Visit the official Vans Warped Pickrset page HERE.

We believe that interactive touring will be the future and hope to be part of it.

We’re hosting a FUEL PRICES SUCK contest: Fans will help bands get to the next city on The
Vans Warped and get to listen to them play 10 minutes longer!! Everybody wins!” - Brought to
you by pickRset.

Don’t miss your chance to be a part of the hottest way to promote your band! PickRset provides
bands with a unique way to really connect with their fan bases” by allowing the fans to request
the songs in the band’s live set as well as review the shows leave comments and automatically
get notified about new merchandise, videos and tour dates.

Beginning Tuesday, June 10, 2008, for each Warped Tour date, the band that gets the most picks
per date will get to play an extra ten minutes in their set” and the band will receive an
additional $200.00

And there’s even more incentive for bands on the Warped Tour to be a part of pickRset: The
band that signs up the most TOTAL fans in their own pickRset page by the final date of the
Warped Tour will receive a $1,000 gift card to the gas station of their choice.

A special thanks goes out to Sarah, Kate and Kevin from Vans Warped tour for allowing us to be part of the tour. Having been on this tour many times selling merch and still having many bands on it every year it gives me a great feeling to not venture into a different side on the tour.

For those of you who don’t know who my alias is mr TSURT my name is Chris Siglin. I started out in the music business when I was 17 years old booking tours on the pay phone in between classes at my High School in Brea, CA. After highschool I went on to managing some ska punk bands in Orange County as well promoting shows with my good friend John Pantle all over the OC (before it was the OC) We did shows for bands like Sublime, No Doubt, Korn, Beck and a million others. This time in my life was one the funniest times ever. I went on to meet some really great bands before they were big then I meet the guys from Blink-182 (well Blink at that point in time) we became good friends and I started touring with them doing there merchandise. I started designing the merch and then producing it. I worked with them to the end. In this time I started my own merchandise company and have had the pleasure of working with some really amazing bands over the years. Most of them on this site. I still do merchandise every day for many bands because I love doing it.

Fast forward to summer 2007. Bad Religion and +44 were both going on tour. The problem Bad Religion was doing Warped and has 30 years worth of material to shove into a 30 minute set. So I built out a small little ghetto site that polled the kids for what songs that wanted to hear. That has no evolved into pickRset.com

I wanted to make sure that the fans were able to participate in the shows in some fashion. I learned many things from working with Blink for so long and that was when all was said and done they loved there fans and still continue to. Everything that they ever did was with the question being asked is this is the right thing to do for the kids that have always been with us?

pickRset was built to help fans and bands communicate with one another. I am not very good with writting articles. Actually let’s face it I am horrible I should have paid a little more attention to this in HighSchool instead of worrying where Suburban Rhythm was going to play that weekend. But I hope you can tell how commited we are to this little site and how much we appreciate every single person that signs up and helps market our bands tours.

Thanks from the bottom of my heart.

Chris Siglin

Read the full story here.

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[MerchWar]

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On the tech side the have some software down here that puts facial recognition on your laptop. Check out In-Sense Technologies for more details. Sorry there website is not working to link to.

Awesome!

mr TSURT

Now you can get pickRset for Facebook. Pass it along.

The Original video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqHbLdoYZ2E&feature=related

pickRset for Facebook

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You can also now review our shows in our show archives section.

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Just visit your favorite bands pickRset page then check out the show archive.

Enjoy and get out there and review!

mr TSURT

I just found this over at Laughing Squid. I thought people might enjoy it. They have a couple other ones as well. Check it out!

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This is great you can eat and drink in just one cup. [Seriouseats via Gizmodo]

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I guess my nephew is now excited about Star Wars. The only thing is Jen that character in the back is from my collection look at Terry trying to lay claim to all of my toys. I bet he got them out of the attic.

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