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Cliff Hillis

new song up!

About Me

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· Winner of the 2007 Spark Magazine "Best Singer/Songwriter" Award
· Winner of the 2007 Out & About Magazine "Best Male Songwriter" Award
· Winner of 2007 National Chili's Restaurant "Rock Star For A Day" jingle contest
· Song placements:
"All My Children"
"Party of Five" DVD Box Set release
"Roswell"
"Good Girls Don't"
"Enough" (Jennifer Lopez)
"After Sex" (Brooke Shields)
· Recent press:
USA Today Online
Philadelphia City Paper
Wilmington News Journal
Delaware Today Magazine
· Recent co-writing:
Danny Wilde/Rembrandts
Willie Wisely/Wisely
· Currently recording CD to be released 2008
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Member Since: 11/8/2004
Band Website: cliffhillis.com
Band Members: Live band- "The Forward Thinkers": Ken Herblin- guitar, Greg Maragos- bass, Ritchie Rubini- drums
Influences: Cheap Trick, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Beach Boys, Elliott Smith, Todd Rundgren, Radiohead, Nick Drake, Neil Young, Trip Shakespeare, Elvis Costello & so much more...
Sounds Like: Fountains Of Wayne, Matthew Sweet, Aqualung, The Beatles, Michael Penn, Jon Brion

Record Label: Not Lame Recordings, TallBoy Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

my song is in the "waking dreams" movie trailer

hey all-I just swung by the site of this indie movie that used my song "like an island" but never got released (yet) and noticed that they finally have a trailer up. lo and behold, there's a nice litt...
Posted by Cliff Hillis on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:57:00 PST

"Voters to decide on naming sewage plant for Bush"

from CNN.com... now that is the kinda news I like to see! SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- A measure seeking to commemorate President Bush's years in office by slapping his name on a San Francisco se...
Posted by Cliff Hillis on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:22:00 PST

new song- "never understand"

hey folks-still needs a few bells & whistles, but I got a new song together enough to post to the myspace page. it's called "never understand" and features ritchie rubini on drums & greg maragos on ba...
Posted by Cliff Hillis on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:40:00 PST

my hero!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/05/lawnchair.balloons.ap/index .html
Posted by Cliff Hillis on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:42:00 PST

were all bozos on this bus

not the original bozo, but bozo the second is dead... sad clown faces for everyone!http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/07/03/obit.bozo.ap/ index.html?iref=mpstoryview...
Posted by Cliff Hillis on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:34:00 PST

new old song

howdy friends-I stumbled across a live version of "ribbons and rain" on my ipod that really didn't seem to suck at all... so much so that I decided to stick it up on the page and make it downloadable ...
Posted by Cliff Hillis on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:53:00 PST

about the new song I put up- "Start Again"

so I just stuck the song "start again" up on the page... it’s a song I wrote with danny wilde of the band "the rembrandts". we had worked on the song at one writing session and got pretty far, t...
Posted by Cliff Hillis on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:29:00 PST

rudy theo! kosbee!

home sick today & hurtin', but as I try to motivate myself to accomplish at least some of my goals, there's nothing like the old 'kos to raise the spirits!http://acceptable.tv/videos/2010-Kosbees...
Posted by Cliff Hillis on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:37:00 PST

check it out!!! Im in "Shake Some Action: The Ultimate Power Pop Guide"

A very cool book came out in the last month or so, a guide to all that is "power pop" written by John M. Borack. It's called "Shake Some Action: The Ultimate Power Pop Guide" and comes with an enclose...
Posted by Cliff Hillis on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:33:00 PST

Yacht Rock episode 11

went to the knitting factory in NYC last night to see the premiere of "yacht rock" episode 11. it kicked ass! I got to meet hollywood steve & j.d. ryznar who are both very cool people. I didn't get to...
Posted by Cliff Hillis on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:11:00 PST