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Congratulations to Elvis Fontenot and the Sugar Bees for having the Mixposure Song of the Week! Cgeck out the song below!
Biography
Elvis Fontenot and the Sugar Bees - Cajun, Zydeco, Swamp 'n' Roll from the bayous of Staffordshire.
- Formed in the dim and distant past of 1993, in Stoke-on-Trent, Elvis Fontenot and the Sugar Bees have evolved to become the premier European swamp’n’roll outfit that they are today
- Our lineup is Nick Barber (Accordion/Vocals/Frottoir), Paul Asher (Accordion/Fiddle/Mandolin), Craig Beverley (Lead Guitar/Vocals), Stuart Duthie (Bass/Harmonica/Vocals) and Chris Plimbley (Drums)
- In 2006 and 2009, we were crowned “European Zydeco band of the Year” and Nick won European Rub-board player of the year
- We’ve have been played on the BBC by Andy Kershaw and Mike Harding and have been on TV in Austin, Texas and featured on radio stations across America and also in Australia
- We have played the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans twice, plus other venues in Louisiana and Austin, Texas
- We have played numerous events and festivals in mainland Europe
- We have been confirmed for the 2012 Kilkenny Rhythm and Roots Festival in Ireland for an unprecidented 5th year running
- We have played UK festivals (including the Gloucester and Bristol Cajun/Zydeco festivals, and 5 times at the Broadstairs Folk Week) plus many 100s of local gigs in our years of existence
- Expect an infectious good time!
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hey Everyone!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Just a heads up on a new Flash Player we added. There are still a few bugs to work out in it but I think it is stable enough to let everyone know about it. It is called iAudio and can be found in your Artist > Modify Artist > "Choose the Player to appear on your Page". If you put your mouse on the bottom of the player, a small popup will appear. You can then mouse over each of the objects to see what they do. Give it about 5 seconds to appear. The time on the prevents a popup appearing every time you move your mouse around on it. The envelope will most likely be the most used since it has the sharing ability with social media sites.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">With this player, you will not be able to customize the colors in the control panel. You can however change many of the colors on the embed code for your site. We have the ability to create multiple versions though and I hope to be putting some together soon. There is a slight bug with that at the moment that sould be resolved shortly. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We also changed the default popup player to a new player. It also has the same sharing capabilities. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">So take a look and let me know what bugs you see. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Todd</span></p><p><object width="560" height="370" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="yes"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="flashvars" value="jamroom_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&system_name=Mixposure.com&playlist_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.mixposure.com%2Fplay.php%3Fmode%3Dsong_hifi%26band_id%3D10%26song_id%3Dall%26format%3Diaud%26type%3Dxspf&vault_mode=no&skin_id=2&skin_name=Black Ruby&bodyStyle=ridge&bodyColor=0x000000&bodyText=0xffffff&buttonStyle=glass&buttonColor=0xffffff&buttonHover=0xf9f9f9&buttonActive=0x770000&buttonTextColor=0x220000&buttonTextHover=0x440000&buttonTextActive=0xffffff&element=0x330000&elementHover=0x220000&elementActive=0xFFFFFF&trackOdd=0xffffff&trackEven=0xf3f3f3&trackActive=0x220000&textColor=0x252525&textHover=0xffffff&textActive=0xffffff&borders=0x996666"></param><param name="quality" value="high"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="src" value="http://www2.mixposure.com/modules/iAudio/players/large.swf"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed width="560" height="370" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www2.mixposure.com/modules/iAudio/players/large.swf" allowfullscreen="yes" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="jamroom_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&system_name=Mixposure.com&playlist_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.mixposure.com%2Fplay.php%3Fmode%3Dsong_hifi%26band_id%3D10%26song_id%3Dall%26format%3Diaud%26type%3Dxspf&vault_mode=no&skin_id=2&skin_name=Black Ruby&bodyStyle=ridge&bodyColor=0x000000&bodyText=0xffffff&buttonStyle=glass&buttonColor=0xffffff&buttonHover=0xf9f9f9&buttonActive=0x770000&buttonTextColor=0x220000&buttonTextHover=0x440000&buttonTextActive=0xffffff&element=0x330000&elementHover=0x220000&elementActive=0xFFFFFF&trackOdd=0xffffff&trackEven=0xf3f3f3&trackActive=0x220000&textColor=0x252525&textHover=0xffffff&textActive=0xffffff&borders=0x996666" quality="high" wmode="transparent" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed> </object></p>
<p><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123"><img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQZOmpsddv9U8jE3y4x9RYlC3EIx9i73-RdxbUOKkLqZmzq0s4e" alt="" width="488" height="103" /></a> <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">WTF!</span></strong></p><p> </p><p>These lists have been around forever but I found this one particularily amusing. Why you ask? Because this list made absolutely no sense to me. </p><p>I am a Beatle's fan to a point but I would never place any member in a "Greatest Guitar List" because I can find no viable argument to justify them being in the list. Keith Richard's was another one. Yes he should be in the list but at number 4? </p><p>Rolling Stone used what I thought would be a good list of people to determine the list but it seems many went with their idols vs actually ability. How else do you explain not seeing Joe Satriani, Eric Morse or Eric Johnson in the list. I mean seriously, let's put it into perspective. If I told you I could get you guitar lessons from anyone on the list, would you choose George Harrison (yes I know he is dead) who ranked 11th or Eric Johnson? How about Prince or Satriani?</p><p>George was a fine musician but if this category is Great Guitarists should he make the list? Let's face it, the Beatles farmed out the guitar solo on While My Guitar Gently Weeps to Eric Clapton. George was never known for smoking solos or amazing ability. Lennon was number 55 on the list yet Alex Lifeson of Rush was in the 90's somewhere. </p><p>This could be arguably the worst list ever compiled! Some of these people I think should be on the list but maybe further down. Prince at number 33 above so many great guitarists like Randy Rhoads? </p><p>What do you think?</p><p><strong>Top 100 Guitarists of All Time 2011 :</strong><br /> 1.Jimi Hendrix<br /> 2.Eric Clapton<br /> 3.Jimmy Page<br /> 4.Keith Richards <br /> 5.Jeff Beck<br /> 6.B.B. King<br /> 7.Chuck Berry<br /> 8.Eddie Van Halen<br /> 9.Duane Allman<br /> 10.Pete Townshend <br /> 11.George Harrison <br /> 12.Stevie Ray Vaughan<br /> 13.Albert King<br /> 14.David Gilmour<br /> 15.Freddy King<br /> 16.Derek Trucks<br /> 17.Neil Young<br /> 18.Les Paul<br /> 19.James Burton<br /> 20.Carlos Santana<br /> 21.Chet Atkins<br /> 22.Frank Zappa<br /> 23.Buddy Guy<br /> 24.Angus Young<br /> 25.Tony Iommi<br /> 26.Brian May<br /> 27.Bo Diddley<br /> 28.Johnny Ramone<br /> 29.Scotty Moore<br /> 30.Elmore James<br /> 31.Ry Cooder<br /> 32.Billy Gibbons<br /> 33.Prince <br /> 34.Curtis Mayfield<br /> 35.John Lee Hooker<br /> 36.Randy Rhoads <br /> 37.Mick Taylor<br /> 38.The Edge <br /> 39.Steve Cropper<br /> 40.Tom Morello<br /> 41.Mick Ronson<br /> 42.Mike Bloomfield<br /> 43.Hubert Sumlin<br /> 44.Mark Knopfler<br /> 45.Link Wray<br /> 46.Jerry Garcia<br /> 47.Stephen Stills<br /> 48.Jonny Greenwood<br /> 49.Muddy Waters<br /> 50.Ritchie Blackmore<br /> 51.Johnny Marr<br /> 52.Clarence White<br /> 53.Otis Rush<br /> 54.Joe Walsh<br /> 55.John Lennon<br /> 56.Albert Collins<br /> 57.Rory Gallagher<br /> 58.Peter Green<br /> 59.Robbie Robertson<br /> 60.Ron Asheton<br /> 61.Dickey Betts<br /> 62.Robert Fripp<br /> 63.Johnny Winter<br /> 64.Duane Eddy<br /> 65.Slash<br /> 66.Leslie West<br /> 67.T-Bone Walker<br /> 68.John McLoughlin<br /> 69.Richard Thompson<br /> 70.Jack White<br /> 71.Robert Johnson<br /> 72.John Frusciante<br /> 73.Kurt Cobain<br /> 74.Dick Dale<br /> 75.Joni Mitchell<br /> 76.Robby Krieger<br /> 77.Willie Nelson<br /> 78.John Fahey<br /> 79.Mike Campbell<br /> 80.Buddy Holly<br /> 81.Lou Reed<br /> 82.Nels Cline<br /> 83.Eddie Hazel<br /> 84.Joe Perry<br /> 85.Andy Summers<br /> 86.J Mascis<br /> 87.James Hetfield<br /> 88.Carl Perkins<br /> 89.Bonnie Raitt<br /> 90.Tom Verlaine<br /> 91.Dave Davies<br /> 92.Dimebag Darrell<br /> 93.Paul Simon<br /> 94.Peter Buck<br /> 95.Roger McGuinn<br /> 96.Bruce Springsteen<br /> 97.Steve Jones<br /> 98.Alex Lifeson<br /> 99.Thurston Moore<br /> 100. Lindsey Buckingham </p><p> </p><p><strong>THE VOTERS: </strong>Trey Anastasio, Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), Brian Bell (Weezer), Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple), Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket), James Burton, Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains), Gary Clark Jr., Billy Corgan, Steve Cropper, Dave Davies (The Kinks), Anthony DeCurtis (Contributing editor, <em>Rolling Stone</em>), Tom DeLonge (Blink-182), Rick Derringer, Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars), Elliot Easton (The Cars), Melissa Etheridge, Don Felder (The Eagles), David Fricke (Senior writer, <em>Rolling Stone</em>), Peter Guralnick (Author), Kirk Hammett (Metallica), Albert Hammond Jr. (The Strokes), Warren Haynes (The Allman Brothers Band), Brian Hiatt (Senior writer, <em>Rolling Stone</em>), David Hidalgo (Los Lobos), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Lenny Kravitz, Robby Krieger (The Doors), Jon Landau (Manager), Alex Lifeson (Rush), Nils Lofgren (The E Street Band), Mick Mars (Mötley Crüe), Doug Martsch (Built to Spill), J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.), Brian May, Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), Roger McGuinn (The Byrds), Scotty Moore, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Tom Morello, Dave Mustaine (Megadeth), Brendan O’Brien (Producer), Joe Perry, Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Robbie Robertson, Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes), Carlos Santana, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Marnie Stern, Stephen Stills, Andy Summers, Mick Taylor, Susan Tedeschi, Vieux Farka Touré, Derek Trucks, Eddie Van Halen, Joe Walsh, Nancy Wilson (Heart)</p><p><strong>CONTRIBUTORS</strong>: David Browne, Patrick Doyle, David Fricke, Will Hermes, Brian Hiatt, Alan Light, Rob Tannenbaum, Douglas Wolk</p><div><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123#ixzz1evPrebjr">http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123#ixzz1evPrebjr</a></div>
<p>As a reminder, that time is on us again for Mixposure's Annual Holiday Song Submissions. If you are new to the site, here is a little information on it!</p><p>Every year Mixposure does several "site songs" like the Same Song Title Madness, Same Lyric Challenge, Accoustic/Electric Songs, Halloween Tunes and now the Holiday Songs. How this works is everyone who would like to participate needs to create a song with the Holiday Season in mind. In can be serious, comical and any genre you like. This is also a great time to collaborate with other Mixposure Artists.</p><p>Basically these are great, and fun, song writing exercises! We will be creating a new Song Genre in a couple of days so please hold off uploading anything until we have that in place.</p><p>Have fun with this! </p>
<p>To all of our Mixposure family in the USA, please have a Happy Thanksgiving! If you hit the stores on Friday, lease post your exeriences. I am not big on Black Friday but always love to hear who go the $2400 Les Paul for $1500.</p><p>Enjoy the weekend everyone!</p><p>Todd</p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Hey Everyone!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Pretty soon I will be sending out a notification about setting a DJ Friendly Song Download option. What this means is that when you upload a song, or any current song you have uploaded, there will be a section on the song upload form for, "Allow DJ Download". You will need to set it to Yes or No. This is really for artist who are setting the songs for Stream Only or currently have the song For Sale. As an Artist, you will be able to tell us whether you want our DJ's to be able to Download it and play it on Mix Radio. ONLY THE DJ'S will have access to the download link. Everyone else will see the normal play button and buy button. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Really this is no different than how the radio stations work today. Artist want airplay to promote their songs and get it heard by as many people as they can. Our goal was to give artists the option of how they wanted us to promote their music.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Thanks everyone for their continued support of Mixposure. We can't thank you enough for being here!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Todd</span></p>
<p>Please congratulate <a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/Sarah_Smith/">Sarah Smith</a> for having the Mixposure Song of the week! What a kick ass tune here! </p><p><object width="463" height="402" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="flashVars" value="radio_id=&song_id=26298&band_id=6931&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=400&system_name=Mixposure.com"></param><param name="quality" value="high"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="src" value="http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf"></param><param name="flashvars" value="system_name=Mixposure.com&radio_id=&song_id=26298&band_id=6931&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=400"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></param><embed width="463" height="402" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="radio_id=&song_id=26298&band_id=6931&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=400&system_name=Mixposure.com" quality="high" wmode="transparent" flashvars="system_name=Mixposure.com&radio_id=&song_id=26298&band_id=6931&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=400" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> </object><br /> <strong></strong></p>
<p><img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/111103091014-nickelback-story-top.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="281" /> </p><p> </p><p>http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/03/sports-fans-hate-on-nickelback-again/?hpt=hp_bn7</p><h1 class="cnnBlogContentTitle"><a title="Permanent Link:Sports fans hate on Nickelback... again" href="http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/03/sports-fans-hate-on-nickelback-again/" rel="bookmark">Sports fans hate on Nickelback... again</a></h1><p class="cnn_first">It seems Nickelback’s nasally rock ballads just don’t sit well with sports fans.</p><p>Supporters of the Detroit Lions are the latest to protest a possible performance by the Canadian band. (The Winnipeg Free Press published an<a href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/were-begging-you-mr-bettman-no-nickelback-128518798.html" target="_blank"> open letter </a>to the National Hockey League in August when word spread that Nickelback would play at its Face-Off festival.)</p><p>The band is reportedly slated to perform during halftime at Ford Field, when the Lions take on the Green Bay Packers Thanksgiving Day. But a whole lot of Lions fans/Nickelback haters have signed an <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/the-detroit-lions-replace-nickelback-as-the-halftime-show-for-the-thanksgiving-game" target="_blank">online petition</a> begging the National Football League to reconsider.</p><p>As of the time of this post on Thursday, more than 9,500 people had signed the virtual petition, citing:</p><p>“This game is nationally televised, do we really want the rest of the US to associate Detroit with Nickelback? … Is this some sort of ploy to get people to leave their seats during halftime to spend money on alcoholic beverages and concessions? This is completely unfair to those of us who purchased tickets to the game. At least the people watching at home can mute their TVs.”</p><p>One person who signed the petition wrote, “I'd rather drink bleach than listen to Nickelback and have them associated with Detroit.”</p><p>And here’s a fun fact: Nickelback is one of the worst bands you can admit to liking on a first date, <a href="http://gunshyassassin.com/news/dating-site-discovers-nickelback-universally-hated/" target="_blank">according to a U.K. dating site.</a></p><p>But any press is good press, right? Nickelback’s new album, “Here and Now,” drops November 21.</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who submitted Halloween Songs this year! It was a great turnout and we had some amazing submissions.</p><p>Congratulations to the winners of the Halloween Poll:</p><p>Digger Stone - T-Shirt</p><p>JoyfulWave - Mix-Goodies</p><p>Rayonvert - Mix-Goodies</p><p> </p><p> </p>
<p>We decided to do something a little alternative to alternative for our Mixposure Artist of the Month for November. A big congrats to Jim's Artificial Earth for being our chosen artist. Yes he is an admin on here but Jim's music is kind of reminiscent of Frank Zappa to me. Have a listen to some of his tunes below. I especially like Funky Monkey!</p><p><object width="400" height="325" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="flashVars" value="radio_id=&song_id=all&band_id=801&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=325&system_name=Mixposure.com"></param><param name="quality" value="high"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="src" value="http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf"></param><param name="flashvars" value="system_name=Mixposure.com&radio_id=&song_id=all&band_id=801&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=325"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></param><embed width="400" height="325" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="radio_id=&song_id=all&band_id=801&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=325&system_name=Mixposure.com" quality="high" wmode="transparent" flashvars="system_name=Mixposure.com&radio_id=&song_id=all&band_id=801&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=325" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> </object><br /> <strong><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?t=mix_signup">Create Your Own Playlist</a></strong><br /><a href="http://www.mixposure.com">Mixposure.com</a></p>
