Perks & Awards!

One of the perks of being a independent musician is that you get to discover other independent musicians while you're busy trying to promote yourself. These are hard-working artists who are working their butts off to share their music with the world, just like us.
I've heard so many great musicians over the past few months, but this one in particular deserves a special mention. His name is Scott Carmichael, and there is just nothing I don't like about his music. The instrumentation, arrangements, harmonies, the tremendously good guitar-playing and unpredicability in his songwriting - all the ingredients are there and top notch. Especially his songs "Find Him" and "So Much More" just rub me the right way!
But, you know, don't take my word for it, though, let the music speak for itself:
Listen to Scott Carmichael

We are This is lizzard, we are independent, and we are tickled pink - want to know why?! We are in the running for three - count 'em - three independent music awards!

The Indie Reviewer Award (The TIR)
There are 2 weeks left for you to help us win this award! Click on the link and vote for 'Won't Give Up' by 'liking' or 'tweeting' it. We're in 2nd place at the moment, and winning this would mean exposure, prestige and appreciation from our peers, friends and industry professionals. (Winners to be announced on Oct. 15th)

The Hollywood Music in Media Award (The HMMA)
The HMMA, another very prestigious award, is chosen by industry profs, so no voting needed on this one... just keep those fingers and toes crossed! Check out the pretty official nomination we got even.




The Independent Music Awards (The IMA)
More info to come on this award!

The latest...

Man, these are some busy times!

Being an independent artist has its perks - total artistic freedom, flexible hours, complete control... But being independent also means doing everything on your own, and working every day on getting our music out there. Which we do with love and passion, naturally!

Here's the lowdown on what we've been up to lately...


Janeane Bernstein, host of Momz Rock the House on OC Talk Radio in California interviewed me. We had a great chat and she put together a great segment which you can listen to here. She also posted a bit of our video chat on YouTube. I'm lookin' to meet more rockin' musician Moms and Dads out there, drop me a line, I'd love to hear about your experiences about raising kids and making music!

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This is lizzard was featured on the premiere broadcast of brand beach station, Radio Waves. DJ Michael Anthony (aka DJ Beach Bum) and DJ Chris rocked it on their first show, promising much more awesomeness to fill those airwaves in the future. These guys have great taste in music (!) and a great sense of humor too.

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The nominees for the HMMA (Hollywood Music in Media Awards) were announced today, and guess who's on the list!

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This is lizzard will be featured next month on WhoTune's website and take part in the CMJ Music Compliation - more on that to come...!

Winner Takes it All?

Unfortunately, we did not win WhoTune's 'Promote Me Like a Rockstar' contest... But we felt like we won anyway. We never expected to get as far as we did - we were voted 2nd place from over 400 amazing bands, and we're still #3 on the charts!

We don't make music to win contests or prizes or achieve fame and fortune. We make music because we can't not make music. It's in our heart and soul, it's a passion in our lives we can't live without. If our music strikes a chord with a single individual, it makes it all worthwhile for us.
Really.

Sure, it would be awesome to win something. Some financial support would be a huge help, let's not kid ourselves about that!  
But we did not end up empty-handed!
We not only gained even more support and appreciation by our amazing fans throughout the world, we will also be featured on the WhoTune site next month. We've been holding steady at the top of the chart for the past week and the exposure has helped us gain airplay and interviews on some pretty awesome stations and podcasts. I'd call that winning!

Thanks to WhoTune, for the opportunity and especially thank you to everyone who supported us by voting for us and attending the Live Stage show. No matter what happens, we Won't Give Up! 

The Waiting...

...is the hardest part.

As most of you know, we performed yesterday on WhoTune's Live Stage and what a blast it was! Lots of our fans made the effort to tune in, despite the crazy time-difference, which means the world to us. Thank you!

Now, we wait. The other competing bands, Refuse the Fall and The Red List, did their thing on Live Stage as well, which we unfortunately couldn't watch, due to - yet again - the crazy time difference. As much as I love to know what my fellow musicians are up to, I just can't get up at 3am to watch their performance. (Especially not when my kids will be up a few hours later!) I hope their shows went well, that they rocked to the very best of their ability, and may the best band win this thing! (Although, I really really hope it's us...)

When we find out who won, I don't know. I am ready for a 6-month marketing campaign, boy, am I ever. We've been working so long to get our music where it is today, a good dose of promotion is the next logical step for us. We don't want to be kept secret anymore - we're more than ready to get This is lizzard out into the world!

A new site was a step in the right direction - we'd love to know what you think of it! Talk to us! Leave comments here, on our WhoTune profile (and while you're there, go ahead and vote for our track 'Where My Heart Lies' to keep us at the top of the Top 50 chart), or on our Facebook Page, or via Twitter - your feedback is what keeps us going!

As we wait for the contest results, we've got some great stuff coming up:
next Thursday @12noon PST: interview on OC Talk Radio, The Momz Rock the House Show
and coming soon... the worldwide premiere of awesome new station, Radio Waves!

'It might take forever and a day... you know you can't rush time...'

This is lizzard performs LIVE on WhoTune!

Thanks to all our awesome fans around the world, we held steady in 2nd place for WhoTune's 'Promote Me Like a Rockstar' contest, and even held the number one spot on the Top 50 chart! We are that much closer to winning the grand prize, a 6-month global marketing campaign, thanks to YOU!

We will be performing LIVE via WhoTune's Live Stage 
on Friday September 9th at 9:15am CET (which is 12:15 midnight PST Thursday night for our West-Coast fans, 8:15am for our UK fans, and around 5pm for our Aussie fans) 
and we want you to be there!

Go to the WhoTune website, log in, then click on 'Live Stage' to tune in to our performance
from wherever you are in the world!


Your support means everything to us! Knowing our music is reaching you makes it all worth it!