Ingram Hill Music

Wuh-Wuh-Wuh-Wuh-Wooorrrld of Beer!!

Justin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:42:05 +0000

When you read that subject, do you read it like a pop/R&B song doing an effect on the vocals where it’s almost like a record scratching (ex: the end of the chorus in that song “Whatcha Say” from Jason Derulo)? Well, if you don’t read it that way, then you’re reading it wrong, so go back and try again.

…waiting…

Okay good, you’re back. So I just wanted to let you know about a couple things. Number one, we’re playing some shows, and you need to come hang out with us at them. We’re VERY excited about going to hang out with some our favorite people at World Of Beer. As you can see from our tour schedule, we have quite a few shows at different World Of Beer locations… we like to call it a WOB mini tour. If you’re wondering what the hell World Of Beer is, you can go here (www.wobusa.com), but in a nutshell, it’s some really great people that have come up with the brilliant idea of offering quality beer from around the world (seriously, from freakin everywhere), and mixing it with some amazingly handsome musicians (that’s where we come in)…oh, and some other good music as well…, and all the while being good folks and creating a great World Of Beer family. So by all means, check them out, say hello, do what you do. Oh, and come see us when we’re there. Cuz these shows are free, dawg!

Number two. We’re working like crazy to get a release date for our record. It’s finished… it’s awesome… you’re gonna love it. I want you all to have it right now. But keep sticking with us. Soon enough that musical void in your life will be filled with the glooorious sounds of new Ingram Hill songs!

To celebrate the King’s birthday yesterday…

Justin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:44:55 +0000

I had a delicious fried peanut butter and banana sandwich. It was the first one I’d ever had. It makes a lot of sense why it was Elvis’s favorite sandwich, and why he gained a bunch of weight! haha. Holy crap it was good! But I figured it would be okay to clog up my arteries for my all-time favorite. I recommend you try it at least once (but the secret is to mash up the peanut butter and banana together before you fry it).
So to get to my other point, I updated a few statuses with this info about the sandwich and Elvis’s birthday, and one of the responses was quite nice. We get messages like this every once in a while, and it really just makes me feel good about what we do. I think everyone needs that reassurance from time to time. We certainly don’t take for granted the messages and comments we get regularly, but sometimes someone comes out of the woodwork..someone we’ve never met before, have never heard from…and just makes your night. In this instance, I figured I’d share.

“i was a maintenance man at a amusement park in memphis tn for 12 years, my job was to maintain the (zippin pippin) a 100 year old wooden rollercoaster that was his fav ride, he used to rent out the park all night long and ride it over and over. so to you i say thanx, for being my elvis . ive never had the op to see you live but i hope to some day, dont ever stop. i dont know what i would do without your tunes and lyrics to get me thru the shit in my life”

This made me smile. Thanks for the message, Kevin.

Well maybe we have a gift for you after all

Justin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:37:35 +0000

Here you were thinking your old pals, Ingram Hill, we’re gonna get you a gift for Christmas. Well boy were you wrong! Now if only I had learned how to use the internet and our website, I probably would’ve given you your gift a lot earlier. However, I still haven’t learned how, so I used a website called last.fm for your gift, and lemme just tell you, my understanding of that site is at all time low. I nearly shot my computer. It almost got me out of the Christmas spirit, and you almost didn’t get a gift! But I think I figured out. SO, if you’ve ever wanted to own the actual mp3 of our YouTube cover of Chris Brown’s “With You,” you can download it for free. And if you’ve never wanted to own that, then we have some coal on the way to your house right now. Download that sucker right here

Oh, and if you don’t celebrate Christmas, we got this for you.

***UPDATE*** You gotta click on the “free download” link under Tracklist, just below the album cover.

Wait, there’s a another winner?!?!

Justin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:55:16 +0000

Of course there is. If you remember, we not only were looking for a name for our rehearsal space, we also needed a name for our new album (though we didn’t run a contest for the latter). I don’t know why these things take so long… I guess because it’s like, one step below naming your band. Once it’s done, it’s kinda done. I mean, sure, you could always change your band name. Bands do it all the time. But you lose name recognition and branding and all that whole shebang (sidenote: does anyone else read the word “shebang” as “she bang” in the voice of William Hung? Example here), so once you pick your band name, you really wanna try to stick to it. And once you’ve achieved some sort of notoriety, it’s kinda silly to change your name. So basically it’s set in stone. Same with an album title. Once you name it, it’s there. It’s on the cover, it’s listed in iTunes, and you get a million questions about why you named your album what you did. So almost half the goal is to just not name it anything stupid (like June’s Picture Show…”Maaan I love that JANE’S Picture Show album”). That said, here’s the new title and tracklisting:

Look Your Best
1. Broken Lover
2. Lady Gray
3. As Long As I’m With You
4. Hey Girl
5. Burn Out Your Flame
6. Come Around
7. Miss Kennedy
8. The Hardest Part
9. Ready For The Sun
10. Wish You’d Stay

Of course, track listings are subject to change. But that’s what it is right now, and what we plan on it being forever. The album is getting mastered right now, and as soon as we get it back, I’ll put the actual studio versions of songs on our Myspace player, instead of my crappy home demo versions.

Hope everyone is having a happy holiday!

And the winner is…

Justin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:45:50 +0000

So after much deliberation, we decided to call the rehearsal space The Mill. We had actually already come up with that (there were actually other ones we had already thought of, too), and then we had some replies suggesting that one (I think Sally was one of them), so we went with it. It makes sense, really. It works with the mixing of the actual location of the space, as well as kinda getting the back part of “Hill.” There were some pretty hilarious suggestions (ex: The Shit Hole, Jam Town, and S.W.I.G.S.D.), and I really appreciate everyone pitching in your ideas. That was pretty awesome. Although I gotta tell you, I was pretty dead set on The Mill, when someone suggested Ingram Hole, which just made me laugh/grossed out. That almost became the winner, but the other guys got a little too grossed out by it. So there ya go. We rehearse at The Mill. Short, sweet, to the point. I think it gets the job done.

So I guess I’ve been a little vague

Justin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:25:16 +0000

I really didn’t mean to be. Quite honestly, I thought everyone knew what was going on, but it was brought to my attention that actually hardly anyone knew what was going on. So here we go. We’re recording a new record…, like literally, right now. We’ve been in Atlanta for about a month (hence all my Atlanta-based status updates on the Facebook and Twitter). We’re working with Rick Beato again, and if that name sounds or doesn’t sound familiar, he’s the fella who produced our first record, June’s Picture Show. The album is getting pretty close to finished, and it sounds downright awesome. We don’t have a title for the album just yet, but I’ll certainly let you know when we get one. And unfortunately, I don’t know a release date either (and of course I’ll let you know that, too). We’d love to have it out by the spring, but, as I’ve found, these things tend to change. So if you’re wondering about the lack of tour dates recently, there’s a little explanation for you. We’re not just sitting around the house, eating potato chips, and being just overall lazy. Actually, we’re sitting around in a hotel doing those things.

And for those of you wondering what we named the rehearsal space, we still haven’t decided. But there are some terrific ideas there. Thank you so much for your input. And if you still have some, keep ‘em coming. If you don’t know what I’m talking about right now, go read the post before this one. And leave a suggestion.

Look forward to seeing you guys soon, and for you to hear our record!

Okay we need your help naming our rehearsal space

Justin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:00:21 +0000

So here’s the deal…we have this rehearsal space. It’s where we rehearse and stuff. Well, I’m tired of calling it the rehearsal space (or the practice space), and I think we need a name for it. We have some ideas already, but we thought maybe we need to go outside our little circle to get some help from you guys. So just reply to this blog with your ideas. Here’s a few things to keep in mind. Short and sweet, and easy to say. Like, I’m tired of saying I’m going to the rehearsal space because it just takes so long to say…. maybe it doesn’t take that long, and I’m just crazy, but I want something easier than that. If the name somehow relates to us, or our songs, great. But it doesn’t have to. Okay now go!

Maybe a little album news here

Justin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:20:27 +0000

If you’re wondering what our album cover might look like, well, I’ll give you a little hint. It might look something like this, but you know, of course with us on it. Don’t you think this is the route we should take?

I always thought that the one thing we were missing was a tough, shirtless picture of us flexing on the album cover. Super-stardom here we come!

Special hidden video of Matt. :)

Justin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:35:31 +0000

He still does the remote control move to this day. I’ve seen it.

Click here for the super secret hidden video

What a bunch of mularkey (that sounds like my grandma)

Justin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:18:09 +0000

I think I need to send a strongly worded email to AT&T, but I can’t figure out where to do it. I think they do that intentionally in order to discourage me from sending strongly worded emails.

In other news, our new record is gonna be awesome… I got the feeling…baby, baby, baby…baby, baby, baby…baby, baby, baby…baby, baby, I got the feelin’