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We’d like to welcome Josh Ritter to ebandLive! Thanks for picking us to design, develop and host your web presence!
Love,
Jeremiah, Dan & ebandLive peeps
Happy Holidays from everyone at ebandLive!
Have a safe and happy holiday from everyone here at ebandLive! Please take a listen to our very own Rocket Club’s rendition of Little Drummer Boy.
Love,
Jeremiah, Dan & crew…
Gibblets, Big Band, Folk and 4-leaf Clover Xmas Trees
Am I the only cat who can’t wait for Thanksgiving where in true American fashion we stuff our faces with excess food and gently slip into a turkey-induced coma? Excuse me mom, I’d like to supersize it and yes…I want fries with that! Only a few more days folks…let’s keep together until then, huh? Meanwhile, chew on these tasty morsels coming atcha like drummy and a hill of buttery mashed potatoes!
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Dan put together this gnarly design for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. DDBB got their start in the late 70’s in the good ol’ south. New Orleans, 7th Ward to be exact. They’ve been swinging records since the 1980’s on Columbia Records and beyond.
The Iveys
This West Texas trio will keep you thoroughly entertained with their beautiful lyrics and professional sound. This is a great design, but was NOT done by the ebandLive crew. Nope. This design was carefully crafted by Darci Fray. Darci has done some great work for Johnny Cash, Augustana, Veruca Salt and more. Thanks for picking us Darci! She used our wireframe to design a super neat website on the ebandLive engine. So if you’ve got a great designer or are a designer yourself and really like the features we offer (and we know you do)… just contact us and we’ll take your creation and integrate it into our engine. Simple as that.
Irish Christmas in America
Celebrating its fifth year, the lively holiday show “Irish Christmas in America” comes to the States with some of Ireland’s top traditional artists. This fascinating performance features Irish music, dance and stories of seasonal Irish traditions. We’re proud to become internationalized and to be able to host some really great traditional Irish music. Marie Bushbaum, a designer from Minneapolis, put this design together and we integrated it into the ebandLive engine. Thanks Marie. I haven’t got an Irish bone in my body but this really makes me want to dance a little jig for ye all to see!
Meanwhile, back at the Hall of Justice… Corey and Kevin have been re-working the Backstage with all sorts of gadgets, whizzbangs and dilly-whos it’ll make you wanna sop ‘em up with a biscuit! Stay tuned for more on that.
To all in the US, have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving! Signing off…
Love,
Jeremiah & Dan
Big Big News!
Hello all, Jeremiah here with a long overdue post! Our blog was neglected like a red-headed stepchild and we apologize. A lot has happened since the last post, so let’s get started with the big news. Unless you know Dan and I personally then you are probably not aware that we entered into a flurry of discussions about an acquisition/partnership of eband by a local Minneapolis firm. Yup, it’s true. After months of telephone conversations, emails, meetings, lunches, lawyers and handshakes we’ve officially joined the ranks of the big leagues! ebandLive has been acquired by Rumble / GoKart Labs! Woo hoo!
About Rumble
Rumble is a full-service music salon, serving artists and clients in the advertising, television, film and recording industries. They create and produce original music for advertising, television, film, and alternative media across all genres and formats. They recently added Composer/Producer Tommy Barbarella to the crew. Over the past two decades, Tommy has made his mark composing, touring, recording and performing with Prince, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Art Garfunkel, Ziggy Marley, Love and Rockets and Jonny Lang. His recent credits include 7 Things I Hate About You by Miley Cyrus (Top 10), Graham Colton’s Here Right Now (#2 Billboard Heatseekers), string arrangements for Switchfoot’s Nothing Is Sound (Top 10, Gold) and Backstreet Boys album Never Gone (Platinum), as well as the upcoming albums from Jon McLaughlin and Jonas Brothers’ co-star Demi Lovato.
About GoKart
GoKart is the creative think tank branch chock full of graphic artists, UI designers, programmers and various other forms of artistic nerdery. Their work speaks for itself. Check em out!
Among Rumble and GoKart founders is THE mad scientist behind the red velvet curtain, Don Smithmier, who also served a key role in starting Capella University and was also named one of the top business people/entrepreneurs under 40 by Minneapolis Business Journal. (He’s really smart!) If that wasn’t cool enough, he’s also a musician! Yup he sings/plays keys in Rocket Club, who by the way have been making their way up the National Country Music Charts.
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Well, if you haven’t figured out by now that the partnership was a match made in heaven and that I make excessive use of forward slashes… then well. Umm. Read it again? I don’t know.
Love,
Jeremiah & Dan
eBandLive showcase show!
We’d proud to announce our first ever eBandLive showcase show. We reached out to a few of the bands we’ve made websites for and got a killer lineup together. Thanks to our buddy Adam Turman for the amazing 3 color screen printed posters which will be available for sale at the show for $10. Hope to see you all out on June 20th, 2009.
Facebook Event: http://tinyurl.com/m7blto
Show Info:
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VENUE: Tracaderos
DOORS: 8PM
COVER: $8
LINEUP:
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Readygoes
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Danger Is My Middle Name
Room For Gray
AGES: 18+
The London's site goes LIVE!
The London’s new website went live this afternoon with no hickups. Go check it out! www.thelondonband.com
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Rocket Club on Showcase Minnesota
I just watched the video of Rocket Club performing an unplugged set on Showcase Minnesota. I’m blown away by their talent, so definitely check it out. You can also catch them on Cities 97 and K102.
You can see the vid here: http://www.showcaseminnesota.com/show/client_article.aspx?storyid=540156
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You can see Rocket Club’s ebandLive website here: http://www.rocketclub.info
If you have something newsworthy, we are always up for posting here in the blog. Just send an email to info{at}ebandlive[dot]com and we’ll share the news.
Have a great weekend!
ebandLive Goes Social
The word on the street is we’ve officially launched our suite of social networking features for our ebandLive comrades! Yahoo! News picked up an article titled, “ebandLive Integrates Google Friend Connect and Social Networking Features” this morning. Neat.
So what’s all the fuss about? Social networking with your band’s ebandLive site, that’s what. With our new features you can eliminate the need to re-type your band content and easily (with a click or two) publish your band’s content to Myspace, Twitter and Facebook. What’s more, you can take advantage of our Google Friend Connect integration and add a social network to your band page! Fans can sign in to your band’s website with their Google, AIM, Yahoo! or OpenID account, invite friends from other networks, make friends on your page, post media and comments and more!
We don’t have to tell you that networking is vital to a band’s success! We will tell you that you most certainly won’t find these features, professional design and usability anywhere else.
We’ve got plenty more improvements planned for 2009, so stick around…
Rock on,
ebandLive Team
ebandLive Welcomes The London!
We are super stoked to welcome Pittsburgh, PA rockers The London buy Heathen Chemistry mp3 album to ebandLive! We will be designing their new website and they will be using the Backstage to manage their site. If you haven’t heard these guys, you need to! Right now actually. Go to their Myspace site by going here: http://www.myspace.com/thelondonband. They hail from PA and will soon be releasing their EP titled, “Young And In Love” out in stores on February 23rd. The EP will have six songs recorded and produced by Grammy Award Winning producer Stephen Short (Genesis, Paul McCartney, Augustana, Ben Folds Five, Modern English). Their CD release show will be at the Hard Rock Cafe in Pittsburgh with The Dreaming (with Chris with Stabbing Westward’s new band). So if you’re in the area, you definitely need to make it to the show or else we will not hesitate to punch you square in the collective mouth.
While you’re snooping around online, check out The London’s promo vid for their upcoming record. And be sure to pass it on…
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