Tuesday, December 1st 2009, 10:12am
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Wednesday, November 25th 2009, 8:11am
Quick Link: Rick Hopkins Indie Spotlight Page
Ok folks, for sometime now you've probably seen all these messages I have put up all over my facebook and twitter page asking you to vote for me on the Gospel Music Channel Indie Spotlight contest. Basically what this contest is all about is that I entered the contest as an independent artist, people come to the site and sign up to vote on their favorite artist. You can cast one vote per artist, per day. The artist who makes it all the way to the end of the contest and wins it all gets to be featured on the Gospel Music Channel, they get recording time with Integrity Music, and they win $5000 worth of Fender musical gear. So its a pretty sweet opportunity for any independent artist trying to make his/her way into the music scene.
I entered the contest a while back and people have been voting for me, and I need to say thank you to all of you who have been voting for me everyday. Last night they concluded the first round of voting and narrowed it down to the top 100 artist. Thanks to all of you who have voted for me I am in the top 100. Since there were around 600 artists, I feel pretty good about that. So again, from the bottom of my heart, because that's were the big love comes from, I say thank you!
It's not over yet though I still need your votes, and I need your friends votes, and I need your parents votes, and I need your co-workers votes, and basically anyone who can click a mouse. I need you guys to twitter about it, and facebook about it, and youtube about it, and myspace, and facespace, and twittertube, and youtwit, and myface, and twitface, and whatever other social media sites you use. There are widgets you can add to your facebook sites and all sorts of stuff... I need your help. I promise that if I win, I will no longer ask you to vote for me. But if I lose... oh if I lose, so help me God I will come at you rabid spidermonkey... er, um... I mean... please vote for me. If you need any help with the site or with setting up the widgets just let me know.
Down below here is a quick rundown of how the contest works. We just finished round 1 where artist were narrowed down to the top 100. From now to midnight December I need your votes to make it to the top 50. Then I'll need your votes to get into the top 15. I think if I can get into that top 15, I will have a pretty good chance. I'll just have to beat my buddy George Moss :)
So here is the link to my profile page. Hit it everyday to vote for me whether you like me or not. I'm gonna be asking you to vote either way so you might as well just go do it. Oh, and if you sign up to vote in the contest you are automatically entered for the chance to win an HD TV!
Indie Spotlight: Rick Hopkins
September 14 - November 24: Open Round
To compete, upload a performance video or MP3 and fill out the profile information. Once you have completed your profile, spread the word. Tell all your friends and fans to vote for you and to vote often. The best way to be seen and heard by the industry is to prove the fans love you. Every day counts so don't waste any time.
November 25 - December 1: Round Two — Top 100
The field is narrowed to the Top 100 bands. The top 100 battle it out by gaining attention and votes to see who advances to the Semi-Final Round.
December 2 - December 8: Round Three — Semi-Finals (Top 50)
The best of the best emerge and the Top 50 start fresh to prove they have what it takes. Once again attention and votes determine who the Final 15 are.
December 9 - December 15: Finals (Top 15)
Our judges weigh in and determine the next person to step into the spotlight.
Voting Rules
Fans may vote for as many artists as they wish, but each fan may only cast one vote per artist, per day.
Ok folks, for sometime now you've probably seen all these messages I have put up all over my facebook and twitter page asking you to vote for me on the Gospel Music Channel Indie Spotlight contest. Basically what this contest is all about is that I entered the contest as an independent artist, people come to the site and sign up to vote on their favorite artist. You can cast one vote per artist, per day. The artist who makes it all the way to the end of the contest and wins it all gets to be featured on the Gospel Music Channel, they get recording time with Integrity Music, and they win $5000 worth of Fender musical gear. So its a pretty sweet opportunity for any independent artist trying to make his/her way into the music scene.
I entered the contest a while back and people have been voting for me, and I need to say thank you to all of you who have been voting for me everyday. Last night they concluded the first round of voting and narrowed it down to the top 100 artist. Thanks to all of you who have voted for me I am in the top 100. Since there were around 600 artists, I feel pretty good about that. So again, from the bottom of my heart, because that's were the big love comes from, I say thank you!
It's not over yet though I still need your votes, and I need your friends votes, and I need your parents votes, and I need your co-workers votes, and basically anyone who can click a mouse. I need you guys to twitter about it, and facebook about it, and youtube about it, and myspace, and facespace, and twittertube, and youtwit, and myface, and twitface, and whatever other social media sites you use. There are widgets you can add to your facebook sites and all sorts of stuff... I need your help. I promise that if I win, I will no longer ask you to vote for me. But if I lose... oh if I lose, so help me God I will come at you rabid spidermonkey... er, um... I mean... please vote for me. If you need any help with the site or with setting up the widgets just let me know.
Down below here is a quick rundown of how the contest works. We just finished round 1 where artist were narrowed down to the top 100. From now to midnight December I need your votes to make it to the top 50. Then I'll need your votes to get into the top 15. I think if I can get into that top 15, I will have a pretty good chance. I'll just have to beat my buddy George Moss :)
So here is the link to my profile page. Hit it everyday to vote for me whether you like me or not. I'm gonna be asking you to vote either way so you might as well just go do it. Oh, and if you sign up to vote in the contest you are automatically entered for the chance to win an HD TV!
Indie Spotlight: Rick Hopkins
September 14 - November 24: Open Round
To compete, upload a performance video or MP3 and fill out the profile information. Once you have completed your profile, spread the word. Tell all your friends and fans to vote for you and to vote often. The best way to be seen and heard by the industry is to prove the fans love you. Every day counts so don't waste any time.
November 25 - December 1: Round Two — Top 100
The field is narrowed to the Top 100 bands. The top 100 battle it out by gaining attention and votes to see who advances to the Semi-Final Round.
December 2 - December 8: Round Three — Semi-Finals (Top 50)
The best of the best emerge and the Top 50 start fresh to prove they have what it takes. Once again attention and votes determine who the Final 15 are.
December 9 - December 15: Finals (Top 15)
Our judges weigh in and determine the next person to step into the spotlight.
Voting Rules
Fans may vote for as many artists as they wish, but each fan may only cast one vote per artist, per day.
Tuesday, September 15th 2009, 12:09am
I uploaded my first album to noisetrade as well, and I threw in a couple of bonus tracks, a couple of those being fun ones we made along the way. Thanks to my buddy Jon Hodge for the "clean" version of Bittersweet End... Check it out... It's free!
Saturday, August 22nd 2009, 12:08am
Hey there... everyone go subscribe to my Facebook Fan Page. It's a way better way to stay on top of whats going on with me. Here is a link to it... and I'll change the link on the side of my current page to point to this fan page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rick-Hopkins/54915689053
By the way, if you go there now there is a couple of brand new songs to listen to and comment on. The recordings are really bad because I did them myself and I am no studio technician, but hopefully soon we'll get some better recordings up there for you all to hear.
Get out to one of my upcoming shows. I miss you all.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rick-Hopkins/54915689053
By the way, if you go there now there is a couple of brand new songs to listen to and comment on. The recordings are really bad because I did them myself and I am no studio technician, but hopefully soon we'll get some better recordings up there for you all to hear.
Get out to one of my upcoming shows. I miss you all.
Sunday, June 21st 2009, 10:06pm
Quick update... I won the Big Ticket Festival indie stage battle of the bands on Saturday! We were up first that day at 11am and we benefited from some rainy weather outside because we were inside a building... We rocked the house, had a GREAT crowd that seemed to be loving every minute of it. To them I say a big thank you for your support and votes. The prize for winning the indie stage is that next year at the Big Ticket Festival I get to play the main stage! So next year I'll be sharing a stage with some of the biggest bands in Christian music. I can not wait. I am hoping for a big year ahead of me! I can't wait to see where God is taking me on this journey. He is an awesome God who's love and blessings I don't deserve.
I hope to see as many of you as possible out at BTF next year! I can't wait!
I hope to see as many of you as possible out at BTF next year! I can't wait!
Tuesday, March 24th 2009, 8:03am
Hey guys, one real quick thing for you. I have updated the Listen page. It now opens up a music player that contains all of my own music from both my albums. It also has an album I did with my former rock band RedHandRevolt for those of you looking for something a little heavier and louder. Finally it has an album called Kingdom Coming Down that was put together by the church I attend, Ada Bible Church. I was lucky enough to get to play on a few of the songs, but you'll also get to hear a whole bunch of my friends from church rocking out to some original praise tunes we wrote.
Hope you guys enjoy all the music, and hopefully this player works better than the last one which was pretty buggy. Let me know if you have any problems. Later...
Hope you guys enjoy all the music, and hopefully this player works better than the last one which was pretty buggy. Let me know if you have any problems. Later...
Monday, March 16th 2009, 11:03pm
Hey everybody.... remember me? Rick Hopkins... that guy who use to play music and write stuff. No? Don't remember? How about this... "Lift Up Your Eyes O Israel"... remember? No. Got nothing? Ok, well anyway, I have a few quick updates for you.
First off, I played in the Big Ticket Tour battle of the bands in Grand Rapids, MI on Feb 28. The band and I rocked it out and got into the top 3 bands which basically earned us a spot to play at the Big Ticket Festival in Gaylord, MI on June 18, 19, & 20. I am not sure which day we'll play just yet, but I'll keep you posted. If you want to get tickets to the festival check out their website at http://www.bigticketfestival.com/.
Secondly, on May 16, 2009 I am opening for Warren Barfield at Arcadia Creek Festival Place in Kalamazoo. This should be a pretty good show and I am very excited for it. Check out the shows link for more information. If you have never heard of Warren Barfield, he sings the song "Love Is Not A Fight" which was on the soundtrack of the movie "Fireproof" which came out recently.
Thirdly, I am now working with the company Dreamlight Entertainment. Dreamlight was started by George Moss, a WayFM dj and local artist himself. They will be handling booking shows and all sorts of other functions for me, which is awesome because I honestly don't know what I am doing myself. Their help is very welcome. To contact them for booking or whatever else get ahold of Greg Rios at greg@dreamlightent.com .
Finally, I really hope to get to work on writing some new stuff soon, but the inspiration isn't coming as fast as I would like. I have been super busy with family, work, and P90X lately. For questions about what P90X is... just imagine the most intense workout you have ever done, then multiply it by impossibility to the power of infinity. Its that difficult of a workout. I am in the 4th week. Only about 66 more days to go. Ugh. Hopefully it will be worth it when I am done. I'll post the before and after pictures if they are worth looking at, and they don't make you feel weird. Also I hope to get back into blogging some real soon. It's been a long time and I need the therapy of getting some stuff off my chest. Look for that soon.
Ok, talk to you all later. Contact me with anything you have for me. Later.
First off, I played in the Big Ticket Tour battle of the bands in Grand Rapids, MI on Feb 28. The band and I rocked it out and got into the top 3 bands which basically earned us a spot to play at the Big Ticket Festival in Gaylord, MI on June 18, 19, & 20. I am not sure which day we'll play just yet, but I'll keep you posted. If you want to get tickets to the festival check out their website at http://www.bigticketfestival.com/.
Secondly, on May 16, 2009 I am opening for Warren Barfield at Arcadia Creek Festival Place in Kalamazoo. This should be a pretty good show and I am very excited for it. Check out the shows link for more information. If you have never heard of Warren Barfield, he sings the song "Love Is Not A Fight" which was on the soundtrack of the movie "Fireproof" which came out recently.
Thirdly, I am now working with the company Dreamlight Entertainment. Dreamlight was started by George Moss, a WayFM dj and local artist himself. They will be handling booking shows and all sorts of other functions for me, which is awesome because I honestly don't know what I am doing myself. Their help is very welcome. To contact them for booking or whatever else get ahold of Greg Rios at greg@dreamlightent.com .
Finally, I really hope to get to work on writing some new stuff soon, but the inspiration isn't coming as fast as I would like. I have been super busy with family, work, and P90X lately. For questions about what P90X is... just imagine the most intense workout you have ever done, then multiply it by impossibility to the power of infinity. Its that difficult of a workout. I am in the 4th week. Only about 66 more days to go. Ugh. Hopefully it will be worth it when I am done. I'll post the before and after pictures if they are worth looking at, and they don't make you feel weird. Also I hope to get back into blogging some real soon. It's been a long time and I need the therapy of getting some stuff off my chest. Look for that soon.
Ok, talk to you all later. Contact me with anything you have for me. Later.
Monday, February 2nd 2009, 11:02pm
I have finally pieced together all the lyrics to the new album in one pdf. You can get them by clicking here. I've had quite a few requests for the lyrics so I hope you guys enjoy. It doesn't involve guitar chords or song explanations or anything like that. I am hoping to at some point find an artist who feels like doing a project, give them the lyrics and some imagery ideas, and let them piece together a graphic novel. That would be sweet so if you are that person please contact me :) In the meantime here are the lyrics. Hope you enjoy!
Monday, January 19th 2009, 12:01pm
Just a quick one here... Where We Are And Where We Long To Be is now available through everyone's favorite music store, iTunes. Just do a search for "Rick Hopkins" in the iTunes store, or click this link here... http://www.itunes.com/rickhopkins. Keep in mind you can also get it for free from NoiseTrade at http://www.noisetrade.com/rickhopkins. Hope you're all enjoying it.
I am hoping to start lining up some shows again so if you want me to come play where you are contact me through my contact page... http://rickhopkins.com/contact/. Alright. Later.
I am hoping to start lining up some shows again so if you want me to come play where you are contact me through my contact page... http://rickhopkins.com/contact/. Alright. Later.
Thursday, January 1st 2009, 5:01pm
Hey there guys, quick note. You can now get my entire new album for free by telling some friends, or you can pay me whatever you want. Pretty sweet deal. This is provided by a website that I have loved for quite a while called NoiseTrade. NoiseTrade was created by Derek Webb (who is one of my favorite musicians ever) and some of his buddies. You can click here and get to my noisetrade widget. I have am also going to be adding it to my site here pretty quick. Probably in the right pane area somewhere. Enjoy!
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