Oakland eclectics Waterstrider are looking for remixers who want to try their hand at their White Light. They posted the vocal track on Soundcloud:
Here is their own version:
Live dates:HCTF review of Nowhere Now.
Want the new Off We Go CD by funky Afrobeat big band The Brighton Beat? HCTF has two copies. To be eligible in to get one answer this simple question: what's the title of their debut album?
» Send in your answer (competition closes on April 21st 23:59 GMT +1).
Winners picked at random.
Live date:HCTF review of Off We Go.
Want a signed copy of the new Umphrey's McGee album The London Session - A Day at Abbey Road Studios? The new record features nine originals and a cover of The Beatles classic I Want You (She’s So Heavy). The Chicago based jam band recorded the tracks live from the floor, some of them in a single take.
Please answer this simple question. Name the exact date of this 12 hour marathon session.
» Send in your answer (competition closes on March 24th 23:59 GMT +1).
The London Session - A Day at Abbey Road Studios will be released on April 7th. Pre-order from their website. The 2LP vinyl has an exclusive live version of In the Kitchen recorded at the Brooklyn Bowl on June 19, 2014.
Eclectic world dance band Skip&Die are wrapping their 2013 tour with two big shows in The Netherlands. They wil be joined on stage by the Young Impact Brassband.
Fronted by South African lead singer Cata Pirata the band mixes electronics with Balkan beat and African percussion, augmented by the special FX tool of keyboardist Jori Collignon. Their Riots in the Jungle is a crossover album that truly world music, with lyrics in English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, Spanish and Portuguese.
Live dates:For UK and USA fans of The Who only. Upload a video of your best "windmill" and end up with a nice guitar, signed by Pete Townshend:
The grand prize winner, selected by a panel of judges, will receive a Fender guitar, personally signed by Pete Townshend, with 25 runners-up winning a copy of Maximum R&B Live and other prizes.
Indie label SideCho Records is doing a contest. Free stuff (albums and swag):
To celebrate the new releases of Michael Zapruder 'Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope' and 1090 Club 'Natural Selection', we are giving away an exclusive package to one lucky person! You will receive a copy of 'Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope', 'Natural Selection', Michael Zapruder Tshirt, Posters from Michael and 1090 Club, and more. All you have to do is sign up for the SideCho Records Newsletter by emailing contests@sidecho.com. The deadline for contest registration is April 17th.
Michael Zapruder 'Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope' and 1090 Club 'Natural Selection' is now available through iTunes, your local record store, and through the SideCho Store. Every order through the SideCho Store comes with a special SideCho Records Sampler download.
HCTF review of Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope. HCTF review of Natural Selection.
Pictured on the right is Cooking Vinyl's promo CD single Strike from the Todd Rundgren album Arena which is being used for radio promotion in the UK. The promo disc is highly collectable - only 1000 copies were pressed - and is not for commercial sale. Want one? Here's your chance:
To celebrate the release of "Arena" we are giving five lucky visitors to our website an opportunity to win the "Strike" promo CD single.
All you have to do is answer the following question –
Todd's drummer, Prairie Prince, used to play for which rock band?
- Grand Funk Railroad
- The Tubes
- The Pursuit of Happiness
- Bourgeois Tagg
Visit the site and email your answers, full name and postal address to info@noblepr.co.uk.
HCTF review of Arena.
Want to create your own Radiohead mix? Try it with Nude, the new Radiohead single.
Radiohead, iTunes and GarageBand are giving you the opportunity to remix the band's new single "Nude".
To make remixing easy, the separate 'stems'* from the song are available to purchase from iTunes _here_. The 'stems' available are bass, voice, guitar, strings/fx and drums. You can mix them in any way you like, either by adding your own beats and instrumentation, or just remixing the original parts.
If you purchase all five 'stems' from iTunes during the first week they're available, you'll be sent an access code to a GarageBand file ready to open in GarageBand or Logic. However, you don't need GarageBand to do a remix, all the stems are in iTunes Plus format and compatible with several music software platforms.
Finished mixes can be uploaded here where the public will listen and vote for their favourite remix (voting ends May 1st). You can also create a widget allowing votes from your own website, Facebook or MySpace page to be counted as 'mix votes' back on radioheadremix.com. Radiohead will listen to the best remixes.
Nude is out now in the UK on CD, 7" and download.
Joshua Farber is the lucky winner of Angus & Julia Stone giveaway contest. Congratulations!
» www.angusandjuliastone.com
» myspace.com/angusandjuliastone
HCTF review of Chocolate & Cigarettes.
A brother and a sister teaming up in a band can lead to disastrous results. Remember The Carpenters? Tnankfully Angus & Julia Stone steer clear of the middle-of-the-road, taking left and right turns at will. Their Chocolate & Cigarettes EP has six songs and alternates between the two siblings taking the lead.
They started out as solo acts, until they realised that the 1 + 1 can add up to a bit more than just two. With partner-in-crime Mitchell Connelly to keep them grounded with his steady drums they ended up with an acoustic album that will get stuck in your player for quite some time.
Chocolate & Cigarettes is released on Capitol Records.
Aussie tour dates:
We have a winner. Dale Schmucker got it right and was picked at random. A padded envelope with the Umphrey's McGee albums The Bottom Half and Live At The Murat will reach him shortly.
HCTF review of The Bottom Half / Live At The Murat.
Umphrey's McGee released their Safety In Numbers album in 2006 and lots of stuff was left on the shelf when the original plan - releasing a double album - got axed. The Bottom Half is a double set with finished tracks on Disc 1, and outtakes and demos on Disc 2.
The B-sides of the b-sides are for hardcore fans only, the first Disc is a legitimate new album. Stand-out track: Higgins, named after the British stiff upper lip guy from Magnum PI. This is a song that The Police should have come with when they played Bonnaroo: from vaudeville to reggae to screaming guitar. An instrumental version, taped in November 2004 graces the bonus disc you can follow the band in their creation of the chord changes and breaks. One of the highlights of Safety In Numbers was Intentions Clear and the inclusion of two different versions on The Bottom Half show that the original concept was even stronger than the finished track. Kill your darlings, but you might end up killing the wrong one.
Umphrey's McGee makes a steady income through extensive touring, pioneering the selling of shows through their website as live downloads. So, is releasing a live album a good idea? The jam band scene thrives on full show, whereas a live album consists of highlights from different shows.
Live At The Murat was recorded over the Easter Weekend (April 6 and 7) at the Murat Egyptian Room in Indianapolis, Indiana. This venue has good acoustics for heavy guitar, loud drums and such and - - pretty rare - also for acoustic tracks.
They kick off with a great segue of In the Kitchen (Acoustic Structure) > Acoustic Improvisation > Electronic Improvisation > In the Kitchen (Electric Structure) and they never loose their balance. In years to come Live At The Murat could well be on the shortlist of great live albums like Deep Purple's Made In Japan and Phish's A Live One.
If you want to hear for your self if they picked the right tracks, both shows are available as audience recording ons archive.org:
um2007-04-06.flac16 and um2007-04-07.flac
Umphrey's McGee:
Brendan Bayliss: guitar, vocals
Jake Cinninger: guitar, Moog, synthesizers, vocals
Joel Cummins: keyboards, vocals
Andy Farag: percussion
Kris Myers: drums, vocals
Ryan Stasik: bass, no vocals
Buy The Bottom Half
Buy Live At The Murat
Wanna mess with some high quality audio tracks and create your mix? The Apples in stereo offer you all 21 channels of their song Can You Feel It? in .wav format. Prizes to be won, fame and fortune not included.
The contest allows fans to legally download the very same music channels for the song “Can You Feel It?” with the same high quality .wav file format that the producers and mixers had for the album. The 21 tracks for download include many elements that are usually coupled together. By allowing re-mixers to download every individual instrument track for the Remix Contest, The Apples are providing the flexibility and opportunity for their fans to truly let their imaginations run wild.
Download and upload tracks: theapplesinstereo.imeem.com
There is such a thing as a free lunch for the lucky winners:
NME Presents: The Essential Bands - the Festival Edition goes to Victoria Wolfe ("I solemnly swear that I will never listen to the Razorlight track on this one")
Headliners: the Ultimate Festival Line-Up goes to Shaun Gallagher ("No relation to the Oasis' boys")
» Review NME Presents: The Essential Bands - the Festival Edition
» Review Headliners: the Ultimate Festival Line-Up
The staff of UK music magazine NME have put together the third edition of The Essential Bands series albums. Riding the wave of outdoor summer live shows this Festival Edition contains many acts that were served as the next big thing, the flavor of the week and/or the second coming of the Beatles. Most of these bands are able to put together at least one memorable song and in most cases that song made it unto this 2CD compilation. The Festival Edition is heavy with the typical English take on indie rock - catchy tunes with up front drumming and a singer that can barely hold a tune. It tastes good, but the majority of these bands will be a distant memory in 2008. There are a few exceptions. Acts like Muse, Gruff Rhys and Jarvis Cocker have proven their longevity. And Bloc Party and The View have survived the hype thus far. No Arctic Monkeys on this sampler, which is a relief in a way.
Giveaway
Want to have this 2CD? Just send an e-mail to herecomesthefloodNOBLOODYSPAM@xs4all.nl (do not include the obvious) and tell me why you should be the lucky winner. Be brief, and to the point. The winner will picked on June 22th.
Headliners: the Ultimate Festival Line-Up is released on Universal Music TV.
CD1:
CD2:
MP3: Bloc Party - The Prayer
MP3: The Long Blondes - Giddy Stratospheres
» nme.com
Headliners: the Ultimate Festival Line-Up is a sampler for the UK Festival season and all the usual suspects are there. Te set is divided into a rock stage disc and a dance stage disc. The latter contains a lot of bands who did not make it until 2007, but a DJ can put them on to get a rise of the crowd. Bit weird to include a Jeff Buckley song - albeit a classic on this one. Still, it makes pleasant listening on the car stereo when you are driving up to Reading, Leeds or Glastonbury.
Giveaway
Want to have this 2CD? Just send an e-mail to herecomesthefloodNOBLOODYSPAM@xs4all.nl (do not include the obvious) and tell me why you should be the lucky winner. Be brief, and to the point. The winner will picked on June 22th.
Headliners: the Ultimate Festival Line-Up is released on Sony BMG.
CD1 (Rock Stage)
CD2 (Dance stage)
MP3: Super Furry Animals - Do Or Die
MP3: Fatboy Slim - Right Here Right Now
The View have announced details of the release of a new single, Face For The Radio, through 1965 Records on June 25th.
Giveaway 7" box set contest
Now for the good bit:
As a bonus The View are also releasing a free 7" box set of all the singles (including Wldj's, Superstar Tradesman, Same Jeans, The Don, Skag trendy and Face For The Radio) for a limited number of people who preorder their new single Face For The Radio.
Pretty cool, huh? Want one of those box sets? Just send an e-mail to herecomesthefloodNOBLOODYSPAM@xs4all.nl (do not include the obvious) and tell me why you should be the lucky winner. Be brief, and to the point. The winner will picked on June 26th.
The View:
Kyle Falconer: vocals, guitar
Pete Reilly: guitar
Kieren Webster: vocals / bass
Steve Morrison: drums
Tour dates:
The three free Scarecrow Collection 2006 Samplers on shiny CD-r with übercollectible handwritten lettering housed in an almost white envelop have found a new home. The lucky winners: Phil Johnson in LA, Gregor Bauer in Munich, and Doug Hamilton in Poughkeepsie. Keep an eye on your mail box.
All is not lost if you didn't win, ask for some samplers here:
Send an e-mail to info@scarecrowcollection.net with your name and address. We'll send you out a package including our newest sampler, LIVE '06 which features four of the songs that will appear on the new album. We will include one for you and several more for your friends. We ask that if you like it you just pass on the savings to your friends and spread the word to them about the band.
Upcoming live dates:
» scarecrowcollection.net
» myspace.com/scarecrowcollection
» archive.org/details/ScarecrowCollection
Three free Scarecrow Collection 2006 Samplers on shiny CD-r with übercollectible handwritten lettering housed in an almost white envelop are looking for a new home. Eight crispy soundboard recordings with original material and a couple of well played cover tunes. They have just signed a record deal with Harmonized Records and they will release their second studio album april 17, 2007 on that label.
Want a free sampler? Drop me a line with you addy at
herecomesthefloodNOBLOODYSPAM@xs4all.nl (do not include the obvious) with "Free Scarecrow Collection" in the subject line.
This offer closes on december 31 23:59 GMT (+1). Three winners will be picked at random. All is not lost if you don't win, ask for some samplers here:
Send an e-mail to info@scarecrowcollection.net with your name and address. We'll send you out a package including our newest sampler, LIVE '06 which features four of the songs that will appear on the new album. We will include one for you and several more for your friends. We ask that if you like it you just pass on the savings to your friends and spread the word to them about the band.
Tracks:
» scarecrowcollection.net
» archive.org/details/ScarecrowCollection
Like Wolfmother? Are you in the UK? You might get lucky then.
To celebrate the release of Joker and the Thief single which features on Jackass 2 The Movie, we have a goodie bag containing: A pair of screening tickets to a screening of Jackass Number Two on Wednesday, 15th November with food and drink and a pair of tickets to the Wolfmother aftershow party in Brixton.
What's in the goodie bag?
