allwedoismakepunsandwritelists:

Today, you get a double whammy: a song AND a pun! Keep that in mind as you’re listening to the excellent track In Mind by the up-and-awesome band Power Pirate. 

As for the song, some info:

Title: In Mind

Arsist: Power Pirate

Album: Plane Ticket

Links: http://www.power-pirate.com

myspace.com/powerpirate

twitter.com/powerpirate

http://facebook.com/powerpirate

Now, as for the pun,

Yesterday at dinner, I notice that there are nacho mixins out, so I grab a plate and make some nachos and bring them to the table, for the table. My friends are appreciative of this. Now, my friend who is a vegetarian decides to make some nachos herself sans meat. When she gets back, she says “Nachos were a good idea.” Nachorally, I respond: “Just remember whose idea it was first: NACHO’s.”

Hilarity ensued.

We shot film for the new “In Mind” music video this past weekend.

http://ping.fm/Tqzys

We are playing at the Rock and Roll Hotel Sunday night. It is going to be an amazing show.

The results are in: Power Pirate was ranked third overall by the panel of judges, from the over 200 original submissions. Additionally, Emily won best overall guitarist, and Mike won best keyboardist. We have had a ton of fun, and are eternally grateful to everyone who made this possible: our fans, Massey Media, our schools, our friends and family, and all of the organizers of the NAMM SchoolJam program. Thank you!

Press Release: http://ownthepress.com/?p=745

We have uploaded photos on our website. Enjoy!

Photos

As you may have heard, Power Pirate is travelling to Anaheim, CA for the weekend to participate in the 2010 NAMM SchoolJam Battle of the Bands. We will be playing along with 9 other bands, and there are a number of prizes. One of these is the “Fan’s Choice” award, which is decided by the number of votes received via text message after the end of the show.
To support Power Pirate, you can vote UP TO FIVE TIMES from a single number.
Just send “Pirate” to 99299 between 9:00-9:30 pm EST on Saturday, January 16.
Remember, each cell phone can vote up to 5 times, so make sure to get friends and family involved. Thank you all for your constant support. 

Mike + Power Pirate

PS- for updates about the trip, you can follow me on twitter - http://twitter.com/mpgarate

I will be tweeting about news and events, and I will be uploading photos there via twitpic. 
You can also follow the official SchoolJamUsa twitter here http://twitter.com/schooljamusa

The Dirty, Dirty Domain Resale Business: How PP got an alternate domain name

http://power-pirate.com has been our online homepage for about a year and a half now. It has gone through 2 major layout changes, and comes up first when you Google “Power Pirate”. We are quite happy with it.

Recently, we’ve seen some problems with the name, though. At the time when we started using power-pirate.com, powerpirate.com was already taken. However, with our recent NBC interview and with the amount of new fans coming to shows, it’s become clear that saying “power hyphen pirate dot com” is really inconvenient.

We got lucky. I looked in mid-December to see when the current owners’ hold on powerpirate.com would expire. At the time, it would expire in 15 days, after being held under the same owner for up to 10 years. I started investigating what the best way for us to get a hold of it would be once it expired.

Enter the domain resale sharks - pool.com, snapnames.com, and godaddy.com. The way their business works is that once a domain is no longer being renewed, it goes through a couple stages before it is available for others to buy. In this pre-release period, you can backorder domains.

Backordering involves enlisting one of the above companies to use their servers to try to catch their domain the SECOND it is released to the public. It can be pricey, depending on what website you use and what the domain is valued at. Once the domain is caught by the website you used, though, a quick bidding period begins. So, if someone else is interested in your domain, the website that you amicably trusted to get you your domain can auction it off to a higher paying customer. :(

Power Pirate used snapnames.com to get powerpirate.com. It is considerably more expensive than GoDaddy, but we read some negative reviews about the former. Using SnapNames was playing it on the safe side, and in the end we got powerpirate.com with little trouble… just a big bill.

Anyway, go test it out! http://powerpirate.com is now a redirect to our website. =)

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After 3 days of work, it’s complete! :) Let us know what you think.

So, as you may have noticed from the Power Pirate Twitter & Tumblr accounts, there has been a surge in Power Pirate activity in German.

Yes, there is a new German Power Pirate website.

There is a German press release out.

There is a German Wikipedia page (for the time being).

And lots more. This is all thanks to a super-fan in Germany named Falko, who has been helping us with creating a plan on how to further expand our German audience and with TRANSLATIONS.

But now, we’re proud to announce some new online t-shirt stores.

EU: http://powerpirate.spreadshirt.de
US: http://powerpirate.spreadshirt.com

Enjoy! We’ll keep everyone posted.
[pp]