Monthly Music Challenge 2023 Awards - GOLD AWARDS - with your hosts Cosmic Bos

Here it is peeps, the Monthly Music Challenge 2023 Awards - GOLD EDITION with your hosts Cosmic Bos

2023 has been one helluva ride for the Monthly Music Challenge podcast, when we started this back in Jan 2023 (ahh memories) with the help of Music Weeklies and the support of our awesome partners in musical business (Andrew Hartshorn & Al Warren), we had no idea how it would go, but here we are at
the tail end of 23 and we are doing an Awards show, 2 of them no less (SPOILER ALERT! there will be a Silver Awards show too).

Welcome to the first annual Monthly Music Challenge Awards, 2023, with your hosts Cosmic Bos

So as not to reveal the winners in this here bit of text, all the nominees will be written out in no particular order, and you will have to listen to find out the Gold Award winner.

New Beginnings Award

New Beginnings - A Sea Warren  @aseawarren  
In the Beginning - Tonal Drift  @tonal_drift  
A New Beginning - Chemical Shift

Phoenix Rising - Andrew Hartshorn 
Starting Over - Third Echo Sounds

Escape Award

Breakout - Trench Gun  @trenchgunM1897  
How to Stop Time - Stefan Bohacek  @stefanbohacek  
Escapist - Notehead  @notehead9000  
Escape - Peter Hawkey  @peter_hawkey  
Dance (escape the week) - Mijimo

Ignorance Award

Without Your Love - A Sea Warren
Ignorance - Peter Hawkey
I is for Ignorance - Hellwaddler  @Hellwaddler  
Ignorance - Mobidextrous  @mobidextrous9777  
Eden - Andrew Hartshorn  @andrewhartshornmusic  
The Size of the Stars - Notehead 

Winning Award

Smell Defeat - Notehead
Winning isn't Everything - Man of Arun  @ManOfArun  
Slow and Steady Wins the Race - Andrew Hartshorn
You Can't be a Winner (if you're a Sinner) - A Sea Warren

Winning (deep fried mix) - Mobidextrous

Razzmajazz Award

Razzmajazz - Tonal Drift
This is Fine - Notehead
The Jazzman's Trumpet - Andrew Hartshorn
Razzmajazz - Scowsh Molosh  @scowsh  
Just Make it Up - Hellwaddler 

Artificial Intelligence Award

Ghost in the Machine - J Peck  @JPeck  
Dichotomy - Natalie Williams Calhoun  @cellonatw  
Clouds Dissolve - Texmex Shaman and TRC  
Era Oeuvre - Voltage Poetry Project
Techno Sapiens - Tonal Drift

Mother Earth Award

Price to be Paid - Aye Nevo
Gaias Moonshine Merriment - Hellwaddler
The Assassination of Mother Earth - Man of Arun
Mother Nature - Taylor Lidstone
They Lied to Me - J Peck

Dreams Award

Princess in the Snow - Hellwaddler
Lonely in Lucidity - Notehead
Impossible Perks - Mobidextrous
Dreamscape Promises - Taylor Lidstone
Polarsken - Chemical Shift  @cemichalshift  

Crisp - John Serrano
Unsettled Sleep - Tonal Drift

Super Spectacular Award

Super - Texmex Shaman
Can't Get You Out of My Head - John Serrano and Raul Lupianez
Atlantis (Tringle) - Andrew Hartshorn
Mecha Funk - Mario Marino
Super-Spectacular - Above the Snow Line  @abovethesnowlinemusic  
Epiphany - Hellwaddler

Finale Award

Feed Me the Finale - Notehead
Lost - Only the Host  @onlythehost  
Once Stowaway - Voltage Poetry Project
Finale - Taylor Lidstone
Noot and Carnage - Hellwaddler
I Want to Run Away - A Sea Warren
Finale - Above the Snow Line ft. John Serrano

There you have it, all these songs have picked up an award, but only one from each list gets the GOLD Award. Massive THANK YOU to everyone that submitted a song to the MMC in 2023, we had 167 songs made for the challenge by you! that's so awesome sauce.

In between each of the award winning songs, you get to hear Cosmic Bos submission to the MMC for that month, which you can buy on CD from Bandcamp here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album

And you can get Andrew Hartshorn's MMC album on bandcamp too

https://andrewhartshorn.bandcamp.com/album/mythos-unveiled-album

And you can buy the pair of them together for a lovely little discount, please consider supporting us by buying our music, we do this all for love, but it would be nice to see some money pwease too.

Anyway, the Cosmic Bos songs that you will hear scattered across the award show are as follows

Nude Beginnings
Make Good Our Escape
Idiots
We Are All in This Together
Razzmajazz
There's No A.I in Team
Earth's Children
Could This All be a Dream?
Super Spectacular
Grand Theft Autotune (live)

All the tracks on our album that Monochrome Motif have put out on CD! and you can grab a copy right here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album

Also also, right at the end of the podcast we gave a cheeky extra GOLD Award to Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren for the song 'Barbenheimer', as it was originally an MMC sub by Hartshorn that got bigged up into a HJJW track, so that Nick and Andy (the Jackson's) could get a Gold award too.

Thank you for all the support

Please like, share and subscribe

And leave us comments, we love comments

See you soon for the SILVER AWARD show

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Monthly Music Challenge (MMC) 1.10 - Finale (the last challenge of the year 2023)

 Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge podcast 

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos podcast

Monthly Music Challenge MMC 1.10 - Finale

We have reached the final theme of the Monthly Music Challenge's first year of existing, there will be no more monthly musical shenanigans until 2024, well, apart from the MMC Awards, and a few albums being available to buy on CD (SPOILER ALERT!) Cosmic Bos and Andrew Hartshorn both having CD's out under Monochrome Motif Records in December on bandcamp

Alas, we get ahead of ourselves, for right now, Nick and Andy Jackson and Jackson (Cosmic Bos) delve deep into the wonderful, eclectic, fascinating world of indie music, presenting for your earholes, interpretations of Finale, the Final E, the Fin Ale, the last song for the MMC1 albums we've all been making all year, the final outing for 2023, music made to the theme of Finale.

With some truly amazeball choonage that is sure to crispy your disco chicken, awesome your sauce, go on a musical adventure like no other, for the Finale outing in 2023, Cosmic Bos proudly presents the music of Mobidextrous, Above the Snow Line ft. John Serrano, Trench Gun, Notehead, TexMex Shaman and Tea R Sea, Andrew 'Big Dog' Hartshorn, Voltage Poetry Project, Taylor Lidstone, Hell'YEAH'waddler, Mario Marino, A Sea Warren (we can call him Al), Only the Host, Uncle Funkbeard, The Eclectic Collective, Chemical Shift/Broken Nomads and of course your idiotic hosts, Cosmic Bos.

Thank you so much for coming on this musical journey with us, it has been amazeballs from start to finish, and please support all these exceptional artists by buying their music, or at least following them on Spotify and other musical socials, bandcamp is still currently worth a visit.

We have made our Tringle for this episode 'pay what you want', with nothing being an option, so please go help yourself to a copy of our three tracks for this episode.

 https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-110-finale

Comments make the indie musical world go round, so please leave comments wherever you get your MMC fix, thanks a billyuion.

 You can also pick up our Monochrome Motif album - Cosmic Bos MMC 1 (2023)

 https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album

 Along with the Big Dog's MMC album 'Mythos Unveiled' too, Andrew Hartshorn Mythos Unveiled

 https://andrewhartshorn.bandcamp.com/album/mythos-unveiled-album

 Together you can get both on CD for £12 on bandcamp, whatta bargain!

 Right, now onto the songs, here is the full tracklist for the episode:

1. Grand Theft Autotune (live) - Cosmic Bos
2. FINMV - Mobidextrous @mobidextrous9777  
3. Finale - Above the Snow Line ft. John Serrano  @abovethesnowlinemusic  
4. Monotony - Trench Gun @trenchgunM1897  
5. Feed me the Finale - Notehead  @notehead9000  
6. True Story - Texmex Shaman and Tea R Sea 
7. Life & His Lover - Andrew Hartshorn  @andrewhartshornmusic  
8. Once Stowaway - Voltage Poetry Project
9. Finale 2023 - Taylor Lidstone @hidamao_o3940  
10. Noot & Carnage - Hellwaddler  @Hellwaddler  
11. Transcendence 1 (the Twingle in the Tringle) - Cosmic Bos 
12. HKJKT - Mobidextrous 
13. Insomnia - Trench Gun 
14. Subsiding Radiance - Mario Marino 
15. I Want to Run Away - A Sea Warren  @aseawarren  
16. Lost - Only the Host  @onlythehostmusic  
17. Changing My Mind - Uncle Funkbeard  @UncleFunkbeard  
18. Fallin - The Eclectic Collective (Texmex Shaman)  @TexMexShaman  
19. Bootymancer - Notehead 
20. A New Beginning - Chemical Shift/Broken Nomads  @Brokennomads  
21. CNDYFLP - Mobidextrous 
22. Pinata of Troy - Cosmic Bos  

Now that is one massive bowl of crispy chicken soup for the soul, this is the bit of the podcast write up where we would usually announce the next theme, but technically there isn't one. However, as we have already decided that we're coming back next year to do Monthly Music Challenge 2, we offer up a little winter challenge for the keen and eager. In Janurary, Cosmic Bos will do a 'MMC 2.0 intro' episode, to reintroduce the idea for next year, and give peeps the month of Jan to jam their themed jam. If you want to get in ahead of the game a bit, then we will spin on the show any 'intro's' you wish to make for your MMC2 album. We will make one, probably use it to double up as a theme tune for MMC2 podcast, not sure yet. But anyway, you have until the beginning of 2024 to send us any intros you wish, we will play them in the MMC 2.0 ep, keep 'em short, they are just intro's.

With the year coming to close in a short while, we are going to do the Monthly Music Challenge awards for year 1, if you have taken part this year you are in the runnings for an award, we will split it into two parts, with a Gold and Silver version of each award, maybe, still pondering it to be honest.

Please like, share and subscribe to @CosmicBos we do video work too for your eyeballs

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Monthly Music Challenge podcast 1.9 Superspectacular - with your hosts Cosmic Bos

 Hello wonderful you,

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge MMC 1.9 - Superspectacular

Join Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we explore the spectacular, super spectacular in factular, freshist, most organic, juiciest indie music being made today, with all the songs having been made in September of 2023 around the theme of Superspectacular, and we must say it is something rather special indeed.

You are in for a treat here, the music served up this month is all of the highest degree, truly awesome sauce on the hotdog of life, with amazeballs tracks by John Serrano and Raul Lupianez, Andrew Hartshorn, TexMex Shaman, Mario Marino, Trench Gun, Above the Snow Line, Hellwaddler, Notehead, A Sea Warren, Broken Nomads, Mobidextrous, Taylor Lidstone and of course your idiotic hosts, Cosmic Bos.

It really is something to behold, please support all this amazing indie music that is as up to date as you can get, comments, likes, subscribes, support is what makes it all worthwhile, and these artists are truly something else, well worth your time.

You can listen to and purchase all of Cosmic Bos's Superspectacular tracks in a hand EP on bandcamp https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-19-superspectacular and if you are so inclinded, a comment makes our dayz.

Big shout out the Only the Host and his crispy crew of awesomeness, Cosmic Bos loves you all and can't wait for more of you to join the MMC, we have rooms all ready on the MMC challenger, come along for the musical ride.

Here is the full Super Spectacular Tracklist (or SuperSpectrackulist if you prefer):

1. Super Spectacular - Cosmic Bos
2. Can't Get You Out of my Head - John Serrano and Raul Lupianez
3. Atlantis part 1. The Majesty (single) - Andrew Hartshorn
4. Super - TexMex Shaman
5. Mecha Funk - Mario Marino
6. Inside Job (instrumental) - Cosmic Bos
7. War is a Drug - Trench Gun
8. Atlantis part 2. The Wrath of the Gods (twingle) - Andrew Hartshorn
9. Super-Spectacular - Above the Snow Line
10. Epiphany - Hellwaddler
11. Ballad of the Rainbow Disco Chicken vs Autotunebots from the Future - Cosmic Bos
12. Superspectacular - Notehead
13. No. 12 Quartet in C Minor - A Sea Warren
14. Star Cry - Broken Nomads
15. Atlantis part 3. The Aftermarth (tringle) - Andrew Hartshorn
16. Spectacularis - Mobidextrous
17. Dreamscape Promises (Late Sub for Dreams) - Taylor Lidstone
18. Keeping it Old School - Cosmic Bos

There you have it, amazeballs all over the pit. Probably time to tell you what the final theme of MMC1 is going to be. Without further ado, MMC 1.10 will be Finale, that's Finale

MMC 1.10 - Finale (coming 4th November)

You have till the 3rd of November to send your 'Finale' songs to us, please email an mp3 and a lil blurb to cosmicbos@gmail.com . You can always send Late Sub's to us on any of the previous themes for the year, we have a special section for them in the show.

MMC 1.10 Finale will be the last theme for 2023, but fear not, we shall return in 2024 with MMC2, 10 more themes to build an album around. Before that though, we will do the Best of MMC1 Awards, where we will give out awards to our favourite tracks from across the years monthly music challenging. We will also do a Rest of MMC1 because there's a lot to go over.

Please like, share and subscribe to Cosmic Bos, and comments are the best thing ever, so if you've got one in you please drop it on our podcast somewhere (YouTube's good for comments), pwease and thank yow.

Peace and infinite crispy love

Cosmic Bos

Here's our lyric video for Super Spectacular, we went full gween squeen

P.S - Big Mick?

P.P.S - Cosmic Bos Superspectacular EP is available here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-19-superspectacular

Or listen on this handy embed, maybe pick yourself up a copy? or drop a comment?

Barbenheimer - Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson & Warren (New Single OUT NOW!)

 Hello Barbie boys and girls,

The partners of Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson & Warren have just released a new single, 'Barbenheimer'

You can purchase this fine product on bandcamp here from the handy embedded link.

You can also find the song on Spotify and all other streaming sites

Barbenheimer was born from a song that Andrew Hartshorn had originally written for his Monthly Music Challenge album, it was his Mother Earth entry called 'Terra Mater'. He had floated the idea of expanding the song to be a Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson & Warren track, and once the outline existed, it wasn't too long before Andy Jackson had written the lyric, Nick Jackson had recorded some Bass and accent guitar, and Al Warren had added some Brass, and Barbenheimer was born.

Given the fact that the video department of HJJ&W had yet to provide any promotional video material for the partners, it only seemed right that they pulled out all the stops to provide something special for the single that followed their debut album 'Sound Investments' which you can still purchase to this very day.

Please leave us comments and subscribe to our work all over the internet, your support means the world to us.

Thank you for your time,

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Monthly Music Challenge MMC 1.8 - Dreams

 Hello friends,

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Podcast (the MMC)

This is Episode 1.8 Dreams

Join Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we delve deep into dreamland, listening for clue as to if this is a wonderful dream we have found ourselves in, or a twisted nightmare from which we can not escape!

With the world in the questionable state it is currently in, it only seemed right to let the musicians of the MMC explore the internal space, where the mind is allowed to explore freely, to ponder the more existential elements of our shared experience, it could all, the whole darn lot of everything everywhere, be a dream, or a simulation, or even just the passing thoughts of an interdimentional hyper disco chicken cruising the open rainbow road! Who knows? Well not us, but maybe some answers lie in the music of this months music challenge.

So prepare to explore the world of Dreams with the musical stylings of Mobidextrous, Man of Arun, Notehead, TexMex Shaman (& StonerJazz), Tonal Drift, Andrew Hartshorn, A Sea Warren, Michel Debois, Chemical Shift (Broken Nomads), Peter Hawkey, Hellwaddler, John Serrano and your hosts Cosmic Bos, as well as a special presentation by the supergroup collaboration of Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren! What more could you ask for?

Cosmic Bos put out our tracks as an EP on all good sites, but they also put it out on bandcamp where you can exchange money for music, it's a clever system that was developed by Gnomes a long time ago, but it seems to still be working to this very day. Here is the link to our EP, it has an alternative cover on BC too!

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-18-dreams

You can also find several of the tracks in the show on Bandcamp or soundcloud or YouTube, depends where the amazing artists post them. Please support these awesome indie artists by visiting, listening and possibly even buying their music on Bandcamp. I know for a fact that John Serrano's track 'Crisp' is available on Bandcamp and you probably all should buy it, as well as HJJ&W's track too (from the 22nd September).

Super outergalactic shout out to Only the Host and his amazing team, we love you guys and gals. And the Music Weeklies peeps too, keeping new music fresh on the internet.

The next theme for the Monthly Music Challenge is our 9th one, and it is #SuperSpectacular, that's MMC 1.9 - SuperSpectacular 

Send your mp3's with a little write up about the song (and a bio about yourself if you haven't been on the show already) to cosmicbos@gmail.com 

The EP bandcamp alternative cover

You have until the 6th of October to get your SuperSpectacular songs to us for inclusion, we still have the late Subs section so if you wish to submit something under any of our previous themes then you can and we might play it in the Late Subs portion of the episode.

SuperSpectacular will be the penultimate episode of MMC1, with only a final, as yet unknown theme, to go with MMC 1.10, but feel free to submit anything from the Late Sub category whenever you like. If you have played along all year, or are considering going back to take on the challenge, then on completion you will have a 10 track album, and that's pretty winning in our kindles.

Please take the time to comment, follow, share, subscribe to all the amazing artists featured on the show, and buy their music, it's absolutely worth every smeckle, the least you can do is leave a comment, and comments make artists feel validated, so pwease, pwease, pwease we beg you, leave a comment or two to feed our dopimine addictions.

Here is the full MMC 1.8 Dreams tracklist:

1. Could This All Be A Dream? - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
2. Confounding Dream (single) - Mobidextrous 
3. Nothing But a Dream - Man of Arun
4. Lonely in Lucidity (single) - Notehead
5. Planks - TexMex Shaman
6. Unsettled Sleep - Tonal Drift
7. Dream's Over, Now Get to Work! - Cosmic Bos
8. The Dream's of Morpheus - Andrew Hartshorn
9. Caged Dreams - A Sea Warren
10. Barbenheimer - Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren
11. Impossible Perks (twingle) - Mobidextrous
12. Dream Anthem - Michel Debois
13. All Through Me (twingle) - Notehead
14. Polarsken - Chemical Shift
15. Perseverance - Peter Hawkey
16. Persevere - Cosmic Bos
17. Resonant Dream (tringle) - Mobidextrous
18. Nanos Ex Machina (tringle) - Notehead
19. (LATE SUBS) Poo Poo Kickin' and Toad Lickin' - TexMex Shaman and StonerJazz
20. Princess in the Snow - Hellwaddler
21. Crisp - John Serrano
22. Lasting Impressions of Psycho Delia - Cosmic Bos

Thank you for listening to our show, please like, share and subscribe, leave a comment and help spread the word that the indie music scene is still alive and kicking in monthly challenge form.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Here's our lyric video for our song Could This All Be A Dream?

Graphic designed by Only The Host, what a total legend! Go check him out now.

I wrote a song a week for a year - this is my journey with the music weeklies challenge August 2022 to August 2023

 Hello, my name is Andy Jackson, and I am one half of Cosmic Bos, with my brother Nick Jackson being the other half (we aren't married to each other, we are married, but to our respective lady partners). We make music, lots of it, and host a monthly music challenge podcast called the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos. 

I made a behind the scenes video of how I make a song for the music weeklies challenges, to celebrate reaching a full year of making a song a week. 52 songs baby!

And here is the finished product, after just a few hours from concept to lyric video

Let's flashback to where this all began.

So in the Summer of 2022, I was introduced to the Music Weeklies challenges on X (formerly Twitter) by a jolly good friend Trench Gun. The basic premise of music weeklies is to make a song or piece of music in a week around a hashtag. The week I was introduced to it, the hashtag was #NotAFan.

Full playlist of the 52 songs (plus a few other alternative versions of some of them) here

The first handful that I made I did using tiktok filters, and just my acoustic guitar and voice. In fact, quite a few of them were like that to begin with. It would be my 5th week of doing it that the first shift happened, the hashtag was Spaceship, and I love writing about space, so I wrote 'Spaceship Earth'

This one was good, not as throw away as the handful before it, the song was solid, had a unique feel to it and could easily take an upgrade, which is what happened (see video above) when it was picked for inclusion on our Virtual Normality 2 EP. Along with Morning Coffee, Burning Rings of Power and Nun in a Kayak. The list stayed pretty much acoustic only up until 14, where Plum and Dates was about time signatures and beats so I had to change my tactic a little. This influenced the next set to, making them take on a slightly bigger feel.

For Christmas I received an interface which allowed me to properly record guitar and synths and vocals like the pro's do it. So the songs started to change, getting much bigger, with layers and layers. Nick and I also launched the Monthly Music Challenge in conjunction with the Music Weeklies peeps.

From songs 23 to 52 I had the interface and the MMC to think about, so the songs drastically changed, becoming full on proper big things. Nude Beginnings onward, no acoustic tracks, all bigger affairs.

With the monthly challenge breaking things up into nice EP sized nuggets, the songs were getting a proper release on all platforms. We put them out on band camp and all the other places too.

Time marched on, songs kept coming week after week.

Until, before I knew it I was getting ready to write my year anniversary song!

I did a busking style set to celebrate my achievement, and here it is for you

It'a been a wild and crazy fun year of music making, in addition to the 52 songs of the music weeklies challenge, Nick and I worked with Monochrome Motif records on 'Poseidon's Realm', and teamed up with Andrew Hartshorn and Al Warren to form the supergroup Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren. 

Our debut album came out in August 2023. Go buy it.

2023 has been so musical it's close to being labelled on Broadway! with still more to come before the year is done. I am stepping back from doing a song a week now, to focus on the other projects that we have going on with Cosmic Bos. There are still 3 episodes of the Monthly Music Challenge year 1 to go, and then we have the end of year celebration to plan (which Spoiler Alert! We are already planning)

Thanks so much for spending time with us, you da best!

Peace and infinite love

Andy from Cosmic Bos

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Podcast - 1.7 - Mother Earth

 Hello friends,

I do apologise for the lateness of this blog, the episode has been out for quite some time, but life has been busy and the blog got forgot, soz.

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.7 - Mother Earth

Join Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we explore the musical interpretations created for our wonderful Mother Earth by some of the most talented musicians in the whole world. What did we all choose to say about Gaia, the great ball on which we all reside ? Well you are in for a treat friends, as all this music has been environmentally sourced, has an extremely low carbon footprint and has travelled from around our great planet without clocking in any airmiles (email miles don't count).

Prepare to give praise to Gaia, Mother Earth, the big Blue & Green, with the musical stylings of Mobidextrous, Andrew Hartshorn, Hellwaddler, Trench Gun, Aye Nevo, Man of Arun, TexMex Shaman, Taylor Lidstone, A Sea Warren, Notehead, JPeck, Trommelfell.MB and your idiotic hosts Cosmic Bos with special guests Joe Philogene and Dayne Howcroft.

Cosmic Bos put out their songs on an EP, which coincidently always has the same title as the coresponding episode of the Monthly Music Challenge. It will be available everywhere, but on bandcamp it will be purchasable. You can also pick up singles, twingles, EPs and Albums by most of the great artists featured in this episode. Please check them all out and share the musical connections.

The next theme for MMC 1.8 is Dreams #Dreams 

Please send your mp3's with a little write up about the song to cosmicbos@gmail.com 

If you are a first time submitter please send a bio about yourself too, otherwise Nick and Andy will make something up and it will likely be very silly, music is a serious business and Cosmic Bos's style of podcast most certainly isn't serious.

You have until the 8th September 2023 to get your Dreams songs in, as well as any late submissions for the previous themes. (previous themes are 1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, 3. Ignorance, 4. Winning, 5. Razzmajazz, 6. Artificial Intelligence and now 7. Mother Earth)

Good luck! Get your dreamy brain on and make up a song.

Please take the time to comment, follow all the amazing artists featured on their socials, likes, shares, subscriptions and comments are the bread and butter of the indie music scene, please distribute them generously.

Here is the full track list for the episode, all tracks are on the theme of Mother Earth (except for the 'late sub' found near the end of the episode)

1. Earth's Children - Cosmic Bos ft. Joe Philogene & Dayne Howcroft
2. Mother/Earth - Mobidextrous
3. Orbit - Faith - Mobidextrous
4. Terra Mater - Andrew Hartshorn
5. Gaia's Moonshine Merriment - Hellwaddler
6. Gaeacide - Trench Gun
7. A Price to be Paid - Aye Nevo
8. Circles in the Crops - Cosmic Bos
9. Earthy - Mobidextrous
10. Back to Nature (Dub version) - Mobidextrous
11. The Assassination of Mother Earth - Man of Arun
12. Poo Poo Kickin' & Toad Lickin' - TexMex Shaman
13. Mother Nature - Taylor Lidstone
14. So Many Songs for You - A Sea Warren
15. Salt on the Speakers - Cosmic Bos
16. Evil Earth - Notehead
17. They Lied to Me - J Peck
18. Ann Miller - Trench Gun
19. She Won't Let you Fly - Hellwaddler
20. Gaia - Mobidextrous
21. On Some Nights - Mobidextrous
22. (LATE SUB) Flowers - Trommelfell.MB
23. Milked it - Cosmic Bos

Thanks for listening, please like, share and subscribe to all the amazing artists featured in the MMC.

Big Outergalactic shoutout to the newbies that joined this month, Taylor Lidstone, Aye Nevo and Trommelfell.MB - you all are amazeballs and we have musical cabins for all of you on the Monthly Music Challenger astral submarine thing we made up a bunch of episodes ago.

So quick reminder, the next theme is Dreams

Here's the YouTube link to the podcast episode, should you prefer that

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos - MMC 1.6 - Artificial Intelligence

 Welcome human and bot alike,

You have reached the blog of the Monthly Music Challenge, and this particular entry refers to the 6th outing of the MMC in it's first year...embedding player now...

Episode 1.6 - Artificial Intelligence

Join Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we explore the musical side of artificial intelligence, what can we learn from our robotic offspring? Will they ultimately rise up and destroy us all? Can we find a way to live in harmony? All these important questions and more will not be answered here, this is a music challenge podcast, with a couple of idiots in the hosting chairs, if you want deep philosophical discussions on A.I then please check out other more informed podcasts, if, however, you want lots of musical explorations of the theme, ranging from Electropop to Orchestral to Heavy Metal, then you are in the right place. Welcome.

We have a humdinger of an episode for you this month, with some Beeeeeeeeautiful songs by MMC regulars like Andrew Hartshorn, TexMex Shaman, Tonal Drift, Hellwaddler, Notehead, A Sea Warren, Man of Arun, Scowsh Molosh, Peter Hawkey, Mobidextrous and Trench Gun as well as 3 exceptional new additions from Natalie Williams Calhoun, Voltage Poetry Project and JPeck.

Outergalactic shoutout to the wonderful peeps of Music Weeklies, which continues to supply the MMC with some of the most exciting musicians working in the world today, we love you guys 

The next hashtag (for MMC 1.7) is Mother Earth #MotherEarth

You have until the 4th August 2023 to get your songs about the Earth into us for inclusion in the main section of the show, alternatively, you can still submit songs based on the previous 6 themes to be included in our Late Subs section. (Previous themes 1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, 3. Ignorance, 4. Winning, 5. Razzmajazz and now 6. Artificial Intelligence). Send an Mp3 and a write up about your song, along with a bio (for new subs) to cosmicbos@gmail.com 

Please take the time to comment, follow all the amazing artists featured, like, share and subscribe

Without further ado, here is the full tracklist for the episode:

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE songs

1. There's No A.I in Team - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos 
2. Clouds Dissolve - TexMex Shaman & Tea R Sea 
3. Talos - Andrew Hartshorn
4. Techno Sapience - Tonal Drift
5. Silent Rebellion - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler
6. A.I God - Notehead
7. Art's Official Intelligence - ASeaWarren @aseawarren
8. Dichotomy - Natalie Williams Calhoun
9. Uncanny Valley - Man of Arun @ManofArun
10. Era Oeuvre - Voltage Poetry Project
11. Ghost in the Machine - jpeck

There you have it, a whole heap of very real intelligence taking on the artificial world and very clearly coming out on top (for now). Exceptional work all, and a huge welcome to the newbies Natalie Williams Calhoun (NWC!), Voltage Poetry Project (VPP!), jpeck (JPC!) and Tea R Sea (slipping in on the TexMex track), thank you so much for contributing, we wish you a long and musicially rewarding stay on the MMChallenger. Truly wonderful stuff.

There was also a few other hashtags from the music weeklies peoples that produced some interesting songs this month. Firstly there was a MimicAGame challenge which produced some stunning interpretations of classic VGM (Go check out the Music Weeklies site or twitter or discord), we present one of these tracks by our good friends.

12. La Cosa En El Umbral - Trench Gun

As Cosmic Bos are a little out of the gaming loop we took the opportunity to revisit a song from over 10 years ago, and slipped out this little gem.

13. Money Zombies - Cosmic Bos

This challenge was followed up by Bittersweet

14. Bittersweet - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey
15. Bittersweet - Cosmic Bos

Then to mix things up a bit, we did early Late Subs:

16. Hummingbird - TexMex Shaman & Stonerjazz (Razzmajazz)
17. Save the Bees - Trench Gun (MiniMe)

Cheeky little newbie sneaking in there, big shout out to Jeff aka Stonerjazz for your exceptional work with TexMex. Right back on the hashtag train for ComingOut and Smart

18. Third Eye Pride - Cosmic Bos
19. Smart - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh
20. Smart - Tonal Drift
21. Watch Your Six - Mobidextrous
22. Get a Little Bit Smarter Everyday - Cosmic Bos

As is tradition now, Cosmic Bos put all our songs onto a handy EP which can be purchased from Bandcamp https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-16-artificial-intelligence

So quick reminder, the next theme is Mother Earth and you have till the 4th August 2023.

Also, we have finally done the deed and set up a Discord server, come join us there 

Before the next episode we will be doing a special presentation for the Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren album 'Sound Investments', which will be available on CD and Bandcamp on the 4th August from Monochrome Motif Records, we are all really excited to share our Business themed album with you all, Spoiler Alert! it's pretty good.

Here is the youtube playlist of the podcast 

Peace and infinite robot love

Cosmic Bos

Tribute to Tribute - Cosmic Bos's tribute to Tribute by Tenacious D

 Hello my rockin' amigo's,

Welcome to the gates of Hell! Where musicians must fight demon's to save the very fabric of our existence. Andy and Nick Jackson (Cosmic Bos) stood before such a demon and used the powers of Tenacious D to save us all. Here is the video evidence of this mighty quest.

Tribute by Tenacious D is arguably the greatest tribute to the greatest song in the world that has even been made. Cosmic Bos have chosen to honour the greatest song in the world by doing a tribute to the tribute to the greatest song in the world.

Brothers Andy and Nick (Jackson) - Cosmic Bos, have been making music for a long time, one of the very first bonding experiences with music for the Jackson brothers was the self titled debut album by Tenacious D - Jack Black and Kyle Gass created a masterpiece with that album, and it was whist visiting America (Florida to be precise, for the theme parks) that the very British Jackson brothers did stumble upon Tenacious D. Purchased from a record store in an outlet mall along with the Spinal Tap Soundtrack, Nick and Andy proceeded to spend their two week holiday learning every lyric, skit and harmony that the album had to offer. Nick was 15 at the time, Andy was 21, and their vocal only rendition of 'F**k Her Gently' on the boat ride to Disneyland was both inappropriate and hilarious.

Tribute is the stand out song on the album, it is a true masterpiece on its own. The video is also a masterpiece in Cosmic Bos's opinion. Nick and Andy learnt to play and perform the song shortly after returning from America. Several years later it would be their party piece, once an acoustic guitar had been located at a party it wouldn't be long before the pre Cosmic Bos brothers would be flig-a-guinging their way through a ropey rendition of Tribute.

Now all these many moons later, Nick and Andy have been making music together as Cosmic Bos for over 5 years, embodying the spirit of the D, continuing their quest to find the greatest song in the world and share it with everyone. They found it only fitting to honour the song that inspired their lifelong quest, give praise to the musical gods that Jack Black and Kyle Gass are, and offer to help them in their quest to be the greatest band in the world, maybe take the septa for a while, maybe even take over as they are getting on a bit now.

Tribute to Tribute is Cosmic Bos's tribute to Tribute by Tenacious D, Andy and Nick attempted to lovingly recreate the original video as much as they could. Not having access to a suitable 'recording booth' as in the original video, the lads just decided to skip all that and cut straight to the song.

Please consider subscribing to us on YouTube

And like, share and comment on the video, especially if you are Jack Black or Kyle Gass (we love you guys)

Peace and infinite success

Cosmic Bos

P.S - here is our audio only page on youtube, please consider subscribing there too :)

Album Writing Club 2023 - Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren - Sound Investments

 Hello prospective client,

Andy Jackson here, from Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren, I am one of the partners in this musical business that was set up for the #AlbumWritingClub 2023 and I am head of the vocal/lyrics and promotional department of HJJ&W

For your consideration, I present to you 'Playing Office' by Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren

Hartshorn Jackson Jackson Warren · Playing Office

This song is one of the 11 tracks on the album 'Sound Investments' that HJJ&W submitted to the albumwritingclub competition. 

This is the second year that Lights and Lines record label have run this wonderful competition, last year the partners of HJJ&W had taken part in the comp separately, as Andrew Hartshorn, Cosmic Bos (the Jackson brothers) and ASeaWarren (Al Warren), developing friendships through discussions around the competition, working together in different capacities before joining forces to tackle Album Writing Club Year 2.

Here is the full playlist of entrants to the singles competition part of the album competition.

You can vote for your 3 favourites here VOTING FORM (pick your top 3)

Lights And Lines · #AlbumWritingClub2023 - Best Single (Public Vote)

Anyway, back to the business at hand, the musical business of Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren.

Headed up by the CEO of Monochrome Motif Records, Mr. Andrew Hartshorn is the first name in our musical business, we call him the Big Dog, mainly because he's the oldest not because he's particularly dog like in any sense of the word. Hartshorn runs a tight ship, having at the beginning of 2023 assembled his labels artists and affiliates to produce the epic Poseidon's Realm under the name the Monochrome Assembly. 

Purchase the album from this embedded link to band camp, and enjoy the video to the song 'It's Between Me and the Sea' from the very album. It features Andrew Hartshorn and the two Jacksons of HJJ&W.

This rather smoothly moves us on to the aforementioned Jackson brothers, Cosmic Bos.

The hosts of the Monthly Music Challenge (MMC), Cosmic Bos love to make music, lots of it, in loads of genres and styles, and then make videos for some of them, if not all of them. 

Cosmic Bos operate a DIY approach and have to date managed to rack up quite a discography of musical experimentation. Working directly with Andrew Hartshorn since last years competition, Cosmic Bos have developed a close working bond with Monochrome Motif. With Andrew Hartshorn taking part in the MMC and Bos being part of the Monochrome Assembly along with...

The Warren part of HJJ&W, Mr. Al Warren, ASeaWarren, musical guru and all round legend of the soundscapes, working with Hartshorn on his debut Orchestral Suite and becoming a New and Notable on Bandcamp with it (awesome work Al). Al was also a key member of the Monochrome Assembly. 

Al (as we are officially allowed to call Mr. Warren) is also a participant in the MMC, and once word had got out that Mike 5 was running Album Writing Club again in 2023, it didn't take long for the 4 partners to combine their unique musical skills and form Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren

Further details about HJJ&W will be made available to the public in due course.

Thank you for your time, please consider following us on Soundcloud whilst we build our profile and prepare to take this business venture public. https://soundcloud.com/hartshorn-jackson-jackson-warren profile

Kind Regards

Andy Jackson partner in HJJ&W

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos - MMC 1.5 - Razzmajazz

 Hello cool cats,

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.5 - Razzmajazz

Come on a jazzy journey with Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we venture through the razz and the matazz of the musical world of jazz. This is one interesting ride you are in for, as Cosmic Bos guide us through the fascinating land of the razzmajazz.

With stunning songs by Andrew Hartshorn, Notehead, Tonal Drift, ASeaWarren, Scowsh Molosh, Hellwaddler, Man of Arun, Trench Gun, Peter Hawkey and of course your ever idiotic hosts Cosmic Bos, this is a trip your ears deserve to go on.

Razzmajazz marks our last collaboration hashtag with the wonderful musicians of Music Weeklies, a massive thank you to them for helping get the Monthly Music Challenge off the ground, and we will continue to play songs made for their hashtags until the end of this season of MMC.

The next hashtag (for MMC 1.6) is Artificial Intelligence #ArtificialIntelligence and you have until the 7th of July (2023) to get your AI songs to us for inclusion. You can alternatively submit on any of the previous tags we have had (1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, 3. Ignorance, 4. Winning and now 5. Razzmajazz) to be considered for our coverted Late Subs section. Just send an mp3 with a little bit of info about yourself and your song to cosmicbos@gmail.com 

Here is the full tracklist for MMC 1.5 Razzmajazz

Razzmajazz songs

1. Razzmajazz - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
2. The Jazzman's Trumpet - Andrew Hartshorn
3. This is Fine - Notehead
4. Razmajazz - Tonal Drift
5. No.7 Quartet in Bb - ASeaWarren @aseawarren
6. razzmajazz - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh
7. Just Make It Up - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler

What a trip! Some real Jazztastic fun sitting there being all quirky and interesting, also notice that all the members of Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren are present (n.b Cosmic Bos are the two Jacksons) as is tradition at this point on the MMC.

For the other hashtags of music weeklies month of May we have:

#minime 

8. The Wasted Youth - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
9. Talkin' - Man of Arun @ManofArun
10. Warped - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh
11. Kody - Trench Gun 
12. Minime - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler

HopeAndDespair

13. Remaining Forever Hopeful - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
14. Hope and Despair - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey

#Sandcastle

15. The Sand King - Notehead
16. Basic Sandcastle Destruction - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos

And there you have the full set list for the episode, #SpoilerAlert, there were no late subs this month so no subs for you!

Cosmic Bos always pop their tunes for the MMC onto a handy little EP which is available on bandcamp right here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-15-razzmajazz

And as mentioned several times during the episode, you can check out Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren's single (Playing Office) Playing Office - HJJW on Soundcloud

Hartshorn Jackson Jackson Warren · Playing Office

in the singles playlist over on soundcloud for the #albumwritingclub 2023 - full playlist here

and there is a handy voting page where you can pick your 3 favourites from the 34 singles (Congratulations to everyone who took part in AlbumWritingClub this year, you are all winners for getting to the finish line), playlist found on link just above.

You can vote here on this link right here

Please like, share and subscribe to the Monthly Music Challenge, tell your friends and musical rivals.

Our YouTube is here is you fancy some visual stimulation to go with your audio

Peace and infinite jazz

Cosmic Bos

Monthly Music Challenge (MMC) 1.4 - Winning podcast

 Winning!

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge Podcast with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.4 - Winning

Cosmic Bos (Nick and Andy Jackson) present for your listening pleasure the finest in underground musical talent building a musical empire, one hashtag at a time, for the fourth outing of the first year of the MMC, we took on the epic concept of #Winning, and invited the worlds musicians to also take part, and some of them did, and here it is, in podcast form for you.

This is the first hashtag that we have undertaken without being partnered up with the music weeklies peeps (check them out, they are awesome sauce), but rest assured, this episode still contains several of the challenges set by the weeklies, once all the Winning has been dealt with.

And, returning once again, we have the Late Subs section, with some tasty musical treats for your ears around the previous hashtags of the MMC.

Before #SpoilerAlert ending the show with a track from the Poseidon's Realm album by the Monochrome Assembly

Check out the Monochrome Assembly bandcamp here https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com/album/poseidons-realm-album

The next hashtag for Monthly Music Challengers is #Razzmajazz 

in conjunction with the Music Weeklies again, we challenge you to explore your expressive Jazz, be wild, be bold, and see what happens, it's all that kinda jazz baby! You have until the 2nd of June to get your Rasmajazz songs to us, send mp3's and a bio or song info to cosmicbos@gmail.com 

We begin proceedings this time with (surprise, surprise) Cosmic Bos and our song We Are All in This Together (which we made a lyric video for)

Here is the full tracklist for MMC 1.4 Winning

Winning songs

1. We Are All in this Together - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
2. Slow and Steady Wins the Race - Andrew Hartshorn
3. You Can't Be A Winner (If You're A Sinner) - ASeaWarren @aseawarren
4. D - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler
5. Let's Go Bro! - TexMex Shaman
6. Winning isn't Everything - Man of Arun @ManOfArun
7. Smell Defeat - Notehead
8. Winning (Deep Friend Mix) - Mobidextrous  @mobidextrous9777

What a collection of Winning songs right there, all returning players to the MMC, with an eclectic take on the theme, bangers one and all, go check out all these wonders on the socials.

On to the weekly hashtag songs provided by the @musicweeklies 

TuneWithAView

9. TuneWithAView - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
10.  Tune With A View - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey

MyCulture

11. Kick in the Cultures - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
12. Scrying Mirror - Notehead

Accelerate

13. Accelerate - Tonal Drift
14. Accelerate - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh
15. Sprint - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos

That leaves us with the LATE SUBS, Whoop Whoop!

16. in the beginning (#NewBeginnings) - Tonal Drift
17. Ignorance (#Ignorance) - TexMex Shaman

And finally, to cap the episode off nicely, we present to you another track from the Poseidon's Realm album by the Monochrome Assembly

18. The Seagull - The Monochrome Assembly 

Thanks for listening and supporting, please consider subscribing and leaving comments and share with all your friends

Here is Cosmic Bos EP MMC 1.4 Winning on bandcamp, where you can purchase it should you be so inclined.

Here is the podcast playlist courtesy of YouTube

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Cosmic Bos MMC 1.4 Winning EP - for the Monthly Music Challenge 1.4 Winning

Hello lovely you,

It's band camp Friday, and a new EP by Cosmic Bos is here for you

And a video to go with the single We Are All in This Together

Full episode of the Monthly Music Challenge coming Sunday 7th May, with some wonderful exclusive music around the subject of Winning

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Cover done by AI

Monochrome Motif Records presents - Poseidon's Realm by the Monochrome Assembly (Preview Podcast out now)

Happy day music lover,

Welcome to this special presentation podcast all about Monochrome Motif records new album coming out 22nd April 2023 - Poseidon's realm by the monochrome assembly

https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com/album/poseidons-realm-album

Order your copy right now from the above link.

To celebrate Monochrome Motif Records first birthday, Andrew Hartshorn (Label manager) put together a super musical team of ultra talented musicians to take on the mammoth task of concurring Poseidon's realm, and Spoiler Alert, the assembled musical masters took it to the depths.

Here's a quick word from the boss himself - Andrew Hartshorn

Re: Poseidon launch

Really pleased with how the launch has gone with lots of listens across the board for the preview tracks that are part of the preorder. 

A big thank you to everyone who has already placed a pre order for the download and the limited edition CD.

As we already have the stock, all pre ordered CD's will be posted immediately so it means you get to hear the tracks prior to the official launch date of 22nd April.

By purchasing the album (https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com/album/poseidons-realm-album) it will support our ambitious plans for the forthcoming year with a further 7 albums currently scheduled.

And finally a massive thank you to all the artists, for their time, skill and enthusiasm for the project

- Andrew Hartshorn (Monochrome Motif Label Manager)

Thank you Andrew for the update, now on with the preview show

There are 6 preview songs from Poseidon's realm here for your listening pleasure: and the running order is as such

1. The Lighthouse (Andrew Hartshorn, Natalie Williams Calhoun and A Sea Warren)

2. it's Between me and the sea (Andrew Hartshorn and Cosmic Bos)

3. Drowned (A Sea Warren)

4. Painted Ship on a Painted Ocean (Alexa Thanos & Sean Ettlin)

5. The Siren's Lament (Dan Johnson - Age of Infernal)

6. The Last Glacier (Hipster Pug)

Here is the embed from bandcamp of these 6 awesome songs

The full album has 7 other songs that complete this unique and wonderful celebration record, which, let's face it, you really should get a copy for your collection, maybe buy two so you have a backup if one gets broken by squirrels (trust me, it's a serious problem in some parts of the world)

Full bio's of all the members of the Monochrome Assembly can be heard in this preview podcast. The full members roster for the monochrome assembly is Andrew Hartshorn, Natalie Williams Calhoun, A Sea Warren, Cosmic Bos, Dan Johnson (Age of Infernal), Hipster Pug and Alexa Thanos & Sean Ettlin. 

Don't forget to visit the bandcamp page and get your copy today https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com/album/poseidons-realm-album 

And like, share and subscribe to Cosmic Bos's podcast, https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com 

And comment please, comments help spread the word.

Thank you for your time, hope you enjoy all this amaze-ball music, and pick up a copy of the full album. Have a great lunch

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos