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We Gave Away A Van!

todd — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:50:42 +0000

Huge week for BTTV @ SXSW! We had a solid time with Daytrotter at their compound and spreading the good word about BTTV. Good times and great people those daytrots.

We topped the week off with the van giveaway on a chilly Saturday with a nice flash mob and The Bad Sports driving away with the grand prize! Photo sets abound. Have a look…

VAN GIVEAWAY

THE DAYTROTTER COMPOUND

Our new favorite band…Eagle Meat.

BTTV & Van Giveaway on KXAN…morning news rules!

todd — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:05:13 +0000

Van and Gear Pics!

todd — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:36:21 +0000

Keep an eye out for this van during SXSW! Register here to win!

We’ve got some pics of the gear for ya too.

SXSW Panel – Line Up Announced!

todd — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:06:28 +0000

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…

BTTV Van Giveaway Is On!

todd — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:55:03 +0000

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!

VAN GIVEAWAY…details coming soon

todd — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:11:44 +0000

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!

BTTV Featured on We Are Austin

todd — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:07:15 +0000

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.

ABC News Talks to BTTV!

todd — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:31:36 +0000

“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.

Vote for Better Than The Van at SXSW!

todd — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:03:06 +0000

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!

Clay Guida Loves BTTV

todd — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:23:14 +0000

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.

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

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