We gave away three pairs of tickets to see Faber Drive in Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon and Vancouver. To win, you had to give a shout out to the band thanking and encouraging them.

We had a lot of really great entries. You can check the winners HERE.

Tired of your old beat up phone? Here was your chance to win. We gave away 3 awesome Touchphones exclusively from Rogers. All you had to do was snap a pick of your current phone; choose one of the 5 Rogers Touchphones, and then post a picture of your old phone and tell us why you needed that new one!

3 lucky Nex users scored themselves brand new Touchphones! Click HERE to see the winners.


-- The Nex Team

A Day to Remember has been well-known for their metalcore musical style which usually leads into pop punk (usually in the choruses of most songs). Fans have described this blend as "pop-mosh" or "popcore". It seems to have worked out in their favour, as the band was nominated "Best International Newcomer" in 2008.

To find out how you can get a chance to win a pair of tickets to see them live in concert, check out the A Day to Remember contest page.


-- The Nex Team

Never Shout Never is Christofer Drew, an 18-year-old singer-songwriter and guitarist from Joplin, Missouri. In 2008, Drew began writing and recordings songs in his basement and self-released an EP that has sold more than 30,000 copies and hundreds of thousands of individual tracks. Never Shout Never quickly built a grassroots following via the internet. What Is Love?, his first full length album, includes 8 tracks plus a download code for 2 bonus live tracks and is produced by Butch Walker.

With an album title that poses a question so deep, we couldn't help but ask you: What is love?

You gave us your answers, and the winner with our favorite response won the grand prize that included a trip for 2 to Toronto to see Never Shout Never in concert; airfare, hotel, and spending money; the chance the meet the band at the concert; and a copy of What Is Love? 10 runners up also each won a copy of What Is Love? and 6 months of Nexopia Plus. Click HERE to see the winners.


-- The Nex Team

Two new great updates this week:

• Better profile skinning system -- give it a free one-week trial!
  We've made it faster and easier to create and edit profile skins! Choose from basic or advanced options, upload background images, and see a live preview of any color changes you make right on your profile. If you want, you can also choose from one of the pre-made Nex profile skins. Don't have Plus? Don't worry, we're making profile skinning FREE for every Nexopia user for a week to try out, so go check it out!
  
  
• Updated recent visitor page!
  We've added a couple new features to help you get a better idea of who's creeping your profile. See which pages each of your recent visitors viewed, or view a graphical breakdown of your recent visitor activity over a two week period. Check it out on your recent visitor page.

-- The Nex Team

We've all seen how candid and open Jacob Hoggard and his bandmates are during interviews. We asked you to take a photo we provided to you and pretend you were the lucky person interviewing Hedley and post 10 lines of your "interview" with them.

Winners walked away with a pair of tickets to see Hedley live in concert! Click HERE to see the winners.


-- The Nex Team

Tired of your old beat up phone? Here's your chance to win. We're giving away 3 awesome Touchphones exclusively from Rogers. For more info on how to enter, check out the Rogers Touchphone contest page.


-- The Nex Team

Never Shout Never is Christofer Drew, an 18-year-old singer-songwriter and guitarist from Joplin, Missouri. In 2008, Drew began writing and recordings songs in his basement and self-released an EP that has sold more than 30,000 copies and hundreds of thousands of individual tracks. Never Shout Never quickly built a grassroots following via the internet. What Is Love?, his first full length album, includes 8 tracks plus a download code for 2 bonus live tracks and is produced by Butch Walker.

With an album title that poses a question so deep, we can't help but ask you: What is love? For more info on how to enter, check out the Never Shout Never contest page.


-- The Nex Team

What's your talent? Whether you sing, dance, draw, write, whatever – we wanted to see it! Your challenge was to take whatever you're good at, and show us why you should be the one to go to see Billy Talent. Are you musically inclined? We wanted to see a video of you covering a Billy Talent song! More visually artistic? Create a piece of fan art that would be worthy of an album cover or poster! Are you good at writing? We asked to hear a song, poem, or bio about the band! We were open to anything, and creativity was definitely rewarded!

Winners walked away with a pair of tickets to see Billy Talent live in concert! Click HERE to see the winners.


-- The Nex Team

Two new features this week:

• Submit articles from your blog!
  We've made it easier to write and submit articles by incorporating them right into your blog as a new type of blog post. You can now also include a photo and caption with your article, as well browse other recent articles on the Top Blogs page to rate and comment on. Popular articles will be handpicked to be displayed on the Nex homepage.
  
  
• Profile game block!
  You can now add your favorite game as a block on your profile -- just click the "Add to My Profile" link beside the game or search for a specific one to display. Check the new block out when you edit your profile.

-- The Nex Team

Billy Talent singer Ben Kowalewicz is betraying neither cockiness nor complacency as he candidly assesses what might await the group in the summer of 2009. "People are always saying: ‘You sound so different from record to live,’" says Kowalewicz. "So one thing that we really wanted to do was amalgamate both, so that it sounds really big and heavy but there's still this feeling that's really visceral and alive." Mission accomplished – Billy Talent has never sounded more visceral or alive than it does here, and alongside the likes of Alexisonfire, Against Me and Cancer Bats, this will be a tour that you don’t want to miss.

For more info on how to win a free pair of Billy Talent tickets, check out the contest page.


-- The Nex Team

We've added a few new things to your profile. Edit your profile to check them out and give them a try!

• New countdown block!
  You can now display a countdown ticker block to your profile -- choose either a specific time and date of an upcoming event or a general period of time to count down to.
  
  
• Contact block update!
  In case you missed the latest new stuff from last month, your profile's contact block now has a ton of new options for you to link and show off your different accounts on other sites and systems.
  
  
• Extra friends list options!
  Another new update you may have missed -- you can now also choose which friends to always display on your friends list.

In non-profile related news, we've also added...

• New site skins!
  We've also introduced three new site skins for you to choose from: Modern Warfare 2, Avatar, and (hear the fangirls squee) Twilight. Check them out on the skins page.

-- The Nex Team

We recently asked what your ideal profile would look like and got some great feedback from the Nexopia community. Most liked how they were, but suggested some improvements. When designing these features our goal was to change as little as possible, only adding features and flexibility, giving you more control over your profile.

Here's some of the stuff we've added:

• Easier and faster to edit your profile
  
• New profile layouts -- including a single column layout
  
• All blocks are movable and removable (except your profile pictures and username block)
  
• Friends list loads 10 times faster on your profile
  
• Multiple friends list styles to choose from...
  
  • Different layouts
    
  • Select the number of friends to display
    
  • Or... completely remove it!

So hop over to your profile and give the new updates a try. We want to know what you think!

-- The Nex Team

What's the best thing about Stereos? What has made them such a huge hit in such a short time? We asked you to tell us what you thought and then picked ten winners to walk away each with a pair of concert tickets and a couple of Nexopia t-shirts.

Click HERE to see the winners.

-- The Nex Team