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Saturday, October 26, 2019

Just in time for Halloween - a Super Creepy music video!

Check out the new music video for Jerkatorium's Song Fight winner "Super Creepy":


Link:  https://youtu.be/-E9hnTKigPI

All of the footage was edited together from the few Bread and Puppet videos I could find at Archive.org that were listed as Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Creative Commons and NOT listed as "No Derivatives" (most of their videos ask users not to distribute remixes of their footage, and I respect that restriction for the videos marked as such).

The Bread and Puppet Theater is an amazing group of artists that everyone should check out and support. Watch their incredible videos on YouTube, and go to their performances if you ever have the opportunity. Jerkatorium is not affiliated with The Bread and Puppet Theater, and this music video is just a shoddy collage of their fabulous and fantastic imagery. And this should go without saying, but The Bread and Puppet Theater is not super creepy (except on those occasions when they are trying to be super creepy).

Find out more about The Bread and Puppet Theater at:
www.breadandpuppet.org

Saturday, October 5, 2019

Jerkatorium Won the Silent Advance and Liquid Starshine Song Fights

Okay yeah, I'm not good about updating this blog, I see it's been 9 months already.

Jerkatorium won both of the Song Fight competitions we entered during that time.  Back in March we won the Silent Advance Song Fight by a very comfortable margin, and you can hear the song at this link:


The cover art for that song was done by the super-talented artist "happy triangle" aka The Bomberanian:


The art is a brilliant take on the Song Fight graphic/logo:


If you want to see more art by happy triangle, you can check out her Deviant Art page at:


...or her Song Fight art submissions at:

[You'll need to scroll down to "Happy Triangle" to see her list of submissions]

Jerkatorium also won last month's Liquid Starshine Song Fight by one vote - so if you voted for us, thank you!  You are definitely the voter who put us over the top.  It was a big group of great songs and the top 7 entries were each just a couple votes away from each other so it could have gone to anyone, we just lucked out.  You can hear the song at this link:


As I mentioned on the Song Fight bulletin board lyrics post and also on the review podcast, please remember that both turpentine and formaldehyde are toxic.  Do not drink turpentine.  Do not drink formaldehyde.  Your internal organs will shut down and you will die.

And since I mentioned the podcast I'll also mention that we are still doing review podcasts, but not as regularly - we were good about doing a podcast for every competition until the beginning of July, but then we slipped a little and accidentally took a couple of months off.  The podcast will only be of interest to bands participating in Song Fight and/or Nur Ein and/or SpinTunes, but they are available at the following link:


Oddly enough, somehow we ended up on a list of "Top 20 Songwriting Audio Podcasts & Radio You Must Subscribe and Listen to in 2019" at the Traveling Rockstars blog.  And maybe at Feedspot.com too?  I'm afraid to register at Feedspot.com so I don't know what that looks like, but the Traveling Rockstars blog lists "Feedspot's editorial team and expert review" as one of its selection criteria.  They said we could display this badge on our podcast site, so hooray for us:

I still think our podcasts would sound like gibberish to anyone who isn't competing in Song Fight or Nur Ein...  but hey, look at our shiny badge!