If you don't have anything going on next Tuesday in New York you might want to pay attention. We've been hooked up with two tickets to go see D.C. rap phenom Wale at the Highline Ballroom, where he'll be sharing the stage with RCRD LBL faves Kid Cudi, Colin Monroe, Nick Catchdubs, and special guest DJ Mark Ronson. If you want a shot at winning the pair, sign up for our newsletter right here and then e-mail contests@rcrdlbl.com with the subject "WALE." We'll choose a winner on Tuesday morning. Full flyer after the jump. Don't sleep on this!
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For our one-year anniversary, we reached out to some of the people and artists that we work to ask them to create a playlist of tunes from our catalog. We got some great ones back, and we'll be posting them throughout the rest of the week. As always, these are embeddable on other blogs, websites, etc. so share them around and stay tuned for more.
Today we're publishing selections from Kim Schifino, drummer and one-half of Brooklyn's DIY dance-punk titans Matt And Kim. We world premiered their first tune in two years back in August, and now they've saddled up with the FADER label to release their new album Grand in 2009. We're also running a great contest around this playlist. If you embed it on your blog and send a link to contests@rcrdlbl.com with the subject "MATT AND KIM", you'll be entered to win a custom-made Christmas card from the band. Seriously, they could be making YOU a one-of-a-kind Christmas greeting, so spread this guy around, send over the links, and we'll choose a winner on December 17th.
The original version of Findlay Brown's "I Had A Dream" (hear it at his MySpace) ends with trumpets, saxes, pianos, and strings wailing hard; huge stereophonic bombast to end what is actually a pretty delicate song. Today we're offering up an exclusive download of the sparer acoustic version, which strips all of that instrumentation away in favor of Findlay's halting voice and steady acoustic. While this is the only place you can grab that version, the original will appear on his new album Love Will Find You, due in 2009 and recorded with producer Bernard Butler, who used to front a little band called Suede. Also make sure to grab Pilooski's killer edit of Findlay's cover of "Promised Land," the house classic from producer Joe Smooth. Dude goes deep!
We're throwing a little contest around these tracks, as we've been gifted with some extremely limited edition wax from Findlay to give away. If you embed the single track player of "I Had A Dream" on your blog and send the link to contests@rcrdlbl.com with the subject "FINDLAY", you'll win a very rare seven-inch of "All That I Have," produced by Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve (Erol Alkan + Richard Norris) and mixed by Kramer (Galaxie 500, Luna, Low, etc.) There are only 500 of these in the world!
Sounds like: Ed Harcourt, Sondre Lerche, Tim Williams
Findlay Brown - I Had A Dream (Solo Acoustic Version)
Findlay Brown - Promised Land (Pilooski Edit)
Findlay Brown's RCRD LBL Page
There's still time to score one of Five Chances to snag a brand new, super stylish Nokia 5310 phone compliments of our friends at T-Mobile. These are the same phones we hooked our last contest winners up with, so consider this a second chance to win win win!
All you need to do is sign up for our MP3 Of The Day Newsletter to enter (you can sign up using the handy box on the right-hand side of the page). From there, we'll hip you to new songs and classic jams and keep you laced with special insider goodies from our partner labels.
If you're already signed up for the mailing list, just shoot us an email (contests at rcrdlbl.com) and you will be entered in the contest.
Some quick bits on the Nokia 5310
- Up to 18 hours of music playback, with memory for up to 3,000 songs** on an optional 4GB microSD card
- Music player with dedicated external music controls
- MP3 and video ring tones
- Stereo Bluetooth connectivity
- 2.0 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom
- Video capture and playback
- FM radio
- 1GB microSD card included in box (support for up to 4GB)
- Digital music player (supports AAC, eAAC+, MP3 and Windows Media Audio formats)
Fine Print: This contest is only open to US users/readers. Sorry, we'll hook something up for our international friends very soon!
Contest is open until Wed, June 11th. After that, winners will be announced.
Good luck!
T-Mobile Website
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Spank Rock round these parts, and when we heard that the band are playing Studio B tomorrow, we had to share the wealth. We’re giving away two tickets to the performance (a night that will also feature DJ sets from Busy P, Eamon Harkin, The Rapture and more) for one lucky RCRD LBL winner. Just send an email to contests@rcrdlbl.com with “SPANK” in the subject line. The winner will be chosen and notified tomorrow afternoon. Good luck!
You can also buy tickets via mas-forever.com, so make sure to head over there and check it out—you know, better safe than sorry.
Buy tickets at Mas Forever
Stream Spank Rock and Benny Blanco are... Bangers and Cash at the Spank Rock RCRD LBL blog
Over the past year, Flavorpill.com have been throwing dope parties at the planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, to the excitement of the whole NYC scene. This week, our buddies at Fool’s Gold are at the forefront, as A-Trak and the Cool Kids will be DJing the festivities, alongside a live performance by Chicago female rap star Kid Sister. Sounds like a magical night to remember, right? Well, because we’re so good, we’re giving away a pair of tickets to the event (which is tomorrow) so you can dance under the simulated stars with the rest of the in-crowd. All you have to do is email contests@rcrdlbl.com with MUSEUM in the subject line before 11am Friday. Winners will be chosen at random. Check out the flyer below. Good luck!
The results are in: congratulations to Vanessa, the winner of our holiday Puma contest. She is now the proud recipient of three $75 Puma.com gift certificates. Thanks to the friendly folk at Puma and all the readers who participated. Watch this space for more cool contests in the future.
Take a look around the Puma store at these links:
Puma.com
The Puma Store
