Fried Rice Friday!

What's up teamers ?!

So last week, as you know, a nacho frenzy went down in the tower. Well, the special at the EMI Cafe today was shrimp fried rice, which was absolutely filling hence it deserved to precede "friday" in this week's title.

On Tuesday and Wed we had the pleasure of seeing A Fine Frenzy perform in LA and Anaheim. They're just a joy to watch and has amazing stage presence. The whole crowd was a sea of happily dancing, swaying, and clapping people. Ali debuted a song from their upcoming holiday ep, and announced that "Happier" will be her newest single. You can preview a live snippet here (sorry for the distance but the sound is great! :))

Today we launched our first of many #FF (Follow Friday) Twitter contests. Be prepared to retweet and get new followers. We will personally raid our cd cabinets and make an exclusive prize pack of albums for you guys. Consider follow fridays to be a free music friday kind of deal.






AmTaxi has a brand new official logo they just tweeted. Things are really amping up for these guys. Brad's launching a new project that will include a Warped Tour package so keep an eye out on that and definitely check them out if you haven't yet. They're totally reminiscent of the great rock band days.

Speaking of Rock Band, a new Alice In Chains ShareThis project was just launched. Chain up your friends on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. All you have to do is post the ShareThis link to their new the trailer of the new video "Your Decision", and you can win a copy of the Rock Band 2 video game!

TRADE BARETTES WITH PRISCILLA
All you designers out there need to get on this! The latest Priscilla contest is launching soon so grab your clips, ribbons, headbands, flowers, and funky creative brains to get started. You may have noticed her passion for hair accessories in photos like the one below and on the Jukebox album cover.

Design your own for Priscilla to wear, and she'll trade the winner (which she'll choose) one of her own personal hair items.
And don't forget, her album drops in 10 days!!!

December 1 .. . and then 7 more days til

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DECEMBER 8

THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS! 1,468,800 (or so) SECONDS TO THIS IS WAR! They're still in Europe at the moment but who's stoked to see them hit the road in the US?! I know an absolute war will be going down for us in San Diego when the guys play here in December. Phase 2 of the street display mission has begun so make sure to get in your recaps ASAP if you wany anymore tools to be sent to you.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. We won't be in the office over the turkey day weekend so if your tools need to be replenished, get in those recaps and hit us up by TUESDAY the 24th. So enjoy your time off from work or school and take advantage of the crazy Black Friday sales... do some store lifestyles while you're at it since everyone goes on shopping sprees during the holidays. It's the most.. wonderful time.. of the year (pretend that was sung by Jared Leto and this closing statement will be THAT much more pleasing).

FRIDAY the 13TH!

AHHH it's that time again! Beware of any Jasons you know. Last year we had two of these creepy awesome days :) Speaking of scary good times, here's a late group shot of Saving Abel's halloween costumes


It's been quite the crazy week. Last Friday, 30 Seconds To Mars caused quite the buzz at The Hive on Melrose where they did a 3 song acoustic set.


Expect those videos up by the end of today. Also, that night, Betsy and our newest intern, Sheila, had a killer time at Saosin's show in Hollywood. The House was packed!!



We started out the week with a Monday night smackdown. Who needs the WWF when you've got an amazing listening party for 30S2M's THIS IS WAR. Jared sure is fearless in the face of a tiger ha


An army of over 500 fans and industry sergeants filled the Ricardo Monteban theatre just a block down from our lovely Capitol Tower. The first surprise of the night was being graced by none other than Jeffree Star's presence.


The guys debuted their 8 minute short film for "Kings + Queens" and were kind enough to answer some fan questions and celebrate a team member's birthday. Check out a panel shot

You can now view the video on MySpace. To read more about the night you can read what the LA Music Blog had to say.

We've also been spending a great deal of time with The Almost. They rocked it out in A-town as well as LA with the Used. The show was full of energy and amazing suave head-banging-red-hair-flowing madness.

The next day they did a segment on E!'s morning show. These guys really LOVE cooking!



If you're a huge Almost fan, you now have the chance to win the Fender guitar used in the HANDS music video as seen here:


All you have to do is sign-up for the Almost lifestyles project and be the teamer who hits up the most stores.

There are lots of great new projects and prizes. Holidays are just around the corner so instead of raking leaves, rake up some cash by signing-up for the $5 lifestyle projects for Jaicko and Priscilla. Miss Renea visited the tower yesterday so show her some love! Even Denny's does haha. Before the Almost show on Tuesday night, we hung out at Denny's and were stoked to see the Dollhouse video playing on each flatscreen TV. Cheli even went up to the screen to twitpic it... probably earned some weird looks but it was all worth it.

Next week we'll be covering A Fine Frenzy shows. In fact, we have an early treat for you. If you haven't yet, visit the main home page and check out Ali's latest shout out to all of you hardworking teamers.

So what's next? Plenty of great STUFFing to fill your street team turkey with. You'll be fully satisfied with what this month has to offer. Sign-up for the latest projects


and enjoy your weekend and please don't walk under any ladders, open any umbrellas indoors, or make eye contact with any black cats that maybe lurking by. Make this 13th one of good luck, not bad. 13 is TSwift's favorite number and look where it's gotten her lol.

Conquer the fear. Seize the day! :)

Freaky Friday!

Ok, so it's not very freaky but I saw the movie last night, and to make up for not blogging last week, I'm using the title today. Hope you all had a great Halloween stuffing your face with globs of candy!! Funny how on any of the other 364 days it'd be totally absurd to go around taking candy from strangers, and yet once a year we go incognito from head to toe running wild in the street.

Anyways.... can you believe it's already November ?! Almost time for the holidays with friends and family =) Unfortunately for us and Lolene, one of our family members is currently missing! We just posted a missing baby sign all over the internet for Lolene's disco baby, Lula. Her brothers and sisters miss her dearly so check out the sign below and retweet it!

We also JUST LAUNCHED a brand new LIFESTYLE project. Be sure to sign-up for hers and spread the sexy peopleness around your town!

On Tuesday, The Almost's "Monster, Monster" officially came out in-stores!! Go pick up a copy now, and if you bought the pre-order, be sure to go online and download the rest of your songs. It's a great album, and I can't wait to see them perform on Tuesday. Expect some maddening twitpics from that.



Also, our My Favorite Highway boys started their tour with Forever the Sickest Kids last week. I guess some kind of bug's been going around because 3 out of the 4 band members are sick and so is their tour manager. They're still playing though so be sure to go crazy in the crowd and don't catch any germs. Hand sanitizer is your friend and so is SHAMPOO! They just launched a new "Make Your Own Video" lipsync contest where you have to be shampooing your hair. Get your golden mane all clean and shiny, rock out to "Say So," and upload the video as a reply to this one:


Run out to WalMart and buy the biggest bottle of some goooood smelling shampoo. You might need to make quite a few takes haha. Make David Cook and the rest of the boys proud!

Green River Ordinance is also back on the road with David Cook, the American Idol guy, not from MFH haha. Here's what they were for Halloween muahaha monkey and banana.. classic!


If you're in need of some feel-good music, close your eyes and experience what a PARTY IN BARBADOS would be like. Click on this link and listen to Jaicko's cover of Miley's song .. and a JAICKO SONG WAS ON!

Noddin' my head OH YEAH! haha It's always great to have some feel-good-island-getaway music. Download it free here courtesy of Jaicko's twitter: http://www.zshare.net/download/679967206a2eb334/ or listen it to on YouTube .

He's going to be hitting the road on a Westfield mall tour til the New Years so check the dates on his MySpace for all dates


And last, but certainly NOT least, we finally have new projects for

It's about time right? Her "Unplugged" album comes out November 17 (about 2 1/2 weeks). To spread the news join the lifestyle and online projects at the project page. This is your chance to get some brand spankin' new Katy postersand to win an autographed cd+dvd for free! Go ahead, paint your town pink! It's still strawberry season haha

And with that, have a great weekend teamers!