My Hidden Track Blog

The official music video for “I Gave Her My Heart, She Gave Me a Pen” in High-Definition. Filmed on location in Evanston, IL in May 2009. Starring Katie Pace. Produced by Lutraphobe Productions.

Executive Producer: Peter Lockhart
Directed by: Chris Amos
Director of Photography: Travis LaBella
Art Direction/Costumes: Katie Isaacson
Edited by: Travis LaBella

Art Crew: Matt Litwiller, Alex Kirschenbaum
Assistant Camera: Jac Reyno

Hey guys, Chad (bass) from My Hidden Track here. First and foremost how the heck is everyone? I’m doing fairly well, just sort of killing time, eating soup, nursing a throbbing back while I wait for Peter (manager/ touring guitarist) to get home. What’s in store for us tonight? Good question. I smell a rendezvous with my boss at his house and then a trip to a biker party out in the middle of nowhere. I’m searching for my father. Ha. That doesn’t have to make sense, but I assure you it’s a good story.

CD RELEASE SHOW
Last Friday at the Emerson Theater (CD Release show) was unbelievable. I’ve been playing music live for close to a decade and I’ve never had a crowd response like that before. Incredible, absolutely incredible. We had friends, family and fans new and old crawl out of the wood work, at least as the expression goes. My only regret is that I didn’t have the time to thank each and every one of you personally for coming.

WHERE CAN I FIND YOUR ALBUM?
If you were at the show and forgot to pick up a copy of our new album HEY LOVE or perhaps STORE.YOURNEXTADDICTION.COM. Up until June 27th this is the only place you can find our album, with the only exception being one of our up coming shows. After June 27th our album will be available to buy off of iTunes and if everything goes as planned select Best Buy, FYE and Hot Topic locations.

WE STLL NEED YOUR HELP TO GET ON WARPED TOUR
I think there are like three or four days left to vote and it’d mean the world to us if you did. It’d be a dream come true to play Warped Tour.

WHERE CAN I HEAR YOUR NEW SONGS?
We just uploaded “I GAVE HER MY HEART, SHE GAVE ME A PEN” to our myspace page and there are two exclusive songs uploaded at our Warped Tour battle of the bands page. “AND I SAID I DIDN’T THINK ANYONE WAS EVER OLD ENOUGH” and “I CAN’T BELIEVE I GAVE MY PANTIES TO A GEEK” will be available to listen to for just a few more days so check them out.

WHEN ARE YOU GUYS EVER GOING TO GET NEW SHIRTS?
Also if you’re feeling exceptionally bored right now we just put up a handful of new shirts up at STORE.YOURNEXTADDICTION.COM as well… they’re there for you to buy, look at, lust over or judge, the choice is entirely yours.

I’M STARTING TO THINK YOU DIDN’T EVEN RECORD A MUSIC VIDEO
I received this e-mail from Peter a couple of nights ago. “Just an update on the Pen video. Travis/Chris have finished up the final cuts and have sent it to a northwestern alum friend of theirs in Chicago to color correct the HD video. He will be using a Da Vinci 2K color correcting system. We’ll have the final video up online within two weeks.” So that’s kind of crazy right? I’m so absolutely blessed to have gotten to work with Chris and Travis on this music video, these guys are geniuses.

BLAMING CALIFORNIA
Nick has officially left us for the SUMMER. I’m both heartbroken and jealous by this. Nick is off working in California at a camp and I know he’s going to do a hellva job and have a hellva time so everyone keep him in your thoughts and count down the days until he comes back. In the meantime Peter will be filling in on guitar… we are giving him the MHT crash course… it’s sounding great… I think you will all really enjoy it.

Peter is currently working on giving YOURNEXTADDICTION.COM a face lift and he’s always constantly tidying up our myspace so keep an eye out for constant updates.

We are still looking to go on tour for at least a week or so in August so if there is anyone that can help us set up shows, book shows, or have contacts that could help us that’d be amazing.

With Hope, Love and Rock and Roll,
Chad & MHT

Hey guys and gals, I just wanted to send out a quick update to let everyone know what’s going on here at camp My Hidden Track. For the past couple days we have all been banded together at the Hope Compound in Indianapolis working on a plethora of things. We are all working hard at brainstorming, designing and printing new merchandise. Peter (manager/ designer) will be launching our new myspace tonight.

The final touches are being put on our album’s artwork as well as rumor has it the album will be mixed and mastered by this weekend… which means… everything is on schedule for our June 5th release of Hey Love.

Album pre-orders and ticket pre-sales are currently available @ yournextaddiction.com.

We will be in Chicago this Saturday shooting a video with the genius that is Chris Amos. (http://www.vimeo.com/user607686).

We understand that everyone is busy but if you have a minute could you please swing by the Warped Tour Battle of the Bands page and help us win a dream come true. We can’t win without you and will be forever in your debt if we win. Thank you so much!

http://warped.battleofthebands.com/backstage/artist.php?artist_id=46683

You can vote once daily!

With hope, love and rock and roll,

Chad // My Hidden Track

We are shooting a music video this weekend up in Chicago and would love to have you be with us while we shoot it! This coming Sunday (May 17th) we will be shooting performance scenes that we would love to have our friends/family be in. Plus it’s in Chicago so it would be a nice little day trip to come hang out with us!

If you would be at all interested in being an extra, please email the following address with a few things and we will in return email the Chicago video shoot address and additional details.

Email: mhtextra@gmail.com

1. Full Name
2. Contact Info (Cell/address/etc.)
3. Age

***If you are under 18, but still interested please email us and we will check with our director and see if you can still be apart of the shoot. Most likely you can be, but might have to have a parent/guardian sign a release form.

Thanks so much and tell all your friends about it who might be interested!

Much Love,

My Hidden Track