Now you get to find out! The first installment of Leave Your Light On Behind the Scenes is up. Find out who our cover girl is and how she got mixed up with us. Check our videos section. Leave a comment!

Check back soon for the next installment featuring LYLO photographer Eddie Gutierrez.

Cheers,

Jen

Well just check out the website. Find out why Ross is in Africa, when we're filming a new video, and when we'll be in your town next.

Also coming at the end of the week is a little film project on our cover girl for Leave Your Light On, Elizabeth Acle. That's right. Many of you have asked if that was me and the answer is no...yo.

Also up is a new review on the album posted this week on Revolt Media. Still haven't heard the album? On the fence about buying it? May I make a suggestion? Here's the deal.. You can listen to the album in it's entirety on the website! Just go there and click on Listen to the Album. Download some tracks from the album, so you can listen on your iPod for a while. Then to add some fuel to that burning fire buy your copy before July is out! When you buy it this month at any of our retailers we'll send you a Free Aloud T-Shirt. Not a bad deal, eh? Just make sure to email us at aloud@allthingsaloud.com when you've bought the record. Put "I want me free t-shirt" in the subject.

Download savy? iTunes and Napster both carry the album.

Cheers,

Jen

Well now you can have one. Purchase a copy of our album, Leave Your Light On, in the month of July and get a free Aloud T-Shirt. Click here to see what these bad boys look like. Need to listen to more of the record first? Click here to listen to the whole thing.

Where can I get said record? Well you can try CDBaby, iTunes, Napster, Amazon, or Tower Records (Harvard Sq location) to name a few. For a full list of distributer try this. Once you've bought it contact us at aloud@allthingsaloud.com. We'll get your info and send along your shirt.

Ok, off to get some rest for tomorrow show at Bill's Bar.

Cheers,

Jen

P.S. thanks to all you wonderful folk who showed up to Trash Bar last nite. Our eternal thanks to Radio America, Annie Burns, DJ Mojo, that wonderful bartender who went to B.C., and all the other bands. :)

Currently watching:
From Russia with Love

Not quite as exciting as being born on the fourth, but quite a lot of fun to be had.



Not to be missed. Stay after for Radio America. Handsome gents.

Cheers,

Jen

Currently listening to:
The Wee Hours Revue
By Roman Candle

We got some rather fantastic review this week.. check 'em out!

The Northeast Performer (CD Review)

The woman in the striped shirt really wants to get into Room #12. She is pounding on the door, and if that is indeed Jen de la Osa of Aloud, then she had best be let in that room. Her voice on this record is strong enough to possibly bust through the three locks and the door-chains and whatever else may block her way. As part of the one-two vocal punch on Leave Your Light On, de la Osa cuts a strong presence on almost every track. She shares vocal duties with the similarly talented Henry Beguiristain, whose smoothly resonating voice is also capable of rising to powerful heights, despite his normal cruising altitude of calm.

Aloud is a band that is almost impenetrably complicated in its simplicity. They are a part of the new wave of bands that pray not at the altar of greasy garage noise but that of hooky melody. They may even be riding the leading edge, judging by the complete sound of Leave Your Light On.

All signs point to Aloud being a great band: their musical and vocal performances are top-notch and their songwriting skills. It is only after a few flashes of mighty brilliance does it become apparent that Aloud is on the fast track to totally finding themselves as a band. This is never more apparent than in "All I Can Do," a song that features both vocalists working together, building refrains, and finding all the right harmonies, seemingly on the fly. The first half of the track is pleasant enough, but Aloud hits paydirt at the midpoint and never looks back. With assets such as strong writing and equally strong voices, there is no reason to look back, but plenty of reason to keep a torch burning for Leave Your Light On. And open up the damned door, already. (Lemon Merchant)

-C.D. Di Guardia

The Noise (CD Review)

This one is a grower. The first listen left me rather indifferent, but listen number two got my attention, and I was hooked by listen number three. (Im on about number 99 now.) Speaking of hookstheyre all over the place on Leave Your Light On. Some of the tracks here rock, some are slow and poignant (and, yes, poppy), but every single one of them wormed its way into my skull and took up residence. The songs are written by singer/ guitarist Jen de la Osa and singer/ guitarist Henry Beguiristain, and whoever plays the leads has impeccable taste in which notes to play and which ones not to, but it is really the vocals that set this apart. Both Jen and Henry can hold their own, but when they sing together, the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts. As the press kit says, they leave the garage rock in the garage, but I can still smell some motor oil on the floor in Can You Hear Me Now and Late Last Night. Album closer Godspeed is damn near perfect, aside from being too damned short.

Tim Emswiler

The Noise (Live Review)

Aloudmembers of whom have been present since the pub stage setstear up the remainder of the evening with more enthusiasm than the dwindling crowd can cumulatively muster. I know, I know, its a Tuesday... although as they win a few people over certainly someone will accidentally miss that last 69 bus to Harvard or Lechmere. Sans gimmicky uniforms for awhile nowapparently they made the band feel like they were showing up to work and not to rocktheir big, crunchy archtop guitars, tight drumming, and neat driving bass produce a sound not unlike comfort food, which Im starting to crave a little after all the Buds. During one of Henrys vocal parts, Jen steps aside from her mic and sings along, and dammit, she means every word nobody can hear. So do they allfrom back to back-leaning pick-me-up power playing to three part harmonies on two mics, they mean itthey really, really do, closing the night with a cover of Helter Skelter that just screams for high-fives all around.

John O'Hara

A great big cheers to all of them.



-Jen

Currently listening to:
The Graduate (1967 Film)
By Dave Grusin