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<p>Kodakid are a fresh and exciting band with a sound which can be best described as upbeat indie rock with a side helping of funk. The band strives to prioritise and captivate the listener, as anyone who has been to one of their energetic live sets can attest to. Their music is delivered with genuine passion and an unrivalled raw energy, an energy that finds it origins in the absolute confidence, belief and conviction that these boys have in their songs. Kodakid have been working hard for the past year to bring their spirited sound to the masses and this dedication is reflected in their steadily thriving fan base and ever growing media attention. They are receiving plaudits for their tight and technically accomplished performances and intelligently written songs, drawing inspiration from many styles and genres, a sound which is blended together cleverly for an audience clearly as important to them as their music. There is an undeniable spark within this group that makes them a truly exciting experience.</p><p>Lead singer Kev Power&rsquo;s phenomenal rich vocals are superbly complemented by the zeal and skill of Alex Soikans on lead guitar, John Duignan on bass &amp; backing and Tony Browne on drums. Formed in 2010, the momentum achieved to date shows this band's true class and potential.</p><p>Following a series of gigs in some of Ireland&rsquo;s top venues Kodakid released their debut single &lsquo;Pray for Some Luck&rsquo; which was made available via free download in March 2011. The release received a lot of local and national airplay as well as critical acclaim, including being reviewed in Hot Press Magazine&rsquo;s Pick of the Fortnight.</p><p>Other achievements include playing high profile gigs in numerous Irish festivals and becoming a finalist in the Irish Daily Mail/TV3 'Fighting Chance' competition (winner announced in September). The band was also chosen to support The Noisettes on the Main Stage at the Manchester 'Great Getaway' Music Festival in the U.K and to open the Waterford Spraoi Festival</p>

<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Reminder! September 1st we will start our Song Review Contest. The most Reviews for the Month will Win a Free Mixposure T-Shirt.</span></p><p>Rules:</p><p>300 Song Reviews Minimum&nbsp;</p><p>"Great Song" and "Loved It" are not reviews and will be removed! Please give your reviews some substance. &nbsp;</p><p>Contest ends on the last day of September</p><p>Shirt Sizes are limited to what is in stock</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Win this shirt!</strong></span></p><p><img src="http://www2.mixposure.com/image.php?mode=item_image&amp;item_id=197&amp;band_id=2839" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>

<div style="margin: 10px 0px 20px;"><p>I've always loved this song. I don't as a rule do covers, but while just jamming on this&nbsp;in the studio one evening I decided it would be a lot of fun to try it. This is a VERY rough mix, I will be updating this as time permits me to work on it.</p><p><a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/RS_Cain/song_focus_25622.php">http://www2.mixposure.com/RS_Cain/song_focus_25622.php</a></p><p>Many thanks to the folks at Universal Music Group and The Harry Fox Agency for their assistance.</p><p>License# 1135185525</p></div>

<div><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">I have been thinking about this for some time and have finally come to the conclusion that YouTube is really the only way to go for videos on Mixposure. While I have liked having or own player, it really just does not make sense for us to use up the bandwidth and storage space that is required to host videos.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">We will be removing all non-YouTube Videos from Mixposure in roughly a week. This will give everyone time to make copies if they need to!&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Also please feel free to delete the non-youtube videos once you have grabbed a copy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Thanks!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Dazed</span></p></div>

<div class="hmedia related-media m-17"><p class="photo"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/26/feds-environmental-enforcement-on-guitars-leaves-musicians-in-fear/">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/26/feds-environmental-enforcement-on-guitars-leaves-musicians-in-fear/</a></p><p class="photo">&nbsp;</p><p class="photo"><img src="http://a57.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/396/223/Gibson%20Guitar%20CEO_082511.jpg" alt="Gibson Guitar CEO_082511" /></p><p class="contributor vcard"><span class="fn">The Tennessean</span></p><p class="fn">Gibson Guitar CEO Henry Juszkiewicz speaks about the raid by federal authorities, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011 at the plant on Massman Drive in Nashville, Tenn.</p></div><p style="font-size: 14px;">The <a class="r_lapi" href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/justice-department.htm#r_src=ramp">Justice Department</a> raided the Memphis and Nashville offices of a guitar manufacturing company this week, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars as part of a crackdown on illegally harvested hardwoods from protected forests, The Wall Street Journal reported.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;">But Henry Juszkiewicz, the chairman and chief executive of Gibson Guitar, defended his company&rsquo;s manufacturing policies and accused the Justice Department of overreaching.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;">"The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier," he said in a statement to the newspaper, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to snare the company.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;">The Justice Department refused to speak to the newspaper.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;">This isn&rsquo;t the first time that the company &ndash; which makes such iconic instruments as the Les Paul electric guitar, the J-160E acoustic-electric <a class="r_lapi" href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/entertainment/music/pop-rock-1955-2002/john-lennon.htm#r_src=ramp">John Lennon</a> played, and essential jazz-boxes such as Charlie Christian's ES-150 -- has been raided by agents with the Fish and Wildlife Service.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;">In 2009 the Feds seized several guitars and pallets of wood from a Gibson factory, and both sides have been wrangling over the goods in court.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;">The first raid appeared to try to determine whether Gibson had been buying illegally harvested hardwoods from protected forests, such as the <a class="r_lapi" href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/madagascar.htm#r_src=ramp">Madagascar</a> ebony that makes for such lovely fretboard, the newspaper reported. But if Gibson did knowingly import illegally harvested ebony from Madagascar, that wouldn't be a negligible offense, the newspaper said.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;">Peter Lowry, ebony and rosewood expert at the Missouri Botanical <a class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline !important; position: static;" href="#"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue !important; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">Garden</span></span></a>, calls the Madagascar wood trade the "equivalent of Africa's blood diamonds." But with the new raid, the government seems to be questioning whether some wood sourced from <a class="r_lapi" href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/india.htm#r_src=ramp">India</a> met every regulatory detail, the newspaper said.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

I know it is a bit early but I wanted to post this so people could start working on their song submissions. For the past 5 years or so Mixposure has always done site themed songs. Like the Same Song Title Madness, Same Lyric Madness, Holiday Tunes but the one that seems to go over the best is the Halloween tunes. 

For the Hallloween Song Submission, your goal is to create the best spookiest tune you can. It can be any genre you like. This is also a great way to collaborate with other Mixposure Artists. Please do not upload any tunes over the next month. Once we are in October, we will create a specific genre called Halloween 2011 for everyone to use. This just makes it easier to find all of the submissions. 

For the month of September, the Mixposure Member with the most song reviews will win a Mixposure T-Shirt. You must have 300 reviews to quality! Remember, "cool tune", "love it" are not reviews! These will be deleted and not counted. Give your reviews some substance!

Again our apologies about the issues with the latest version of Internet Explorer. We are working hard to get it resolved. If you are using the newest version of IE9, you will see issues adding song info, blogs, private messages etc. Please use Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari or whatever other browsers I am missing in the mean time.

Thanks again for being a part of Mixposure!

Dazed 

Previous Halloween Submissions

<p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #ff0000;">Featuring the jazzy.....funky...stylings *****...of Joseph Rodriguez...!!</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: large;">Feel the Funk</span>.....</span><span style="font-size: small; color: #ff9900;">with a little help from the WOLF....AwwwwwwwwwwwOooooooooo~!!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small; color: #ff9900;"><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?t=mixposure_song_player&amp;song_id=25538&amp;band_id=816">http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?t=mixposure_song_player&amp;song_id=25538&amp;band_id=816</a><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/message.php?mode=message_edit&amp;message_id=7927"></a></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: medium;">A few quick things!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I wanted to welcome Wendy and Taylor from IBM's Student's For A Smarter Planet. We have setup a special <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/?t=sfsp">landing page</a> for them and artists who join Mixposure by clicking the Join as SFSP link will be donating 45% of their song profits to the&nbsp;United Nations Millennium Development Goal.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you for beinga &nbsp;part of Mixposure and we look forward to the musicians joining this site for this worthy cause.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Again my apologies for the issues with newest version of Internet Explorer. We are looking at ways to correct the issue instead of waiting for Microsoft to fix the issue.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">On a side note, I hope everyone took advantage of the HP firesale on the Touchpad Tablets for $99 for the 16GB or $149 for thr 32GB. I plan to surf Mixposure on one if my order went through! A lot of order cancellations due to the high demand so there is no telling who will end up with one. But I am crossing my fingers!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks again for being a part of Mixposure!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Dazed&nbsp;</span></p>

<div style="margin: 10px 0px 20px;"><p><strong>Something Inside Me</strong></p><p>Christopher Tate - lead &amp; backup vocals - lead guitar - guitars - bass<br />Buddrumming - drums - percussion - backup vocals&nbsp; <br />Richard Getson (Richie Rockstar) - backup lead rythymn guitar <br />Maurizio (Dit) Scarponi - backup vocal</p><p>Like to thx Christopher for rockin on this tune... I think we keep learning how to&nbsp;write with each other in the studio&nbsp;.... we get&nbsp;keep rockin out new tunes!&nbsp; Like to thx Richie for laying down a guitar track... I know Christopher loves his guitar playing... Dit from Toronto also laid down a vocal track for Christopher... took time from his laying tracks on his new album in Vancouver to help out... Anyways Chris wrote a kool little rockin tune ... so from all of us we hope you enjoy! Bud</p><p>Something inside Me written by: Christopher Tate<br />Produced by: Buddrumming<br />Buddrumming Recording Studio 2011 (Nanaimo, BC CANADA)</p><p><a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/Buddrumming/song_focus_25528.php">http://www2.mixposure.com/Buddrumming/song_focus_25528.php</a></p></div>

<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Students <em>can</em> change the world.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Welcome!&nbsp; If you joined Mixposure as "SFSP" you are currently a student in an educational institution.&nbsp; You found this site through the Music Doing Good information on social sites for <a href="studentsfor.asmarterplanet.com">Students for a Smarter Planet</a>.&nbsp; There's no charge to upload your original music to Mixposure.&nbsp; You'll gain exposure to all of Mixposure's fans.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Tell your friends to come here and download your tunes.&nbsp; The minimal charge will be split three ways:&nbsp; 10% to defray Mixposure infrastructure costs, 45% to The Nature Conservancy and 45% to you.&nbsp; We hope you 'sell' lots of tracks!&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Come back often and play, review, listen to, upload, compose and ROCK ON!!</span></p>