Here’s an ecard we did based on our recent AP Magazine ad for Twin Atlantic. Head out to one of these shows if you’re in the neighborhood.

We’re kicking it into high gear now with BRMC, building out their fancy new site. In the meantime we’ve just launched this spicy, jQuery-rich micro-site to bridge the gap between the old and the new. Enjoy the new track, and check back on Tuesday morning for iTunes pre-order info to appear…

UPDATE: it looks like the old server is having a little trouble keeping up so the site may be down.. new server on it’s way too.

We just officially launched, VOTEMRAZ.COM, the first site of it’s kind for an artist (that we know of at least), allowing fans to vote on and decide the fate of artist merch. We developed the concept with management, then did the design and development on a quick 2-day turn. Pretty simple concept to start, but hugely powerful. The design(s) with the most votes win. This particular site for Jason includes a selection of Valentine’s Day themed tees but will be rolled out and developed further to include all kinds of fan involvement in a variety of different aspects of Jason’s career, music, merch and touring. It’s a great way to solidify the connection between artist and fan, while taking some of the guesswork out of the selection process for the artist and management. Everybody wins.

We are the proud parents of TWO American Design Awards. We received one win for the design and illustration on the Jason Mraz site. As you know we do a lot of design and development work for Mraz but this was one project we were really proud of. We received a second award for the flash development and music for Deluxe Honeydrop, makers of organic, healthy beverages now available in Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and Whole Foods stores nationwide. Both awards are A.D.A. Monthly Wins for October, 2009. Go team!

Here is a sneak peak at a new project we have been working on. Apparel based - design and development. We’d love to tell you all about this but we are sworn to secrecy for now. Stay tuned…

We just finished up the new site for photographer/artist, Charlie Bidwell. Charlie is a long time friend of The Uprising and we love his work. His photos speak for themselves so we went for a clean, minimal look to better showcase his work.

So here’s one that feels like we’ve been working on it forever. The Dangerbird Records Online Store. One of those projects that pushes the timelines WAY out of whack for one reason or another, but the final product came together beautifully. Worth the wait, we think.

This was developed using the Magento Online Store platform, customized out the ass to be, well, stripped down. Simplified. Clean. And tied to the current Dangerbird Records site. A BIG thanks to the guys over at EDDS for the customized digital download support.

As simple and clean as this store is on the front-end, it’s insanely powerful, delivering digital tracks and albums, digital videos, and physical product, all tied together with a backend platform that offers a plethora of customizable reports, batch order processing, solid inventory control, etc.

This is just phase 1 of the Dangerbird build. Phase 2 and Phase 3 are fast approaching, so stay tuned. Thanks to everyone over at Dangerbird Records for their patience with this one!!

We’re proud to announce the official launch of the new site for Bodega. In fact, it’s the product and company launch as well. This one built with Drupal, it’s clean on the front, powerful on the back.

From the Bodega About Us Page:

“Bodega™ is a curated collection of large scale, eco-friendly, temporary indoor art. The concept is to make the art of emerging and established artists alike, affordable and available to the public. Each piece is delivered as a complete package for the consumer and includes ready-to-apply art piece and tools for installation. Obsessed with process, Bodega creates high quality, layered die-cut vinyl art editions; representing some of the most captivating artists of our generation.”

With their first season including pieces from the likes of Barry Mcgee, Chris Bettig, Cleon Peterson, Cody Hudson, Darcel, Delta, Harsh Patel, Hisham Bhroocha, Jeff Canham, Kenzo Minami, Matt Sohl, Michael Leon, Mike Giant, Rostarr, SSUR, Steven Harrington, Surface to Air, and Wood Wood.. I’d say they’re getting ready to CRUSH it. We can’t wait to get a few of these for The Uprising’s new studio.

Too-da-loo.

We’ve been working long, long hours to overhaul and redesign the URB Magazine / URB.com site, taking 2+ years of content (8000+ posts) and manipulating it into a much more current, streamlined and visual presentation.

We’ve just launched in beta. Over the coming weeks / months we’re going to be adding a ton of additional functionality - Trendsetter Contributor Blogs, a new contest platform, URB.tv, an URB online store, photo galleries, interactive social networking style functionality.. you get the picture.

But here it is, the clean slate from which we’ll be building. Now for some tea.

Sting has a Winter record coming out called If On A Winter’s Night… - available today, in fact. We were asked by Decca Records to do this minisite based around the imagery of the Album. Originally this was a complete social network / community-based minisite with a blog by Sting where users could interact with each other, with Sting, post photos, create their own events, etc.

Unfortunately this got pulled back a bit to more of a standard microsite featuring the EPK, new Sting bio, music previews and ringtone downloads.

Regardless, it turned out pretty sweet. If you want to check out the Community feature we developed for this, hit us up and we’ll send you a demo login. We can develop it for almost any client as a free community or like we did for Sam Phillips with a Subscription Site & Community.

We just launched the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Top Spin Mini-Site for the pre-order of the NEW LIVE DVD+CD PACKAGES!! We love these guys. We love Grant at New Sound Management. We love Top Spin. So basically, this mini-site is just a big love fest.. we think it turned out pretty sweet.

Ok, we’ve mentioned that Sam Phillips is the coolest, right? So, in addition to coming to us to design and develop her new site, she also came to us with the beginnings of a great Subscription Site idea. It was awesome and we worked with her to develop out the idea into a full-fledged music subscription site and social network. We’ve kept it under wraps, until now. We officially launched The Long Play on October 1st and Sam received over 150 subscriptions in the first 3 hours.

For you technical geeks out there, you want to know this info - it’s a hybrid of Wordpress MU, BuddyPress, WishList Membership Manager, PayPal, Anarchy Player, Drain Hole, and a few other key plugins and mods.

It’s going to be a great year for Sam Phillips fans. Check out what this subscription is all about, taken from Sam’s site:

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Long Play is a year of music. While digging for inspiration and journaling the process of writing and recording, I will release 5 EP’s and a full-length album through samphillips.com. There is no record company involved — this is just between us.

- Membership in the Long Play community with exclusive access to Sam’s journaling of her creative process as well as an exclusive social network of Sam’s fans.

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If you’re interested in what we’ve done here for Sam and how we might be able to do something for your band (or if you’re a label, one of your bands), hit us up. It’s niche at it’s best - forming an immediate bond with the fans, making music the way YOU want to, getting the music out there to the people who really want to hear it, and delivering something special to the fans in a very special and intimate way. For Sam, it made sense to do this for $52 for a year’s subscription. For you, it may make sense to do it monthly, quarterly, at a lower price, a higher price, whatever.. point is to get the music out there to the people who want to hear it and give them a chance to directly support you in the process.

We’re really excited about this one. We love you Sam! Thanks for trusting us!

We’re recently completed this Wordpress-based site for Canadian singer/songwriter Zaccheri Gray. Wordpress, Custom PHP Script, jQuery, Multiple Social Networking and Web 2.0 integrations and feeds. Ok, back to work.

Sam is awesome. Seriously. She f’ing rules. We just launched her new site - minimalistic, retro, collage-based, and cheeky. Go there, explore it, and stay tuned for the new subscription site we’re launching for her - exclusive content, exclusive music downloads, and much more for a full year - all for $1 a week.

Just launched the new site for Love Ride 26. More event details to come in the next few weeks but should a blast again! Wordpress based with custom CMS and jQuery elements and Flickr integration.