Win a canvas of your photograph and decorate my home!

My lovely readers, some of you may know that I am about to move in with my amazing and also-music-writer boyfriend, Zack Teibloom from Festival Crashers. We are excited to share a space (and a bitchin’ vinyl collection) together, but we need some help with pulling together awesome stuff for our walls. Serendipitously for us, the fine people at Canvas Prints have offered to print out some concert photos so we can rockify our apartment.

This is where you come in. We are each hosting a separate contest for Austinites with concert photos, wherein we will pick winners and not only will your fabulous pics get put up in our place, but you, too, will take home a canvas of your winning photograph. The canvas the winner receives will be 14″x11″. Sound good? Read on for rules:

1. You’ve gotta do some ‘liking’ of Canvas Prints, because we like them for letting us run this contest. PLUS, by ‘liking’ them on Facebook, every single one of you gets 50% off of your next order, and free shipping. So no matter what, everyone’s a winner.
2. You’ve gotta submit a photo of one of these Texas bands, because – let’s be honest, we want our favorites displayed. (This is where the photo contests differ. Check out Festival Crashers for more winning.) Here are your choices:

• The Bright Light Social Hour
• The Black & White Years
• Little Lo
• Royal Forest
• Brazos (Old skool!/Extinct  )
• Sarah Jaffe
• The Boxing Lesson
• Spoon

The contest runs from now until July 15, the day before The Great Migration, and we’ll announce the winners post-move that Monday. Please email your entries to: caitlin AT austinwritesmusic DOT com. You can submit up to 10 photos, and make sure you link directly to your submission (not just your general photo site for us to peruse).

Also, for more chances to win free shwag, be sure to follow Canvas Prints on Twitter.

Tonight – Brazos @ Stubb’s

Autobus Records is having a showcase tonight at Stubb’s (indoors), and blog-favorite Brazos are headlining a stellar local bill. Autobus says this could be the last time you see Brazos for a while, which breaks my heart but makes me all the more determined to get to the show, and you should, too!! If you RSVP at Do512, and you’re one of the first 50 folks who show up (doors are at 9pm, contrary to what the poster says) you get in for $5 (everyone else gets in for $7.) Hope to see y’all there!

SXSW 2010

South by Southwest 2010 flew by in a sporadic flurry, but I managed to catch some incredible acts over the four days. I’ve written a review of my experience, and it’s posted (with photos I took, like the one above of Martin Crane from Brazos) at Neon Musical Insight. Check it out!