My friends in Artist Vs Poet have teamed up with TheInterlude to give away their Christmas EP, titled, Naughty Or Nice (Their First EP with their new lineup!)  All I can say is this EP is totally worth downloading.   You can click here, to download it or revisit the front page to stream and download.  The band is giving this EP away for free, however any donations you can make will be used to help finish up not 1 but 2 brand new records.  So don’t be a scrooge, use the pay-pal link below and give the guys some money.  I promise, it’s worth it.  We are actually giving the person who donates the most money, a HUGE PRIZE PACKAGE (SPONSORED BY THEINTERLUDE.COM)—Merry Christmas AVP!!!! Check out their music video for “Happy Holiday’s You Bastard” below

We got another one for ya!! This time we are giving away U2’s Deluxe 2 CD set of Achtung Bab. To win, email ben@theinterlude.com (Subject Line-Bono) and answer this question: How many #1 singles have U2 Charted in the United States?
Contest Ends Dec 31st. So ring in the New Year with U2!!! Good Luck. You will get an extra entry IF you follow us on Twitter @theinterludee. To get that extra entry, follow us, then include your twitter handle in your entry email.

Here’s What You’ll Win:
Here are the details:

Deluxe 2 CD set of Achtung Baby contains the reissue of the original album and a disc of b-sides and rarities.

Track listing is as follows:

CD DISC 1 – ACHTUNG BABY ALBUM
1. ZOO STATION 4:36
2. EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING 3:41
3. ONE 4:36
4. UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD 4:39
5. WHO’S GONNA RIDE YOUR WILD HORSES 5:16
6. SO CRUEL 5:49
7. THE FLY 4:29
8. MYSTERIOUS WAYS 4:04
9. TRYIN’ TO THROW YOUR ARMS AROUND THE WORLD 3:53
10. ULTRA VIOLET (LIGHT MY WAY) 5:31
11. ACROBAT 4:30
12. LOVE IS BLINDNESS 4:23

CD DISC 2 – B SIDES AND BONUS TRACKS
1. LADY WITH THE SPINNING HEAD (UV1) 3:57
2. BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN 3:30
3. SALOMÉ 4:35
4. EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING 3:41
5. SATELLITE OF LOVE 4:03
6. WHO’S GONNA RIDE YOUR WILD HORSES (TEMPLE BAR REMIX) 4:52
7. PAINT IT BLACK 3:25
8. EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING (FISH OUT OF WATER REMIX) 4:08
9. MYSTERIOUS WAYS (THE PERFECTO MIX) 7:11
10. NIGHT AND DAY (STEEL STRING REMIX) 6:59
11. THE LOUNGE FLY MIX 6:30
12. FORTUNATE SON 2:43
13. ALEX DESCENDS INTO HELL FOR A BOTTLE OF MILK/KOROVA 1 3:39
14. WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG? 3:59

Once again TheInterlude.com is proud to bring you a brand new, unreleased song from Your Ventriloquist. The band is currently attempting to finish their upcoming EP, but to hold you over, here is a stream of the Title Track, Cardinal. Enjoy

Check out an exclusive live video of Man Overboard performing Real Talk in North Carolina. Peep it below!

Yesterday we brought you a studio update with Remember Paris. If you watched the Extended-Cut (Right Ryan) then you saw Ryan tracking vocals for a new song, which just so happens to be the one you are about to hear. I am pleased to bring you a brand-spanking new track from Remember Paris, titled Starting To Hurt A Lot Like Christmas. Right now, the song is only available for stream, but fear not Remember Paris fans, Saturday (Hopefully) we will be bringing[you a special treat, where you can download the song, along with more surprises. Until then, enjoy!!!

TheInterlude.com brings you the first of many studio updates with one of our favorite unsigned bands, Remember Paris. Check out a few clips of some new songs, as well as Ryan laying down some vocal tracks for a Christmas track. Speaking of the Christmas track, as soon as the band finishes mixing the song, you will only be able to hear it here. We might even bring you a little Christmas present and give it away for free!! What do you guys think??? Email ben@theinterlude.com and let him know what you’d like to see done with this new holiday song!!! Check out the first video below, and stay tuned as we are following the band all the way up until the album is released sometime in 2012!!! This will be your chance to see how an album is created from start to finish! Enjoy!!!

We are currently featuring an original Christmas song titled. Mr. Life Saver Man, by Jonathan Jones. The track comes off his holiday EP titled”Christmas In Our Shorts EP.” Which you can pick up here.  This has become my new favorite Christmas album already, and I’ve only had it a week.

I asked Jonathan if he would  tell us the story behind this featured song as well as to why he chose to record a Christmas album.  You can read all of that below.  If you want to hear the song, just look to your right and click play!!!

TheInterlude: Jonathan, can you tell us what Mr. Life Saver Man is really about and how you came up with the idea for the song?
 
Jonathan:

Mr. Life Saver Man is a song that I’ve subconsciously been trying to write since 2006. I always thought it would be cool to write an original Christmas song about an ornament, but never really made the time. Mr. Life Saver Man is a song about the oldest ornament that’s hung on my families Christmas tree. The ornament was made in the 70′s by a student my mom taught in the San Diego City Schools. It became a beloved ornament largely in part because of how awkward it’s appearance is and the fact that the original life saver candy(that makes up it’s body) has long since evaporated. It’s become such a hit in the family that each year we rotate who hangs it up. It also, gets a major cheer when it’s brought out of the box and the same story is told about it’s history.

Remember Paris is working on pre-production for their new album.  Ben of TheInterlude recently sat down with guitarist T.J. Greer and talked about their summer on warped, leaving their label and what the band is currently up to.  Enjoy the read and look for treats to come in the future, as we follow the band during their entire recording process.

TheInterlude: Tell everyone who you are, what band you are in and what your role is in that band?

T.j. Greer: Hey! My name is TJ Greer and I sing and play guitar for Remember Paris!

TheInterlude: So, you guys were out following warped this summer, how did that go for you?

T.j. Greer: We met a lot of great people, and a lot of amazing contacts that will help us through this next year. The tour itself was just awesome, but we had the worst van luck in the world. Luckily, we had a lot of support from the fans and were willing to help us through the rough time of breaking down. At one point in time we were sleeping in the van in the Midas Parking lot next to our trailer for days trying to figure out how we were going to fix everything. Warped is a tour that will push every band too this limits, quite a test.

TheInterlude: you guys were signed to all about records, but that has seemed to have ended. what happened there?

T.j. Greer: Remember Paris and All About Records just grew to have different outlooks on a direction of growth for the band.  We had a blast being a part of that label and get the help we received, but by the end of the day, we need to do what is in the best interest for the band as a whole.

TheInterlude: So, you guys are currently unsigned.  What is the next step, currently being free agents?

T.j. Greer: Yes, for the record we are unsigned at the moment. We have been shopping around, looking into new management and label representatives for the next album we are working on now.  Doing what every DYI band does, the legendary PRESS KITS! We never took a step back, just finding a new way to put our strongest foot forward.

TheInterlude: Are you guys going to be putting out any new music soon, or have you started writing for the next album?

T.j. Greer: Now Ben, I can’t let all the secrets out! But I can say this, we have been talking about releasing a couple of the preproduction songs out for everyone to hear what we have been working on since we have been back from tour. Actually, we started the writing process for this album before we left for the UK Tour, and continued once we got back to Indiana

TheInterlude: So how many songs do you have in the bag right now? And how many do you want to have before you begin to record the album?

T.j. Greer: We currently have about 6 songs with all the music tracked out. They just need a few touches in editing to be ready for the vocals to be tracked. Ideally, the plan is to have about 13 complete songs and a few acoustic songs tracked and sent to John Naclerio at Nada Studios. Then he will touch base with us and go through his footnotes to tighten up the album.

TheInterlude: You recorded you last album with Naclerio as well. What made you decide to use him again?

T.j. Greer: It was a tough decision as a band. At first thought, we never second guess going with John. But then, we had multiple producers in contact with us bidding on the album. Through all the emails and phone conferences we had, we actually got a chance to still down and talk with John at Nada Studios on one of our one off days of Warped.  That meeting sealed the deal. John is a great friend of ours, and one of the best producers in the industry to date. The quality of the last album exceeded our expectations…so you can only imagine what this NEXT album will sound like right!?

TheInterlude: So how does your pre-production process work?

T.j. Greer: This time around it has been a VERY different process for us. A lot of the song we have are songs we have written in time of touring off of our last album “…But A Boy Can Dream”. Some of the songs were incomplete, so I tracked all the drums and then wrote guitar parts that weren’t finished. All the preproduction is being recorded at my house to save time and money.

TheInterlude: How does Ryan go about working on the lyrics? Do you do the vocal melodies too, or does he get the tracks and go from there?

T.j. Greer: After I get done with the songs, I email him the track. Ryan is always writing, so he has material from our lives he sees and from what he as lived. He has been sitting in with me during the tracking sessions, getting an idea for the songs. And we have talked a lot about the direction of this album vocally that we want. Mainly discussing the play on words we want to use, all the harmonies we want. There will be more “back and forth” vocal styling’s for Ryan and I both, mixed with a lot of harmonies as well. I try and help as much as I can with melodies as much as possible, but generally just get the luxury of banging out harmony parts.

TheInterlude: When are you guys heading to the studio?

T.j. Greer: We are going to be back at Nada Studios in New Windsor, NY this Spring to lay out the new Full Length.

TheInterlude: Thanks for the update, we will touch base later on to see how the pre-production is going and maybe see if you will give us theinterlude viewers a taste of a new song

T.j. Greer: Thanks a lot TheInterlude! Keep in touch and we will give you some goodies here soon to release!

If you are unfamiliar with Remember Paris, check out the track Ok Dudes, But If Jen Shows Up I’m Outta Here, below which comes off the band’s current album “But A Boy Can Dream” which can be purchased here.

 
05 Ok Dudes, But If Jen Shows Up I’m Outta Here by theinterlude

TheInterlude.com is still loving that old time rock and roll.  So we teamed up with Bob Seger to give you a chance to win his latest release Bob Seger’s Ultimate Hits: Rock And Roll Never Forgets 2 disc collection and a lithograph!!!!  All you have to do is email ben@theinterlude.com and fill in the missing lyrics “Working On My__________ _____________.  It’s two words.  Contest Ends Nov.30.  Make sure to put Bob Seger Contest in subject line and include you name and mailing addy.  Winner will be chosen at random, as long as the answer is correct.  GOOD LUCK!!!!

ANOTHER REYBEE COMPILATION was released digitally via Paper + Plastick Records to help alleviate veteran music publicist Rey Roldan’s loss from his loft fire. This collection features unreleased tracks, demos, and live recordings. A few of the 41 bands on this comp include: Less Than Jake, Chuck Ragan, The Sounds, Strung Out, Samiam, The Color Fred, Yellowcard, He Is We, Polar Bear Club, VNV Nation, IAMX, Meat Beat Manifesto, Miss Derringer, The Stereo, The Front Bottoms, Plow United, The Photo Atlas, Red City Radio, and MC Lars among many others. You can pick it up here. 

On a personal note, Rey is one of the best freaking people I have ever met or worked with my entire life.  Please help him out by purchasing this compilation and giving more than a buck.  He has worked so hard for all of the bands he has taken under his wing and without him some of them might never have reached your ears.  Do a kind thing and great things will happen back to you, Karma my friends.