s getting harder and harder for any serious musician to support their own medical insurance. OurStage always strives to provide services that benefit musicians, both personally and professionally. To this end we have partnered with MEDILINQ to help bring benefit discounts to our artist community.

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From the MEDILINQ website: “Medilinq is not health insurance. Instead, we have agreements with large networks of providers and pharmacies. This gives you access to purchasing power for affordable health care, including savings of 20-40% on medical and dental care and 40-60% on lab and pharmacy services.”

MEDILINQ is active is the artist community, supporting non-profits like Rock For Health. They are offering a health benefit program for musicians and their crew (up to 15 members). 

One of the first OurStage band’s to sign up with MEDILINQ were modern rockers Landsdowne. New to OurStage, they placed within the Top Ten in April’s 92.9 Channel Contest. They are one of Boston’s premiere rock acts known for their explosive live shows, and are tireless in their efforts, perfectly content to tour indefinitely. Landsdowne has already shared the stage with such acts as Saving Abel and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.

zmlllgplxrev-320x2401“Health is vital in an industry as unpredictable as music where performance is everything and the band needs to be at the top of it’s game mentally and physically at all times. MEDILINQ gives us a cost-effective way to ensure that everyone stays healthy on and off the road.”  - Ryan Ziemba, Manager of Landsdowne. 

MEDILINQ is offering free benefit packages for high-ranking musicians on OurStage for the months of May, June and July. In addition to offering this prize, MEDILINQ’s Discount Pharmacy program is FREE to Ourstage members and provides savings of 40-60% at over 58,000 retail pharmacies nationwide.

Click for more info and for your FREE Discount Pharmacy Card.

OURSTAGE ARTISTS FEATURED ON WINAMP!

Congratulations to Amanda Kaletsky, Process, Twank Star, Anthony F Matrumalo, Amy Marie Worship, and the many other high-ranking artists featured in the OurStage Radio Channel on WinAmp.

WinAmp Artists

OurStage Radio is broadcast to over 72 MILLION WORLDWIDE WinAmp users, so this means huge, global exposure for OurStage artists! The channel is currently featuring the best music from OurStage artists in Country, Rap, Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop and many other music genres and will be updated regularly with the chart toppers from the OurStage competitions!


If you want to listen to OurStage music through your WinAmp player, check out the new OurStage Radio channel and find great new playlists featuring our top artists! OurStage is supporting emerging artists with even more great career-boosting opportunities. If you are an artist and want to make big waves in your music career, make sure you upload your music to OurStage.com and check the prize calendar for more information about WinAmp and many other OurStage prize partners.

How did John Legend get to OurStage? What’s next…

OurStage wants you to meet our newest partners. Introducing Radio One and Sony Music. This duo is responsible for bringing us the “Be Legendary” with John Legend Competition.  

These industry players are very impressed with the talent here on OurStage, especially the artists who participated in the “Be Legendary” Channel for March.  I’ve created a playlist that highlights the channels talent. It  shows our artists tremendous ability to recreate John’s song in a new light across many musical approaches. 

Through competitions like this one, our artists are getting more and more exposure from big time industry A&R pros! Stay tuned for April’s round of competitions when our partner duo has Bow Wow host the Hip-Hop Channel. The winner will be given a shot for career advancement. Visit April’s prize calendar for more details.  

OurStage, I want to know which artist you’d like our new partner duo to bring to us next… I’m listening. 

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Don’t forget to JUDGE in the competition this weekend for a chance to meet John Legend at a concert near you!