Posts Tagged ‘Popdose Contest’

Yo Ho Ho! Win a “Pirate Radio” CD Soundtrack

Ahoy mateys! Richard Curtis, the pen behind Mr. Bean, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones’s Diary has set sail with Pirate Radio, his second film as director (and his first since 2003’s mother-of-all-romantic comedies Love Actually)—and we have five 2-CD soundtracks to give away.

What’s it all about? Here’s the official synopsis of the loosely fact-based comedy, pirated from Focus Features. It docks on Nov. 13.

Pirate Radio is the high-spirited story of how 8 DJs’ love affair with rock ‘n’ roll changed the world forever. In the 1960s this group of rogue DJs, on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic, played rock records and broke the law all for the love of music. The songs they played united and defined an entire generation and drove the British government crazy. By playing rock ‘n’ roll they were standing up against the British government who did everything in their power to shut them down. The band of rebels is lead by The Count, played by the Academy Award-winning Philip Seymour Hoffman, Quentin the boss of Radio Rock, Gavin the greatest DJ in Britain, Midnight Mark, Doctor Dave, and Young Carl, who comes of age amidst the chaos of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. The film features an unbelievable selection of music including The Beatles, The Stones, Beach Boys, Dusty Springfield, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Smokey Robinson, David Bowie, Otis Redding, and Cat Stevens, just to name a few. The film is laugh out loud funny and speaks to the rock ‘n’ roll rebel in all of us.”

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Popdose Contest: Win the new Leonard Cohen “Live at the Isle of Wight” CD/DVD

Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of WightOn October 20, Sony Legacy released Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of Wight. The CD/DVD package captures the Canadian singer/songwriter in a legendary performance from nearly 40 years ago. Here is the Amazon.com product description:

“Nearly 40 summers ago on August 31, 1970, 35-year-old Leonard Cohen was awakened at 2 a.m. from a nap in his trailer and brought onstage to perform with his band at the third annual Isle Of Wight music festival. The audience of 600,000 was in a fiery and frenzied mood, after turning the festival into a political arena, trampling the fences, setting fire to structures and equipment – and stoked by the most incendiary performance of Jimi Hendrix’s career.

As Cohen followed Hendrix’s set, onlookers and (fellow festival headliners) Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson, Judy Collins and others stood sidestage in awe as the Canadian folksinger-songwriter-poet-novelist quietly tamed the crowd. Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Murray Lerner (From Mao To Mozart, Festival, Message To Love), perfectly captured Cohen’s performance. Likewise, Columbia Records staff A&R producer Teo Macero did a brilliant job of supervising the live audio recording.

This CD/DVD package contains the new, beautiful film documentary by Lerner featuring interviews with fellow festival performers, as well as Cohen’s full performance on CD. All tracks are previously unreleased (sans bits of “Suzanne” which were featured in the documentary Message to Love, also by Lerner). Included are live versions of classic songs from the first two Leonard Cohen LPs: “So Long, Marianne,” “The Stranger Song,” “Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye,” “Suzanne,” “Bird On The Wire,” “You Know Who I Am,” and “The Partisan” as well as spoken word and poetry.”

We would like to offer a copy of this set to one lucky Popdose reader (I wish I was eligible!) The winner will be the first reader to send an e-mail to ken with the correct answer to the following question:

Which well-known singer released the 1987 Leonard Cohen tribute album Famous Blue Raincoat?

Let the games begin.

Zep-Off: Vote for the New Led Zeppelin Singer!

Last week, we here at Popdose unveiled a contest to determine who should replace Robert Plant as the lead singer of Led Zeppelin. We’ve slimmed the choices down to a field of our favorite twenty choices. The winner from last week’s submissions will take home a brand new copy of The Who at Kilburn: 1977. The losers will have to BUY THEIR OWN!  After the jump, submit your vote for the only contest that really matters today.

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Popdose Contest: Name the New Led Zeppelin Singer!

As you’ve surely heard by now, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and Jason Bonham are planning on launching a Led Zeppelin tour and album without Robert Plant, and are “trying out a couple of singers.” They’ve said they aren’t looking for a Plant soundalike, so we thought we’d see if we can’t all put our heads together to come up with a suitably bizarre list of left-field candidates for the job.

We’ll get the ball rolling with three of our favorite choices:

1. Kenny Loggins
2. Clay Aiken
3. Art Garfunkel

Now we want to hear your nominees — and we even have a prize for you: The person who submits our favorite wildly inappropriate fill-in for Robert Plant will receive a brand spanking new copy of The Who at Kilburn: 1977, a DVD release from the Who’s archives that’s reaching shelves on November 18. Follow the link to check out details (and watch a 93-second clip), then help the Led Zep remnants find their new lead singer! You can enter as many times as you like, right here in the comments, and the contest will remain open until we say it’s over. Good luck!