News Archive
Sat 18 Aug - Music Oz Awards
Sat 18 Aug - Sounds Like Cafe Vol 17 has been distributed
Sounds Like Cafe volume 17 has finally begun its distribution to cafes and coffee houses around Australia. You can see who else is on the compilation on the link below. Also on the Sounds Like Cafe website, is a list of cafes around Australia which play the Sounds Like Cafe compilations.
Wed 4 July - Sounds Like Cafe Vol 17
Back Where She Began from I'm Alive has been included on the "Sounds Like Cafe Vol 17" compilation sampler. Only a couple of independent artists are selected for inclusion with artists from major and minor record companies taking the other spots. "Sounds Like Cafe" is distributed to over 1200 cafes and coffee houses around Australia. Chances are that the next time you pop in for a caffeine hit at your fav coffee house, you'll hear the bitter sweet sounds of Anne-Lise serenading you in the background.
Monday 12 February - Still a Martian Favourite!
"I'm Alive" is still a Martian Music favourite. Hooray! Check it out at www.martianmusic.com.au and click on Martian Favourites.
Martian Music supports Australian independent music. What a fine bunch!
Monday 12 February - Glamabook is Gone!
The Glamabook guestbook has been removed from the website. Anne-Lise spends most of her interactive time at her myspace.com/glamaphonic site so the Glamabook is not only neglected, but it's become the perfect target for unwanted guestbook spamming. Thank you to everyone who took the trouble to sign it in the past.
Monday 12 February - Download of the Day at All About Jazz (.com).
On New Year's Eve 2006, Anne-Lise was featured as the the All About Jazz website download of the day. The song has been downloaded over 1000 times since and continues to be a popular download in the archive section. If you're an All About Jazz member, you can download it here, Back Where She Began @ allaboutjazz.com. (hint, otherwise, you can just visit the download treaties page and get it from here).
Monday 30 October - Anne-Lise's mX article.
Anne-Lise is featured on the second page in today's edition of mX. Click on the image above to view full article.
Saturday 28 October - Anne-Lise in MX on Monday
mX covers the issues that matter most in a concise, upbeat, funky, intelligent and sexy way. From news, sport and business through to features focusing on health needs, entertainment, gossip, travel and the latest in IT, mX is designed for getting the most out of life. [source: www.mxnet.com.au]
Therefore, it was only a matter of time before Anne-Lise was featured. Grab your copy of Monday 30th October's edition of MX Newspaper, handed out free across Sydney, by the mX distributors at most big rail stations and other city points. Interviewed by the delightful Shoba Rao, Anne-Lise talks about her new EP I'm Alive and the new Solo Female Independent Artist network she's founded, the Sirens of Sydney.
Saturday 28 October - Put Your Orders in at CD Baby
I'm Alive is finally available as a good ol' fashioned CD as well as MP3 digital downloads. The CD version is on sale at CD Baby and includes a four page leaflet with lyrics.
Saturday 30 September - I'm Alive now on sale at Martian Music
I'm Alive is slowly but surely finding its way to new music outlets for your online shopping convenience. It's now available at Martian Music, which luckily is a friendly martian website, all about spreading the love of music from the independent artist. Not only can you support other independent Australian musicians, but you can finally buy the EP in Aussie dollars (i.e. it's so cheap it's a crime!). Visit Martian Music and have a browse. Don't worry, there is no chance of an anal probe...oh, hope you aren't disappointed!
Oh, and just by taking the time to listen to the music on the site, you help independent artists (like A-L) earn a few cents through performance royalties (no cost to you of course!).
Saturday 30 September - New Look Digital Music Store
The website music store has a new glama-look and a new ring tone. Wanna stand out from the boring ring tones crowd? The latest addition to the store is one of the funkiest ring tones (hot from the Garageband funk track of the day) you'll find with "I Just Wanna Be Rich" on offer. Only 99c (US cents) to boot! Visit the Glamaphonic music store today and get all your friends to ring you! The "I Just Wanna Be Rich" ringtone is exclusive to the Glamaphonic Music Store
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Friday 18 August - Funk Track of the Day - I Just Wanna Be Rich |
Thursday 17 August - Homepage feature at Artist Direct
Following on from Anne-Lise's homepage feature at UBL.com, she has been hand picked for a week's homepage feature at Artistdirect.com. This is a fantastic opportunity for massive worldwide exposure on one of the world's largest music websites.
UBL now has three featured artists - picked by the Artist Direct Editor - every week on ARTISTdirect.com (UBL's sister site). ARTISTdirect.com is one of the largest "music networks" with 17 million unique users per month (U.S.), and is larger than MSN Music & MTV(Source: Media Metrix, July 2006)!
Internationally? The ARTISTdirect network has 35.5 million unique users per month, which makes it the 3rd largest international music network behind itunes and yahoo music! The ARTISTdirect Network is bigger than AOL Music, MTV Networks, MSN Music and MySpace Music.(Source: Media Metrix, July 2006)!
Wednesday 9 August - Ultimate Band List Featured Artist + Indie Charts
Check out the Ultimate Band List, www.ubl.com for Anne-Lise's "Promo Tuesday" featured listing on the homepage. Anne-Lise will feature on the homepage for one week, from Tuesday until next Monday 14 August. It's tiny tiny but it's wonderful unexpected exposure from UBL, and it's helped pop Anne-Lise to her first week in at Number 25 in the top 25 soul artists on the site.
Last week, Anne-Lise's song "Cold Cold City" was at number 8 in the Indie-Music.com charts. Visit to rate and support Anne-Lise's music.
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Glamaphonic Goodness - Now Open |
Sat 23 July 2006
Coming Soon
The merchandise store "Glamaphonic Goodness" will be opening soon. Items available will include a limited release version CD of "I'M ALIVE", Glamaphonic street chic logo t-shirt suite and the gorgeous "I'M ALIVE" environmentally friendly shopping tote bag + more! More info soon.
"I'm Alive" the EP RELEASED TODAY - Thursday 13 July!
It's here today. The EP has been released to a Glamaphonically deprived world. Listen to song samples and buy it here.
Also available at MPERIA with 2 minute song streaming samples (and just a few cents more expensive than right here on Anne-Lise's website).
A distribution deal is in the works, and the digital form of the EP will soon be available at iTunes, Bigpond Music and Ninemsn Music.
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Glamaphonic™ Officially Trademarked
The word has been bandied around for some time now, but it's finally official. Glamaphonic™ is now Anne-Lise's trademark.
Update: 19/06/06: EP RELEASE SOON! While I'd been aiming for the end of June, the business side of organising the EP is taking a bit longer than I'd expected. What I had thought might take a few weeks is actually looking to take a few months. A launch party is still planned, but because I love to have twice the fun, I think I will have two launches; a digital online launch, and a live venue launch a few months later, where CDs of the EP will be available for the first time.
New news! Update: 19/06/06: My MYSPACE page! A few weeks ago I stumbled across a place called myspace.com. I was soon to discover that apparently every person in the free world had their own myspace page. Since building my site, I've had over 200 visitors in two weeks, and almost 300 listens to my music, plus I've made a few new fans and friends. Fantastic. Check it out. It's a very music friendly site that is a great network for both fans of music and the independent musician too.
22/05/06: A SNEAK PEEK OF THE NEW EP! Despite a rather debilitating bout of the flu, which not only left my spirits in a state of misery, but also left my voice in a major state of disrepair, I have uploaded some sneak previews of my soon to be released commercial recording. Check them out at the MUSIC page. Because my voice is still recovering from this most horrid of horrid flus, the final recording has been delayed somewhat. Expect a late June, or early July release. Read more about it on the BIO page.
22/05/06: ALL FIXED...ALMOST. OK, so perhaps I overeacted (see below) just a smidgeon after discovering that my Glamagram list had disappeared. Despite a non answered help desk call, I discovered a week later (after checking daily) that the mailing list is still in tact and I haven't lost any subscribers. Fantastic news. There are still a few things missing on the website, but it's about 95% fixed.
13/05/06: WEBSITE DOWN: OH MY GOD! THEY LOST ALL MY GLAMAGRAM SUBSCRIBERS TOO! OH MY GOD! NOW I HAVE NO WAY OF CONTACTING ANYONE AGAIN! My webhost decided to migrate to a new server. They LOST all my files. Grrr. I've managed to keep 80% on my hard drive, but it's the other 20% I have to rebuild. What a pain! Much of the website is in despair, so please be patient while it's getting rebuilt!
4/04/06: A New Blog - Hope for the best: It's about time I joined the blogging sensation. What better way to do it than to keep an online account of my recording experiences for my first big CD? I've been at it for about a week now and am thoroughly enjoying putting down my thoughts in cyberspace. Photos & sneak previews of CD snippet will be uploaded as I go. Find it under the "Hello" page of my website!
02/04/06 THE CD is coming. Who'd have thunk it? I've finally begun making headway into recording my first CD. After ten years of waiting for the right band, I've just decided to go solo. As you might imagine, I am EXTREMELY excited about taking the big step. Aptly, the first song which has been completed "Back Where She Began". After performing it acoustically with the duo, it's taken on a new sound as a funky laid back lounge track. It's heavy on bass groove, dreamy harmonies and wistful vocals.
The CD itself will be an eclectic mix of funk, soul, blues and other glamaphonic type sounds. It will also be available for purchase as downloadable MP3s from various internet music shops.
Current work in progress is "I Just Wanna Be Rich" which saw the light of day with the band Ayelle. It's sticking quite closely to the Ayelle arrangement, but now I have the luxury of spiking it with lush vocal harmonies. It's a lot of fun! "I Just Wanna Be Rich" gives even the hardest core 70s funk a run for its money!
Release date of the CD will be towards the end of the year, with big promotions planned including a CD launch & local gigs with new band and a possible solo capital city whirlwind tour of the Australian eastern states.
22/03/06: The latest website. Well, as you can see, the website has gone a major facelift again. In the time that I've been in Sydney, I think my website has undergone drastic surgery on average, once every six months. I'm secretly hoping that this will be the last change, for a while anyway. Still more stuff to come...join the GLAMAGRAM for latest updates.
