Hotel Carolina, the two-day singer-songwriter event of the year will be held at the Windjammer in Isle of Palms, South Carolina from September 25th through 26th.
The festival will kick off Friday night with performances by Sara Kelley, Keaton Simons, Andrew Hoover, Josh Hoge, Curtis Peoples and Ernie Halter.
The concert will continue Saturday afternoon with an All-Star Jam Session featuring all of the Hotel Carolina performers as well as special guests JT Spangler, Chardy McEwan (of Pat McGee Band) and Roy Jay. Hotel Carolina will end Saturday night with performances by Matt Duke, Jay Nash, Sara Haze, Gareth Asher, Tony Lucca, Benjy Davis Project and Tyrone Wells.
For more information on Hotel Carolina and Tickets, visit http://www.welcometothehotelcarolina.com
THE WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL BUILDS AN ONLINE COMMUNITY FOR THE 21st CENTURY Woodstock Ventures & Sony Music Entertainment Plan The Launch of Woodstock.com, an Innovative Site featuring a Live Music Social Network for All Concerts, Exclusive Content, Environmental & Social Initiatives, WikiStock & More
Woodstock Ventures has teamed with Sony Music Entertainment to launch Woodstock.com, the official website for the Woodstock community. Woodstock.com will feature a cutting edge live music social network for all concerts, including complete artist and event information, access to ticketing, concert reviews, blogs and a forum to connect with other fan events throughout the world. There will be platforms for environmental initiatives, social issues, and other current topics. Visitors to the site can meet on a virtual village green, a platform for developing initiatives about global warming, carbon emissions, and responsible energy use. A special interactive portion of the site will make clear to the world which issues are of the greatest importance to the Woodstock community. And of course, the site will be the ultimate source for all things Woodstock — exclusive interviews, guest editors, audio-visual content, rare photographs and other memorabilia with an online store offering a wide variety of goods including fine art prints of never-before-seen photography, music, film, collectables, apparel and books. Woodstock.com will also offer a platform where fans can share their experiences from all of the Woodstock Festivals (’69,’94 & ’99) as well as other live concert events. Woodstock.com will also premiere WikiStock, an interactive wiki-style encyclopedia of all things Woodstock, which will accept and incorporate contributions about the individual experiences visitors have had at Woodstock festivals over the years. Woodstock.com is being created under the auspices of Michael Lang and Joel Rosenman, two of the founders of the Woodstock Festival. The launch of Woodstock.com is planned to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, the historic weekend that showed the world how the youth of America could unite in peace and music. “Woodstock began as a dream and became a reality that exceeded our wildest expectations,” said Michael Lang. “That dream lives on and our hope is that Woodstock.com will harness the power of 21st century technology to the communal idealism and values that continue to grow out of Woodstock.” Joel Rosenman added, “Like the Woodstock Festival, Woodstock.com is designed with the Woodstock community in mind — a destination for music, social issues, memories and hopes, and above all, a place to have fun. And, like the festival, the website will change and evolve. The Woodstock community will see right away that Woodstock.com is not only a place, it’s a pathway for a fascinating journey.” “The original Woodstock festival shaped the musical and cultural values of a generation,” said Adam Block, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. “We at Sony Music are grateful for the opportunity to partner with Woodstock Ventures in bringing the heritage and spirit of Woodstock Nation into the future.”
Be sure to check out www.woodstock.com
Pat McGee’s most recent release is These Days (The Virginia Sessions) is a heartfelt album with an inspiring story behind it. “Come Back Home” is a mesmerizing song that instantly connects you to Pat McGee and the words he is sharing. Of the song, Pat says,
“Come Back Home” was written in the wake of me losing my longtime drummer and former Army soldier John C. Williams. But the song started off as a reflection of how a military couple deals with separation. After the release of “Come Back Home”, John’s little brother was killed by an IED in Iraq. His name was Blake Williams. His platoon used this track as the audio to a memorial slide show presentation they did in March of 2008. It was for all the courageous men and women they had lost in the month of March. I am humbled by their service to our great country and I hope this song brings them some peace. My father served in Vietnam and I truly appreciate their dedication and bravery.
Thanks, Pat”
Click here to watch the equally powerful video for “Come Back Home”.
http://www.patmcgee.net
Metal giants LAMB OF GOD have announced a live streaming of their upcoming show at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia on May 9, 2009. This will mark the first time the band has offered a live stream of an entire show to the public. The festivities begin at 9:30 PM EST on the band’s official website (www.lamb-of-god.com/media.html).
The band will be utilizing technology provided by KYTE (www.kyte.tv) for this special event. Fans will be able to choose from several different camera angles around the stage as they watch the live stream of the band’s performance.
“Since we can’t seem to play every town and can’t possibly fly you all to ours, we came up with a way to play your house,” says drummer Chris Adler. “Mosh with Mom! One time only metal stimulus package! This tour has been amazing and we hope you enjoy the show!”
Chris Adler used KYTE during the recording process of their new album and has continued uploading video blogs and streaming live content since the release of their fifth studio album WRATH. The band has also been offering live web casts to their fan club located at: http://www.lamb-of-god.com/congregation.html.
This exclusive look at a live show is the latest innovative promotion from Lamb of God. Recently the rockers launched an “Escape the Plague” contest where fans who purchase one of the first 100,000 copies of the new CD can win a BBQ with vocalist Randy Blythe, special Lamb of God equipment, or another one of 100 available prizes.
Currently, Lamb of God are headlining the NO FEAR ENERGY tour and are supporting WRATH, which was released on February 24th of this year and debuted at #2 on the Billboard Charts.
Remaining dates on the NO FEAR ENERGY TOUR:
(ft. Lamb of God, As I Lay Dying, Children of Bodom, Municipal Waste, and God Forbid)
May 6 Detroit, MI Fillmore Theatre
May 8 New York, NY Roseland Ballroom
May 9 Philadelphia, PA The Electric Factory
May 11 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live
May 12 Boston, MA House Of Blues
May 13 Albany, NY Washington St. Armory
May 14 Richmond, VA The National
May 15 Myrtle Beach, SC House Of Blues
For more information:
The California-based band Wonderlick is back with their second album “Topless at the Arco Arena”. We spoke with Wonderlick about the album and what is going on in their lives.
SM: Where did the name “Wonderlick” come from?
W: It’s a deliberate misspelling of Bucky Wunderlich’s last name. Bucky was the rock star protagonist in Don DeLillo’s Great Jones Street. One of our favorite authors, though not one of his best books. But we liked the sound of it, and the way it hints vaguely at magic and intimacy. Also, it gives us a better answer to questions like this one than our last band did, because our old answer was “mushrooms.”
SM: What exactly is “Topless at the Arco Arena”?
W: It’s essentially the story of a girl named Jenny who strips at a concert, her stoner boyfriend, and the businessmen who turn their dreams against them.
SM: What motivated you to create this album?
W: It’s literally about the time I watched a woman yank off her shirt at an AC/DC concert at the Arco Arena in Sacramento. It bothered me for days afterward – I couldn’t figure out if it was a glorious moment of abandon, or if she and the rest of the audience were being manipulated by forces beyond their control. It happened right at the end of the dotcom boom and bust, so my angst felt connected to larger regrets about how crazy capitalism can make us. I had a straight job for the first time in my life, and was suddenly responsible for figuring out who got to stay and who got laid off, so I didn’t have the luxury of just railing against the evil corporation, because I *was* the evil corporation. So the album grew out of all that. Jay and I have pretty much been that girl, her boyfriend, and the businessman at various points in our lives, which made it possible to look at the event and its aftermath from each perspective.
SM: What message are you hoping to send to your fans?
W: If we had a simple answer to that we probably wouldn’t have spent the last seven years writing song after song about the same moment. In retrospect, a lot of the album seems to be groping for uncompromised ways to share private moments of joy, or maybe to acknowledge how compromised they can be without giving up what’s real and powerful and good about them. That’s kind of an obtuse message, I guess. Hopefully the songs themselves are more articulate – the last one is about making the devil horns un-ironically, and is shorter than this answer.
SM: What was the biggest challenge making this album?
W: Physics! Jay and I live 500 miles apart, but need to be in the same room for Wonderlick to work. But if we’re in the same room for too long, it stops working, So it took a while.
SM: What artist or artists influence you and your music the most?
W: I’m not sure you can hear them in the music itself, but I’d say anyone who grapples with the world without standing apart from that world. David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen are both pretty inspiring that way – writing unsentimentally about sentimental things, and trying to get back to the deeper feelings the sentiment gradually became a substitute for. Musically, of course, neither Jay nor I would be doing this if it weren’t for the Clash, but in my dotage I’ve been more impressed with Joe Strummer’s later, more humble, solo records.
SM: What is your favorite track on the album?
W: It changes. “Fuck Yeah!” is the most recent one, so that’s winning today.
SM: Why did you decide to run a name your own price album pre-sale?
W: We’d done something similar several years ago for the debut, where we pre-sold the record before it actually existed in order to raise the money we needed to create it in the first place. This time round, the record was finished, but I’d been reading Dave Allen’s pampelmoose blog, where he’d been listing all these examples of musicians who stopped setting prices at their merch table and said, “pay whatever you want,” and wound up earning more than they had when they set their own prices. So it seemed like an experiment worth trying. Worst case scenario was that anyone who already knew the band and had supported us in the past would be getting our new record for nothing, which I felt they’d earned and would have happily licked the envelopes myself, you know? But if you make the connection to the band personal in that way, people are incredibly generous. No one paid less than cost. Multiple people paid more than $100. And the average price was $29.13. I never would have had the chutzpah to charge anything close to that. At the same time, a bunch of people who couldn’t afford more than $5 also got the album. Joe the Plumber would call us all socialists, but I bet there are records he’d pay that much for if Jon Bon Jovi asked him directly or something.
SM: How do you feel technology has affected music distribution and how fans hear music?
W: That’s like a ten thousand word answer. Here’s the Headline News version: labels are now an option, not a necessity, as everyone and his or her grandmother has access to worldwide distribution. That’s on the musician side – it also means you suddenly have 100,000 other musicians competing for the audience’s attention, but nobody who’s egotistical enough to be a musician in the first place should worry about that. For listeners, we’ve traded fidelity for convenience, and that’s a hell of a bargain. I used to stress about which 24 cassettes I could fit in my carryon on cross-country plane rides. Now I take all my records and a thousand others I never would have bought otherwise with me just on a walk to the corner store. Shuffle play rules.
SM: What is something surprising about Wonderlick that the fans don’t know?
W: How convivial it is? There’s no drama at all when we’re recording. If someone wants to try something, it gets tried. If it doesn’t work, that fact is noted, and no one takes it personally. It’s surprisingly adult. But with lots of dick jokes.
http://www.wonderlick.com
http://www.rockridgefree.com
Kate Voegele has just announced that she will be going on tour! Check out dates below and save the date to catch Kate in a town near you. Visit KateVoegele.com to grab tickets.
Also, check out part 2 of the One Tree Hill songstress at the photo shoot for her new album A Fine Mess due out in May.
Kate Voegele Behind The Scenes “A Fine Mess” Photo Shoot Part 2
University of Phoenix Presents: Kate Voegele’s Lift Me UP Tour:
4/24 Salt Lake City, UT - Club Sound
4/25 Denver, CO – Marquis
4/27 Lawrence, KS – Bottleneck
4/28 Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground
4/29 Minneapolis, MN – Varsity
5/1 Chicago, IL - Park West
5/2 Milwaukee, WI - Rave Bar
5/3 Pontiac, MI - Eagle Theatre
5/5 Toronto, ON - Mod Club
5/6 Cleveland, OH - HOB Cambridge
5/7 Cincinnati, OH - 20th Century
5/8 Columbus, OH - The Basement
5/9 Pittsburgh, PA - Rex Theatre
5/11 New Haven, CT - Toad’s Place
5/12 Boston, MA – Paradise
5/13 New York, NY – Highline
5/15 S Hackensack, NJ - School of Rock
5/16 Philadelphia, PA - The Note
5/17 Baltimore, MD – Sonar
5/19 Nashville, TN – Rutledge
5/20 Atlanta, GA - The Loft
5/22 Orlando, FL - The Social
5/23 Jacksonville, FL - Jack Rabbits
5/24 Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room
5/28 New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
5/29 Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
5/30 San Antonio, TX - White Rabbit
5/31 Dallas, TX - The Loft
6/2 Phoenix, AZ – Promotion
6/3 Phoenix, AZ - Martini Ranch
6/4 San Diego, CA - Soma Sidestage
6/5 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey
6/6 Orangevale, CA - The Boardwalk
6/7 San Francisco, CA – Slims
6/8 San Francisco, CA – Promotion
6/10 Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre
6/11 Seattle, WA - Neumo’s
6/24 Bessemer, AL - Alabama Adventure
During an Iron Maiden (yeah, apparently they are still touring) concert in Bogotá, Columbia Saturday, riots broke out when fans tried to gatecrash. Rioters and police clashed, and over 100 people were arrested. Police used tear gas, and one officer was injured when fans started throwing rocks. It has sparked a local debate on whether the area should host future heavy metal concerts. Read more…
from the band:
Few things are more exciting than watching Bush finally release America as his eight year hostage, but if anything could rival that news, it’s this: We are more than pleased to announce that we will have the honor of touring the US & Canada with punk rock legends RANCID this summer. If Tim Armstrong didn’t confirm it personally backstage in LA a few weeks ago, we wouldn’t believe it either.
In the meantime, off to Europe with Anti-Flag, Strike Anywhere and the Flobots…stay tuned for updates from the road…and go check out our going away present to W, in the form of our new video for “Audience Of One.”
-Rise Against
Tour dates have not been announced yet but fans can stay up-to-date on all things Rise Against by heading to www.RiseAgainst.com. Appeal To Reason is in stores now.
Mötley Crüe announced today plans for their Saints of Los Angeles 2009 Winter Tour, hours before headlining a special one off performance at the historic Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. The Live Nation produced, Saints of Los Angeles 2009 Tour, will feature special guests — Hinder, Theory of a Deadman and The Last Vegas. The tour kicks off February 2nd in San Diego, CA with 29 shows throughout North America, including a date at Madison Square Garden, with the final performance on March 18th in Portland, ME. Tickets go on sale beginning November 21st at www.livenation.com and www.motley.com.
American Express Card members will have access to presale tickets beginning Friday, November 14 at 5pm local time through Thursday, November 20 at 10pm local time via www.motley.com.
“It’s great to go back out on a tour like this where the bands are all about returning rock to the forefront of music today,” says Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe. “On top of it, we get to introduce a new band who jumped the line to arenas through the Guitar Center: On Stage contest. Just like Ozzy gave us a chance and took us on tour at the start of our career, we’re looking forward to taking The Last Vegas on the road and giving them the same opportunity.”
Hinder front man Austin Winkler said, “Mötley Crüe is a massive influence on us, and an inspiration on so many levels for what we do! Mick even played on the title track for our new album. It will be an honor and privilege for us to tour with one of the greatest rock bands ever! And we can’t wait to party our asses off with them!”
“We are so pumped to be a part of what I think will be the biggest and most bad ass tour of 2009. Three kick ass bands on one bill, not to mention how honored we are to play with one of the best rock n roll bands of all f#@%kn time, Mötley f#@%kn Crüe,” said Tyler Connolly of Theory of a Deadman.
Rock icons Mötley Crüe recently returned to the charts with Saints of Los Angeles, their first new studio album with the original line-up — Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars, Tommy Lee and Vince Neil — in over a decade and the ninth studio album in their career. Based on the band’s New York Times bestseller The Dirt, the disc debuted at #1 on the Independent Album chart and was the top debut of the week on the Billboard’s top 200 at #4.
For more information on Mötley Crüe, please visit: www.motley.com and www.myspace.com/motleycrue.
SAINTS OF LOS ANGELES 2009 TOUR DATES
2/2-3/18 with Hinder, Theory of a Deadman and The Last Vegas
- Mötley Crüe and The Last Vegas only on February 6 and 7 in Las Vegas, March 3 in Miami -
* Indicates On-Sale November 21
** Indicates On-Sale November 22
*** Indicates On-Sale December 6
FEBRUARY
2 San Diego, CA Cox Arena **
4 Reno, NV Reno Events Center **
6 Las Vegas, NV The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel**
7 Las Vegas, NV The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel **
10 Omaha, NE Quest Center **
11 Moline, IL iWireless Center **
13 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena **
14 Madison, WI Alliant Energy Center **
15 Rockford, IL MetroCentre **
17 Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Arena **
18 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center **
19 Green Bay, WI Resch Center **
21 Nashville, TN Sommet Center **
22 Birmingham, AL BJCC Arena**
25 Greenville, SC BI-LO Center **
27 Lafayette, LA Cajun Dome ***
28 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena ***
MARCH
3 Miami, FL Hard Rock Casino***
4 Orlando, FL UCF Arena **
6 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa **
7 Erie, PA Erie Civic Center **
8 Hershey, PA Giant Center ***
10 Ottawa, ON Scotiabank Place *
11 Hamilton, ON Copps Coliseum *
13 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena **
14 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena **
16 New York, NY Madison Square Garden **
17 Manchester, NH Verizon Wireless Arena**
18 Portland, ME Cumberland County Civic Center **
The long awaited The Who: At Kilburn: 1977 will be available on DVD & Blu-Ray from Image Entertainment on November 18th. The landmark performance is finally being released from the vault and showcases the band with all its original members in top form performing many of their biggest hits. See below for links to the trailer and a link to promo shots. I have copies of the DVD available for release and giveaway, please let me know if you’re interested in featuring The Who: At Kilburn on Watch Mojo.
Check out the Trailer:
One of the greatest rock bands of all time, The Who defined modern music for the past four decades. Now after years of anticipation, some of their most unforgettable moments can finally be experienced with THE WHO: AT KILBURN: 1977, releasing on a two-disc DVD and single-disc Blu-Ray set November 18 from Image Entertainment.
Newly mastered in high-definition with state-of-the-art sound for a spectacular home theater experience, the December 15, 1977 Kilburn show at the Gaumont State Theater in North London was recorded before a select audience for Jeff Stein’s hit film about The Who, The Kids Are Alright, but only a few brief selections of what would prove to be legendary drummer KEITH MOON’s public swan song were ever seen in the finished feature. Captured on 35mm with six cameras and a 16-track audio recorder, the complete Kilburn show features Moon and the rest of the band’s classic line-up — singer ROGER DALTREY, guitarist/singer PETE TOWNSEND, and bassist JOHN ENTWISTLE–in top form with many of their biggest hits.
Also included in this release is another never-before-seen show and one of the band’s favorites, their 1969 London Coliseum performance, which comes with a wealth of additional bonus tracks and boasts the first-ever full live recording of their groundbreaking rock opera, Tommy. With a total of 29 classic The Who songs, this pivotal release has long been at the top of rock fans’ wish lists and has been regarded as a lost “holy grail” for followers of The Who since Moon’s passing. This release will occur in conjunction with major, high-profile airings of the Kilburn show as a Fall 2007 pledge drive title with heavy promotion on PBS.
Currently on tour through November 2008, THE WHO have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the UK Music Hall of Fame and won the first annual Freddie Mercury Lifetime Achievement in Live Music Award and a GRAMMY® Foundation award for creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording. Their albums Tommy, My Generation and Who’s Next have been inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame. If this picture doesn’t make you want to watch the DVD then the tracklisting which follows will….Awesome:
Track Listing:
Disc One:
Kilburn Songs: ” I Can’t Explain,” “Substitute,” “Baba O’Reilly (Teenage Wasteland),” “My Wife/Going Mobile,” “Behind Blue Eyes,” “Dreaming from the Waist,” “Pinball Wizard,” “I’m Free,” “Tommy’s Holiday Camp,” “Summertime Blues,” “Shakin’ All Over,” “My Generation,” “Join Together,” “Who Are You?,” “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”
London Coliseum Songs: “Heaven and Hell,” ” I Can’t Explain,” “Fortune Teller,” “Tattoo,” “Young Man Blues,” “A Quick One While He’s Away,” “Happy Jack,” “I’m a Boy,” “I’m Free,” “Tommy’s Holiday Camp,” “See Me, Feel Me,” “Summertime Blues,” “Shakin’ All Over,” “My Generation.”
Disc Two:
70 minutes of rare Coliseum bonus tracks and extended versions including the first-ever live recording of the rock opera Tommy: “A Quick One While He’s Away,” “Overture,” “It’s a Boy, ” “1921,” “Amazing Journey,” “Christmas,” “Acid Queen,” “Pinball Wizard,” “Do You Think It’s Alright,” “Fiddle About,” “Tommy Can You Hear Me?,” “There’s a Doctor,” “Go to the Mirror,” “Smash the Mirror,” “Miracle Cure,” “Sally Simpson,” “Tommy’s Holiday Camp,” “I’m Free,” “We’re Not Gonna Take It.”
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