So the summer is eternity for you?

Here's your chance to have your voice heard and to score sweet swag to boot! The first Cognitive Frequency giveaway officially starts now!


So I am on the Insound.com mailing list because I like to browse their catalog of merch and see what’s selling hot that week. Insound is based in New York and primarily focuses on the ‘indie rock’ genre. They offer good prices and when there was a problem their staff was super helpful. Because they are relatively small, you get a sense of the staff and I like that personal touch. Plus when you order stuff, you always get tons of free cool stuff, posters, stickers, booklets, it’s a lot of fun.

When they added the option to buy albums from them digitally, I lauded their ‘Save the Album’ campaign, not providing single track download because I very much agree with supporting the fact that an artist took time to arrange an album in a specific manner. It’s part of their work too. A lot of famous bands helped make videos to support it to, including Colin Meloy.

So in a nutshell, I am a big fan of Insound. Check them out sometime.

Anyways, like I was saying, I got an email from them earlier this week and was browsing their site, when I came across their 2008 calendar. For one cent. Even though it is now March, making a sixth of the calendar kinda pointless, I couldn’t pass it up. In fact I bought the max limit of three. So I could start what would hopefully become a trend here at Cognitive Frequency: contests!

This beautiful 6” calendar not only features an awesome band each month (like Rilo Kiley, Hot Hot Heat, Minus the Bear, and Marnie Stern) but also marks important birthdays and milestone dates in ‘Indie rock’ history. Plus, each month feature a discount code, and a Guns N’ Roses fun fact! Everyone needs a little Axl now and then.

So I am giving the first of these beautiful calendars away to one lucky reader here! Here’s how to enter: Just post your name and three albums you think I should review. I’ll pick a winner, at random, sometime on Sunday the 9th who will win a calendar and maybe some other goodies with it (in the spirit of freebies) plus my very first album will be off of the list. Because this is also in part a stunt to help promote our blog, tell your friends to enter this contest and increase your own chances to win!

The next contest, which should go up tomorrow, will be a little more involved. I just need to work out some of the details.

In other news, I sadly had to miss the National playing at NYU but if anyone out there saw it and wants to write a guest review of the concert, please contact me.