...you probably think it's Jagged Spiral, but the City Pages doesn't. They think it's a band called Knife World.

Readers Choice was Vampire Hands. I love Vampire Hands myself, they put on a good live show with lots of energy.

However, neither of these bands really strike me as "Rock". Neither does Jagged Spiral for that matter. Maybe its just me, but they sound too 'indie' and not enough 'rock'. Seems there are better selections for best Rock band.

Check out The Bullets. Or Tonnage. Or Caultron Girl. Or Six-Six-Crush. Any one of these bands would Rock the piss out of Knife World AND Vampire Hands AND Jagged Spiral, and they'd do it with two guitar strings tied behind their back.

Gay Witch Abortion would probably get my vote for best local Rock band. Two absolute madmen with savage tone, who don't really need bass or vocals to rock the planet. Catch one of their live shows if you get a chance, before their music is banned for being "Too Rock".

Thanks to everyone who voted for us in the City Pages annual "Best Of".

-Z

Labels: As the Jagged Spirals, Contest

Click on the graphic to go to the City Pages "Best of the Twin Cities - 2009" Poll! Here's your chance to vote for all your most loved and hated things in the twin cities.

Make sure to enter "Jagged Spiral" for number 85 - Best Rock Band!

Votes must be received by March 30, 2009 and results will be revealed in City Pages' "Best of the Twin Cities 2009."

Cheers,
-Z

Labels: Call to Action, Contest

The website http://www.mnartists.org/ has a contest called MNSpin, where each week, three winning songs are picked by members of the local music industry.

I set up a profile on mnartists.org a while ago, and uploaded the tracks "Monsters", "Not Enough Bullets" and "Let It Out". I entered the tracks in the MNSpin contest sometime early in 2008.

Seems that Dana Raidt, the music director for Radio K has great taste in music, because she chose "Not Enough Bullets" as one of the three winning songs for this week's MNSpin contest!

Here's more info about the contest:

Winning tracks from each contest are selected by panelists from within the music industry. Each week a three-song playlist from the winning submissions will be featured on the mnartists.org and Summit Brewery web sites. Quarterly listening parties at area venues will take place and a compilation CD of music from the yearlong contest will be produced.

Submission Specifications and Entry Process Any and all types of music accepted; only three tracks per musician will be reviewed for possible inclusion on the CD. Tracks can be uploaded to artist pages on mnartists.org, and a URL of the page can then be e-mailed to mnspin@mnartists.org. Submissions must come from mnartists.org members.

mnSPIN is sponsored by mnartists.org, Summit Brewery, Springboard for the Arts, and McNally Smith College of Music.


We'll be sure to keep you up to date when "Not Enough Bullets" will premier with the other MN Spin winners at a local listening party, and we'll keep our fingers crossed that we will get picked for inclusion on the yearly CD compilation...although it is quite difficult to play bass with my fingers crossed...

-Zero

Labels: Contest, Jagged Press

While we didn't get into the 'winning circle' of the top 15 bands, we got awfully close. Jagged Spiral peaked around 18th place, and ended up in 28th place out of the 458 bands that participated. We're actually pretty excited about making it to the top 6 percent! Thanks to everyone who helped us out and voted for Jagged Spiral through what is possibly the most clumsy music-user-interface known to man (right next to the 8-track tape) We certainly couldn't have made it that far without your help, and we appreciate it.

If you hear of other music contests, make sure to let us know...

-Z

Labels: Contest

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, the voting has reopened at Alpine's Rock the Dash constest. All the song votes have been reset, and the contest has basically started over. Of course, this has given more bands a chance to enter, which makes it tougher for us to win. But listening to the awful songs currently in the lead, I'd say we still have a chance! Don't let the sucky songs win! Go over to www.rockthedash.com and vote for both our songs "Not Enough Bullets" and "Let It Out" every day until the end of this month!

Labels: Call to Action, Contest

Instead of getting ready to release the list of winners from Alpine's Rock the Dash contest, they sent out an e-mail saying the contest has been suspended due to voting system tampering, and all votes will be reset to nil. Voting will start over on April 1, 2008 and continue until 30 April.

This was not unexpected.

I certainly wasn't going to tell you, but I know some of you must have figured out how to 'cheat' the system, and vote more than once per day. It's as simple as clearing your browser cache (more specifically, your cookies) and you could vote as many times as you liked. It became obvious when bands were shooting to the top of the list in no time at all.

My hope was that *those* votes would simply be removed from the contest once Alpine figured out WTF, and Jagged Spiral would rocket to the top (becuse of the honesty and integrety of our fans). Unfortunately, Alpine decided to implement a "more secure" online voting system, and start over.

So we're going to need your help again.

Yes, the interface blows. Yes, it sucks to scroll down to the "J"s to get to Jagged Spiral. No, you can't go to the "Albums" list, because there isn't one! I'm starting to think Colin is better off using the portable CD player in his car.

But, thanks to all your help, both Jagged Spiral songs "Let It Out" and "Not Enough Bullets" crawled up the charts, past hundreds of other songs, to end up in 60th and 61st place after three weeks!

Please visit www.rockthedash.com every day that you can (from every computer you can) throughout the month of April, and help push Jagged Spiral to the top 10! If Jagged Spiral wins one of the prizes, we promise to sell it on craigslist, and use the $$$ to buy Colin a nice car stereo system!

Thanks for your support, and keep voting!

-Zero

Labels: Call to Action, Contest

A Vote for Jagged Spiral is a vote for an Alpine Stereo System for Colin's Truck! Honestly, the man has a portable CD player connected via a cassette-tape-adapter-thingy! What's that? You haven't heard of cassette tape? Let's just say, he could use a new EX-10 car music system from Alpine.

Fortunately, Alpine has agreed to give Colin a brand-spanking-new EX-10! FOR FREE! Well, not exactly free, he just needs you to click on the link below, which will take you to Alpine's website showcasing their new gear, then cast your vote for either of your favorite Jagged Spiral songs: "Let It Out" or "Not Enough Bullets". Hey, vote for both! Come back and vote every day until the end of May! If Jagged Spiral is in the top 5, BAM! Colin has a new car stereo, and our weekly trips to Chipole can be uninterrupted by CD disk changes!

Labels: Call to Action, Contest