Groove for Thought on The Sing-Off!

Okay. I'll start off by apologizing. A few entries back, I stated that GFT was taking some time off of gigging to work on our upcoming CD release. Well, that wasn't entirely true. Now before you start throwing rotten fruit and eggs at me (and who brings rotten fruit and eggs to their computer anyway?), let me explain. While we did spend some time on our new CD (which I've tentatively entitled "That One CD With Those Songs On It"), we also spent a substantial amount of time preparing for The Sing-Off.

"So what exactly is The Sing-Off?" you may be asking yourselves with mouth agape. Well fret not, baby birds, because I'm about to tell you. The Sing-Off is a reality TV show on NBC that brings in the best a capella groups in the country to compete against one another for $100,000 and a Sony recording contract. I'll give you all a second to let that soak in. Yeah. That means you get to see Groove for Thought on TV! The show begins Monday, December 6th (8-10pm ET). I don't have to say this, but you're probably going to want to mark this one on your calendars. For more info, go to the official NBC release.

So, about that CD. There is good news and bad news. The bad news is that we aren't done with it yet. (Put that moldy peach down!) The good news is that we're about four or five songs into the project and the tracks are sounding great. Amanda and Steph (and Brennan too, for that matter) have added something completely new and cool to the GFT sound. We all dig it here and I'm sure you all will feel the same about it when you hear it. When will you hear it? Um...how about you move that fruit to just outside of arm's reach. We have no idea.

But what if there was a way you could hear the new GFT recorded sound before our second album release? Shhhh. Come closer. What I'm about to tell you is extremely public information and (had you read the official NBC release) you would already know. For those true Groove for Thought blog fans, the ones that couldn't possibly dream of clicking on meaningless links when there is more hilariously informative blog to read, follow me to the next paragraph. For those "link clickers" that already know what I'm about to say, you can follow me to the next paragraph too. Think of it as a punishment for reading ahead. Nobody likes a know-it-all.

An album entitled “The Sing-Off: Harmonies for the Holidays” is being released by Epic Records on November 30. Each of the ten groups (did I mention there were ten of us?) that will appear on this season of the Sing-Off has recorded a track. All of the tracks will then be combined and placed in an order that makes the most logical sense to form a CD of awesome that is "The Sing-Off: Harmonies for the Holidays." I'm not saying this is what everyone on my list is getting for Christmas, but yeah this is what everyone on my list is getting for Christmas. For those of you that have been foaming at the mouth to get something (anything) new from GFT or those of you that have complained (since before the first album was released) that we don't have even a single holiday track recorded...well, there you go. While we don't know about distribution at this point, we will let you know as soon as we do.

Lots of cool stuff on the Groove for Thought plate. A TV show, a new CD in the works, and we're back to gigging. I know we've been quiet for a while, but you can expect regular updates in the future. We'd love to hear your thoughts about some of these new announcements. Post something on our Facebook wall, leave a comment on our newly updated Myspace page, or tweet about us on Twitter.

Peter
GFT