Village Life Video

Enjoy Alex Highton performing live his latest single release “Village Life”…

The Calm Before The Storm

It’s been a while since Fleur’s last write-up. So I asked her to update us about the album production. And here it is: Last time I wrote for 50K MAG, I wrote about how making an album seems to take forever and can drive you totally mad while you wait for it to take shape …

Alex Hits The Road

Alex Highton’s label The Local has announced the release of his debut single „Village Life/You Left Me In No Doubt“ on May 23rd. After his USA and SXSW adventure he’s going to hit the road in May to promote the single. Gigs are planned in Liverpool on May 19th (at 33-45) and May 20th (at
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I’ve Got To Make It Work

Alex Highton has just returned from his US trip. I talked to him about this adventure and his experiences…

50K MUSIC: You just came back from your US trip. You travelled New York, Austin and Los Angeles. Please tell us some details … first about New York …

A Bunch Of Single Releases

BOA have released their single “Push” and get D-rotation on Swedish radio station P3. They will be gigging tomorrow at Sticky Fingers in Gothenburg. I really like their refreshing Pop and hope they’ll get the attention they deserve.

BOA Signed to Jämmerdosa

BOA have announced to leave SellaBand lately. Sad news for all BOA fans not only on SellaBand I think. But there is hope. They’re working on their upcoming album and signed to Jämmerdosa, a Swedish netlabel which has just been founded by Rikard Jönsson. I talked to BOA’s Botond Bokor about their reasons to leave
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The 7 Ps

Tim Bennett wrote down a few guidelines for indie artists – read carefully and maybe it will help you to get your music to the people.

Fleur Jack: Album Progress and Artist Madness

Making an album always seams to take forever. I am rehearsing twice, sometimes three times a week with my band on my solo songs, getting ready to hit the studio and while it’s obvious we are making great progress, I can’t help but feel like i’m not moving fast enough! It’s that feeling of being
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Tim Bennett Album Update

Tim Bennett provides us with the latest news as he regularly did over the last few months. Now that he released his new album “Miseducated” he reports about what has happened lately: Happy 2011 ! Thanks to you, the supporters and fans of independent and fan funded music, the seeds of 2010 are already beginning
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“Unamerican” video out now!

After the release of “Anybody” video a few weeks ago Tim Bennett released the second video – “Unamerican” – from his album “Miseducated”. Tim finds himself in the role of Clyde Barrow, a bank robber who kidnaps a teller played by Bambi Monroe … great video:

Fleur Jack Believer Update

Fleur hit her target on SellaBand a couple of weeks ago and is touring with her band The Twitch throughout New Zealand and Australia at the moment. Today she gives us a short update of what happened lately: „Kia Ora from New Zealand~ I hope you’ve been doing really well and all the best wishes
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We’ve Put A Lot Of Love Into This Record

Alex Highton is my favourite artist – full stop. If you listen to his first album “Woodditton Wives Club” you will understand. Now his new album is on it’s way…

I Believe That Good Guys Can Win!

He has done a lot of hard work to spread the word about his music over the last weeks – radio and online promo. His strongest and truest fans support him spreading the word. I have talked to Tim Bennett about the first single “Anybody” from his upcoming album “Miseducated” and his further plans …
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“Anybody” – Official Video Out Now

Tim Bennett (former Civilized Tears) announced the release of the “Anybody” video from his upcoming album “Miseducated”. Tim says: “There was no crew as we couldn’t afford one so I filmed, scripted, directed and edited myself. I hope you will enjoy it. The video features Bambi Monroe as the ‘tragic lost heroine’ who finds a state of dream-link grace through suffering and along the way comes face to face with the innocence of the lost child-inside. I love you all. Thank you sincerely and with humility for your incredible and honest support ! ♥ xxxx …

Civilized Tears/Tim Bennett – Time for Another Album Update

It’s time for another update with the latest news on the Civilized Tears album progress and as some of you may already know I have made the difficult decision to go as Tim Bennett instead of Civilized Tears from now on. I will still keep the band sound and am so very thankful for everyone
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Fleur Jack Hits Target on SellaBand

Fleur Jack, one of our 50K MUSIC Squad members, has completed her fundraising on SellaBand with a final boost of 43 parts invested by one believer last night at 00:07 a.m. With a budget of 9,000 EUR she’s going to hit the studio soon and I hope we will get her reports about album production
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Good bye Civilized Tears – Please Welcome Tim Bennett

Most of Civilized Tears’ beady-eyed followers have already noticed that the creative brain behind the band, Tim Bennett, has become the face of Civilized Tears. Now the change of name into Tim Bennett was logically consistent.

BOA at GP Scen Final (Update)

Just talked to Botond and got a short comment on BOA’s gig at GP Scen final last Saturday: “The GP Scen Final was a good experience, it was great being back on stage after a long summer holiday, although the performance took a few minutes really. Every band played the song they were in the
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Band With Mingled Feelings

Thats how Göteborgs Posten (GP) titled about Swedish pop band BOA. BOA were one of the 16 finalists of GP scen who played on Gothenburg’s Järntorget  last Saturday. A few days before they got great feature in GP’s entertainment section. Their music was described there as “lighthearted melodies accompanying with dark lyrics”. Orsi and Olof
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BOA on GP Scen Final

BOA made it to the final of GP (Göteborgs Posten) Scen on Järntorget in Gothenburg on August 14th.  It´s a contest for bands from Västra Götaland, the region around Gothenburg. Every band takes part with one song only. The first 8 songs went through to the final based on the listeners voted on internet. There
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