Posts Tagged: better than the van


13
Mar 10

SXSW Panel – Line Up Announced!

If you’re going to be at SXSW and have a music badge swing by our panel “Friendbases to Fanbases: Why you must tour now!” on Thursday, March 18th on 12:30 in Room 13B.

We’ve got a sweet line-up of panelists: Tom Windish, owner of The Windish Agency, Marc Allen of Red Light Management, Seth Hubbard of Polyvinyl Records and Matt Hickey of High Road Touring.

If you want to tour, don’t miss this panel. We’re going to talk some serious shop! Details here…


15
Feb 10

BTTV Van Giveaway Is On!

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We said we’d do it and here it is.

The 2010 BTTV Van Giveaway is alive!

We’re giving away a van filled with gear from Epiphone, Zildjian, Taye Drums, Visual Sound, Pro-Mark, D’Addario, Ernie Ball, Substream and Woodshed Percussion.

The lucky winner will be picked in March at SXSW. You have to be 18 years old to enter and PRESENT at SXSW to win!

Go here to enter!


7
Feb 10

VAN GIVEAWAY…details coming soon

Just a heads up! This year at SXSW we’ll be giving away a van filled with tons of music gear. We’ll be announcing all the details in about a week!

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14
Oct 09

BTTV Featured on We Are Austin

Hey. We’ve been a little lazy with the bloggity-blog but this dandy just came through.  We Are Austin did a little piece on us, it aired last weekend and the sucker is up on the YouTube.


21
Aug 09

ABC News Talks to BTTV!

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“I have always tried to do whatever I can to help musicians out, since I feel like they give me a service I wouldn’t want to live without.”

Well said by BTTV’er  Kate Battle out of Chicago. She and a couple others  were interviewed for a story/interview that’s running today on the ABC news site.

You can get all the action right here.


17
Aug 09

Vote for Better Than The Van at SXSW!

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Today is the first official day that YOU can vote for BTTV on the SXSW panel picker. Wha? Well, during the 24/7 rage-a-thon that is SXSW they have cool panel discussions where people talk shop about the music industry.

SXSW decided to let you pick the topics this year and we submitted our idea for a panel.

Vote For: “Friendbases to Fanbases: Why you must tour now!”

Popular vote rules the day so if you have a spare 2 minutes, we’d love your vote!


11
Aug 09

Clay Guida Loves BTTV

BTTV member and street teamer hardrockslacker managed to get a BTTV flyer into the hands of UFC mauler Clay Guida. He sent in the pic and we think it’s awesome.

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Weigh-in flex-photo for reference. Clearly Mr. Guida could kill a musk ox.

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Join the BTTV Street Team, get a flyer into the paws of someone famous and end up on our blog!


8
Aug 09

BTTV on Fox News in Chicago

As Lollapalooza sweats it out in Chicago this weekend, Fox News Chicago decided to kick things off with a little ditty about BTTV on the 9 o’clock news. Take a peak and watch a couple interviews with BTTV members from Chi-Town.

Or read the full story right here.