Tuesday Topic Recap

By | January 15, 2011
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Last week we asked, once again, what your favorite 5 of 5 DVD was (hoping that now most fans who were waiting for the holidays to receive their DVD set now have them!)

The most votes went to “I can’t choose a favorite” and I can see how that won – the DVD sets are just so well done that it is really hard to choose, even if you do have a favorite album, as they are just all so unique!

In second place was The Walk, the 4th night of the series. Tied for third place was I don’t have the set, Middle of Nowhere, This Time Around and Underneath.

Shockingly, Shout It Out came in dead last with only 6% (1 vote)

I must note that we did have some technical difficulties with the poll in the beginning and had to reset it after several votes had been cast and I am not sure if those who had voted before the reset voted once the issues were fixed, so these results might be skewed just a bit. (Not that any of our polls are scientific – we are just looking for something fun to discuss!)

Valentine's Day Merch

By | January 14, 2011
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Each box of HANSON Gourmet Chocolates is an assortment of 12 Gourmet flavored chocolates, all specially picked by HANSON and made by a Tulsa, OK chocolate company. The chocolates come packaged in a specially made box designed with the art of a burning heart from one of the 113 paintings from the Shout it Out album. Each chocolate features the HANSON symbol in white on top with select chocolates having “paint splatter” of color echoing the paint theme of the Shout it Out album.

Chocolate flavors:
2 Ikespresso (Espresso Chocolate)
2 Rock N Roll Raserblade (Raspberry and Dark Chocolate)
2 Hantastic Lime (Key lime Pie and White Chocolate)
3 Tayriffic Chocolate (70% Dark Chocolate)
3 Zacalicious Caramel (Milk Chocolate and Caramel)

$25.00


This shirt design was taken from the 113 paintings that was inspired by the original “I Heart HANSON” shirt design. Three of the shirts portrayed have the “I Heart HANSON” text, and one shirt has the “Shout it Out” text on the center of it.
$30




The Origin
This unique coffee is grown in Central Kenya. The coffee bean selected was overseen by ourselves with expert guidance and roasting by our good friends at Double Shot Coffee in Tulsa, OK.

The Purpose
This coffee is not only for sharing across the table, but it is also a cup which overflows with gifts. With each pound of coffee and mug purchased, you are giving life and love. 10% of the profit from each purchased “Kikombe Cha Kutoa” coffee and mug will go directly to support the Take The Walk campaign’s partners to build a new school and drill a new clean water well in Kenya.

13 oz ceramic red coffee mug

The front of the mug has the Giving Cup design and the back side has the Giving Cup design with the HANSON symbol in the center of the design.

The mug is the same size as the Giving Cup, the I Heart HANSON and the 5 of 5 mugs.

The mug comes packed in a white box with red packing paper wrapped around the mug.
Mug & Coffee set – $25
Just Coffee – $15
Just Mug – $15

This Week at HNet

By | January 13, 2011
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Valentine’s Chocolate

Got a sweet tooth? We are bringing back gourmet Hanson chocolates for Valentine’s Day, but this time in style. Flavors include Ikespresso, Tayriffic Chocolate, and Zacalicious Caramel. Look for them in the Hanson.net store at the end of the week.


The Giving Cup Coffee

We are very excited to be selling another roast of KIKOMBE CHA KUTOA Kenyan Coffee (The Giving Cup) along with a red mug. For those of you who want a wonderful cup of coffee that also supports a great cause, look for it in the store at the end of the week.


I Heart Hanson

In celebration of Valentines Day (the ultimate holiday of love), we have a brand new “I Heart Hanson” T-shirt inspired by The 113 Painting Book. Look for it at the end of the week in the Hanson.net store.

From the Band

We are just around the corner from the release of our second single “Give A Little.” We have been putting the final touches on the “Give A Little” video, and working on remixes for the iTunes single release. They are turning out pretty cool. This week has also marked the beginning of designs for the first ever Hanson board game, Hansonopoly. The plan is to have it finished for Hanson Day this year, but we will be asking for a little help to finalize all the Chance and Community Chest cards. This may be even cooler then the Platinum Shout it Out Package, but we are big Monopoly fans.

Isaac, Taylor, and Zac

Coming next Tuesday – Song Vs Song

By | January 13, 2011
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Make sure that you are registered for the forums – http://www.hansonstage.com/forums – as this is the ONLY way to vote in the Hanson song vs song competition that will be starting on January 18th. (Visitors to the forums will be able to see the results but will have no ability to vote)

We recently had to change the forums to admin approval due to the fact that we have had a lot of spammers signing up and spamming the forums with ads. If you are going to sign up – please shoot us an email at tickets@hansonstage.com or a tweet @hansonstage with the username you signed up under so that we will push your registration through.

If you have previously signed up and do not appear to have a working account, please sign up again and shoot us an email or tweet. There may have been some accounts lost in the shuffle when trying to get the spammers out of the system.

We will be accepting forum accounts throughout the competition, but you should really sign up now (and get your friends to as well) to make sure that you have an influence on all the voting!

Tuesday Topic

By | January 11, 2011
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In 2005, Runaway Run won in the original vote of Hanson songs vs Hanson songs. Do you think it will keep the title in 2011?

Do you think Runaway Run will keep the title of best Hanson song?
Yes
No
What are you talking about?
  
pollcode.com free polls

Song vs Song starts next week! Voting will happen exclusively on the hansonstage forums – http://www.hansonstage.com/forums Make sure you and your friends are signed up and ready to vote 🙂

News Round Up

By | January 8, 2011
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There was a post on Hanson.net asking about Hanson fans help with an art project for “One Day Without Shoes” – Check out the facebook group for more details!

FreeRice.com has a group “Hanson Fans Fighting Hunger” Sign up and answer questions to get rice grains sent to those who need them! For each answer you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated.

While doing some research for some possible future posts, I came across a website from 1997, created by Spite Magazine It has a counter on it tracking how many seconds have passed since the author first heard the song as well as another count figuring out the average number of times an American has had to endure the song “MMMBop” The author notes that the song was heard 3 times in 19 hours. For 1997, that seems like a lot of times between songs – I remember hearing it nearly every time I turned on the radio! The site is exactly as it was in 1997 and is good for a few laughs and a step back in time. Almost like I stumbled upon a time capsule! If you have some free time, be sure to check it out 🙂

Vote HANSON in the ShortyAwards!

By | January 8, 2011
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The Shorty Awards honor the best people and organizations on Twitter and social media. Nominations may be made through Twitter and this website, culminating in an awards ceremony that recognizes the winners in dozens of official categories, as well as thousands of crowd-sourced categories.

Be sure to vote for Hanson! Once from every twitter account you have in MUSIC! (If you’d like to vote for them in an additional category -vote CHARITY)

Voting

* To vote, send a tweet like this: I nominate @TwitterUser for a Shorty Award in #category because… (add reason here)
* You can also tweet shorter votes like this: #shortyawards @username #category (add quick reason here). This shorter format is helpful if you want to vote from a party, on the road, in a meeting, or on a boat
* Be as creative as you want with the reason
* A tweet that does not give a reason for the nomination will not be counted
* The nomination must be relevant to the category
* Vote for as many different people as you want, in as many categories as you want, as often as you want
* Only one person and one category per tweet
* Voting for the same person in the same category more than once just replaces the text of your original vote; it does not count as an additional vote
* You can vote in any of the Official Categories or make up a category of your own. If a new category becomes popular, it might be turned into an Official Category with an award presented at the ceremony in March
* Twitterers are welcome to campaign and encourage their friends to vote for them
* Voters must be active Twitter users prior to the start of the competition. Votes originating from new Twitter accounts or accounts used mainly for Shorty Awards voting will automatically be disqualified and will not count toward the rankings
* We periodically perform audits to make sure our system isn’t being gamed. Contact us if you see suspicious activity
* If you change your Twitter user name, any votes you received under your old user name won’t carry over
* We reserve the right to disqualify nominees that do any of the following: impersonate others, violate trademarks, infringe copyrights, invade privacy, make threats of violence, promote illegal activities, spam others, use bots or scripts for voting, engage in abusive behavior, or otherwise violate the friendly spirit of the awards.

Jarrod Gorbel News

By | January 6, 2011
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Friends-

A Happy New Year to you all. We hope the holiday season treated you well. Jarrod is back in the freezing tundra of Brooklyn writing some new songs and gearing up to record an EP that will be out this spring, or even earlier. He is also gearing up for his first headline tour in support of Devil’s Made A New Friend. All tourdates are below. Columbus people stay tuned we may be adding a show in your fine city. Get your tickets now.

THE HONORARY TITLE SETLIST CONTEST!

“I’m about to embark on a solo tour and I always get bombarded with The Honorary Title requests. I hardly have enough solo material to fill a full set quite yet so can you guys please help me create the ideal set list? Which oldies do you wanna here the most” – Jarrod

Ladies and Gentleman, Its time to vote on the 5 Honorary Title songs you want to hear on Jarrod’s upcoming headline tour. You can choose ANY 5 songs from the Honorary Title catalog. We will tally the votes and the 5 songs with the most votes will make their way into the setlist. These songs will most likely change from city to city as votes are counted for each city only. This is how you participate:

Send an email to: JarrodGorbelSetlist@gmail.com
Subject: Include the City/Venue/Date SETLIST VOTE
Body: List your 5 songs

All votes must be in by Jan 20.

Easy as that. And if you rally your friends together you might be able to determine the 5 songs on your own. Good luck!

One last thing. Jarrod has a tumblr page. Check it out as he updates it frequently:
http://jarrodgorbel.tumblr.com/

TOURDATES
Jan 20 World Cafe Live Philadelphia, PA
Jan 26 The Bar New Haven, Ct FREE
Jan 28 Bowery Ballroom New York, NY ^
Feb 2 Messiah College Grantham, Pa
Feb 3 Grog Shop Cleveland, Oh*
Feb 4 Schubas Chicago, Il*
Feb 5 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, Mn*
Feb 8 the Woods Portland, Or*
Feb 9 Sunset Tavern Seattle, Wa*
Feb 11 Hotel Utah San Francisco, Ca*
Feb 12 The Echo Los Angeles, Ca #
Feb 15 Martini Ranch Scottsdale, Az #
Feb 17 The Ten Eleven San Antonio, Tx #
Feb 18 Cactus Cafe Austin, Tx #
Feb 19 Fitzgeralds Houston, Tx #
Feb 20 The Loft Dallas, Tx #
Feb 22 Jackpot Music Hall Lawrence, Ks #
Feb 23 Cicero’s St. Louis, Mo #
Feb 26 Club Cafe Pittsburgh, Pa #
^ w/ special guests Hurricane Bells
* w/ Mansions
# w/ Atlantic/Pacific

See you on the road,
The office of JG
@jarrodtht
www.jarrodgorbelmusic.com
www.facebook.com/jarrodgorbelmusic
© Jarrod Gorbel

Pre-Fame Voting has ended!

By | January 5, 2011
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With 30 votes, the 5 prefame songs being added to Song vs Song have been selected and are as follows:

Stories (21 votes)
River (20 votes)
Two Tears (13 votes)
More Than Anything (11 votes)
Soldier (11 votes)

We say goodbye to the first casualties of the voting – Day Has Come, Surely As The Sun, Pictures, Sometimes, Boomerang, Lonely Boy, Don’t Accuse, Rain, Something New, Incredible & Baby You’re So Fine

The official song vs song voting will begin on January 18. Make sure you are registered for the forums at http://www.hansonstage.com/forums. We just might be doing a giveaway of all the registered users at some point *hinthint* Be sure to also tell your friends to sign up so they can vote as well!

(Votes will be posted as the Tuesday Topic for the duration of the voting and will be posted for 7 days. There will be 10 pairs to vote for each week through the first 4 rounds)

Tuesday Topic

By | January 4, 2011
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We asked this question in 2010, but it became evident that a lot of our readers didn’t have the 5 of 5 DVD set and might be receiving them for the holidays. We decided to post the question again – what is your favorite disc from the 5 of 5 DVD set?

Which is your favorite 5 of 5 DVD?
Middle of Nowhere
This Time Around
Underneath
The Walk
Shout It Out
I can’t choose a favorite
I don’t have the set
  
pollcode.com free polls

If you still are without a set – there is a discounted brand new set available on ebay, item # 290517494278