Our Facebook page right now has close to 300 fans, (Hi Mom), but I think we could get a lot more. Right now you can automatically get all our latest updates through our facebook wall. This includes new shows, videos, songs, etc… You can communicate with us on any of our posts, as well as talk to any other fans in the community. We also have a music tab that integrates with our iLike page. iLike was recently acquired by Myspace and is a site that showcases bands media. I’m going to add some more songs and video to vamp our iLike page up, in the process, vamping our facebook page up. We could also afford to have some more photos on our facebook page, so I’ll add some of those too. The best part of all about using our facebook page is that you can get your fill of Last Nights Vice from the comfort of the site you use the most: Facebook. if that wasn’t enough, you can use your facebook account to log into lastnightsvice.com. Just click the login link in the header of our site and login with your facebook credentials. You can then post on our wall, and leave comments on any of our posts. You will also be part of the Last Nights Vice community, which has its advantages.

Another site I want to talk about is ourstage.com. We’ve been getting some press from this site and I’d like to mention it. It is basically a place where bands create an electronic press kit with music, press info, bio, videos and more. Bands can then select songs each month to compete against other bands of the same genre. You basically rank which songs you like the most. While I don’t believe that music is a sport where bands play against each other, it’s almost as addictive as Peggle.

In the same hypocritical fashion, we are also on famecast. Similar to Ourstage but bands compete for different prizes. You get the chance to play on big tours like, Warped Tour, Taste of Chaos, Pactour and more. This site is a little more based around fan participation. The lastnightsvice.com feed is also linked to this site, so you can get all of our news there too.

Twitter is quickly becoming on of my favorite sites. Definitely follow us, and we’ll do the same. It seems to be the quickest way of relaying information, and getting it in return and it doesn’t seem to consume most of my day… yet.

Last.fm is cool, or was cool. It’s starting to lose its flair after CBS bought it. Here you can go and listen to Last Nights Vice songs and get recommendations of similar artists. The site can also search your iTunes ad iPod for the music you listen too, and give you recommendations from that. So keep blaring Last Nights Vice on you iPods and iTunes. I loved this site for about the first year I used it. I found a lot of new artists. There just comes a point where finding new music wasn’t as complicated as it seemed.

Flickr for all of our photos. If you have any live shots of us, please let us know. You can even tag us on facebook, and we’ll find them that way.

YouTube for all of our videos. If you have a YouTube account, please friend us. Some of the best times online are had passing videos around.

Our Myspace page has been a little neglected for a while now. It sees it is heavily used by bands so we want to stay in that realm and improve it anyway we can. The spam is just out of control, and as a band it is hard to determine who to reject and who to approve. We will still be adding all of our new songs to Myspace and submitting all of our recent posts. Their are also gadgets on our page for ringtones, twitter, etc…

Please let us know if there are any other sites you like, that you think we should be on.

P.S. – The image is the cast of The Social Network. A movie about the founders of facebook. Directed by David Fincher(Fight Club), written by Aaron Sorkin(The West Wing) and starring Jesse Eisenberg(Zombieland) and Justin Timberlake(N’Sync). The movie should be out October, 2010.

• You can login to our site by clicking on the “login” button in the header.



• Leave us a message on our wall. Your messages will then be displayed in the header of our site. You can also leave comments on any one of our posts.
• Our twitter feed is also in the header of the site, so you can get our up to the minute updates. If you haven’t aready, be sure to follow us on twitter.
• If you go to our community page,you can see all the other people who have recently logged into our site, and what they have to say
• We have a new mp3 player on our homepage that plays seven of our releases. You no longer have to wait for a 3rd party player to load. You will also see links to all the places you can download or order our ep
• We have a featured news section that lists al of our latest posts.
• If you click on a post, you will see related posts at the end of each article as well as an area to leave comments, a tag cloud in the sidebar, randomly generated posts, and an archive of all our past posts.
• On the homepage you will see our flickr feed of our latest photos. You can click on them and they will be lightboxed and appear natively on our site
• If you click on one of our categories: News, Press, Shows; you will see our youtube videos that when clicked on have the same lightbox effect. You will also see the top 10 posts of the day.
• There is a search box on every page with accurate lastnightsvice.com search results, if you need to find something specific

I also have a list of future enhancements too:

• A more graphical header
• A graphical footer containing some sort of contact form/e-mail list
• A locally hosted photo page
• A local mp3 player for the Music page
• The complete historical list of wall comments from the header
• More member exclusive content
• Deeper linking of internal content and pages
• A faster backend of the site to speed up loading times
• An updated comment box
• More accessible RSS links
• A blog section where the band can rant
• Improvements to spacing and text

Hopefully I haven’t forgotten anything. Enjoy the site.

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• Slow tweet week. We do have new shirts and new songs. Stay tuned. #
• Just updated the most popular pages in the footer of our website. #
• The boys cleaned the practice space and I’m going

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Be sure to check out the whole roll at our flickr account here.