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Just Left Matt & Kim Woodie Awards Rehearsal
Tough to figure out lighting and what happens visually in the song’s bridge and climax, but lighting designer Chris Lande, Set Designer Tom Lenz, and the rest of the Woodies production team just nailed a really powerful way to kick off the show, which is at Roseland Ballroom in about 20 hours. We are putting…
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Winners Of The Woodie Awards Design Contest
The Woodie Awards (if you don’t go gold, you don’t go platinum, you go wood) — the annual college and indie music moment of truth — are next Wednesday at Roseland Ballroom in New York. They air Friday, December 4th on MTV, MTV2, mtvU and Palladia. The Woodies are kinda like the antidote to the…
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Just Took A Picture Of My Woodie
Damn, I swore to never write a headline like that. Shit. Anyway, the Woodie Awards are 8 days away (November 18th at Roseland Ballroom in NYC) and I can finally see the show in my head. We shoot it next Wednesday, then we edit to air on MTV, MTV2, mtvU and hi-def channel Palladia on…
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Design The Graphics For This Year’s Woodie Awards On MTV, MTV2 & mtvU
The Woodie Awards are at Roseland Ballroom in NYC on November 18th. It’s a show for college kids, by college kids. They pick the nominees, they pick the winners, and they put the artists they love most on stage that night to perform. It’s a huge party and a huge moment for indie music, six…
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MTV Announces mtvU Woodie Awards Nominees!
Finally I can post this. Been waiting all day so other blogs could trump me. We just announced the nominees for the 6th annual mtvU Woodie Awards, as chosen by college students nationwide. It’s the best college music of the yea, and it’s an incredible (and incredibly diverse) list of nominees this year. Over the…
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Diplo & Switch’s “Major Lazer” An Early Woodies Fave?
Transactional media in the middle of the new Diplo & Switch music video, “Major Lazer”? Check out how the animation makes way for live action, in which young boys play with action figures you can (not really) “order now!” My guess is they compete for a Woodies nomination this year.
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RECORD COLLECTING FOR GIRLS, By Courtney Smith
Former MTV music snob (in a good way), Courtney Smith’s new book, RECORD COLLECTING FOR GIRLS, comes out today. Why buy it? For starters, Courtney knows her shit. Girl’s got a music library (bigger than your ipod’s) in her head and in her heart, and a trigger finger so intuitive it just knows when to push…
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Ed MacFarlane, Lead Singer of Friendly Fires, How Have You Suddenly Become The Most Searched-For Keyword On SomethingBurning.com?
Seriously. Ed, you’re a cool guy, I like your band, we had fun hangin for about half an hour once after your show. I posted about the near-riot at your show, then we had you at the Woodie Awards, etc. So how come when I check my blog stats it says that people search for…
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Please Support Jamie Tworkowski’s “IMAlive” Initiative, Inspired By “To Write Love On Her Arms”
Today I got to hang out with a new hero of mine, Jamie Tworkowski. You know Jamie, right? He founded TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS, a non-profit movement “dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest…
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Rehearsing In The Truck For Janelle Monae
Here’s Woodies Senior Producer Tracy Hellerud in action as she captains the control room during rehearsals. We were in the middle of working on an effect for Janelle Monae’s voice. In the show, Janelle comes out dressed (and sounding like) she’s from the future, introducing hip-hop artists Clipse, who are then joined by special guests…