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GIVEAWAY: The Bird & The Bee

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The Bird and The Bee is a unique little duo hailing from the city of Angels. If you haven’t heard their jazz-influenced electro pop, then check out their first two albums, The Bird and The Bee and Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future and let yourself fall in love with their groovy tunes. I was lucky enough to see these two open for Lily Allen back in 2007 and the hubs and I were hooked! You may not recognize their name, but chances are you have heard some of their tracks on such popular TV shows and movies as Grey’s Anatomy, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Sex & the City: The Movie.

On Tuesday, the band released their third album, Interpreting the Masters Volume 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates. As you can see from the title, it is a tribute to another immensely popular duo, Hall & Oates. One really cool factoid about this album? Rock goddess, Shirley Manson, (of Garbage fame) performs backing vocals on the track, Maneater.

Did that get your attention?
Well good, because I’m hosting another kick ass giveaway thanks to my buddies at Filter Magazine!

Please comment to this post with your name & email along with your favorite track and you will be entered to win a copy of Interpreting the Masters Volume 1!

Good luck everyone & remember to spread the word!

xoxo

Winner for the MADM Giveaway!

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Congratulations to FOLIAS!!!

You have won a copy of Melissa Auf Der Maur’s new album as well as a t-shirt!
Please email me at meli@melificent.com with your mailing address so it can be sent your way!

Thanks to everyone who participated – please stick around for more awesome giveaways as well as just regular magnificent Melificent. 😉

xoxo

GIVEAWAY: Where the Wild Things Are

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I’m excited to announce that I have yet another kick-ass giveaway to host this week thanks to Filter Magazine! One of the year’s best movies, Where the Wild Things Are, is being released today on DVD and Blu-Ray and I’m giving you a chance to win the movie’s amazing soundtrack along with a few other little goodies!

In case you didn’t hear all the rave reviews about the movie’s soundtrack, it is chock full of original music by Yeah Yeah Yeah’s lead singer, Karen O, and “the kids.” It’s one of the sweetest, most uplifting albums you will probably ever own – I know every time I listen to it, I can’t help but smile. Even on my worst days.

Check out the following awesome video where Karen O explains the tracks on the album & their inspiration:

Karen O & Spike Jonze Interview – The Songs

Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack is available now courtesy of Interscope http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=332280698&s=143441

My giveaway bundle includes the following:

1 Where The Wild Things Are Soundtrack
1 paper crown (as seen all around Comic-Con last year!)
1 Carol Mask

If you’d like to enter to win, first, go to Twitter and if you don’t already have an account there, set one up. It’s free. Then follow me – SoMelificent. Go to http://www.twitter.com/somelificent and click on the follow button that appears under my profile.

Then, and this is the last step, simply write out the following tweet…

Win a Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack & goodies from @FILTERmagazine & @SoMelificent. Pls RT. Info: http://bit.ly/dAIEDl

Winner will be chosen at random one week from today, March 9th, and announced on the blog.
Good luck everyone and make sure to go pick up a copy of the movie!

Monday Speed Linkage

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This weekend consisted of a lot of boring, mundane stuff that wouldn’t really cut it as exciting blog material, so I decided to just share some links that I’ve been digging.

– This blog is adorable.
– My favorite version of Letting the Cables Sleep.
– Just placed a custom order for an illustration of us. So sweet!
– The hubs ordered a Zumi Digi cam over the weekend. Can’t wait to play!
– Sweetest dress ever from Lulu’s.
– Mute Math is touring in support of 30 Seconds to Mars & I got tickets for their Miami Beach show: overjoyed!
– Design a Muse tour poster & win a VIP package to their show in Portland plus a new Apple iPad! We are entering fer sure.

Hope you all have a great week and remember to enter to win Melissa Auf Der Maur’s new album before the contest ends on Thursday! Also, stick around for another great giveaway you are really going to dig tomorrow!

ps; Happy March!

GIVEAWAY: Melissa Auf Der Maur

I’m really proud to announce my first giveaway since starting Melificent a year ago!
I was contacted by the great people at Filter Magazine, one of the best indie rock publications in America, to share some great new music from one of my personal fav’s: Melissa Auf Der Maur.

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I had the pleasure of both seeing Melissa perform live as well as having a lengthy chat with her several years ago. She’s such a sweetheart and really cares about her fans. She also happens to be a complete rock goddess the second she takes that stage. That’s why I’m so excited for her new album, Out of Our Minds, which will be released on March 30th. The album promises to be amazing on its own, but is accompanied by a 28-minute HD film conceived by Melissa herself (which she stars in as well). There will even be limited edition comic books and matching picture disk vinyls to complete the extensive multimedia project!

Sounds cool?
Check out the music video for her first single off the album, Out of Our Minds (OOOM):

Now onto the good stuff!
This giveaway is for:

1 copy of Out of Our Minds on CD
I MadM t-shirt

Please leave your name in the comments & why you love Melissa & her music!
The contest will remain open until March 4th when I will pick the winner at random.

Thanks for playing & I hope to feature more fun giveaways in the future!