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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">From the Forum Post <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&amp;t=13816">HERE</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nigel Potter, no relationship to Harry by the way, was kind enough to pen some lyrics and has offered them up to Mixposure for a Same Lyric Challenge. We do site specific tunes periodically for fun. What is cool about the site songs is they are all based around a theme. So when you have 20 artists or so writing a song, you get a variety of different styles and ideas. The end result is usually pretty cool because no two songs sound alike even though the lyrics are the same. <br /><br />The lyrics can be found in the forum and please make sure you post any questions you have there so we have one communication point!</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks!</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dazed<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Just wanted to update everyone on the Review Crew. While the poll was in favor of having one, it just seemed to stir up too much emotion in people that were against it. The Review Crew was something I thought could be a valuable tool for musicians who wanted an honest opinion of their music in order to make it better.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My suggestion for those of you who are looking for more in depth and honest feedback on your songs is to note the song information area. Also use the Spotlight Feature on your song to help dra attention to it. This way if reviewers take the the time to read your song information, they will know specifically what you are looking for. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Maybe down the road we can revisit this topic and try again. Many thanks to all who participated and my apologies for folding on the idea even though the voting was in favor of it. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Dazed<br /></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Mixposure Announces Their Summer Holiday Contest!! We are very pleased to announce the kickoff of The Mixposure Holiday Giveaway!</p><p>Win a Hand Crafted Custom Shop <a href="http://www.stratageguitars.com">Stratag&eacute; Guitar</a> (www.stratageguitars.com) Equipped with the <a href="http://www.greatamericansounds.com">Great American Sounds</a> Active Pickup System (www.greatamericansounds.com) of your choice. The winner can pick from any in stock instrument&nbsp; we make up to $3800.00 sales price.&nbsp; The pricing on the site is sales price the list price is considerably higher ($5819.00.)&nbsp; Winner may pick any instrument up to $3800.00 sales prices.&nbsp; This is a fantastic prize everyone. Frank can't make them fast enough! Everyone that plays one buys one or orders one.<br /> <a href="http://www.cakewalk.com"></a></p><p><a href="http://www.cakewalk.com">Cakewalk</a> will be providing a copy of the new Guitar Tracks Pro v4 as well as Rapture and Dimension Pro.</p><p>Mixposure will also send the 5 Winners a Mixposure T-Shirt and provide them a <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/subscribe.php?mode=view&amp;template=subscribe.tpl">Free 1 Year Platinum Upgrade</a>. We also have some other sponsores we are working on.</p><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">What is the start and end date of the contest?</span> The contest will run from July 1st through December 7th. Prizes will be awarded not long after!<br /> <br /> <span style="color: #ff0000;">How does the contest work?</span> The contest will be a Battle of the Bands style with a twist. As we have seen on many websites, most sites use the most plays of a song to declare a winner. As we all know, the number of plays can be manipulated through software. We want this contest to be fair and anyone caught manipulating the contest will be disqualified. IP addresses will be looked at as well as proxy servers.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/ranking.php?mode=jrMixposure&amp;header_template=jrMixposureReviews_header.tpl&amp;row_template=jrMixposureReviews_row.tpl&amp;footer_template=contest_footer.tpl&amp;exclude_area[]=band_name&amp;exclude_string[]=Dazed&amp;exclude_area[]=band_name&amp;exclude_string[]=RwK&amp;exclude_area[]=band_name&amp;exclude_string[]=Ked&amp;exclude_area[]=band_name&amp;exclude_string[]=WILDHONEYPIE&amp;exclude_area[]=band_name&amp;exclude_string[]=KED+RECORDS&amp;exclude_area[]=band_name&amp;exclude_string[]=Jims+Artificial+Earth&amp;exclude_area[]=band_name&amp;exclude_string[]=BigPete&amp;unique=true&amp;type=song&amp;date=range&amp;begin_date=20090701&amp;end_date=20091207&amp;cache_time=0">Here</a> are the running results so far. At the end of the contest we will review the top 5 to verify they meet the contest rules. <br /> <br /> The Mixposure Artist will upload a song to their artist page. The Top 5 Artists with the most song reviews will be entered in to the finals. You will need to get your fans to comment on your song! One word comments will be deleted!! <br /> <br /> Once we have the Top 5 Bands, the songs will be presented to an Independent Panel of Judges. This means no one from the Mixposure Team will be a part of the final decision. The judges will score the song based on a few different categories and the numbers will be tallied. Then the bands will be stacked ranked and the prizes will be awarded. <br /> <br /> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Who will ship the prizes? </span>The prizes will be shipped directly from our sponsors and the T-Shirts will be shipped from Mixposure.</p><p>I will be posting all of the legal stuff shortly.</p><p>Good luck to all!!</p><p>Todd</p>

<p><img src="http://www2.mixposure.com/image.php?mode=band_image&amp;band_id=1241&amp;width=290" alt="" width="290" height="218" /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The artist of the month for July is Henry Harrington (Troudador222)! Many of us know Henry and his music.&nbsp;&nbsp; His songs are about real life, the joys and sorrows we all experience.&nbsp; The sweet tones of his 6 string martin fill the air in the songs he writes and his voice sings of the world we live in. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Visit his page and hear blues, folk, rock and country and some surprises too!<br />Congratulations to Henry, our July ARTIST OF THE MONTH!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Rick</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #808080;">Just wanted to pass on something new we added. As people begin to upload more and more songs, it becomes difficult when it comes to which song you really want reviewed the most. With that in mind, we have added a way for you to Feature a Song of your choosing on your music page. It will appear on your Music Page under the Feature Category with an "S" on it for Spotlight.&nbsp; To set this field log into your Control Panel &gt; Click Artists in the top left &gt; Modify Artist &gt; go down to Select Song To Feature"&nbsp; and that will set the field. Whenever you have a new song you want to change, just repeast the process and set the new song.I think this will help guide us to the songs we are looking for feedback on!</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hey gang. I have a question for you. The one thing that has always come up around Mixposure is the question of how Reviews should be done. Some say the members here are too nice in their reviews. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This brings me to my question. What kind of reviews do you want? Do you want people to sugar coat your review or have an element of honesty to it? Personally, I will take honesty any day of the week. If William Hung (google him if you do not know who he is) posted a song on here, would you really say the song rocks or would you say, it needs some work? The guy can't sing to save his life. If I were to review his songs I would suggest Autotune for him.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I am getting the feeling people feel they need to be super sweet in their reviews here. That is not helping anyone grow musically. However saying "You Suck" doesn't do much either lol. It takes a lot of guts to post your music up here for thousands to hear. So I applaud those who do. I want to help the artist grow. I try and point out things that would improve the Mix or maybe the song in general. I know I always used to look at it like a managment meeting. A few positives and a few negatives. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is the way I feel. Maybe you feel differently? So do you just want people to sing your praises or tell you areas of improvements as well? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Please let me and everyone on Mix know how you feel! Remember, any review you do not like, you can delete!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Dazed</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&amp;t=13733">*******POLL IS UP**********</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">We have added a <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&amp;t=13733">poll</a> to see how many are interested in a Review Crew. Please vote accordingly!!</span><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hey Everyone!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We have a few openings with Mixposure Radio we would like to fill. As some of you know, we are expanding Mixposure Radio. We have created a new site called <a href="http://www.MixposureRadio.com">MixposureRadio.com</a> that is still a work in progress but getting closer to being a reality. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Please see the message from Ked below!</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Would you like to be a DJ for Mixposure Radio????<br />&nbsp;<br />Do you have what it takes????&nbsp; the voice&nbsp;&nbsp; the delivery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the attitude???<br />&nbsp;<br />If you think you are that person.. send me a demo mp3 to&nbsp;&nbsp; ked@mixposure.com<br />&nbsp;<br />If you are selected you will be notified<br />&nbsp;<br />thank you <br /><br />KED<br />Director of Broadcasting&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Mixposureradio.com</span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yeah, well... I'm talkin' ta YOU!!&nbsp; Just want to tell you about a new twist to an existing feature-- in the "Open Yer Pie Hole"&nbsp; forum.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I want to take this opportunity to invite any of yous guys that have something to say, to say it in our pie hole forum.&nbsp; This is a place to talk about any topics that you might want to bring up in an open discussion, and have it discussed in a commentary on our Saturday Night Rocks radio show, in the segment we call &nbsp;<span style="font-size: medium;">"The </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Whole Pie".</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">SNR host, DJ Mike K, will&nbsp;air the segment featuring WildHoneyPie (Gina V) on his show, which will be a follow-up of topics mentioned in the forum.&nbsp; And if&nbsp;you're one of those folks that has SKYPE downloaded to your computer (free download,) we&nbsp;may be calling on YOU to&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">open yer pie hole</span>,&nbsp;&nbsp;live on the air to share your thoughts&nbsp;after the commentary. All the people in chat can also discuss the topic with eachother-- or&nbsp; make comments that Mike could mention on the air as well.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We know you all have something to say, so don't just sit there... open yer pie hole and let us know what you want to hear about on the air.&nbsp; And please, let us know if you're available or interested in talking live about it on the show.&nbsp; If you don't have SKYPE downloaded, we can try to help you set that up as well.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So get your act over to the forum side and look for the BIG MOUTH icon.&nbsp; I'll be waitin, and we'll leave the light on for you!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gina<br /></span></span></p>

<p><img src="http://www2.mixposure.com/image.php?mode=band_image&amp;band_id=3069" alt="" width="290" height="194" /></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">We recently decided to feature a New Mixposure Artist Every Month. We did something like this in the past and after numerous upgrades, we kind of let it slip. I am happy to say we have added it back!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">We have a lot of talented artists on Mixposure so coming up with an artist to feature is no easy task. How do you determine one over the other? If we have featured an artist before on Mixposure Radio are they excluded from this? Ahh so many questions. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">However the answer for the first Mixposure Artist of the Month is a relatively new member on Mixposure named <a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/ericA/">Erica</a>. I read her introduction in the forum and had a listen to some of her music and was very impressed. I have always been a huge fan of acoustic guitar and when you add in some great vocals, you just can't miss. It was these two things that made me take notice of her music. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">So Congratulations <a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/ericA/">Erica</a> for being the June 2009 Mixposure Artist of the Month!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Dazed</span></p>

<p>Hey everyone!</p><p>We wanted to try something new out so those of you selling stuff, please post your stuff so we can test this out. We just added a section for <a href="ranking.php?mode=store&amp;pagebreak=10&amp;search_area=item_area&amp;search_string=Guitars&amp;order=7&amp;header_template=store_header_classified_guitars.tpl&amp;row_template=mix_classified.tpl&amp;footer_template=store_footer.tpl&amp;tpl_dir=skin&amp;skin=ProJam_Dark">Classified Ads</a>. It is in the menu under "For Sale". To sell an item to go into the Classified Section, here are the steps.</p><p>Go into the Control Panel</p><p>Click on Store at the Top</p><p>Click Create Item</p><p>Fill Out The Information</p><p>Check the "Classified Ad?" Check Box</p><p>Choose the "Ad Category" from the Drop Down Menu</p><p>If there is a need for other categories, we will add them!</p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Dazed</p>