Saturday, February 28, 2009

Zandelle Live at Sound Beach Inn, March 7

Saturday March 7 at



SOUND BEACH INN

6 New York Avenue, Sound Beach (LI) NY



along with...

Turrigenous, Astronaut Down, Des Demon, Piercing Silenc, Mourning Hour



Doors at 8PM

Zandelle hits the stage at 11:30PM



$10 at the door

Friday, February 20, 2009

Black Water Rising Dates


NEW BWR SHOWS! CHECK IT OUT...

03/07/2009 09:00 PM - The Penny Arcade
4785 Lake Avenue
Rochester, New York 14612

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03/18/2009 09:00 PM - The Nick
2514 10th Avenue South
Birmingham, Alabama 35205
Cost:$5.
00

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03/19/2009 09:00 PM - Blue Monkey Tavern
819 N 3rd Street
Monroe, Louisiana 71201
Cost:$5.
00
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03/20/2009 09:00 PM - The Warehouse
630 Commerce Street
Shreveport, Louisiana 71101
Cost:$7.
00

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03/21/2009 09:00 PM - Troubadour Saloon
503 E.
6th Street
Austin, Texas 78701
Cost:Free

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03/23/2009 09:00 PM - Volume 11
658 Maywood Avenue
Raleigh, North Carolina

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03/28/2009 09:00 PM - The Trash Bar
256 Grand Street (bet.
Driggs & Roebling)
Brooklyn, New York 11211
Cost:$7.
00

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04/04/2009 10:00 PM - Dingbatz
620 Van Houten Avenue
Clifton, New Jersey 07013

MORE SHOWS TO COME... KEEP AN EAR OUT FOR THE "105.
5 FM WDHA's METAL MANIA PRESENTS" JERSEY SHOWS FEATURING BWR THIS APRIL!


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FEATURING 11 CRUSHING TRACKS!!

1 - THE MIRROR
2 - BROTHER GO ON
3- HATE MACHINE
4- BLACK BLEEDS THROUGH
5- BLESSED
6- NO HALOS
7 - LIVING PROOF
8 - RISE
9 - THE RIVER
10- SALE ON YOUR SOUL
11- BURN IT DOWN



Thursday, February 19, 2009

Rock Against Dystrophy Update 2-19-09

We have begun looking into venues to the FIRST Rock Against Dystrophy show. We have a few in mind and will begin the process of booking one within the next few days. Keep your eyes on our blog and bulletins as time progresses. We will put up new information as it happens.

Thanks for supporting Rock Against Dystrophy

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

MARCH 12 DUDES OF DOOM LIVE

WALL STREET FUCKED UP, AND NOW IT'S TIME THEY PAY....MARCH 12th DUDES OF DOOM LIVE @ DON HILLS.
CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED!!!

Friday, February 13, 2009

Zandelle at Don Hills, NYC - Friday Feb 27

Friendly reminder...

Zandelle will be performing live as frontman George Tsalikis celebrates another year of life.


Friday February 27 at
DON HILLS
511 Greenwich Street (corner of Spring Street), NYC

Also performing...
FAITH FACTOR
LOST LEGACY

Doors open at 8PM
Zandelle hits the stage at 10PM

$10 at the door.


Hope to see you there!

Also, check out the new Zandelle photos on the official website...
www. zandelle. net

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Vote :::KC:: BARE BONES MUSIC NETWORK band of the year !!!

:::KC::: in the running to be named the Bare Bones Music Network Band of the Year ..check the links and details below on how to vote !

barebonesradio@gmail.com
www. myspace. com/barebonesradio

This contest will run through the end of February and the Band and Fan of 2008 will be announced early in March!
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

There’s No Secret Behind Dame Fortune

Everyone is so wrapped up in what the next sound is going to be. How to use certain effects, add in unlikely instruments, or something yet to be thought of that bands who sound like the greats of the past are being ignored. Well one of those bands is no longer being ignored. Dame Fortune pays tribute to so many great rock and metal bands of the past while still being new and true to their own identity that is scary.

Part of that identity is that they work together as a well oiled machine. To say that one of the four does something that highlights him would be unfair to the other three. And I find this somewhat refreshing because all too often we look at bands as a group of individuals that happen to fit together, but as you listen to The Secret Art you realize that Dame Fortune meld together into one. This is truly shown in the sharing of vocals throughout the album.

And this album is just solid straight through. In Like Flynn is probably in the running for the best opening track that introduces you to the band. The vocals and guitars instantly say KISS, making you double check the CD and case to make sure it isn’t a KISS CD. But as the album goes on you begin to get the identity of the band as they do things that catch you as a nice surprise.

A good example would be V from Vendetta. A very strong track from beginning to end that has elements of Motley Crue in it. And the surprise here is the use of guitars as the back-up to the vocals of the chorus. Where most bands would opt for a post-production touch up to just alter the main vocal enough to be the back up, Dame Fortune puts their touch by letting the guitars do it. Talk about letting a guitar sing, Hendrix would be happy.

And Jimi wouldn’t be the only proud one, the great blues players of the past would be proud as well. One listen to Santa Ana Blues and you really get a taste for what the blues is all about. The tempo of the track just gives you a feeling of walking down a street, a stranger in a town being starred at as if you’re the devil incarnate sent to take rule. Truly the heaviest and loudest I have ever heard the blues played. And had this been a few years early in the making it could’ve easily been in Rob Zombie’s movie House of 1000 Corpses.

And while on the subject of songs that fit into movies, if someone writes another Dazed and Confused for a newer generation then the song The Days Are Just Packed better be in it. Its upbeat sound triggers those high school memories when the only thing that mattered where good grades and having fun with you friends, when mischief was always the priority and means of gathering everyone together for a good time.

Which leads me to the closing track on the album, Hikikomori (Live As Though The Day Were Here), which is an anthem in the truest form of the word. A rally cry to everyone that life is meant to be lived and lived to its fullest no matter what others tell you. And that is truly what Dame Fortune is doing with The Secret Art, and the sooner the music industry realizes that good music truly sells the sooner Dame Fortune and bands like them will get the attention they truly deserve.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

The Heart of A Ranger is the Heart of A Friend

Some of you reading just the headline are wondering where this is going while others, especially fellow Ranger fans, have an idea of where this is heading. With Adam Graves number 9 being retired last night came the final of 4 brothers who brought Lord Stanley to New York in 1994. As a fan it was something I knew would come, but as a friend can’t believe is over and done with. And this requires a long explanation.

Eleven years ago the Muscular Dystrophy Association put together a fundraiser called Muscle Team which would team up individuals with Muscular Dystrophy with sports players for a night of fun and fundraising. Being the huge Ranger fan that I am it was intended for me to be teamed up with Adam. But unfortunately fate had other plans because as this fundraiser was being planned I was hospitalized with pneumonia. Spending my 18th birthday hooked up to every machine thinkable as I fought to keep going on this earth. I spent 5 and a half weeks in intensive care and could not take part in the fundraiser. But Adam was told about me and sent me a signed puck while I was in the hospital because the Rangers schedule didn’t allow time for him to visit me. But that puck was only the beginning.

After finally winning the battle I had come home. And one night as I sat watching television the phone rang. I paid no mind to it even after my brother had yelled from the other room; “Do you know an Adam?”, which was followed by my mother coming into my room to inform me that Adam Graves was on the phone to speak to me. Shocked would be an understatement as to how I felt at the time. It was an amazing conversation that to this date I feel somewhat bad about because the game prior to this call was a quiet night for Adam but a great game for Gretzky and that’s what we talked about. There I was, on the phone with a man responsible for making me a hockey fan, a Ranger fan, and for bringing Lord Stanley to New York and we were talking about Gretzky. However those lucky enough to know Adam know that that wasn’t something that would bother him which I had confirmed later that year.

It was Fall of 1998 when Adam and I finally met face to face. My brother and I were part of the second Muscle Team event. Now I wasn’t team with Adam, but everyone got to meet everyone involved and after we had taken the press photos my father went over to Adam and asked if he remembered me. Well my father comes running over to me, goes into my bag to take out the Adam Graves’ jersey I had worn throughout the previous season and utters the words “Adam wants to meet you”. As I rolled over to meet him I found myself turning into a nervous child yet I had turned 18 that year. And to this day all I remember of that meeting is shaking his hand, saying hi, congratulating him on scoring the first goal of the season for the Rangers two years in a row, and watching him sign the jersey right on his number 9. This was still only the beginning.

After that we would see each other at the Muscle Team fundraisers and I would keep in touch with him through his agent Rob. Finding out how things are going, letting both him and Rob know how I was doing, and just talking about the Rangers and hockey in general. And then came the night in June of 2001 when the news was released that Adam was traded to the San Jose Sharks for two prospects. I starred at the television trying to grasp at how someone that I was lucky enough to meet and become friends with was going to be gone. No more watching my friend every other night throughout hockey season and saying to the television “shoot it Adam” as if he could hear me. And, at the age of 21, I had cried myself to sleep that night not knowing if I would ever get to see my friend again.

But that was answered in October of that year as the Sharks came into The Garden for the first time since the trade. My family and I were lucky enough to be invited to the game as a guest of Adam’s and the Rangers. And for the first time as a Ranger fan I entered the building for a game wearing the jersey of the visiting team to support my friend. We arrived late as it was after 9/11 and had misjudged traffic conditions so I first saw Adam as he skated onto the ice for practice as I sat by the zamboni gate for the night. The tribute video that night to thank him for all his years as a Ranger was amazing but all I could think was that he should still be a Ranger. It was an amazing night as a hockey fan as a team mate of Adam’s, Vincent Damphousse, gave me the stick he used during practice followed by seeing Adam after the game. It was a brief visit as he had to get to the bus but I remember the look of surprise he had seeing me in a Sharks jersey. We caught up a bit, he signed the jersey, said keep in touch and off he went as some of his team mates stopped to say hi and sign the jersey.

I got to see Adam as a Shark again the following season when they came in again. Except this time was a little different. I was no longer attending MDA Summer Camp and had retired from playing hockey as I had no where to play anymore. And I felt I needed to thank Adam for being my friend and who I tried to play like. I took with me the stick I had used for 6 years to give to him. As we waited to see him prior to the game I took out the silver sharpie and signed the stick. Adam came out from the locker room to see us and the other family there and after catching up and a few laughs came time for me to give him the stick. The only problem was I couldn’t spit the words out. We stood there a moment until my mom explained for me that I had retired from playing and I wanted him to have my stick as my way of thanking him. And after a brief moment of emotion that we all fought, Adam said it was going in his stick bag with his sticks, which floored me. Although the irony here is that was Adam’s last year as a player.

Adam had appeared at Mike Richter’s retirement night and I remember being one of the 18,000 Garden faithful who screamed “sign him” as Adam approached the podium to speak. We all wanted one more year of him as a Ranger, but that never happen. Well at least as a player, Adam joined the Rangers again as a member of the office side to continue the work he started in the community. And I’d catch him after games outside the offices to just catch up and see how things are. And as Mark Messier’s number was retired and Brian Leetch’s number retirement had been announced I wanted Adam to join them, even telling Adam that I’d start a petition with my mother to get his number added.

Then came Leetch’s night last January where he announced that Adam’s number would join them in the rafters. I was so thrilled that night to know that finally my hero and friend would be in Ranger history forever. And that was only added to when I spoke with his Agent Rob to pass along my congratulations to Adam when Rob told me Adam wanted me there.

This brings me to last week. I had gotten an old blank jersey made up with his name and number for the night and awaited word from the Rangers or Rob about details. And the Rangers called inviting me to a special party Monday night and to be part of a fan tunnel for Adam’s entrance, which was a surprise for Adam. The party was an amazing experience to see how many lives Adam has touched and with the opportunity to meet Darren Langdon, Stephane Matteau, Jeff Beukeboom, Mike Richter, Mark Messier, Ed Giacomin, Rod Gilbert, and future number retirees Andy Bathgate and Harry Howell. It was an amazing night and a way for Adam to share is night with others, something he’s known for.

Then came the day, his number 9 was going up. Because of the snow we left early since we were to be part of his entrance. We arrived early and stood in the hall awaiting the start of the ceremony. Finally it had come and Adam’s name was announced and the roar came from the beginning of the fan tunnel as he began his walk to Ranger history. As he got closer I gathered myself. And although it was only a moment a lot was said without speaking. His handshake said “you got the night you wanted” and as we made eye contact before he continued on his eyes said “thank you for wanting it.” We then were rushed to our seats which were at the end of the ice where his banner would be raised. The ceremony went by to quickly and I was fine until Scott Gomez, Chris Drury and Markus Naslund began skating from the bench with his banner. I tried to fight my emotions but lost. I cried. Tears of joy and admiration as I watched my friends name and number be raised to the rafters taking his place in Rangers history, something I had waited for years to see happen.

And now I can say that I’m honored to be friends with a man who is part of history for the type of person he is. I am honored to know that I can always look up at the rafters of The Garden and say I know that man, a man whose got the biggest heart in the world and a man who I can never truly thank fully for allowing me the honor of being a friend.