After visiting Salt Lake City in November and playing to a pretty decent sized crowd at The State Room, Fanfarlo is set to return later in the month on the 27th at the Urban Lounge. If you happened to miss them the first time (shame on you!), I would highly recommend you make the trip the second time around, as I’m sure you’ll be entertained to no end with their warm, summery pop sounds of trumpets, violins and acoustic guitars.
But for those who may be a little cash-strapped, the folks at Atlantic Records have been kind of enough to provide a pair of tickets for me to giveaway for the upcoming show. To win these tickets, just email me at theyellowstereo.blog@gmail.com with “I want to see Fanfarlo!” in the subject line with your full name in the body.
I’ll probably run this until the end of next week (no concrete date, but possibly on February 19th at midnight).
It’s been twelve years since the death of Jeff Buckley, who drowned in the Mississippi River on that fateful day of May 29th at the age of 30. We were left with only one completed album to remember him by called Grace. Of course, we have what he was in the process of recording that ended up being Sketches (For My Sweetheart the Drunk), but knowing that it was incomplete and never intended to be listened to — I just can’t bear to hear it a lot of the time. We’re left with that potential though, of what he could have been if his life wasn’t so tragically cut short.
When I first picked up Grace at nearby music store, I remember the words the person working the cash register said to me when he noticed that I was purchasing it. “Every man should own this album,” he said. After listening to the album for myself, there isn’t one person I haven’t said that very exact sentence to when discussing this album. Honestly, what more is there to be said? How else could I describe that listening experience as a way of looking into the man’s soul.
His music lives on, and his influence is seen through many, especially through the many tribute songs, reissues, and new releases that have come down the pipe over the years.
Which leads us to this, in honor of the 15th anniversary of the release of the highly seminal album Grace, a DVD+CD package called Grace Around The World hit the shelves. It contains previously unreleased live performances, along with audio and video footage from television performances filmed during the first world tour in support of Grace from 1994-1996. The deluxe edition also includes the Amazing Grace documentary, available for the first time.
I’m just going to be up front with this and say that this is one of the best contests we’ve ever had the pleasure of running here on the site, and I’m incredibly jealous of who actually wins this. I was actually offered two different prizepacks for this, so we’ll actually have two winners, courtesy of Toolshed, Fun Palace Entertainment, Cornerstone and Jeff Buckley Music. That being said, a few of our lucky readers will be able to win this Grace Around The World prize package that includes the following:
– Jeff Buckley guitar picks/tattoos
– One Grace Around The World poster
– A copy of the Grace Around The World DVD/CD
– Postcards from Grace Around the World
– a Limited Edition Mystery White Boy t-shirt with Merri Cyr’s photo image of Jeff (and band)’
And another which includes:
Deluxe Package of Grace Around the World:
– Grace Around The World DVD
– Grace Around The World CD
– The award-winning documentary Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley
– “Be the Best” T-shirt
– A Jeff buckley poster
If you would like to win either of these, please leave a comment with anything regarding Jeff Buckley that you would like us to know about. Whether it be his music, his life, etc. — just make it good! Let’s hear your stories of how you discovered his music.
Here are some extra goodies, including a series of podcasts conducted by Rolling Stone, which includes the likes of Moby, Duncan Sheik and Mary Guibert, Jeff Buckley’s mother.
Another contest is in order for you, our lovely readers, as we’ve teamed up once again with the fine folks at Insound.
Starting today and ending next Tuesday (6/9) one of you will be able to win a Gang Gang Dance t-shirt from the Soundscreen Design Summer 2009 Collection, who have curated and manufactured an exclusive line of t-shirts, hoodies and tote bags featuring original designs from 3 studios for 9 prominent indie-rock artists.
* Premium 100% organic cotton (clothing) and bamboo (totes)
* Custom sizing featuring full color eco-friendly printing
* Limited edition seasonal collection
To enter the contest and win one of these limited edition t-shirts, just visit this link and fill out the required fields (name, email, zipcode) and you will be notified via email on next week (6/9) if you happen to win. Good luck to all those participating and thanks to Insound for letting us run this contest.
Update: This contest is now closed. Congratulations to Jess! Thanks to everyone for participating!
The time between seasons of the hit comedy series Flight of the Conchords has seemingly gone by rather quickly as we’re now hot on the heals of the January 18th premiere of Season Two on HBO. I’m actually quite excited for the new season, even though I find myself enjoying the show more in bits and pieces than actually sitting through entire episodes. There are entire segments that are absolutely brilliant — just look some of it up on YouTube for proof — but if there’s an arc or ongoing storyline, than I honestly have no idea what’s going on.
If you happened to completely miss out on Season One, you can have a taste of New Zealand’s finest comedy duo, or “Formerly New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo,” as the entire premiere episode of Season Two can be streamed right now.
You may have thought I would’ve shared a link to watch all of Season One, but for one lucky reader, he or she will be able to do just that with a prize pack that includes the Season One DVD. Other FoTC goodies include the following:
+ Season 1 of Flight of the Conchords on DVD (already mentioned)
+ an FOTC notebook (to write stuff in, I guess)
+ FOTC guitar picks (to rock out with your imaginary guitar)
+ an FOTC poster and some FOTC postcards (see image above)
As usual, leave a comment (tell me something you absolutely loved about Season One) and an email address to contact you if you happen to win. I’ll pick a winner at random in about a week, which i’ll announce here on this same page. Unfortunately, this contest will only be open to U.S. residents only. Sorry folks, those are the rules. Don’t fret! You’ll still be able to get in on the fun in someway as can head over to FlightLipDub and participate in the Flight of the Conchords lipdub, which involves sending in a video of you lip-synching to a chosen song. You can count me out on that one, as I would just completely embarrass myself.
It’s been twelve years since the death of 
Another contest is in order for you, our lovely readers, as we’ve teamed up once again with the fine folks at 
Update: This contest is now closed. Congratulations to Jess! Thanks to everyone for participating!
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