DYLAN contest

Bob DYLAN competition!



3 CD singles (18 tracks) to give away, US residents only. To win, leave a comment below together with your email address saying what is your favourite Dylan track and why. Winner will be notified by email, good luck!

And if you haven't already, try out this brilliant e-card. So much fun!

E-Card:
http://www.dylanmessaging.com/create

Official Website:
http://www.dylan07.com/

The White Stripes competition!!!!!!!!

About The Music has The White Stripes buttons, stickers, t-shirts, albums, and posters to give away!

Just leave you name and email in the comment and the first responders will win a prize!

Flight of the Conchords Competition!!!

As everyone knows, HBO probably makes the best television in the world - The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wire (need I go on?). So it's quite exciting when the announce a new show about some broke musicians who move from New Zealand to NYC's Lower East Side called Flight of the Conchords.



To celebrate the new show, and as it is kinda music relating, we're giving away a fantastic prize pack with:

1 Robot stress reliever
1 DVD of the first episode
1 Poster
1 Tshirt
1 Postcard

The Flight of the Conchords is a folk/pop/comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie of The Black Seeds and Figwit fame and Jemaine Clement of The Humourbeasts. Billing themselves as "New Zealand's fourth most popular folk-parody duo", the group depends upon a combination of witty banter and acoustic guitars to work the audience.



To win, just leave a comment with your email address at the bottom,or if you don't want to do that email aboutthemusicblog@googlemail.com with your name and why you think you should win. Good luck, competition closes when it's done.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters

What's that you say? Ok, it's a movie. But what is it doing on About The Music? Good question. Basically it's here because you can get cool free stuff. Well you be the judge of the coolness, but it is free. So, a little info first:


Adult Swim's highly anticipated theatrical film AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE COLON MOVIE FILM FOR THEATERS is scheduled to hit movie theaters on April 13, 2007. Written, produced and directed by Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis, the movie will be distributed by First Look Pictures and marks the studio's initial theatrical foray into animation, as well as Adult Swim's first feature under the Williams Street banner.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force COLON Movie Film for TheatERs is an action-adventure epic that reveals the mysterious origins of Meatwad, Frylock and Master Shake. When an immortal piece of exercise equipment threatens the balance of galactic peace, it is up to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force to run away from it. Peril escalates when the Plutonians team up with the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past to strive for ultimate control of the sinister deadly device.
It opens in the US on April 13, sure to be a good date and our little competition will run from April 2nd- April 16th and up for grabs is:

1 Grand prize, which includes an ATHF beach ball, koozie, sticker, poster, post card, socks, and a CD sampler

Wow! So check back on April 2 for your chance to win. Are you excited? Look at your hands, are they shaking? Are they?

TRAILER: http://www.adultswim.com/shows/athf/movie/indexHB.html
OFFICIAL SITE: http://www.kingcolon.com
DIRECTORS: Matt Maiellaro, Dave Willis

COMPETITION - Lucinda Williams

It's competition here on About The Music. We have a SIGNED copy of the brand new deluxe edition of Lucinda Williams' Grammy winning Car Wheels On A Gravel Road.


I said a while ago that I thought it should be included in the 10 best alt-country albums of all time and the deluxe edition is even better.

It features the original album remastered and sounding crisper than ever, in addition, 3 songs have been found and added as bonus tracks - "Down The Big Road Blues", "(We Are So) Out Of Touch" - the first version later rerecorded with a different arrangement for the `Essence' album and "Still I Long For Your Kiss" - the Tony Brown produced version that was on `The Horse Whisperer' soundtrack.

Disc 2 features a previously unreleased concert from July, 1998, recorded by WXPN Radio - found and remastered.

Disc: 1
1. Right In Time
2. Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
3. 2 Kool 2 Be 4 Gotten
4. Drunken Angel
5. Concrete And Barbed Wire
6. Lake Charles
7. Can't Let Go
8. I Lost It
9. Metal Firecracker
10. Greenville
See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2
1. Pineola
2. Something About What Happens When We Talk
3. Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
4. Metal Firecracker
5. Right In Time
6. Drunken Angel
7. Greenville
8. Still I Long For Your Kiss
9. 2 Kool 2 Be 4 Gotten
10. Can't Let Go
See all 13 tracks on this disc

Amazon reviews it thus, giving 5 stars:
This 1998 Grammy-winning release--Lucinda Williams's popular breakthrough--certainly merits the double-disc "deluxe edition" treatment. And it's hard to find significant fault with anything here: the remastered version of the original album, the second-disc live performance from that year featuring guitarists Kenny Vaughn and Bo Ramsey, and the smattering of outtakes (highlighted by a slower, sadder version of "Out of Touch" than the one Williams ended up releasing). Yet the set misses a glorious opportunity to document one of the more laborious (and notorious) recording projects, one that saw Williams switch cities, studios, and producers three times before she was satisfied with the results. And while the results confirm her judgment, fans would likely find it fascinating to hear a lot more takes from the original Austin sessions (featuring accordion master Flaco Jimenez and keyboardist Ian McLagan) or outtakes from the Nashville sessions with producer Steve Earle, before Williams overhauled the project in Los Angeles with Springsteen keyboardist Roy Bittan. Such a set could have put a revelatory spotlight on the creative process that resulted in an album widely regarded as Williams's masterpiece; instead, this release is more like souvenir snapshots. --Don McLeese

TO WIN all you have to do is leave a comment on this blog with your email address and why you think you deserve a signed copy of Car Wheels On a Gravel Road. Good luck!