That's right. Two more days to vote for us in the 2006 Noise Poll. If you haven't heard we've received 5 nominations this year. Voting ends December 29, so you've still got time to give a dog a bone. Here's what we're up for:

#3. CD
Aloud - Leave Your Light On

#6. Vocalist (F)
Jen de la Osa (Aloud)

#7. Guitarist
Henry Beguiristain (Aloud)

#17. Record Label
Lemon Merchant

... that's our self-owned record label

#18. Producer
Hugh Wyman

Here's that link: http://www.thenoise-boston.com/poll2006.asp

The New Year is almost upon us. I'm delighted myself to say goodbye to 2006. Some years simply feel like a fling. Onward.

On a different note, you should all go listen to a copy of James Brown's Live At The Apollo. A true soul brother. It's absolutely sad to have him gone.

Cheers,

Jen

Currently listening to:
Live at the Apollo
By James Brown

The four of us would like to extend our warmest wishes for the holiday season to you and yours. We'll be working our collective creative noggins this month on some new material while the whole world drinks egg nog. We'd also like to say THANK YOU for everyone who came out to a show, bought a CD, or dropped us a line! It's been a good year.

We're happy to announce that long time friend/nyc booker Annie Burns (of annie*rock) is now managing us. Be on the lookout next year for all the new Aloud related activity the five of us have been planning. In the meantime, please take feel free to listen to our album in it's entirety for FREE here.

Leave Your Light On makes for a great stocking stuffer! And if you've got some spare time, we've been nominated in five categories in this year's Noise Poll. Here's a rundown of what we're nominated for:

#3. CD
Aloud - Leave Your Light On

#6. Vocalist (F)
Jen de la Osa (Aloud)

#7. Guitarist
Henry Beguiristain (Aloud)

#17. Record Label
Lemon Merchant

#18. Producer
Hugh Wyman

http://www.thenoise-boston.com/poll2006.asp

Happy Holidays!

Jen, Henry, Ross, and Roy

Currently listening to:
Boy
by U2

Rolling Stone is having a competition this week. They're listening to one song from bands on myspace. We've submitted 'Beaches'. They'll announce who gets to be featured on RollingStone.com this Friday! BUT they want to hear from you! They want to hear who YOU think deserves the recognition!

Tell them you want RollingStone.com to feature Aloud!

Thanks for everything folks!

Jen

Just a little reminder that we've been nominated for a few things in this year's Noise Poll. Please vote for us! The poll closes on 12/29/06. But don't wait, just go and do it now.

Cos if you're anything like me, you'll probably be like "Oh, that's cool. Aloud's totally like the greatest band ever. I'll vote for them on my lunch break." Then you go on your lunch break and are too busy thinking about whether you should go to Subway, or give in to deliciousness and go to Wendy's. And because you're occupied chowing down on your #1 w/ cheese (medium) with a Frosty—to go— you completely forget to vote.

Here's the link: http://www.thenoise-boston.com/poll2006.asp

Vote for this stuff..

#3. CD
Aloud - Leave Your Light On

#6. Vocalist (F)
Jen de la Osa (Aloud)

#7. Guitarist
Henry Beguiristain (Aloud)

#17. Record Label
Lemon Merchant

#18. Producer
Hugh Wyman

And cos he's such a talented guy, we're putting our support behind Photographer Mick Murray (#16)....... and Nate Rogers (#22) for Best Centerfold. Honestly, how could you not vote for something like this?

Vote early & vote often,
Henry

Hey kids.. Just got word that we've been nominated for some stuff in the Noise Poll. Please vote for us in these categories, so we can brag about it next year. :D

#3. CD
Aloud - Leave Your Light On

#6. Vocalist (F)
Jen de la Osa (Aloud)

#7. Guitarist
Henry Beguiristain (Aloud)

...that's me. :D

#17. Record Label
Lemon Merchant

... that's our self-owned record label

#18. Producer
Hugh Wyman

Again, the link is:
http://www.thenoise-boston.com/poll2006.asp

We've also got a lot of friends on this list, so I'll refrain from recommendations.. except for Photographer Mick Murray. Vote for him! He took those new kickass photos of ours. :)

Vote early
Vote often!

Cheers,
Henry

So some of those Middle East photos are on our MySpace pics page. Check 'em out if you didn't wanna sift through 173 photos on Mick's Flickr account. :)

And feel free to leave a little comment.

Cheers,

Jen

Currently listening to:
Quiet Zone EP
By The GoStation

Then you'd know we were having the gig filmed and photographed. All around great guy Mick Murray took these photos of the show. We love them. You should love them too.



Cheers,

Jen

Currently listening to:
Window in the Skies Pt.1
By U2

Hey everyone, it's Henry. Just wanted to give everyone a big Thank You for Wednesday night's show. It's the best I've felt in months, and hopefully you all felt the same way. We got the whole thing on film, so hopefully we'll get an edit to you all sooner rather than later.

Special thanks goes to our new friends, who contributed to yet another Aloud milestone:



We don't have anymore shows scheduled for this year unfortunately, but stay tuned.. there are more good things coming before Christmas by way of the interweb.

Speaking of the holidays, these make good stocking stuffers. I'm just sayin'...

Rock!

Henry