Matthew McConaughey makes an unlikely guest cameo in Butch Walker And The Black Widows' newest music video for Synthesizers, reviving his infamous character, Wooderson,from Dazed & Confused. Kickass song; kickass video. Check out the clip above.

Butch Walker And The Black Widows are playing a benefit show for The Pablove Foundation--a non-profit childhood cancer organization--on Saturday, January 28th in Milwaukee, WI. If you're in the area, you can purchase tickets here!

Dangerbird Records and Rain City Ambience are teaming up to offer a free pair of tickets to the Fitz & the Tantrums show at the Crocodile on Tuesday, November 9th.

To enter, all you have to do is retweet this post on Twitter--OR, if you are anti-Twitter, just give us a shout out on Facebook (make sure you use '@Rain City Ambience' in your update so it shows up on our page) and you'll be included in the running when we choose the winner on Friday.

Happy Tweeting!

Want to win some free stuff? (Really, if you say "no" to this question then you are a liar.) Minus the Bear and Dangerbird Records have teamed up to host a remix contest for My Time. You have until October 31st to remix the song and upload it to SoundCloud.

One grand prize winner will receive:
* 1 year SoundCloud premium "Solo" account
* Ableton Live 8 software
* JBL On Stage Micro portable music dock for iPod
* AKG K-309 Stereo earbud headphones
* Minus the Bear OMNI CD
* Minus the Bear OMNI…

I usually don't openly support illegal downloading, but I think the time has come for me to say that anyone who tells you to purchase everything that you listen to is either a) a hypocrite, or b) 70 years old. I've been downloading music since the era of Napster, when it would take 3 hours to download one song on my crappy 28.8K connection. Those were the days--I really cherished every song I downloaded, from Samantha Mumba to LFO (hey, I was like 10 years old, okay?). Nowadays the only music I really purchase are albums…

It's been awhile since I have seen a band/label get so involved with promoting an album over two months before its scheduled release, but in this case I'm definitely not complaining.

You can now pre-order Minus the Bear's OMNI on Amazon. You can also play an OMNI-themed game of Simon Says (AKA Omni Says) on the Minus the Bear website, and let me tell you: It's addicting.

Minus the Bear's album, titled OMNI, will be released on May 4th by Dangerbird Records (information about the signing can be found here). The record was produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, My Morning Jacket), and the band will embark on a 6-week tour on April 21st. Dates have not yet been announced.

In other Minus the Bear news, their song Broken China, will be on an American Eagle/Filter Magazine compilation album that will raise money to help support Haitian earthquake victims. You can buy this album now through March 19th (while…

Minus the Bear, AKA my favorite band in the entire universe, just signed a contract with a new label (farewell, Suicide Squeeze), and will be releasing their upcoming album with Dangerbird Records (Silversun Pickups, The Dears). Read the label's press blog post below.

More details about Minus the Bear's new album to come on Monday.

For now, listen to Into the Mirror, and bask in the glory that is MTB.

We are proud to announce the signing of Seattle-based rockers Minus the Bear to our burgeoning roster. Dangerbird will release the band’s fourth LP this spring.…