Win The Entire Wooden Sky Back Catalogue (CD, Vinyl + Tank Top)

The Wooden Sky's fantastic new album Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun is out today, and to celebrate we have one hell of a giveaway!  The band stopped by the Kitchen Sessions house last November for a memorable show - but in their rush to get back to their Canadian homeland, they forgot to pack up their merch table.  Seriously, they left one of everything:

If I Don't Come Home, You'll Know I'm Gone (CD+Vinyl)
The Wooden Sky (CD+Vinyl)
Bedrooms + Backstreets EP (CD)
City of Light EP (Cassette)
Tank Top (Mens Large)

Steve offered to mail it all back to them, but they graciously suggested that he give it all away to fans - that's where you come in.  One lucky winner is going to win the ENTIRE package. 

Click here to enter

Also, do yourself a favor and get the band's new album - it is fantastic.  You won't be sorry.  Listen to a stream here.

Ticket giveaway: The Barr Brothers @ Cafe 939 Boston MA 12/1

The Barr Brothers' self-titled debut was one of my most anticipated releases of the year, and it's done anything but disappoint since it's release in September.  Lush, textured folk that finds the sweet spot between ambition and restraint.  It's one of my favorite records of the year.  I missed them the last couple times they were in town, so I'm especially excited to see The Barr Brothers live for the first time this Thursday at Cafe 939.  Jocie Adams of The Low Anthem (who performs on The Barr Brothers' album) will support - just another reason you don't want to miss it.  In what's getting to be a weekly thing here on VV (not a bad trend!) we're giving away tickets!  One lucky winner and a guest will get their name on the guestlist - here's how you enter:

1. Go to the Visible Voice Facebook page and click "Like"

2. Write the name of your favorite Barr Brothers song on our FB wall

That's it!  We'll pick a winner at random tomorrow.  Here are full details and ticket info for anyone who isn't feeling lucky:

The Barr Brothers
Jocie Adams (The Low Anthem)
Cafe 939 - 939 Boylston Street,  Boston MA
8:00pm  |  $12 BUY TICKETS

Here's the creep-tastic video for "Beggar In The Morning" - easily one of the best folk songs of the year:

David Wax Museum video premiere + ticket giveaway

Earlier this year, VV favorites David Wax Museum released Everything Is Saved, their third full-length and an album I called "a lovingly-crafted masterpiece".  For the record, I stand by that statement and it's still one of my favorite albums of the year.  To celebrate it's release the band threw one hell of a party at Oberon in Harvard Square - complete with trapeze artists, confetti, scorpion-shaped bass guitars and splintered jawbones (donkey jawbones, that is).  Since then they've toured pretty much non-stop, criss-crossing the US and Canada from Atlanta to Winnipeg to San Diego and pretty much everywhere in between. And, well, when you spend that much time on the road this is what happens...

It can't be a good sign when donkey jawbones start talking to you...!  Luckily Alec Spiegelman stepped up, the band marched on and now we get to look forward to their triumphant return to Boston for only their second local show since the CD release back in February.  The show is December 3 at Arlington Street Church in Boston, and in these beautiful surroundings it's guaranteed to be quite the homecoming.  Visible Voice is giving away tickets to one lucky winner (and a guest), here's how you enter:

1. Go to the Visible Voice Facebook page and click "Like"

2. Write the name of your favorite David Wax Museum song on our FB wall

We'll pick a lucky winner at random on Wednesday November 23!  Good luck!  And if you want to skip all the fun and games and lock down your spot now, you can still buy tickets here.

Ticket giveaway: Musikanto @ Brighton Music Hall Sat 11.12

One of my inspirations for starting Visible Voice was HearYa - a fantastic Chicago-based music blog that offers album reviews and some truly killer live studio sessions.  One of the many discoveries I credit to HearYa is Musikanto - a Chicago-based songwriter whose breezy, folk sound rollicks and rolls like a lazy autumn drive.  If you follow this site, I guarantee you will dig Musikanto.

Musikanto - Every Which Way

We're GIVING AWAY two pairs of tickets to see Musikanto at Brighton Music Hall with Boston's Coyote Kolb and Truth & Salvage Co. this Saturday 11/12.  This is a total no-brainer.  So, if you want in, here's how you enter:

1. Go to the Visible Voice Facebook page and click "Like"

2. Post something along the lines of "I want the Musikanto tickets!!" on our wall

3. That's it!  I'll pick two winners on Friday - each winner gets a spot on the guest list (including a +1).

The show is at Brighton Music Hall, this Saturday November 12.  Doors 8pm / Show 9pm.  Good luck!