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Happy Valentines Day! We held a contest to find out what your favorite lyric about love was from a Glassnote Artist. Here is what we found out:

This love's for gentlemen only, wealthiest gentlemen only and now that you're lonely
Phoenix, Lisztomania

Cause if dark is one then bright is two
Phoenix, Consolation Prizes

Phoenix lyrics (period). They make no sense, they just feel good. What's more "about LOVE" than that?

Love, it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free.
Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More

We might be tied up like a knot in a string, I just found some scissors and Im forgetting everything
Jonas Sees in Color, The Sky Keeps Falling

Acres
Visible illusion
Where it starts it ends
Love like a sunset
Phoenix, Love Like A Sunset Part 2

Everyone writes songs about California they're singing for the summer and staying young I'm writing about Carolina because I write songs for you
Jonas Sees In Color, Avalanche

I've never been to California
I've never been to Memphis
But I couldn't let you go
No I couldnt let you go before
I let you know how much I meant this ... See More
I couldnt let you go
No i couldnt let you go before
I let you know how much i meant this
I let you know how much i miss this
Jonas Sees in Color, West Coast

You might just be the very best mistake that anyone has ever made.
Jonas Sees In Color, For the Fences

I wasn't looking for love; She wasn't looking for trouble. But we found what we found. So now I keep my fingers crossed, and my eyes wide open. I don't know about love, but at least I believe in luck again.
Jonas Sees in Color, Luck and Love

I wasn't looking for love; she wasn't looking for trouble. But we found we found (but we found what we found), so now I keep my fingers crossed and my eyes wide open. I don't know about love but at least I believe in luck again.
Jonas Sees in Color, Luck and Love

I got a charming voice, and a head full of books. I'm pretty good at writing lies that we turn into hooks so sing along...and believe it all. I've either got a mouth full of stories or a jaw full of teeth; with a writer's sense of style a guitar full of strings and a tendency to believe it all.
Jonas Sees In Color, Luck and Love

I'd give up everything for love
Jonas Sees in Color, Water on the Rise

I'd rip the globe at the seams.
I'd let the whole world fall in the sea
If I thought it'd bring you closer to me.
Jonas Sees in Color, Water on the Rise

I'd give up everything for love. I'd rip the globe at the seams.
Jonas Sees In Color, Water on the Rise

Love: it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free.
Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More

And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.
Mumford & Sons, After the Storm

I'd give up everything for love
Jonas Sees In Color, Water On The Rise

Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you over again. Don’t make me change my mind or I won’t live to see another day, I swear its true. Because a girl like you is impossible to find. You’re impossible to find
Secondhand Serenade, Fall for You

February 11, 2009

Hello Internet!

Last week was a big week for our new publishing division at Glassnote. Ryan Downing, from our band Jonas Sees In Color, came up to NYC for a little writing trip. And by little, I mean busy. The man wrote 7 songs in 5 days! He even recorded the vocals to most of the songs himself. We’re really excited to start getting the demos to the songs from last week – don’t be surprised if you hear them being sung by your favorite artist or on a TV near you!

Ryan wrote with a lot of great writers last week, from JP Rende (DRS/Downtown) to Robopop (Cherry Lane) to Adam Richman (best known as the guitarist/musical director for Jessie James). Shout outs to the other awesome writers from last week – Aaron Accetta, Mike Beck, The Stationary Set boys, Alex Seier and Johnny Marnell! Each and every song he wrote was different in its own way, but suffice it to say, Ryan is a lyrical machine. For this being his first writing trip, Ryan was really thrown in the deep end. He went everywhere from Manhattan, to Westchester, to Coney Island (and yes, we did get Nathan’s hot dogs!). Along the way, we also had a chance to stop by BMI and see our friends Samantha Cox and Brandon Haas. They had some really good insight, and even helped us with getting a session on Friday, since our other one got cancelled.

Overall, last week was a very successful week for us. There will be a lot more of these trips to come – so stay tuned! On the writing front, the next stop for Ryan will be Virginia, but watch out because we’re shooting for the moon.

Without wax,

Maureen

Check out Jonas Sees in Color by clicking here!

December 11, 2009

Here is the Glassnote teams top picks of 2009! We didnt include our Artists because of course we think they are some of the best of the year! Here are our other favs.

Daniel
Two Door Cinema Club Remix of Lasso by PHOENIX,
Grizzly Bear
The Danny Krivit Sessions on Nervous
Kid Sister
Passion Pit
Tune-Yard
Dirty Projectors
Holy Ghost
Owl City
Matt & Kim
Colette- Hooked on Colette

Adam
Bon Iver – Blood Bank
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
The XX - XX
Grizzly Bear - Veckamist
The Dead Weather - Horehound
Honorable Mentions: Pearl Jam, The Avett Brothers, Fanfarlo, Pearl Jam, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dan Auerbach, Passion Pit, Dirty Projectors, The Flaming Lips, Dinosaur Jr., Lightning Bolt, Girls, and of course all of our wonderful artists.

YiPei (in no particular order)
Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
The XX- XX

Jenna (I went with a top 8...you know to be different)
Brand New - Daisy
Passion Pit - Manners
Yeah Yeah - Yeahs Its Blitz
New Moon Soundtrack
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Lady GaGa - The Fame
A Day To Remember - Homesick
Mat And Kim - Grand

Maureen
Sufjan Stevens - The BQE
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Beirut - March of the Zapotec & Realpeople - Holland
Metric - Fantasies
A. A. Bondy - When The Devil's Loose
Regina Spektor - Far
Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
Karen O and the Kids - Where The Wild Things Are (Soundtrack)

Jenn Cornett
I and Love and You – The Avett Brothers
Manners – Passion Pit
Fame Monster – Lady Ga Ga
It’s Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
For Cheap or For Free- The Henry Clay People

Eddie
A Wilhelm Scream - s/t
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
Coheed & Cambria – Neverender box set
Converge – Axe To Fall
Gossip – Music For Men
ISIS – Wavering Radiant
Owen – New Leaves
Taking Back Sunday – New Again
Mastodon – Crack The Skye
Gallows – Grey Britain

Nicole
Brand New - Daisy
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Passion Pit - Manners
John Mayer - Battle Studies
There For Tomorrow - A Little Faster

Scully
Kenny Chesney - Lucky Old Sun
Keith Urban - Defying Gravity
Eros Ramazzotti - Ali e radici
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Jen
The Lonely Island - Incredibad
Michael Jackson - This Is It
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
The Used - Artwork
John Mayer - Battle Studies

November 30, 2009

Last week the Glassnote crew volunteered at at the Church of the Holy Trinity to help them prepaire their Thanksgiving Dinner!

The Queen Bee of volunteers—Jackie Price—posing with the Glassnote crew (and another volunteer) at the Church of the Holy Trinity the day before Thanksgiving. Thank you Jackie, Lydia and Addie for letting us come and help out!


Daniel’s new calling—carving turkeys.


Making stuffing and cranberry sauce---we will never look at a loaf of bread or a dull knife the same way again.

November 10, 2009

Produced by Adam Herzog.

October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween from Glassnote! (Courtesy of Jennifer Favorite)

September 2, 2009

Hey everyone! My name is Alex and I have the extreme privilege of being an intern at Glassnote. After lots of hard work this year, we decided to take a break and have our annual “Company Day”. After last years venture to Coney Island, Daniel chose a change of scenery that was a welcome surprise. This year’s trip was to the North Fork of Long Island for wine tasting and excellent food. We left early in the morning by way of our trusted navigator Steve for a day of fun and relaxation. Our first stop of many for food was at the Love Lane Kitchen where we all got an incredible fresh breakfast. The restaurant was a really cozy, down-home eatery that felt like my own kitchen. Afterwards, we picked up fresh fruit and home-cooked donuts at a stand, the kind you can only find in the country, and then headed off to our first winery! We got to sit by the grapevines and taste our own selected wines. Despite some formidable weather forecasts, it turned out to be a beautiful day. Drinking wine in the sun next to some great scenery was extremely relaxing and everyone left with a smile on their faces. Our next destination was a small town right on the water that boasted little shops and restaurants full of character. We walked around for a while before discovering a huge merry-go-round. Naturally, we all had to go on it. I have to admit I was a little hesitant about being spun around in circles after a big breakfast and a few glasses of wine, but it turned out to be very fun. Afterwards, we ate lunch at a restaurant on the pier, offering very fresh seafood. It was really a classic New England lunch with clam chowder and lobster rolls. No summer day is complete without ice cream, however, so we stopped of at the local shop for some cones. It was mid-afternoon as we headed to the second winery and we just made it before closing time. We all enjoyed some more fine wines and took our last glasses out to the back deck where the sun was setting over the field of grapevines. It was an incredible sight that ended an incredible day. We finally headed home but there was an encore; the pie stand. Fresh peach pie was the one last indulgence of the day and what an indulgence it was. We got back to New York completely satisfied from a wonderful day. Oh, it is good to be at Glassnote!

Love Lane for a yummy breakfast


Wickhams Fruit Far for Peaches and Donuts


At the Vineyard for a Wine Tasting


At the pier after lunch