Friday, June 11, 2010

Runner Runner "So Obvious" Video Premiere

We finally got the new premiere of the second version to "So Obvious" by past EdgeMusic winner and current David Letterman client, Runner Runner. Here's what the first version was like.



Now, here's the new version. Compare them both while you watch.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Jason Derulo "Ridin' Solo" Music Video Premiere



After a few delays and mix-ups with the premiere, it's finally here! This ought to be in the top 10 this summer.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

The Last Of Our Results From Week 116

We conclude the results from last week's Bamboozle 2010 contest on this post by revealing the winner from Part 7. Earlier today, we announced that OK Go, Cara Salimando, Good Old War, Weezer, Steel Train, and Paper Tongues are the first six winners, and now, we have one more winner to announce for this weeks. The last poll came down between Kicking Daisies, Motion City Soundtrack, Francis and the Lights, Artist vs. Poet, and Young the Giant. This poll pulled in 51 votes, with only three artists receiving votes and one vote separates the top two in a tight race. Winning by almost half of the vote...

KICKING DAISIES ARE THE LAST OF THIS WEEK'S SEVEN EDGEMUSIC ARTISTS OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Kicking Daisies on the win, and thanks to everyone who voted all throughout last week. OK Go, Cara Salimando, Good Old War, Weezer, Steel Train, Paper Tongues, and our youngest EdgeMusic winner to date, Kicking Daisies, will all be featured on EdgeMusic starting today and ending on Saturday, May 8th. The new poll will be posted up shortly. Kicking Daisies performed yesterday at the Bamboozle Festival.

The Sixth Of Our Results From Week 116

We continue our results from last week's Bamboozle 2010 contest by revealing the winner from Part 6. So far, we announced that OK Go, Cara Salimando, Good Old War, Weezer, and Steel Train are our first five winners, and now we will announce the sixth winner for the week, which came down between Fun., MGMT, Paper Tongues, Violens, and Great Big Planes. This poll pulled in 43 votes, with only three artists receiving votes and three votes separating first place from third place. Winning with only 34% of the vote...

PAPER TONGUES ARE THE SIXTH OF OUR SEVEN EDGEMUSIC ARTISTS OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Paper Tongues on the win, and thanks to everyone who voted in this poll. Paper Tongues, along with OK Go, Cara Salimando, Good Old War, Weezer, and Steel Train will be featured on EdgeMusic starting now and ending on Saturday, May 8th. The last winner will be revealed shortly. Paper Tongues performed yesterday at the Bamboozle Festival.

The Fifth Of Our Results From Week 116

We continue our results from last week's Bamboozle 2010 contest by revealing the winner from Part 5. So far, we announced that OK Go, Cara Salimando, Good Old War, and Weezer are our first four winners, and now we will announce the fifth winner for the week, which came down between My Favorite Highway, The Summer Set, Steel Train, The Morning Of, and Winston Audio. This poll pulled in 57 votes, with only two artists receiving votes and one vote separating each other. Winning with only 73% of the vote...

STEEL TRAIN IS THE FIFTH OF OUR SEVEN EDGEMUSIC ARTISTS OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Steel Train on the win, and thanks to everyone who voted in this poll. Steel Train , along with OK Go, Cara Salimando, Good Old War, and Weezer, will be featured on EdgeMusic starting now and ending on Saturday, May 8th. The other three winners will be revealed in the coming hours. Steel Train will perform at The Bamboozle Festival on the Skate and Surf Stage in less than 15 minutes.

The Fourth Of Our Results From Week 116

We continue our results from last week's Bamboozle 2010 contest by revealing the winner from Part 4. So far, we announced that OK Go, Cara Salimando, and Good Old War are our first three winners, and now we will announce the fourth winner for the week, which came down between Gabriel the Marine, Weezer, Relient K, Lovedrug, and Twin Atlantic. This poll pulled in 13 votes, with only two artists receiving votes and one vote separating each other. Winning with only 53% of the vote...

WEEZER IS THE FOURTH OF OUR SEVEN EDGEMUSIC ARTISTS OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Weezer on the win, and thanks to everyone who voted in this poll. Weezer, along with OK Go, Cara Salimando, and Good Old War, will be featured on EdgeMusic starting now and ending on Saturday, May 8th. The other three winners will be revealed in the coming hours. Weezer will perform later today at the Bamboozle Festival on the Sony Bloggie Stage from 9 PM to 10:15 PM, closing out the festival.

Final Results:

WEEZER - 53.84%

Gabriel the Marine - 46.16%

PS, we apologize to Gabriel the Marine for spelling their name wrong in the poll, which was spelled as "Gabriel the Maine".

The Third Of Our Results From Week 116

We continue our results from last week's Bamboozle 2010 contest in this post by revealing our winner from Part 3. So far, OK Go and Cara Salimando have been announced as the first two winners. Now we will reveal our third winner for the week, which came down between Allstar Weekend, Moving Mountains, Good Old War, Honor Bright, and Say Anything. This poll pulled in 366 votes, which is like one vote per day during a leap year. Winning by only 82% of the vote...

GOOD OLD WAR IS THE THIRD OF OUR SEVEN EDGEMUSIC ARTISTS OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Good Old War on the win, and thanks to everyone who voted in this poll. Good Old War, along with OK GO and Cara Salimando, will be featured on EdgeMusic starting now and ending on Saturday, May 8th. The other winners will be announced in the coming hours. Good Old War will perform later today at the Bamboozle Festival on the Zumiez North Stage at 3:50 EDT.

Final Results:

GOOD OLD WAR - 82.24%

Allstar Weekend - 10.93%

Say Anything - 3.83%

Moving Mountains - 1.91%

Honor Bright - 1.09%

The Second Of Our Results From Week 116

We continue our results from last week's Bamboozle 2010 contest in this post by revealing the winner from Part 2. About an hour ago, we announced that OK Go was the first of our winners by 54% out of over 800 votes. Now, we will announce our second winner for the week. This poll came down between VersaEmerge, Cara Salimando, The Pretty Reckless, The Joy Formidable, and The Letter Black. This poll pulled in 169 votes over the past seven days. Winning by only 78% of the vote...

CARA SALIMANDO IS THE SECOND OF OUR SEVEN EDGEMUSIC ARTISTS OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Cara on the win, and thanks to everyone who voted in this poll. Cara Salimando, along with OK Go, will be featured on EdgeMusic starting now and ending on Saturday, May 8th. The other five winners will be announced later today. Cara will take the stage at the Bamboozle Festival later today.

Final Results:

CARA SALIMANDO - 78.10%

The First Of Our Results From Week 116

Okay, all of our seven polls have been closed, and every vote has been counted. It's time to start revealing who won in our Bamboozle 2010 contest.

We are going to start out announcing Part 1 of our seven polls. Then during the day, we will reveal the other six and how everyone else finished. This first poll was between Secret Secret Dino Club, Kevin Devine, The Dig, Eye Alaska, and OK Go. This poll pulled in the most votes out of our seven polls, with over 800 votes cast. The top two have been going up neck and neck the whole time, and in the end, almost 100 votes separate the top two. Winning by only 54% of the vote...

OK GO IS THE FIRST OF OUR SEVEN EDGEMUSIC ARTISTS OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to OK Go on winning this poll, and thanks to all the fans who voted for them and our four other nominees. OK Go will be featured on EdgeMusic starting now and ending on Saturday, May 8th. The other six winners will be announced in the coming hours. OK Go will be performing at The Bamboozle Festival later today.

Final Results:

OK GO - 54.63%

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Dave Letterman Makes His Recovery From The Extortion Scandal

CBS's late-night icon Dave Letterman has been the host of "The Late Show With David Letterman" since 1993, and he has become one of the most famous and funniest comedians in the late-night TV circuit. Now it has been announced that he is starting to branch out to music. No, he's not singing a duet with Barbra Streisand. He's founded his own record label, Clear Entertainment/C.E. Music. The label is a subsidiary of his production company, Worldwide Pants, Inc. and has already announced the label's first signee: from Huntington Beach, California, it's our very own Runner Runner (April 26 - May 3, 2009). The news was announced earlier today that Runner Runner became the first act ever signed to the label, and their first album will be released this summer with a distribution deal in partnership with Capitol and MRV. Dave made a great decision with this one, and I always knew he was better than greedtastic Jay Leno.

Runner Runner consists of frontman Ryan Ogren, guitarists Nick Bailey and Peter Munters, bassist Jon Berry, and drummer James Ulrich. Their first single is "So Obvious", which has racked up over eight million plays on MySpace already. They are currently touring as a supporting act for Amber Pacific and fellow EdgeMusic alum, Cartel. Tour dates and the song "So Obvious" are listed below.

Runner Runner's MySpace page




Runner Runner tour dates:
5/20, Portland, OR (Satyricon)*
5/22, Seattke, WA (El Corazon)*
5/23, Pocatello, ID (Icon)*
5/24, Salt Lake City, UT (Kilby Court)*
5/25, Colorado Springs, CO (Black Sheep)*
5/26, Salina, KS (The Blue Goat)*
5/29,Lake Charles, LA (Luna Bar & Grill)*
5/30, New Orleans, LA (The Parish @ House of Blues)*
5/31, Wichita Falls, TX (The Hangar)**
6/2, St. Louis, MO (Old Rock House)**
6/3, Poplar Grove, IL (Chubby Rain - House of Tunes)**
6/6, Las Vegas, NV (Wasted Space @ Hard Rock Hotel)*
6/8, Anaheim, CA (Chain Reaction)*
6/9, Ramona, CA (Ramona Mainstage)*
6/11, Temecula, CA (The Vault)*

* with Amber Pacific
** with Cartel

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Justin Bieber Debuts At #1 On Billboard 200

Justin Bieber truly delivered us an EDGEMUSIC victory today.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

This Week's Poll Was Redone Because We Got A Nominee's Name Wrong

Well, you've been reading our Twitter updates about how we have been apologizing for an error we made. It was difficult to explain ourselves completely in one update, especially since you cannot go over 140 characters, so here's the full explanation.

We made a poll for this week's contest, and we had 5 nominees. So after it was created, we started sending out notifications to everyone. When we tried to notify one of the nominees, we realized that the band we were looking for was called Light This City. For some reason, we entered in Sound The City, which was the name of another band that did not live in the state that we were focusing on this week. The first link that we sent out was http://www.wishafriend.com/poll/101796/ for the first version of the poll. When we realized the problem, we had to go back and remake the poll with the right names of our nominees. The new and correct poll link is http://www.wishafriend.com/poll/101797/. The first one had already pulled in 4 votes because we notified the first two nominees, which were spelled correctly. However, we didn't reset the vote count despite having to do a new poll. When we take a look at the results from the revised poll, we will transfer in the votes from the first poll. Whenever we make an error in a poll, we always redo it and resend our notices back out to everyone, so we try not to make a big deal out of it. This was just an error that would have mislead a fan to the wrong nominee.

By the way, here's the full poll up below here.

EdgeMusic Artist of the Week Poll (Week 113)

This Week's Theme: The Connecticut Connection

Who should be the EdgeMusic Artist of the Week from April 4 - 11?
Michael Bolton
Signal the Escape
Light This City
To Write A Riot
Show Me The Skyline

View Results

Myspace polls

Week 112 Results

Okay, the poll has been closed, and the results have been tallied. It's time to reveal who won last week's contest.

Last week, 48 votes were cast. Winning by only five-sixteenths of the vote...

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS ARE THE NEW EDGEMUSIC ARTIST OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Stone Temple Pilots on the win, and thanks to everyone who voted. STP will be featured on EdgeMusic starting now and ending on Saturday, April 3rd. The new poll will be up shortly.

Final Results:

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS - 56.25%

Everclear - 27.08%

Tonic - 16.67%

Adelitas Way - 0%

Bareaking Benjamin - 0%

Friday, March 26, 2010

Cartel Supporting We The Kings On Tour This Spring

We always love whenever former EdgeMusic winners go out on tour together, because there are so many reasons for us to be excited about a concert. We can go on for hours about past tours that featured more than one EdgeMusic alum, but today, we will talk about the latest tour announced. Cartel is set to play as opening act for We The Kings for 15 dates this spring. It begins April 11th at Rocketown in Nashville, Tennessee and ends May 8th at Rockford Park in Wilmington, Delaware. For more information on how to get tickets for any of the concerts, go to Cartel's official website.

Monday, March 15, 2010

The Second Of Our Results From Week 110

Today is Monday, March 15th, and it's time to announce another winner from last week's SXSW 2010 contest. We ran seven polls last week looking for one winner from each poll. Each winner will be announced every day of the week. Yesterday, we announced that Robert Francis was our first winner of the week, and now, we will announce our second winner.

This matchup was between Spoon, Frightened Rabbits, The Forecast, Anya Marina, and The 88. In this poll, only 80 votes were cast. Winning by a unanimous vote...

FRIGHTENED RABBITS ARE THE SECOND OF THIS WEEK'S SEVEN EDGEMUSIC ARTISTS OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday, March 14, 2010

The First Of Our Results From Week 110

Okay, all the polls have been closed, and all the votes have been counted. We're going to start revealing the results from all the SXSW 2010 polls that were run last week.

We're going to start by revealing one winner each day of the week. The first poll that was published will be revealed today. This one was between Dexter Freebish, Alphabeat, Robert Francis, The Henry Clay People, and A Sunny Day in Glasgow. This poll pulled in 103 votes. Winning by over 85% of the votes...

ROBERT FRANCIS IS THE FIRST OF THIS WEEK'S SEVEN EDGEMUSIC ARTISTS OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Robert Francis on the win, and thanks to everyone who voted on this poll. Robert Francis will be the first featured winner this week, starting today. The new poll will be up later today, and the rest of the winners will be announced later this week.

Final Results:

ROBERT FRANCIS - 86.41%

Alphabeat - 8.74%

A Sunny Day in Glasgow - 4.85%

Dexter Freebish - 0%

The Henry Clay People - 0%

Monday, February 22, 2010

We The Kings w/ Demi Lovato "We'll Be A Dream" Live from House of Blues Sunset Strip



Well done, you two.

Credit to timeiswastingus for the video.

Music Celebrities say Go Get Jason Derulo's Album!



This week's EdgeMusic Artist of the Week, Jason Derulo, will be releasing his self-titled debut album next Tuesday. The album features the hits "In My Head" and "Whatchu Say". Jason made a YouTube video to promote the album by getting a bunch of fellow musicians asking you to buy the album when it comes out. He got some great people to be in the video (except for Sean Kingston). The video features Jordin Sparks, Isaac Slade from the Fray, and Jay Sean to name a few. He even got previous EdgeMusic winners Kris Allen and Martin Johnson, lead singer of Boys Like Girls, to promote his album as well.

I certainly will be buying the album. I already pre-ordered it on iTunes. You can pre-order it right now for $7.99, and you'll also get a bonus track with it.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Week 107 Results

Okay, the poll has been closed, and the votes have been counted. It's time to reveal who won last week's contest.

Last week, 34 votes were cast. Winning by only 82% of the vote...

JASON DERULO IS OUR FIRST EVER AFRICAN-AMERICAN EDGEMUSIC ARTIST OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Jason Derulo on the win, and thanks to everyone who voted. Jason will be featured on EdgeMusic starting now and ending on Saturday February 27th. The new poll will be up shortly.

Final Results:

JASON DERULO - 82.35%

The Falling Alarm - 8.82%

VersaEmerge - 8.82%

Stages and Stereos - 0%

Dashboard Confessional - 0%

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Week 106 Results

Okay, the poll has been closed, and the votes have been counted. It's time to reveal who won last week's contest.

Last week, 86 votes were cast. Winning by only 58% of the vote...

CREED IS THE NEW EDGEMUSIC ARTIST OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Creed on the win, and thanks to everyone who voted. Creed will be featured on EdgeMusic starting now and ending on Saturday, February 20th. The new poll will be up shortly.

Final Results:

CREED - 58.14%

Company of Thieves - 17.44%

Emily Osment - 16.28%

Stars of Track and Field - 8.14%

Thriving Ivory - 0%

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Week 105 Results

Okay, the poll has been closed, and the votes have been counted. It's time to reveal who won last week's contest.

Last week, 39 votes were cast. Winning by almost 59% of the vote...

IT'S LIKE LOVE IS THE NEW EDGEMUSIC ARTIST OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to It's Like Love on the win, and thanks to everyone who voted. It's Like Love will be featured on EdgeMusic starting now and ending on Saturday, February 13th. The new poll will be up shortly.

Final Results:

IT'S LIKE LOVE - 58.97%

Good With Grenades - 20.21%

The Summer Set - 7.69%

Goodnight Darling - 5.13%

A Change of Pace - 0%

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Week 104 Results

Okay, the poll has been closed, and the votes have been counted. it's time to reveal who won last week's contest.

Last week, 42 votes had been cast. Winning by only 45% of the vote...

PARACHUTE IS THE NEW EDGEMUSIC ARTIST OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Parachute on the win, and thanks to everyone who voted. Parachute will be featured on EdgeMusic starting now and ending on Saturday, February 6th. The new poll will be up shortly.

Final Results:

PARACHUTE - 45.24%

Dashboard Confessional - 30.95%

Action Item - 11.90%

Jack's Mannequin - 11.90%

Holiday Parade - 0%