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July 26, 2007

Alliens

Recorded July 16, 2007

Producer Notes: When I heard Alliens were coming to the studio, I knew very little about them - reggae, three piece, somewhat confusing name. By the time they pulled out of the lot, I had become a gawking fan. The name stems from their common last name, Allen, as the drummer and keyboardist are brothers and the guitarist a close cousin. I recognized the drummer from an old Blacksburg reggae band Carbon Culture, but this project blows the doors of the genre wide open. Check them out if you can, and if you're lucky you'll see them with a special guest or two.

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[August 23, 2007 11:46 PM]

Jake

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Top 5 music videos this week on the MusicCast

Updated July 2: Some things never change. The spectacle of fireworks on the Fourth of July. The joys of a three-day weekend. Or, the five most popular videos on the MusicCast. For the third week in a row, Mike Roos has the most-played video on the MusicCast with "Blacksburg," his song about the Virginia Tech shootings. And all the others stay the same, too, although the order changes a bit. Two songs by The Seed switch places. A third one moves up, and Jimmy Danger, featuring Neanderpaul, falls to No. 5 ("Nothing But Wrong" had been No. 1 a few weeks ago.) Don't agree with any of these? Hey, don't look at us. We base the MusicCast Top 5 on who gets the most plays so if there's someone you like, just keep on clicking.

If you think your band's video should be in the Top 5, well, post it to our site, and maybe it will be. The top three videos this week are ones the artists recorded themselves. Details are below.

Here’s the week's Top 5:

1. "Blacksburg," by Mike Roos
2. "No More," by The Seed
3. "Can You Understand," by The Seed
4. "A New Season," by The Seed"
5. "Nothing But Wrong," by Jimmy Danger, featuring Neanderpaul

Next update coming: July 9.

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Now we're recording out of Jake Dempsey's Red Room Studio in Roanoke.

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