Unzipped » Events http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped Not your average music blog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:39:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Congratulations to our Battle of the Bands winners, Hotfox! http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2012/02/01/congratulations-to-our-winners-hotfox/ http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2012/02/01/congratulations-to-our-winners-hotfox/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:40:15 +0000 mattatjansport http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/?p=2446 Our friend Liza took this photo.

We’re proud to announce that Bloomington, Indiana based rockers Hotfox are the winners of our 4th annual Battle of the Bands competition!

The guys were picked out of over 800 artists to enter the second round of the contest in which they competed against 50 other acts in a public voting period. At the end of the public voting period, Hotfox moved on to the final round by being voted into the top 10 artists. From the top 10, a panel of judges from JanSport and Sonicbids hand selected Hotfox as their favorite.

The guys will be heading down to SXSW to play the Official Sonicbids Showcase presented by JanSport on Friday, March 16th. In the meantime, check out “Mountain Tiger” from the band’s debut LP, You, Me, and the Monster, released last summer on Roaring Colonel Records (which happens to be the record label arm of My Old Kentucky Blog.) The disc was produced by Tyler Watkins of Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s and the band is currently working with Watkins on a follow up.

mountain tiger by hotfoxtheband

Check back tomorrow for an exclusive Q&A with Hotfox frontman Oliver Hopkins!

]]> http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2012/02/01/congratulations-to-our-winners-hotfox/feed/ 0 The moment you’ve all been waiting for…. http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2012/01/31/the-moment-youve-all-been-waiting-for/ http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2012/01/31/the-moment-youve-all-been-waiting-for/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:55:23 +0000 mattatjansport http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/?p=2444 Is tomorrow! Check back because we’ll be announcing the winner of our 4th annual JanSport Battle of the Bands! The winner will get a free trip down to Austin, TX for this year’s SXSW music festival where they’ll perform at the official Sonicbids Showcase, presented by JanSport.

]]> http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2012/01/31/the-moment-youve-all-been-waiting-for/feed/ 0 Coachella Tickets On Sale Today! http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2012/01/13/coachella-tickets-on-sale-today/ http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2012/01/13/coachella-tickets-on-sale-today/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:54:56 +0000 mattatjansport http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/?p=2396 Tickets are on sale now through Coachella’s site and if the past years are any indication, they’ll go quick.

If you don’t manage to get one, don’t worry, there’s always other options…

]]> http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2012/01/13/coachella-tickets-on-sale-today/feed/ 0 Coachella Announced! http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2012/01/10/coachella-announced/ http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2012/01/10/coachella-announced/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:02:44 +0000 mattatjansport http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/?p=2390 Coachella announced their 2012 lineup today and we couldn’t be more excited. Crowd favorites headliners like The Black Keys, Radiohead, and Dr. Dre are sure to please but it’s the artists in the smaller print that get us more excited for this years festival. We can’t wait for sets from M83 (one of our favorite albums from this past year), tUnE yArDs, Bonfire Sessions alumn’s the Black Angels, Andrew Bird, Cat Power, and most of all a long awaited reunion of one of the most intense bands of all time: At the Drive In.

Let the countdown begin!