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.
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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!
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.
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!
