The Tape

We have a pair of tickets to the Wild Beasts’ show in LA on 8/13 to give away. If you want to witness an amazing rock and roll show by one of Britain’s best bands, all you have to do is shoot an e-mail to THETAPEBLOG@YAHOO.COM with the subject “WILD BEASTS CONTEST”. We will choose a winner at random, and then that winner will rejoice. Good luck!

Just reminding you all to enter our LCD Soundsystem contest. Send an e-mail to thetapeblog@yahoo.com with the subject “LCD CONTEST” for a chance to win a copy of This Is Happening along with a rad poster that cannot be bought. Include your favorite record of 2010 in the text, and you have as good of a chance as anyone else of winning. Good luck!

Want to win some awesome stuff from LCD Soundsystem? In celebration of This Is Happening(released today), we’re giving away a copy of the album and a copy of the limited edition LCD Soundsystem print. The print is the cool image above, and what’s more fun then free music you didn’t steal? This Is Happening is an amazing record, and possibly the best of the three LCD records. If you’re a US RESIDENT ONLY, shoot us an email with the subject “LCD CONTEST” for a chance to win. Be sure to include your favorite record of 2010 (so far), and we’ll pick a winner in a week or so. If you don’t have the patience to wait for the end of the contest, buy the record from Itunes right here. Good luck!

This Is Happening
01. Dance Yrself Clean
02. Drunk Girls
03. One Touch
04. All I Want
05. I Can Change
06. You Wanted A Hit
07. Pow Pow
08. Somebody’s Calling Me
09. Home

The Fader is hooking us up with a copy of the SALEM/Tanlines 7″ they’re putting out with Southern Comfort. Both artists are doing some pretty cool things, and they’re only giving out 500 of these. If you want to enter, just shoot us an email with the subject “SALEM/Tanlines Contest” and you’ll be entered. We’ll pick a winner at random in about a week. Stream and/or download both tracks right here.

Just a reminder for all of you LAists. Shoot an email to us (thetapeblog@yahoo.com) with the subject TMTS CONTEST for a chance to win a pair of tickets to see Throw Me The Statue and Bishop Allen on the 11th of November.

Bishop Allen and Throw Me The Statue will be hitting LA’s own El Rey Theater on November 10th, and we have a pair of tickets to give away. Throw Me The Statue are touring in support of their latest record, Creaturesque, which was put out by the always great Secretly Canadian Records. It should be a night filled with great, upbeat pop music, and all you have to do to go for FREE is send us an email. Shoot us an email (thetapeblog@yahoo.com), with “TMTS CONTEST” in the subject, and you’ll be automatically entered to win.

And once again, the show is in Los Angeles. That means that if you don’t live in Los Angeles, or are not planning on being here on the 10th, DON’T ENTER. Download a TMTS track below.

Throw Me The Statue- Ship

Just a friendly reminder to email us (thetapeblog@yahoo.com) your favorite childrens story for a chance to win some awesome WTWTA swag. If you win you’ll get:

1) One Carol character Tote Bag
2) One copy of the soundtrack on CD
3) One WTWTA paper crown
4) One iPod WTWTA skin

Good luck!

In conjunction with his veggie oil powered fall tour accompanied by Nuclear Power Plants, the ever-eccentric and enigmatic Baltimorean has just revealed a ridiculous contest involving his tour poster. Essentially Sgt. Peppers x 1000, the image depicts an insane collage of generations of pop culture icons and it’s your job to identify all of them. Yes, all 243 of them. But your efforts will not be in vain. Indeed, the first contestant to ID every figure in this Sgt Peppers/Where’s Waldo mayhem wins an extraordinary prize package courtesy of the balding bard himself…

THE PRIZE:

1. $500 cash
2. A Portrait of you painted by Dan Deacon
3. One of the last copies of Wham City Box set #1
4. A Copy of each of Dan Deacon’s first 8 impossible-to-find releases (silly hat vs egale hat, meetle
mice, goose on the loose, a green cobra is awesome vs the sun, porky
pig, twacky cats, live 2003, acorn master)

Download your poster and answer sheet HERE and let the games begin!!!!

Send your submissions to: postercontest@whamcity.com

Fall Tour Dates

10-01 Chapel Hill, NC – Cat’s Cradle *
10-02 Atlanta, GA – Eyedrum *
10-03 Athens, GA – 40 Watt *
10-04 Birmingham, AL – Bottletree *
10-05 Nashville, TN – The End *
10-06 Memphis, TN – Hi Tone Café *
10-07 New Orleans, LA – Big Top *
10-09 Austin, TX – Emo’s Alternative Lounge Outside *
10-10 Marfa, TX – The Shade Structure*
10-14 Irvine, CA – Pacific Ballrom (UC Irvine) *
10-15 Los Angeles, CA – Echo *
10-16 Los Angeles, CA – Eagle Rock Center for the Arts *
10-17 San Francisco, CA – Treasure Island Festival
10-19 Sacramento, CA – Fungarden *
10-21 Eugene, OR – Agate Hall (University of Oregon) *
10-22 Portland, OR – Worksound *
10-23 Portland, OR – Holocene *
10-24 Seattle, WA – Vera Project *
10-27 Denver, CO – Rhinoceropolis *
10-29 Northfield, MN The Cave (Carleton College) *
10-30 Chicago, IL – Logan Square Auditorium *
11-01 Gambier, OH – The Horn Gallery *
11-03 Toronto, Ontario – Sneaky Dees *
11-04 Toronto, Ontario – Great Hall *
11-05 Montreal, Quebec – Il Motore *
11-06 Montreal, Quebec – Eastern Bloc *
11-07 Middlebury, VT – Middlebury College *
11-08 Boston, MA – Pozen Center (Mass. College of Art) *
11-09 Pawtucket, RI – Machines *
11-10 Northampton, MA – Pearl Street Nightclub *
11-13 Troy, NY – Experimental Media & Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute *
11-14 Worcester, MA – The Grind (Clark University) *
11-15 Ithaca, NY – Emerson Suites (Ithaca College) *

* with Nuclear Power Pants

Dan Deacon – Woof Woof

We’re soooo excited about this one. Probably our coolest contest yet. Shoot us an email (thetapeblog@yahoo.com) with your all time favorite children’s story in the subject, and we’ll pick a winner in a week or so. Here’s what one super lucky person will win:

1) One Carol character Tote Bag
2) One copy of the soundtrack on CD
3) One WTWTA paper crown
4) One iPod WTWTA skin

The soundtrack comes out next Tuesday, and if you win you won’t have to pay for it. Check out some prize pictures below, and don’t be afraid to enter… What do you have to lose (besides the contest)?

Major Lazer are adding some spice to the now traditional remix contest. In addition releasing stems to “Hold the Line,” “Keep It Going Louder” and “Pon De Floor,” you can also download the .psd of the figures above. Maybe you want to see Mr. Lazer next to a giant penis? Maybe you just want to see him lounging on the beach. Diplo, Switch, and the good folks at Downtown records have given you the opportunity to do this. As for the audio component of the contest, there’s not much that can be done to “Hold the Line” that hasn’t been done already, and there aren’t very many ways I can think of improving “Pon De Floor,” but the contest for “Keep It Going Louder” should yield some interesting results, since it’s essentially a pop song. So what’s stopping all y’all, get to it!

remix.majorlazer.com

[no mp3s, sorry guys. the last time we got hella takedown notices.]