Warner Drive CD Release at the Roxy Friday, Feb. 25th

Warner Drive is a straight up Rock and Roll band out of Hollywood, CA. Their music is intense, well-crafted and highly original. The band also puts on a high energy, balls to the wall, full on rock and roll show.

On Friday, February 25th, at the Roxy Thearte, Warner Drive will be releasing their brand new album, "K-Go", to a full house of fans.

This is Warner Drives second album and if its predecessor is any indicator of what to expect we're all in for nice lil surprise. Well written, catchy, original rock music.

This group has a ton of impressive accomplishments to date. It's one thing to be a good band, another to have good songs, and yet another to have the motivation and drive to do something with all of it. This is the case with Warner Drive. From selling out the Hollywood House of Blues to playing with the Killers, they did over 250 shows in 2010... thats very strong. It's made them a band you want to go see because you know it's going to be a great show.

So on Friday evening head to the Roxy and see an incredible rock and roll band play their asses off and drop their new album K-Go.

In the meantime, here's Warner Drive's brand new single, OK K-Go

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Nic Adler of the Roxy Theatre interview on todays Sunset Strip with the Los Angeles Business Journal

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I picked up the Los Angeles Business Journal today and what did I see on the front cover? Nic Adler, manager and co-owner of the historic Roxy Music Theatre in an interview with the LA Biz Journal. I recommend you click the link below and read the whole article and get a feel for for the energies and circumstances that are actively shaping what we know of as the modern day Sunset Strip, a place we all love.

Adler discusses the interesting predicament of running a venue with such a rich musical and cultural history, while still pushing to innovate and take chances to keep competitive in the Los Angeles nightlife scene.

the Roxy's past is so intermingled with popular music, live music, music industry and "the scene" that as I read I couldnt help but think of how today's bands, especially local ones are factoring into this equation. We all know the stories (some of you were there) of the sold out guns and roses and motley crue shows and the energy (and revenue) of that past time and place. but we all know that that time is gone, and attention needs to be on the future- Theres definitely still great music (and working bands) happening all over the strip and with guys like Nic actively engaged in moving his club forward the resurgence is already underway. SSMF 2011 anyone?

Click HERE to read the full Los Angeles Business Journal article

Billboard Top Ten Rock Charts

1. Greatest Hits
Bon Jovi
2. The Hymn Of A Broken Man
Times Of Grace
3. A Thousand Suns
Linkin Park
4. All American Nightmare
Hinder
5. Asylum
Disturbed
6. What Separates Me From You
A Day To Remember
7. Nightmare
Avenged Sevenfold
8. War Is The Answer
Five Finger Death Punch
9. My Darkest Days
My Darkest Days
10. The Sound Of Madness
Shinedown

Dig Me Up by Machine Empire

This is a song from Machine Empire's debut EP, Framework. It is titled, "Dig Me Up". It's on the slower side, a bit of a ballad if you will...

Dig Me Up by Machine Empire

Vince Neil's gettin 2 weeks in the box

so looks like our boy Vince is gonna be doing a 2 week tour of Cell Block D.... followed up by intimate shows at House Arrest Pavillion...

 VN got nabbed in LV rollin drunk in his Lamborghini (which im sure is bright red) near the vegas strip

there was a statement provided by Neil or his pub saying that he "took responsibility for his actions and would learn from the experience"
personally i think its pretty fn RnR of him to still be gettin in trouble w the law and on the other hand pretty gay that hes gna be on skating w the stars...  way to strike a balance haha

good luck in the can man!

the Young Royals at Cat Club 1/14/11

went out to promote the 1/15/11 Machine Empire Show at the Cat Club last night and ended up seeing this band called the Young Royals... bad ass shit....   chek em out http://www.theyoungroyals.com/
heres a bit of vid from the show

Lemmy Documentary finally makes it to LA

saw this post on noisecreep and it was kinda crazy because last friday i saw Lemmy at the bow... playin the machine in the corner... and i was like.. why isnt there a movie about this dude??? lo and behold... there is!

from noisecreep:
The documentary 'Lemmy: 49% Motherfucker, 51% Son of a Bitch' premiered last year at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. But any film about Motörhead icon Lemmy Kilmister doesn't really premiere until it hits his adopted hometown of L.A. That finally happened Jan. 13 at L.A.'s Vista Theater.

Several of his friends, including Duff McKagan. Robert Trujillo, Slim Jim Phantom, Ron Jeremy, Steve Vai and Henry Rollins came out to support the rocker who Dave Grohl calls "the baddest mother fucker on the planet" in the film.

Alter Bridge at the House of Blues in Hollywood Tuesday, January 4th 2011

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Zakk Wylde's New Book

this is from http://www.zakkwylde.com/

BRINGING METAL TO THE CHILDREN by Zakk Wylde out May 10, 2011

William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers today announced plans to release on May 10, 2011 the handbook to all things heavy metal: BRINGING METAL TO THE CHILDREN by Zakk Wylde, guitar legend and Black Label Society frontman. Wylde invites all who dare onto the tour bus for tales of glory, debauchery, and general mayhem. The book is co-authored by Eric Hendrikx.
In BRINGING METAL TO THE CHILDREN, Zakk Wylde, the man who turned heavy metal touring into a journey of fantastical excess, shares what really goes on behind tour bus windows and backstage doors. The twenty-five year music veteran of the Ozzy Osbourne band and Black Label Society details his survival techniques for maintaining a life on the road, managing a band of raging vikings, and somehow making it on stage and blowing the crowd away night after night.
Beginning with Wylde’s “true rocker test” (TRT), the reader answers and self-scores ten questions to determine if he is a true rocker and should continue reading, or if he’s just a complete tool who needs to hand the book to someone more metal. Wylde continues the journey with his epic stories about life on the road, using his Black Label Society (BLS) coaching techniques to instruct the reader on proper touring hygiene, pre-concert preparations, and post-show etiquette. The road stories include wild nights with many of heavy metal’s gods including; Rob Zombie, Eddie Van Halen, Dimebag Darrell, Alice In Chain’s Mike Inez, Skid Row’s Snake Sabo, Metallica’s Lars Ulrich, professional wrestlers Chris Jericho, Bubba Dudley and Stone Cold Steve Austin, UFC Former Light Heavyweight Champion Forrest Griffin and of course the Godfather of heavy metal, Ozzy Osbourne.
BRINGING METAL TO THE CHILDREN also features Wylde’s roadmap for success in the music business, tour planning and exclusive tips for the aspiring “metal musician,” as well as the best methods for surviving a mosh pit and plans for how to set up a shooting range on the tour bus.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
In the two decades since Ozzy Osbourne hired him away from his job at a New Jersey gas station, Zakk Wylde has established himself as a guitar icon known and revered the world over.  Wylde has won nearly every guitar award imaginable, graced countless magazine covers and is a major influence to a new battalion of rock guitarists.  Writing and recording with Osbourne led to multi-platinum success, inspiring him to create the now iconic Black Label Society in 1998.  In the decade plus since, BLS has turned the notion of what a rock band should be upside down by inspiring legions of fans (known as Berserkers) all over the world to follow the mantra: Strength, Determination, Merciless, Forever (SDMF for short).  Wylde and his Berserkers have established a heavy metal institution true to the vision of uncompromising, unfiltered and unrestrained rock ‘n’ roll.  To date, Black Label Society has sold more than 3.5 million albums worldwide and continues to be a massive presence on the worldwide touring and merchandising circuits.  Black Label Society’s latest album, ORDER OF THE BLACK, was released in August, 2010 and debuted at #4 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart.
Writer, photographer, and fellow Berserker Eric Hendrikx is a notable contributor to more than a dozen books including Forrest Griffin’s New York Times bestsellers Got Fight? and Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down. A lifelong musician, Hendrikx played guitar in the rock band Snake River Conspiracy and toured with bands including Queensrÿche. He currently lives in Southern California with his son Stone.

Skins for AX7 ??? - Portnoy n AX7 split - from Metal Insider

Early this evening, it was confirmed that Avenged Sevenfold has parted ways with former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy, who has been filling in for the band on the road and in the studio since the passing of Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan. Portnoy released the following statement:

“Yes, the rumors are true… Sadly my time with Avenged Sevenfold has come to an end… The band has decided to carry on into 2011 without me…I had a great time with them throughout 2010, but it was their choice to end the relationship at the end of 2010 as was always the initial plan….
I had an awesome time on stage with the guys every night and have so many cool memories from the experience with them… I am proud to always be part of the Avenged Sevenfold family and history. I also adore the Avenged Sevenfold fans and totally appreciate the way they welcomed me aboard and were so loving and supportive during my time with the band…thank you!
As far as my future, I am excited by the endless musical possibilities that lie ahead of me…my love for music runs very deep and my taste is very broad and ecclectic which will give me the chance to explore many different things and collaborate with many great friends and artists I admire and respect…
Happy holidaze to you all and c-ya in the New Year.”

This certainly comes as a major surprise. Since departing from Dream Theater back in September, many thought that Portnoy’s involvement with the band would eventually become permanent. It also seems like weird timing for this to happen, since Avenged Sevenfold still has a lot of touring commitments to fulfill, including their Nightmare After Christmas tour. It also seems like Portnoy was hoping/willing to continue at least a little further. So what gives? This would further explain, though, why they recently canceled their involvement with the Australian Soundwave festival. We’ll keep you posted when more information is revealed regarding both Portnoy and A7X’s plans.

Posted by Zach Shaw on Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:56 pm

Hinder's All American Nightmare - Billboard Review

Written by Gary Graff 
Hinder drops its third album, "All American Nightmare," with a chip on its shoulder and a palpable sense of something to prove, given the sophomore sales slump the Oklahoma quintet suffered with 2008's "Take It to the Limit" (469,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan) in comparison with its 2005 triple-platinum debut, "Extreme Behavior." So the group comes out firing hard on "2 Sides of Me" and the title track, channeling four years of heavy touring into tales of wine (or, rather, good beer), women and song. Hinder spends the rest of the set delivering solidly written, meat-and-potatoes tunes made to slide comfortably, if a bit anonymously, into any rock radio playlist. "Put That Record On" slips some country-flavored lope into its verses, while "The Life," "What Ya Gonna Do" and the lush "Everybody's Wrong" provide some ballady respite to the slamming fury of "Waking Up the Devil" and "Strip Tease." Frontman Austin Winkler does have the temerity to ponder what happens "when the whiskey ain't workin' any more." But what Hinder learned on the road, at least according to "All American Nightmare," is how undependable girlfriends are and how badass this hard-partying band can be. That can be a dream or a "Nightmare," depending on the ear of the beholder.

Ratt - Infestation - The Worley Pig

Ratt, Infestation
Shamelessly unapologetic worshipper of the 80s Metal that I am, if you’d told me last year that in 2010 I’d be putting an album by Ratt, Los Angles-based icons of Hair Metal, on my list of favorite CDs, even I would have laughed you off the face of the Earth. So no one was more surprised than me to hear Ratt, valiantly holding on to most of its original line up (RIP Robin Crosby), sounding as on top of the rock world as they did in 1987, serving up a collection of classic metal songs with more visceral sex appeal and crunchy, loud guitars than you could imagine. Someone tell me where these guys are hiding their time machine.

from The Worley Gig by GailPink


thought this was a good write up on this album, i too was surprised to find tunes u cld actually get into rather than it just sounding like a bunch of bside tracks that didnt make it into their 80s albums.

saw them at key club i think with warner drive- solid show... warren d is a fn great guitarist...
-N

The Importance of online content/engagement for Independent Musicians

 This was done a while back, but highlights just how important it is that you do the legwork and get your material discussed, reviewed, posted about, talked about, etc. All those activities contribute to an artists visibility and viability... -N

From Hypebot.com
A new study by New York University's Stern Business School tracked blog chatter for 108 albums for four weeks before and after their release dates.
The study showed that the volume of blog posts led to future sales, but that large increases in an artist’s Myspace friends had a weaker correlation to sales. According to the study, if 40 or more blog posts were made before an album's release sales ended up being three to four times times the average for both indie and major releases. If blog posts crossed 250, album sales rose to six times the average regardless of label.
But don't throw out the old school rules just yet. Albums released by major labels and albums with a number of reviews from mainstream sources like Rolling Stone also tended to have higher future sales.
Advertising has always been about impressions, but previous marketing efforts were often aimed at big scores - a magazine cover, a TV apprearance or even a major national tour slot - and the bump in sales they provided. But in a fractured media landscape it seems to be the cumalitve effect of a multitude of impressions that matters. This study provides some early clues for music marketers interested in assessing the relative importance of Web 2.0 sites and metrics and suggest that looking at cumalative online action appears to provide predictive value far beyond looking at each in isolation.
PDF of full study

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Top 15 Rock Albums of 2010 - From About.Rock.com

Here is a top 15 best Rock albums list of 2010. I think it's pretty spot on, aside from the bands i would just never listen to.. not cuz thyre not good, just cuz i dont like it... personally i thing stp and the dead weather shld be top 10... but its all opinions right? - N

By Tim Grierson

15. Stone Temple Pilots - 'Stone Temple Pilots'

Photo courtesy Atlantic.

It seemed pretty much impossible that Stone Temple Pilots would reunite after years of acrimony. But not only did they reunite, they put out a pretty solid comeback album. Stone Temple Pilots heightens the band’s interest in yummy ’70s-style pop-rock, and with the insanely catchy “Between the Lines” leading the way, the new record demonstrated just how much we missed these glam-rockin’ hedonists.
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14. 10 Years - 'Feeding the Wolves'

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On their best album, 10 Years shoot out the expected hard-rock tunes and melodic mid-tempo numbers. But with a major assist from producer Howard Benson, this long-running quartet also figure out how to maximize their songs’ emotional punch. “Don’t Fight It” is an impassioned cry for a departed lover, while “Dead in the Water” is an angry diatribe against religious hypocrisy. What holds Feeding the Wolves all together is a steady, confident skill for accessible, propulsive songwriting.
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13. Eels – 'End Times'

Photo courtesy Vagrant.

Eels frontman E has spent his last two albums exploring the difficulties of making love last. But unlike 2009’s Hombre Lobo, End Times is a starker, more despairing affair, filled with melancholy songs backed with only the sparest of instrumentation. As a result, End Times is a record for dark nights of the soul when it’s just you alone in bed talking to the wall.
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12. Toadies - 'Feeler'

Photo courtesy Kirtland.

Toadies worked on the songs for Feeler back in the mid-’90s, but their label wasn’t impressed, and so the record was shelved. This year, the band revisited those tracks, adding some new material along the way. Miraculously, the album doesn’t feel dated, instead pulsing with the anger and vitality we’ve come to expect from this Texas trio.
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11. Anberlin -'Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place'

Photo courtesy Universal Republic.

On Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place, Anberlin very consciously aspire to be a big, sweeping arena rock band in the tradition of U2. That's no easy feat, but the Florida quintet have polished their sound and focused on powerful, accessible guitar hooks. Consequently, the fury of “To the Wolves,” the yearning beauty of “Depraved,” and the towering romantic spirit of “You Belong Here” all work together to capture a band that have mastered the art of blending sonic ambition with sincere, human-sized emotion.
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10. Band of Horses - 'Infinite Arms'

Photo courtesy Brown/Fat Possum/Columbia Records.

On their third album, Band of Horses fine-tune their formula for woodsy folk-rock jams and back-porch ballads. As warm and inviting as its title suggests, Infinite Arms is the perfect record for quiet mornings spent reflecting on past loves and nagging regrets, but frontman Ben Bridwell’s powerful melodies are there to pick you up so you don’t get too down.
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9. Hole – 'Nobody's Daughter'

Photo: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images.

On the charts, Courtney Love’s comeback album may have been a bit of a flop, but on Nobody’s Daughter the Queen of Hole gets back to the blunt-force honesty and crunchy alt-rock purity of her ‘90s masterwork, Live Through This. Older but not especially wiser, Love realizes she still lives in a world dominated by men, and even if she doesn’t have any answers, she’s bound and determined to make some noise about it.
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8. The Dead Weather - 'Sea of Cowards'

Photo courtesy Third Man/Press Here.

Sea of Cowards continues in the same vein as the Dead Weather’s first album, Horehound, reveling in its skill at crafting weird, hypnotic little tunes. Jack White and Alison Mosshart do not spend one single second of their sophomore release worrying about hits. Rather, they want to create an album full of the dark sounds that suggest the anxiety and voodoo that make modern life so mysterious and frightening.
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7. Stone Sour - 'Audio Secrecy'

Photo courtesy Roadrunner.

On their third album, Stone Sour strike an excellent balance between accessibility and aggression. Audio Secrecy documents the dissolution of one love story and the beginning of a new one: Lead singer Corey Taylor got divorced and remarried in the last few years, and the agony and ecstasy of those relationships are all over the record.
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6. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – 'Beat the Devil's Tattoo'

Photo courtesy Ink Tank.

This San Francisco trio have gone through a sonic evolution over their career, deemphasizing their early albums’ shoegazer rock for a more earthy Americana approach of late. On Beat the Devil’s Tattoo, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club decided to throw together all their influences, producing a record that’s eerie and urgent when it isn’t stark and vicious.
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5. The Hold Steady – 'Heaven Is Whenever'

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On the Hold Steady’s fifth studio record, frontman Craig Finn is up to his usual tricks, but with a few new wrinkles. As always, his bar-band rock is exuberant and his short-story lyrics are pitch-perfect, but the Brooklyn sextet’s sound has become both more romantic and more hard-hitting.
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4. Kings of Leon - 'Come Around Sundown'

Photo courtesy RCA.

Southern rock heads to the beach: That's a rough approximation of what Kings of Leon achieved on Come Around Sundown, a confident, polished follow-up to the band's breakthrough album, Only by the Night. While not trying to duplicate their last album's success, the quartet both evolve their sound and stick to their moody alt-rock roots for a relaxed, breezy affair.
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3. Kid Rock - 'Born Free'

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As the album cover of his latest record suggests, Kid Rock is taking it easy and not letting things bother him too much on Born Free, his most melodic and laid-back effort. With guests ranging from Sheryl Crow to T.I., Born Free finds Rock looking for signs of hope amidst the bad news in the world today. His answer to war and recession is good songs, and while that may not cure society's ills, it does make for an engaging record.
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2. Drive-By Truckers – 'The Big To-Do'

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Smart, tough, touching and raw, Drive-By Truckers’ The Big To-Do­ is the perfect album for our Great Recession times. This Georgia sextet merge arena-rock, alt-country, and indie-rock into a heady brew for songs about strip-club encounters, bad jobs, murder and the casual heartbreaks that make up too much of everyday life.
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1. Deftones – 'Diamond Eyes'

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Can an alt-metal band be thunderously loud, poignantly emotional and ferociously original all at once? If that band is Deftones, absolutely. Inspired by longtime bassist Chi Cheng’s 2008 car accident, which left him in a coma, the California quintet have produced their most articulate and muscular record, one that channels all the highs and lows of life itself. Diamond Eyes came about because of tragedy, but Deftones figured out how to make triumphant music out of their pain.
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Touring and Giving Away Your Music - Article from Songkick.com blog

Long-tail artists are touring more than ever before

Download long-tail artists graph here.

This is the graph we love the most!! We were inspired by this economics study[1] by a group of Harvard and Stanford academics (Hi Julie and Chris!) that examines the relationship between file-sharing and live music, concluding that file-sharing “increases live performance revenues for small artists, perhaps through increased awareness. The impact on live performance revenues for large, well-known artists is negligible.” The minute we read the study it felt right to us. We dug into this more by dividing our artists into quartiles based on popularity and examined their US tour dates over the last four years. The fourth quartile (least popular bands, long-tail acts) has had the fastest growth in touring over the last 4 years, while the first quartile (most popular bands) has had about the same number of concerts over the last 4 years.

The great power of digital distribution is that it’s much easier to discover and listen to new bands. Back when we had to hunt down physical albums in stores, our rate of new artist discovery was much, much lower. That means a new band can build a widespread following much more efficiently than back-in-the-day, and can therefore do a world tour a lot earlier in their career, whereas huge, popular acts like U2 and Rolling Stones are already big as ever, and won’t benefit from this additional digital distribution. (I mean… Die Antwoord anyone? When has a South African artist skyrocketed to stardom through the Interweb like that?)

We hope this opens up a discussion about how live music is contributing to artists’ revenues and whether bands can sustainably make a living by going on the road. What we’re happy about as fans is that our chances of seeing The Antlers (a team Songkick favorite) is much higher now than four years ago.

This won’t be the last from us! If you have any ideas about what analysis you’d like to see next or want to do some number crunching of your own, please get in touch.

Thanks a billion to Michael and Gideon for making this analysis happen.

[1] Mortimer, Julie Holland, Chris Nosko, and Alan Sorenson, “Supply Responses to Digital Distribution: Recorded Music and Live Performances.” NBER Working Paper No. 16507. October 2010.

Kissmas 1976

Kiss, October 1976
 
Gesturing in a somewhat phallic nature with candles, members of Kiss pose for a mock Christmas card arranged by Creem magazine. Though the Kiss album 'Alive!' broke the US Top 10 in 1975, many fans still hadn't seen the fiery, costumed hard rockers until October 1976, when Kiss performed -- as did 'Brady Bunch' mom Florence Henderson -- on 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.'

Not long after that program -- the band's first major TV appearance -- the single 'Beth'/'Detroit Rock City' became Kiss' first US Top 10 single. Neal Preston, the photographer who took this shot, has toured with rock acts including Led Zeppelin, the Who and Bruce Springsteen, capturing iconic images of rock 'n' roll at its wildest.
 Posted on Dec 24th 2010 10:30AM on Spinner.com by Pat Pemberton Photo - Neal Preston, Corbis

Warner Drive Bad Ass Band Pic and Upcoming Album Release @ the Roxy

This is a shot I came across today of Warner Drive, a great LA band thats a big part of whats happening in rock and roll here. It's a bad ass band photo. Way too many rock bands w these tough guy pics that are often, um... lame. (fuk.. ive been in those haha)

Anyway it's a great shot that shows the personality of a hard rocking, real, and raw band. Any of you that have been to some WD shows know that they get the audience jacked up, rock great tunes effin hard and have a fine time doing it.

they have an album release show/party comin up at the Roxy on February 25th. ya should def come out. The band has a lot of really good material, like well crafted rock music u can dance and party to..


Heres their Myspace  Chek it

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some Sunset Strip Hollywood Rock Shows for rest of 2010

Here's some uv whats Coming up on the Sunset Strip: (more to come)

The Cat Club - 2010 Christmas Party with Permanent Damage 
Event Link:
http://mysp.ac/fALUqO
Thurs 12/23/10 9pm

The Cat Club is an Iconic cool little dive next to Duke's and the Whisky on the strip. Dayle Gloria is the club promoter, shes been in the business for a long time and is a HUGE supporter of local bands. You can see live music here every night of the week.

The Whisky a Go Go - New Years Eve with Vains of Jenna
Event Link:
http://mysp.ac/gVSoy1
12/31/10 8pm

For the past several years VOJ has been doing NYE at the Whisky. I went a few years back and it was a lot of fun. They have a new singer now, our boy Jesse Forte, so this years show will def be a good one. Also, Celina Denkins is the booker at Whisky, she is an awesome lady, also very supportive of local working bands

House of Blues Hollywood - New Years Eve with Steel Panther
Event Link

What can ya say... Steel Panther is gonna be in spectacular form this night no doubt. If yer going you likely know what to expect. But this night they definitely turn it up to 11. Plus these guys are all really good musicians so for you players out there they can be fun to watch just for their instrumental prowess. Go... get drunk, see some rock and titties and ring in the new year.

I'll post more on the remaining 2010 rock shows in LA/HWD... gotta go

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Dave Grohl with Foo Fighters does Nirvana Reunion at Paladinos

Just heard that the secret Foo Fighters show went down at Paladino's in Tarzana. About 500 fans packed the venue while Grohl brought up Novaselic and Pat Smear. Krist apparently played on the Foo's upcoming album. As many of you know Smear played w Nirvana back in the day, and also with the Foo Fighters.

It's crazy how many awesome artists come thru this town and that they're into doing these smaller shows and getting intimate with their fans. I dig..


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songkick's top 10 US cities for Live rock bands in 2010

Just checked out this songkick report for best cities for live rock music! The blog section of their page has some awesome info on it. check it out here http://www.songkick.com/blog