After a whirlwind weekend in New York City at ICCA Finals, where we placed fourth overall, Voices has settled back into Chicago. A huge, heartfelt thank you to all of our friends, families, and fans who supported us along the road to ICCAs. We're incredibly grateful for the opportunity, and so thankful to Varsity Vocals for providing us with an event we'll never forget. Congratulations to all of the other groups who competed on their amazing work!
Check out our Finals set here, and our Semifinals set (with slightly better camera angle and picture quality) here! And visit our blog to get a behind-the-scenes look at our month!
This weekend, Voices and Men In Drag traveled to Boston to compete and participate in the first ever Boston Sings a cappella festival at MIT. The weekend yielded several exciting accomplishments for Voices: we won the collegiate competition, which gave us the opportunity to open for the BOSS professional showcase, take a masterclass with Cadence, and record with pro talent.
Voices was also successful at the CARA awards on Friday night: Chris Rishel won for best mixed arrangement, and we placed runner-up in three other categories: best mixed album, song (for I'd Like To) and solo (Elspeth Michaels for "I'd Like To"). Congratulations to all!
Voices in Your Head came in first place at the ICCA Midwest Semifinal this weekend. We are so honored and excited to go to finals at the Town Hall in New York (and you can get tickets here). We are especially proud of Alex Gilewicz and Ryan Bober for their Outstanding Choreography award, and Chris Rishel for winning Outstanding Arrangement. Congratulations to the amazing Dicks and Janes and G-Men for winning runners-up!
 | Voices in Your Head has been selected to compete at Boston Sings A Cappella Festival (BOSS) this April. We are so excited to travel to Boston with our friends and co-competitors Men in Drag for a weekend of workshops, concerts, parties and FIERCE COMPETITION. We will also be getting all gussied up for the red carpet (That's right! Red carpet!), as the 2012 CARAs will also be presented live at BOSS. We can't wait! |
Voices in Your Head is so proud to announce that we won first place at our ICCA quarterfinal yesterday! Special congratulations are due to Chris Rishel for taking home the Outstanding Arrangement award for both We Found Love and Titanium; and to Alex Gilewicz and Ryan Bober for winning Outstanding Choreography. Thank you so much to everyone who helped us get to this amazing moment, and all our fans who came out to DeKalb to support us. Also, congratulations to first runner-up The Xtension Chords: we'll see you guys at Semifinals!
This week, the 2012 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award (CARA) nominations were announced. We are proud to announce that Voices in Your Head has been nominated for 5 CARAs! They are:
Best Mixed Collegiate Album: I Used to Live Alone
Best Scholastic Original Song: Chris Rishel & Zachary Madden for Sharp
Best Mixed Collegiate Song: I'd Like To
Best Mixed Collegiate Solo: Elspeth Michaels forI'd Like To
Best Mixed Collegiate Arrangement: Chris Rishel for I'd Like To
Thank you so much to CASA and the nominators for this huge honor.
We are proud to announce that our album I Used to Live Alone is now available through A Cappella Records' HD store. The ACR HD bundle comes with the album (in sparkly HD), full color digital booklet, 11 "instrumental" tracks, concept album details, lyrics for every track, and lots of other goodies. It's also only $9.99 when you buy in HD from the A Cappella Records website (that's cheaper than the regular AND deluxe versions on iTunes).
We are so excited to announce the start of our East Coast Winter Break Tour, a first-ever for Voices. We'll be hitting up Ithaca, Boston and finally New York, singing with some amazing collegiate groups: Brandeis Voicemale, Cornell Last Call, Ithacapella, The MIT Chorallaries, and Tufts sQ!. We'll be capping off our week-long tour with a performance in Times Square with The Red States. Along the way, we'll also be performing at high schools, connecting with alumni, and generally bonding as a cultgroup. Check out our events page for dates and details of gigs, and make sure to keep an eye on our blog and our twitter (@uchicagovoices) for updates on tour shenanigans!
Our original song, Sharp, has been chosen by The Contemporary A Cappella Society (CASA) for their newest compilation album, Sing 8: Too Cubed. We are so honored to be chosen again (from a record number of submissions, AND as only one of three scholastic originals!) after last year's appearance of Boomerang on Sing 7. The album will be available on iTunes or a-cappella.com starting November 14th, but in the meantime...
"Sharp" is now available for listening on YouTube!
Sharp (Full Track)
Now you, too, can sing along to what CASA has dubbed the "Best. Syllables. Ever." Enjoy!
You can also listen to "Sharp" and much more on our latest album, I Used To Live Alone (available for purchase on iTunes, Amazon, or uBazaar).
Earlier today, the Recorded A Cappella Review Board (RARB) released a very positive review of our latest album, I Used to Live Alone (available for purchase on iTunes, Amazon, or uBazaar). We are thrilled to have been given an overall score of 4.7 (on a 5pt scale), and are so grateful to the reviewers (Jonathan Minkoff, Robert Dietz, and Nick Anderson-Frey) for their kind words. We're glad you enjoyed the album, and are already working on our next project - stay posted!
Here are some of our favorite snippets from the reviews:
"[Voices in Your Head] has become one of the fastest rising stars in collegiate a cappella... Any college group that finds itself simply imitating covers will have its world opened up with a few listens to Voices' relentless creativity." --Jonathan Minkoff
"From the sleek concept of the jacket art, to the thoughtful execution of its original material, there is no question that we're being treated to something with vision." --Robert Dietz
"I Used to Live Alone is a supremely professional effort from Voices in Your Head, a talented and ambitious collegiate group... The album is polished, with Voices in Your Head exhibiting the most consistent group sound I've heard in a collegiate a cappella group since the Tufts Beelzebubs on Code Red... A cappella is gradually becoming cooler and cooler, and it appears that Voices in Your Head is at the forefront of this movement." --Nick Anderson-Frey
Voices in Your Head is proud to announce the following new members for the 2011-2012 season:
Alisha Reddy
Allegra Kuney
Amy Henry
Ivan Pyzow
Kevin Qian
Mason Heller
Nate Tan
Samir Warty
Sara Dougadir
Congratulations to our new members!
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Join Voices in Your Head as we celebrate our latest album release with a very special spring concert! Three years in the making, I Used to Live Alone spans several generations of Voices, and represents a number of important milestones for the group. We would love for you to join us in celebration of its completion!
Check out more details on Facebook and our Events page, and purchase advance tickets through uBazaar.  ***UPDATE! I Used to Live Alone is now available for purchase on uBazaar and iTunes! |
Voices In Your Head has been nominated in three categories of the 2011 A cappella Community Awards (ACAs), including Favorite Mixed Collegiate Group, Favorite Female Vocalist (Elspeth Michaels), and Favorite Original A Cappella Song (Boomerang). Nominations were made by the members of the Contemporary A cappella Society (CASA), and we couldn't be more thrilled to receive such high praise from our peers in the a cappella world. It's a great honor to be on the ballot alongside all of the other superstar groups that were nominated! Head on over to the CASA site to vote now!
Voices in Your Head's original track Boomerang has won the 2011 Collegiate A Cappella Recording Award (CARA) in the category of Best Scholastic Original Song. A huge congratulations to composer Chris Rishel and lyricist and soloist Elspeth Michaels! We couldn't be more proud of them. Boomerang was featured on this year's edition of CASA's annual compilation, SING, and will also be included on I Used to Live Alone. In the meantime, check out the announcement on CASA's website, the discussion on Mouth Off, and listen to the full track on YouTube.
Voices In Your Head is pleased to announce our 3rd place finish at our ICCA Midwest Quarterfinal yesterday! And a special shout-out to our own Chris Rishel, who won the judges' award for Outstanding Arrangement for his interpretation of Taio Cruz's hit single Break Your Heart. It was another year of steep competition, and we're very proud of our performance. Our sincere thanks go out to all those of you who have supported us along the way this year and especially to the strong showing of UChicago fans in the crowd last night. Congrats also to The University of Illinois Xtension Chords and University of Wisconsin Fundamentally Sound, both of whom will be advancing to semifinals in St. Louis next weekend!
The Authority has exerted an iron grip on The University of Chicago, with Thought Police suppressing any and all opposition. One brave group of subversives, known only as the “Resistance,” is working restlessly to take down its authoritarian oppressors. The following video is a chronicle of their efforts (please watch in HD!):
Resistance (Music Video)
Video Credits:
University of Chicago Voices in Your Head
“Resistance” OPB Muse
Solo by Mike Glista
Arranged, Recorded, and Edited by Chris Rishel
Mixed by Bill Hare
Video Written and Directed by Wills Pumphrey