So, do you think you have what it takes to help Belle and Sebastian avoid paying a real graphic artist to make an album cover?
If you do, it's time to step up and help the Scottish band and Matador Records cut a few production costs: The band and the label are openly soliciting cover art for an upcoming limited-edition version of its The BBC Sessions to be sold as part of next year's Record Store Day.
Just design a front cover image for the recently released BBC Sessions and upload to our gallery below. The band will be reviewing all of the entries on January 15, 2009 and selecting a winner. One lucky winner will have their artwork adorn a limited edition version of the album that will be sold in stores nationwide.
Requirements
Front cover must say "Belle And Sebastian" and "The BBC Sessions"
No nudity or inappropriate images
All images must be your own and not infringe on any copyrights
Prizes 10 finalists will get the entire B&S Matador catalog on CD
1 Grand Prize winner will have their artwork made into the official front cover image on a limited number of BBC Session CDs that will be sold during Record Store Day on April 19, 2009.
Contest ends on January 15, 2009.
for more info: http://www.matadorrecords.com/belle_and_sebastian/lazy_contest/
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NOFX Celebrates 25th Anniversary
NOFX will get out to celebrate a big, big milestone: It's now older than 90 percent of its fans.
The punk veterans earn their "veteran" stripes in 2009, when the act breaks out the photo albums and looks back on its 25-year career. To mark the momentous occasion, the band cracked open the cryogenic tanks and defrosted a couple former members, Dave Casillas and Steve Kidwiller, who'll take the stage and relive their glory days while almost certainly wishing they'd stuck it out. Three shows are slated for February will spotlight a different phase in the band's career:
The Three Piece Era, 1983 ? 1987: Fat Mike, Smelly, Melvin
The Casillas Era, 1987 ? 1988: Fat Mike, Smelly, Melvin, Dave Casillas
The Kidwiler Era, 1988 ? 1991: Fat Mike, Smelly, Melvin, Steve Kidwiler
The El Hefe Era, 1991 ? Present: Fat Mike, Smelly, Melvin, El Hefe
NOFX's anniversary shows are scheduled for:
Feb. 4 - House of Blues, San Diego
Feb. 5 - Henry Fonda Theater, Los Angeles
Feb. 15 - Slim's, San Francisco
SOURCE: http://www.aversion.com
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Sex Pistols May Go Back In The Studio
Glen Matlock, bassist for the Sex Pistols, has told a British website that the group had ideas for a new record and are discussing going back into the studio. If it happens, it would be the first album of new material since 1977's Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.
Matlock told The Queitus that "We've done our bit this year…We'll meet again in the new year and see what we want to do." He also quashed the frequent rumor that they actually started recording new material over the summer. "We were not recording a new album - I think that journalists are making it up, but you can never say never.
"We all got ideas between us. It's a double-edged sword if you do it not good as the original, and if you don't do it people want to know why, but it's up to us. We are the masters of our own destiny."
SOURCE: http://winkscollectibles.blogspot.com
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