Contests, Prizes
Hopefully with the long-awaited advent of bona fide summer, everyone can move on to topics of conversation that aren't the weather (it does seem to have become a subject of national concern this year, especially on the East Coast). If you need a conversational topic for this holiday weekend's chats around the barbeque pit, how about all the smokin' records that have come out lately? Two of the very best are Blur's seventh, Think Tank, and Radiohead's sixth, Hail to the Thief. We're helping celebrate the release of those albums with a couple of contests. The Radiohead contest is a giant internet scavenger hunt emceed by Capitol Records, in which Epitonic and countless other websites are participating. The winner gets a round trip for two to see Radiohead anywhere in the continental United States. The Blur contest is less involved; it's a giveaway of sweet Blur schwag in conjunction with Filter Magazine. We encourage you to enter them both. Plus check out a single from the new Blur album on Epitonic and look for a Radiohead track very soon.
Webby Wildness
We didn't do much to publicize it, but actually we won that Webby for Best Radio Site. Feel free to send us flowers, or better yet, cash donations. The People's Choice Award went to CBC Radio 3, which we gotta admit, is a pretty sweet radio site. Best music site went to The Flaming Lips, whose Yoshimi wave seemed pretty much unstoppable until Cat Stevens unleashed his litigious hounds on the band recently. Anyway, feel free to read more about Epitonic's award or about the Webbys in general.
Stop The NPR Hoax
Folks, we at Epitonic want to do our part to stop spam by forming the Stop the NPR Hoax Campaign. You probably know which one we're talking about...it typically begins "On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Next, there's the question of Congressional funding for National Public Radio (NPR), NEA & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS)." See, we love NPR and PBS, and we bet you do too; that's what makes this such a cruel hoax, because it preys on our better intentions. But as anyone who's received it repeatedly over the years knows, signing it is absolutely worthless. In fact it started at the University of Colorado nearly eight years ago. Don't believe it? Google for it. Then tell a friend. Then go get a hot dog. Or a veggie dog. Happy 4th.
