joel rakes http://www.joelrakes.com joel rakes - a sudden change in the atmosphere Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:37:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en free christmas music + my cd on sale http://www.joelrakes.com/2008/12/02/free-christmas-music-my-cd-on-sale/ http://www.joelrakes.com/2008/12/02/free-christmas-music-my-cd-on-sale/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:46:51 +0000 joel http://www.joelrakes.com/?p=136 dear friends,
sorry to go all infomercial on you here… but i have a few exciting holiday related items i’d like to share with you.

  • my cd is on sale for $6.99 until the end of 2008! this holiday sale makes the real physical copy of the cd only 6 cents more expensive than itunes. (might i add, the physical copy has beautiful hand painted artwork all over the booklet… well worth the 6 cents!)
     
  • need some gift ideas? why not be awesome and share my music with your people this holiday season? i couldn’t have made it any easier for you… right now if you buy three cds, you get a 4th one for FREE! 4 cds for only $20.99! (at normal prices that would have cost you about $36… so you do the math, you’re saving $15!)
     
  • it’s that time of year again… i’m dropping my third annual free christmas ep: festive.mood.inducing.music | volume 3|

    each sunday night @ 9pm leading up to christmas i will post a free christmas recording for your listening pleasure (you can stream or download a mp3). in addition to the new christmas ep, i put up the christmas ep’s from 2006 & 2007 as well for free download… so there’s an additional 10 christmas recordings you can snag!
     

that’s it. thank you for your support.
 
-joel(er)     

 

]]> http://www.joelrakes.com/2008/12/02/free-christmas-music-my-cd-on-sale/feed/ beta hifi festival 2nd place http://www.joelrakes.com/2008/09/30/beta-hifi-festival-2nd-place/ http://www.joelrakes.com/2008/09/30/beta-hifi-festival-2nd-place/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:33:12 +0000 joel http://www.joelrakes.com/?p=80 i competed in the beta hifi festival at world cafe live in philly back in august along with 29 other bands. i ended up winning my first showdown night and went to the finals and got 2nd place overall! i won a good amount of free studio time at range recording studios that i am looking forward to using next year on a new CD.

here are some photos from the event and a blog entry with more details if you’re interested. thanks to those who came out to support me!

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this is the perfect opportunity to pick up the album if you haven’t had a chance yet, or to tell your buddy to download it. also, if you feel compelled to do so, I’d really appreciate it if you left a review of the album in iTunes. don’t forget for only a couple bucks more, you can get the actual physical CD with the fancy album artwork as well in the store.

click here to launch my album in the iTunes music store.

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