Contests

Win the Editors new CD, In This Light And On This Evening
Win Couples Retreat on DVD
Win 2 tickets to Snoe.down Music Festival
From Paris With Love Giveaway
Shiny Toy Guns Giveaway
Win 2 tickets to the Harvest of Hope Fest!
David Gray Ticket Giveaway!
Win a Limited Edition Beatles USB Apple from Full Sail University

Fans and Followers: Facebook and Twitter Giveaways

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Win In This Light And On This Evening

In honor of the Editors long-awaited headlining North American tour and in support of their acclaimed third album, In This Light And On This Evening, the Editors are giving away a copy of their new CD as well as a free tour t-shirt. For your listening enjoyment In This Light And On This Evening is available now via iTunes, the release features five exclusive bonus studio tracks and has received accolades from critics at SPIN, Nylon, Alternative Press, Filter and Metromix, among others. In This Light And On This Evening debuted at #1 on the UK charts week of release and charted in the Top 10 throughout the rest of Europe.

Tune in to Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC, Wednesday, February 10th, to catch Editors perform! Or see them live at one of the places listed below.

Feb 09 || San Diego, CA || House of Blues
Feb 11 || Los Angeles, CA || The Wiltern
Feb 13 || Denver, CO || Ogden Theatre
Feb 15 || Chicago, IL || Vic Theatre
Feb 16 || Toronto, ON || Phoenix Concert Theatre
Feb 18 || Boston, MA || House of Blues
Feb 19 || New York, NY || Terminal 5
Feb 20 || Philadelphia, PA || Trocadero
Feb 21 || Washington, DC || 9:30 Club

One (1) winner will receive one (1) copy of In This Light And On This Evening and one (1) official tour t-shirt. Contest ends February 16, 2010.

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Win Couples Retreat on DVD

On Blue-ray hi def & DVD February 9, 2010

With their relationship in danger of dissipating, a couple racing to salvage their marriage invites three other couples to join them at a tropical island resort. Upon arriving at the island paradise to enjoy some carefree fun in the sun, the other couples are disturbed to discover that participation in therapy sessions is mandatory if they hope to remain at the resort. Peter Bilingsley directs a comedy written by Jon Favreau, produced by Vince Vaughn, and pairing the two Made collaborators onscreen with co-stars Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman and Faizon Love.

Watch the trailer HERE. Five (5) winners will receive one (1) copy of Couples Retreat on DVD.

Giveaway ends February 17, 2010
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Win 2 tickets to Snoe.down Music Festival

Snoe.down, the all-ages winter music festival hosted by moe., moves to its new home in central Vermont and the wildly popular ski and snowboard destination, Killington Resort, as well as Rutland’s new Spartan Arena for a weekend of winter fun and music March 26-28. In addition to multiple moe. sets, Snoe.down 2010 will feature performances by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Railroad Earth, Assembly of Dust, the Bridge, Heavy Pets, Hot Day at the Zoo, The McLovins, Moonalice and more.

Enter for a chance to win a pair of Snoe.down 2010 Festival tickets with one day lift at Killington Resort.

Two (2) winners will receive two (2) weekend passes to Snoe.down Music Festival

Winners must be able to attend the Festival!

Giveaway ends February 18, 2010
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From Paris With Love Prize Pack Giveaway!

A personal aide to the U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. All James wants is to become a bona fide agent and see some real action. So when he's offered his first senior-level assignment, he can't believe his good luck - until he meets his new partner, special agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta).

A trigger-happy, wisecracking, loose cannon who's been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack, Wax leads James on a white-knuckle shooting spree through the Parisian underworld that has James praying for his desk job. But when James discovers he's a target of the same crime ring they're trying to bust, he realizes there's no turning back...and that Wax himself might be his only hope for making it through the next forty-eight hours alive.

Starring John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak and Richard Durden, FROM PARIS WITH LOVE is directed by Pierre Morel (TAKEN) and produced by Virginie Besson-Silla.

Two (2) winners will recieve one (1) From Paris With Love prize pack. Each prize pack includes:
(1) Official Full-Sized From Paris With Love Poster
(1) Official From Paris With Love T-Shirt
(1) Official From Paris With Love Bullet Keychain
(1) Official From Paris With Love Shot Glass

US residents only

Giveaway ends February 10, 2010
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Shiny Toy Guns and Vestal Giveaway!

Shiny Toy Guns was formed in 2002 by keyboardist/bassist Jeremy Dawson and vocalist/guitarist Chad Petree, a couple of self-proclaimed indie rock kids living in LA who loved punk and decided to take dance music and rock music and “smash it all into one project,” Dawson explains. “We wanted to catapult from every angle and every genre.” Mainstream audiences might recognize the sound of Shiny Toy Guns best by way of their cover of Peter Schilling’s 1980s new wave classic, “Major Tom (Coming Home),” a sequel to Bowie’s “Space Oddity.” The Shiny Toy Guns version of the song - featuring vocals by Sisely Treasure (formerly of Cooler Kids) - has been prominently featured in a national television ad campaign for the 2010 Lincoln MKZ car, and has never before been available on CD until Girls Le Disko.

Girls Le Disko - titled as a nod to the band’s hit single “Le Disko” from their debut album - also features the much-anticipated issue of the fan favorite “Rocketship,” which Shiny Toy Guns has been playing to live audiences’ delight for years. “Rocketship” will be released as a single and will be hitting radio in January. The album - in addition to the two never-before-released original songs - is comprised of a collection of the band’s favorite remixes of tracks from their first two albums, most of which have, as Dawson says, “never made the light of day.” Some of the most notable tracks on the album include treatments of “Rainy Monday” by UK DJ/producer Hervé and UK dance music trio Bimbo Jones, new versions of “Ricochet” by electro DJ/producer Kissy Sell Out and American DJs/production duo Nadastrom, and remixes of “Le Disko” by Dutch superstar DJ Ferry Corsten and by Boys Noize (the stage name of German electro DJ/producer Alexander Ridha), whose fans will recognize as the sample from the Boys Noize track “& Down.” “We have remixes of our songs deliberately. Dance music is such a vital part of Shiny Toy Guns,” Dawson says. “I mean, we’re half machines. It’s half of the sound of the band.”

Dawson, who has been a DJ himself for 15 years, is particularly excited to venture further into the dance music world with Girls Le Disko. He says, “It’s a big deal nostalgically and progressively for Shiny Toy Guns to put a record out with a company like Ultra, which has stood the test of time.” Seven years later, Shiny Toy Guns is showing their own longevity, after having been “guinea pigs” for modern rock radio when dance/rock was just getting started, and having very much paved the way for many currently successful bands in the genre like MGMT and Metro Station. One of the first 300 MySpace bands in the Wild West days of social networking, Shiny Toy Guns have been on the forefront of technology and built their fanbase in the most grassroots way, and now - 17 countries and a Grammy® nomination later - are updating their Twitter status as they chase tornadoes through the Oklahoma flatlands.

Shiny Toy Guns sits among the pioneers of the dance/rock sound and has been one of the few acts to ever take something underground and successfully blend into modern rock radio and major commercial media. In addition to commercials for the Lincoln MKZ, their music can be heard in commercials for the Lincoln MKS, Honda Prelude, and Motorola Razr / Verizon, and has appeared in episodes of Gossip Girl and 90210 and in the film Sorority Row.

One (1) winner will recieve one (1) copy of Girls Le Disco and one (1) Vestal Watch.

US residents only

Giveaway ends February 8, 2010
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Win 2 tickets to Harvest of Hope Music Festival!

Enter to win tickets to the 2nd annual Harvest of Hope Fest, March 12, 13 & 14 2010, at the St. Johns County Fairgrounds in St. Augustine, FL. This 3 day, multiple stage alternative music festival will benefit and raise awareness for the Harvest of Hope Foundation , a nonprofit organization that provides financial, educational, and medical aid to migrant farmworkers all over the country. Confirmed acts: Billy Bragg, The Mountain Goats, Dr. Dog, Anvil, Rogue Wave, Sea Wolf, Senses Fail, Anti-Flag, Man Man, Dead Prez, Kimya Dawson, Delta Spirit and many more.

Six (6) winners will receive two (2) tickets to the Harvest of Hope Fest.

Giveaway ends February 6, 2010.
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Win two (2) tickets to see David Gray in concert!

Win two (2) tickets to see David Gray at The Ryman in Nashville, TN on Sunday April 11, 2010.

David Gray is not one to rest on his laurels; 12 million album sales, the best selling album in Ireland ever with 'White Ladder', a BAFTA nomination for his soundtrack work on Amma Assante's 2004 film 'A Way Of Life'. Two Ivor Novellos, a Q award, two Brit nominations, and a Grammy nomination. Those laurels, in fact, might not be an actual pain in the arse, but they certainly make him fidget. 'Draw The Line' is the warm, fresh, organic sound of David Gray in a new, revitalised light. He had all the success in the world, and more, but he was hungry for more - not more success, but more feeling. More heart. More soul. More songs. More life. The formula had become a stale and worn one. "Hunger is a very accurate appraisal for how I feel," he says. "I got to say things as a writer that I've obviously been dying to say for years. Songs like 'Nemesis', 'First Chance' and 'Draw The Line' were so liberating. Images and ideas just flowing out and a bit of humour as well, and a bit of caustic soda ground in there too. A bit of spice to the whole thing. The camera was suddenly panning everywhere. It was just a wonderful feeling. I just feel very, very alive. That's the feeling that's in 'Draw The Line'."

One grand prize winner will receive two (2) tickets to see David Gray at The Ryman on Sunday April 11, 2010 in Nashville, TN!

Giveaway ends March 11, 2010.
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Win a Limited Edition Beatles USB Apple from Full Sail University

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Following the 9.9.09 debut of the digitally re-mastered Beatles catalogue on CD, Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music released a limited edition of 30,000 Beatles Stereo USB apples on December 8th. Full Sail University is giving one lucky Paste reader a chance to win this very exclusive release.

Beatles' fans are dropping as much as $400 to get their hands on this very limited collectors' item.   This unique, apple-shaped USB drive is loaded with the re-mastered audio for The Beatles' 14 stereo titles, as well as all of the re-mastered CDs' visual elements, including 13 mini-documentary films about the studio albums, replicated original UK art, rare photos and expanded liner notes. A specially designed Flash interface has been installed, and the 16GB USB's audio contents will be provided in FLAC 44.1 Khz 24 bit and MP3 320 Kbps formats, fully compatible with PC and Mac.  

These albums are included in their entirety:  

- Please Please Me 
- With The Beatles 
- A Hard Day's Night 
- Beatles For Sale 
- Help! 
- Rubber Soul
 - Revolver 
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
 - Magical Mystery Tour - Yellow Submarine
 - The White Album
 - Abbey Road 
- Let It Be
 - Past Masters

Be one of the few to own this piece of Beatles' history.
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Fans and Followers: Facebook and Twitter Giveaways

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