OPEN YOUR EYES RECORDS AND WHAT.CD COLLABORATE FOR EXCLUSIVE PRE-RELEASES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Open Your Eyes Records and What.cd are collaborating to revolutionize the industry landscape by making it clear that p2p technology and record labels can work hand-in-hand to accomplish their ultimate goals: getting artists heard and growing their fan bases.

This collaboration gives members of the What.cd community the benefit and privilege of being first to get all albums that have been and will be released by Open Your Eyes Records. In recognition of the attraction of having a head-up on the media and mainstream, Open Your Eyes Records and What.cd are catering to the p2p community by getting all new releases, artist news and updates to the file sharing community before it is accessible to the general public.

Open Your Eyes Records is a company built by musicians, for musicians. It strives to make their artists everything they should be to the public and themselves, without taking a big piece of the cake. This is contrary to the philosophy of many of the current independent labels and all of the major label juggernauts because Open Your Eyes Record has a unique vision. Open Your Eyes Records is a launch pad for the nation’s next big acts, and a starting point towards greatness. In the collaboration with What.cd, Open Your Eyes Records is recognizing the need to embrace the new possibilities of information exchange of the Internet to fulfill this mission.

Open Your Eyes Records has recently signed a new band, "I Call Fives," hailing from Southern New Jersey. The band's debut album, "First Things First" will be released to the public these days, but the What.CD community will be getting this album exclusively today.

Open Your Eyes Records first signing was Four Year Strong who released their debut CD "It's Our Time" in 2005 on a fledgling label with a single employee. Since this time, Four Year Strong has gone on to sign with Decaydance Records, home of Gym Class Hereos, Cobra Starship, and Panic! At the Disco.

PW Recommended!

New I Call Fives, and exclusive FYS

We have posted some new I Call Fives tracks on our myspace page at:

www.myspace.com/openyoureyesrecords

AND!!!!!!

We have gone ahead and posted some brand maw' Fuckin new Four Year Strong tracks exclusively for you... whoever you are..

and I'll tell you what..

If you send an e-mail to:

Management.openyoureyesrecords@gmail.com

I will send you a copy of First Things First, the new I Call Fives Record.. AAAAANNNND! It's Our Time, the very first release by Four Year Strong, limited to only 300 copies.

So what's the word? You gonna e-mail? This offer... It does not expire.

RECOGNIZE THE TRANSPARENCY.

The Album Has Leaked!

So go download it and let us know what you think!!

You can find it on http://wewantleaks.blogspot.com

I Call Fives - First Things First - December 19th 2008

I Call Fives Studio Update!

If you haven't noticed already, you can view I Call Fives studio update right up above there.. ^^

It has a new song in there that we're sure you'll like a lot.

Let us know what you think!

Lots of updates!

If you haven't heard of Soundcloud, you're seriously missing out especially if you are an artist.


You can upload tracks, and people can make time specific comments.
Kinda hard to explain, but you should check it out! Great Fun!

http://soundcloud. com/open-your-eyes-records

Open Your Eyes has a Twitter account that you should certainly be following.
This is where we release information to first, so if you want to stay in the loop, get on it!

http://twitter. com/Open_Your_Eyes

We will be making a HUGE announcement regarding a p2p partnership, that will allow you to get any and all of our records free, at any quality, FOREVER.
Stay tuned for that!!

Next week we will be revealing the album art for I Call Fives new record "First Things First," which we are releasing on December 19th.
It'll be our default, so keep on the lookout!

(Additional statement ending with exclamation points)!!

We will be announcing a contest around Thanksgiving that will surely keep you warm for the winter, and give you a reason to visit Santa at the mall. We'll announce that around Turkey Day.


We will be launching a blog soon, as well as all new layouts across all of our sites.


This was a big update, and they're only gonna get bigger, folks!

Stay tuned!!

Welcome, and Hello!

Now a formal introduction from Open Your Eyes Records!

You have reached our blog, congrats. You can come here for the latest updates on the label, our artists, and our thoughts on current events related to the music industry.

You can check here daily beginning Early Winter 2008. Until then there will be periodic updates, all of which will be insanely important. So bookmark us, visit our other sites, and let us know who you are!

See You There!!!
Open Your Eyes Records

Press Inquiries!

If you are a member of the press in any capacity, be it blogger, newspaper, tv, internet, outernet, whatever..

You can e-mail us at:

management.openyoureyesrecords@gmail.com

with any questions you may have.

Demo Submission Guidelines!

SEND DEMOS TO: AANDR.OPENYOUREYESRECORDS@gmail.com

We love getting demos!

We listen to each and every single demo we receive, no matter what. We don't always have time to respond to each and every demo we receive, though. Those that we don't have time to respond to on the spot, get a little star in the inbox, and when we have time, we'll get to it.

We usually listen to the demos the very day that we receive said demo. If you really jump out at us, you'll get an answer back right away. Sometimes it needs to marinate. This is the way things work. So, if you sent your demo, we got your demo. No question.

Here are the guidelines for submission:

1. Music:
Send no more than three songs. If we really like it, we'll ask for more. You can give us a myspace link if you'd like, and we'd like that in addition to the songs that are e-mailed.

2. Format:
mp3s only. Your songs go into our iTunes, and onto our iPods so that we can listen while we travel. It's just something we do. So please give us mp3s with metadata in tact. This means that iTunes should know automatically who the song is by and such. If that's no possible, or you don't know how to do that, no worries! It helps though!

3. Band Information:
In the e-mail please tell us about yourselves. Touring history, so on and so forth. Basics, you know? If we want anything past that, we'll ask.

4. ??????

5. Victory.

Please bear in mind that we accept all genres and styles of music. We have open minds, and love music, so send away!