Filipinas Magazine has honored Layla Loxa in their August issue, which features the all-time greatest Filipinos in the sports world. In the article Layla is called the highest ranking Filipino surfer in history. The issue also features several of the most prominent Filipino athletes today and in years past. View full article.
REAL is tearing up the charts, hitting 10 separate Broadjam chart categories, including #1 on the Pop/Easy Listening chart, # 2 on the Pop chart, #3 on the California chart, #5 on the West chart, #8 on the US chart, #8 on the North America chart, #4 on the Ballad chart, #10 on the Fan Picks chart and #2 on the Female Vocals chart.
REAL has hit the Earth Top 10 chart on Broadjam. This chart is a combination of all charts and genres combined, making it the toughest and most important Broadjam chart.
Give Me Back My Heart is the 5th Liquid Blue song to reach the number one position on a Broadjam chart. It went to #1 on the Broadjam R&B/Contemporary Chart and is also went to #4 on the overall R&B chart. Click here to view charts.
Anything Else But has become the 6th separate Liquid Blue song to chart on Broadjam and the fifth song to go to number one. The song hit #1 on the World Music chart. Click here to view charts.
Rescue has reached number one on the Broadjam Pop/Rock chart. A rep from Broadjam said Liquid Blue’s accomplishment of six number ones is “more than amazing”.
Rhythm of Love finished 1st in the Song of the Year contest, in the Electronic/Dance category, for Aug 2004. Song of the Year is part of VH1’s Save the Music Foundation.
Liquid Blue’s debut CD, Supernova, has entered the top 10 in sales at CD Baby, the largest seller of independent music on the web. CD Baby currently represents over 75,000 artists! It has been a launching pads for acts such as Jack Johnson, Gary Jules & O.A.R., to name a few.
The title track from Supernova is ranked as the #1 Most Original Song in the Pop/Rock category, all-time, at Garageband. The song also ranks as the #3 Most Original Song overall (all categories combined), all-time.
10 years ago today the Liquid Blue name was trademarked, which signaled the birth of the band. Founding members Scott Stephens and Michael Vangerov celebrated the occasion in New York with current performers. (The band’s first gig was actually Dec 31st, 1995 and there will be a formal 10-year anniversary celebration in Jan 2006 to commemorate the band’s 10-year history
Real has been named the #1 Best Produced Song, overall, all-time at Garageband.com, which has more than 195,000 songs uploaded by over 125,000 bands! To date, Real has won more than 30 awards at Garageband.
Rescue was named Best Song of the Month for September 2004 at Songwriter Universe.
The track “Making Up” is featured on a compilation CD titled “Peace Not War, Volume II”. The double album will have distribution in 21 countries and includes many internationally acclaimed artists such as Jane’s Addiction, Sonic Youth, Faithless, Jurassic 5, Ani DiFranco
Real, If You Gotta Ask and Can’t Stop It have been announced as semifinalists of the Dallas Songwriters 2004 Song Contest. Winner will be announced in December.
“Real”, the first single from “Supernova”, is now in regular rotation on 19 broadcast radio stations, including:
WLXR – Onalaska, WI
WQKX – Selinsgrove, PA
WVIQ – St. Croix, V.I.
WQKX – Selinsgrove, PA
“Can’t Stop It” was named Best Song of the Month for September 2004 at Songwriter Universe.
Icon-Magazine.com, a leading music webzine has published an extensive interview with Scott Stephens and a review of Liquid Blue’s new CD Supernova. Here is the CD review:
Real was honored as Track of the Day on Nov 13th and Nov 21st at Garageband.com, due to the outstanding reviews it has earned from listeners. Real has won this honor three times and also won Track of the Week recently.
PCT Music has searched all year for the best unsigned bands in the USA and has selected and signed 24 artists including Liquid Blue to their “America’s Best Independent Artists” distribution program.
Quote: “By most standards, the North County dance-pop band has had a bitchin’ year that included a 60-country world tour, inclusion on the Peace Not War II benefit CD alongside the likes of Jane’s Addiction and Le Tigre, and the release of their debut album Supernova. Their song “If You Gotta Ask” was named the official campaign theme song of ill-fated presidential candidate Ralph Nader,
