A Published Musician

When I say published I mean that the publisher is an aspiring musician himself, owns an mp3 blog that gets way more attention than a lot of the ones out there, bands send him eps hoping he'll post about them, and he co-owns a record label with a great approach behind it.

Well guess what lovely lad just got featured? Ant Hill? pah, no. Wait, yeah, ANT DID! haha. So please go check that out here and while you're at it, there's also good Mr. Timo Raisanen on there as well for a listen.

Please leave Kevin a comment or such, and if you'd like listen to his music, read about their record label and visit the label's site.

I want to thank Kevin again for doing this. All help is appreciated so much! I hope that people will stop by his site on a regular basis as well if you get a chance.

Chickity check it out!

~Alex

Video Blog 9

Hello once again, this is your trusty co-moderator back from her week long hiatus bringing you notice of Ant's new video blog.

I must say, this is among some of the funniest he has done so go check it out here!

Also don't forget to keep submitting your entries for his album cover contest, I believe you have until the end of August to get them in so keep working hard and you could be the lucky one who wins!

Arrivederci,
Kat

Linkage

Now don't you envision like sausage and kielbasa being rolled off an assembly line somewhere deep in the heart of a German factory? Ok maybe not.

No silly, the linkage I'm talking about is to the tons of new stuff Ant Hill related!

To simplify things lets make a list, cos I like list making:



1. Mini-Gig finished! It's on YouTube in three parts:

Part one features the NEW SONG "Syd Barrett Song" which is really catchy, Ant was not lying!

Part two has a smashing cover of Kate Nash's "Foundations". Ant saw her in concert a few days ago, needless to say, he wants to marry the woman now, so check out part two for that song!

Part One



Part Two



Part Three






2. If you want to download "Syd Barrett Song" you can do so on Ant's Purevolume site.

Also, if this wasn't mentioned before, on there you can find the lyrics and the chords for each song. I've been stealing my older bro's guitar lately and trying to teach myself to play...pfft, I can't really do much but play the riff to Blister in the Sun and Smoke on the Water. But once I master Hotel Yorba by my lovers The White Stripes, you can so bet I'm going to do a nice renditon of Debt Collector! Phew, I'm getting ahead of myself here!


3. He uploaded "Syd Barrett Song" to his myspace page as well so you can add that as your profile song, which I highly recommend!

4. This is just funny:

"I personally think the best thing about it is if it ever gets played on the radio, I can make a special 'censored' version in which I say "clucking parrot"... I can't think of any songs out there with those two words in... can you?" ~Ant

A clucking parrot means they're about to pluck your eyes out. Or at least leave a nice mandible shaped scar on your chin!


Last but not least, please leave him some comments on myspace, youtube and here to let him know what you think of the new song, the whole mini-gig itself, and the cover of Foundations!

Tack, Alex



as a side note here, I'd like to add, kielbasa is Polish, but why does it remind me of Germany rather?

How goeth the voting and such?

Yes! Ant has gotten 210 subscribers to his YouTube channel! After he gained 200, he said that he will be doing a mini-gig of about 5-6 songs for everyone. So the link for that will be up when he finishes it.

Also, he's got 83 votes on NME so far....but we need more, more, more!! For those of you who've already voted, you're awesome! Anyone else, well I'm sure you're awesome but you could always add to you're total awesomeness by supporting Mr. Hill in his musical pursuit!

So people, please keep hitting those subscribe and vote buttons! Lets get his YouTube subscribers to like, 300! and NME votes to 100......by the end of the day. Ok so not by the end of the day, the week. There you go, I'm giving you all some leeway here. Go help this talented lad!


Thanks!
We really do hate begging!
Alex

p.s. it's not shameless self promotion, it's fun!

New Song

Ant has written a new song called "Syd Barrett Song" in a record breaking 10 minutes! He's recorded a version and right now it's in the testing phase by two of his friends. Once it's all set, the link will be right here.

Here's what Ant said about the new song:

"It's kind of light-hearted and fun... and I make several references to Syd in it which any fans of his will probably pick out straight away... like Elin did! The song also has some personal importance to me too though... and I think it's gonna be a nice addition to the CD when I get it together!!"


hmm, well I know I like that Syd Barrett song "Gigolo Aunt" so maybe I'd better go listen to some more of his! And look up the lyrics, because I swear he's saying "grooving around in a trench coat with a sentinel gun"....that can't be right, or can it!?

Thanks to Ant, I'm listening to all kinds of good music I'd never even gotten a chance to before. You ought to go listen to his music because in a round-about fashion, you'll probably find you like not only his music, but tons of other awesome tunes from those Brits! It's really a win-win situation!

I know what you are. you are a gigolo aunt. you're a gigolo aunt....


Do videnja, Alex