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Cosmos Percussion Orchestra is our Bottle Rock Napa 2014 Featured Band of the Day

April 11, 2014

Today our Bottle Rock Napa Featured Band is Cosmos Percussion Orchestra. Doesn’t that name just intrigue you? They are “The Bay Area’s Premiere World Rock Fusion Group, is a unique group of percussionists and melodic musicians that fully engage and connect with their audiences through their original fusion of melodic rhythms inclusive of Rock, Funk, Afro-Cuban, Latin, Brazilian, African, and Mediterranean.” Yes, this band is awesome and even more awesome to experience live. They captivate their audience with their driving percussion and infectious beats that has the crowd on their feet moving in no time. Cosmos Percussion Orchestra deliver engaging rhythms, melodic basslines, smooth guitars, and some great blues and funk vibe in their song Thursday. It is definitely one fo you to check out. What I really enjoy about this band is that they bring all their own influences into this melting pot of music and create a style unique, charismatic and entertaining for all to enjoy. Cosmos Percussion Orchestra have performed at various festivals, private events, and numerous private and public shows all [Read More]

Matt Hires new EP Heartache Machine is climbing the charts!

April 10, 2014

Matt Hires released a new EP earlier this week, “Heartache Machine” and it features four new songs and follows up to last year’s “THIS WORLD WON’T LAST FOREVER, BUT TONIGHT WE CAN PRETEND.” What is very exciting about this new EP is that Matt has returned to independent level after spending 6 years with Atlantic Records. Regarding the recent change, Hires said, “Making the leap to independence has been really freeing and invigorating for me as an artist. I love that I’m able to get songs from the studio and into people’s ears in just a little over two months. It’s definitely a little scary, but I think it’s going to be really good for me and good for my fans. With ‘Heartache Machine,’ I feel like I was able to break into a totally new level of honesty in my songwriting and I think it comes through in the recordings.” His return to the independent level reminds me of my favorite quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Do not go where the path may lead, go [Read More]

The Fray is our Bottle Rock Napa 2014 Featured Band of the Day

April 10, 2014

Today our Bottle Rock Napa Featured Band is The Fray. The Fray has been one of my favorite bands for quite a while. I think I have seen them live about four times and honestly I just can get enough of them! I remember the first time I fell in love with them was when I heard their song Over My Head on the radio. I tried to find out who it was and no one knew. It took me a couple weeks of trying to catch it again on the radio and this time I was going to find out! I did and quickly went out to buy the album How To Save a Life and my long love affair soon began. The Fray always has music that just spoke to me at the right times in my life. The honest and raw lyrics touch upon the many challenges in life and were sung so beautifully and in a perfect composition. Their songs became the soundtrack of my life’s ups and downs and [Read More]

Thom Chacon is our Bottle Rock Napa 2014 Featured Artist of the Day

April 9, 2014

Today our Bottle Rock Napa Featured Artist is Thom Chacon. For today I wanted to feature an artist who truly makes an impression with his words and melodies in his song. Thom Chacon is an Americana delight as his music brings to light his influences of Kris Kristofferson, Steve Earle and Townes Van Zandt, among others. His love of nature in his personal life trickles into his song as you find yourself often painting a scenic picture in your head as you listen to him. His narrative style evokes so much passion in his songs and his vocals are soul touching. One of the songs that highlights this style is in Chasing the Pain, amazing song that tells such a reflective story of pain. Thom‘s songwriting is spectacular and reminds me of true Johnny Cash style. Thom has gone on to tour around the world, opening for artists as diverse as Los Lonely Boys and Jason Mraz, playing shows in Thailand and India, and even one memorable gig on July 4, 2004 at Folsom [Read More]

The Veer Union announces tour and set to release Deluxe Edition of Divide The Blackened Sky

April 9, 2014

The Veer Union are set to release a Deluxe Edition of “Divide The Blackened Sky” which will include three new songs and re-mastered tracks. The new album is set to release on June 10, 2014 through Pavement Entertainment and distributed by MRI/Sony RED. Frontman Crispin Earl gives us his take on the album,“Divide The Blackened Sky, is a much darker and heavier effort than our previous works. It depicts all the hard times we have been through over the last couple of years”. Also The Veer Union has announced they will be heading out on tour in May for the “Beyond The Blackened Sky Tour” and will include Righteous Vendetta, Blacklite District and Black Oxygen. The tour is set to start off on May 27th with the first show at The Roxy in British Colombia. Stay tuned for more tour dates to be announced. We are excited to see The Veer Union back out on tour and have been long time supporters of them since first seeing them in 2009 with Puddle of Mudd and Burn Halo. [Read More]

Smash Mouth is our Bottle Rock Napa 2014 Featured Band of the Day

April 8, 2014

Today our Bottle Rock Napa Featured Band is Smash Mouth. This band does not need any introduction as almost all of us at one time or another cranked up “All Star” and sang out loud at the top of our lungs. I have always had a love affair with Smash Mouth since they bring out the fun side in me and capture the perfect essence of summer! You can’t help but listen to their music loud and dance along as their music has always been the life of the party! “When we play itʼs a nonstop party,” Steve Harwell, lead singer says. That is so true and I hope you all come out to enjoy Smash Mouth and their non stop party at this year’s Bottle Rock Napa Festival. Smash Mouth started back in 1994 in San Jose and this year is the 20 year Anniversary for them. They have hits that were and still are everyone’s favorites such as Walkinʼ on the Sun and All Star,Then the Morning Comes, Canʼt Get Enough Of You Baby, and [Read More]

AEROSMITH & SLASH ANNOUNCE TOUR DATES and play surprise show at The Whisky a Go Go

April 8, 2014

What better way to announce the tour dates for the upcoming Aerosmith & Slash summer tour than playing a surprise show at The Whisky a GoGo in Hollywood. Well that is exactly what happened today. I was sitting in my doctor’s office as I get the tweet announcing Slash is set to perform with Aerosmith at the Whisky. I almost ran out there until I remembered I hadn’t succeeded at my teleportation transit yet! But at least we can watch the video here: So the tour dates have been announced and here they are for the Let Rock Rule Tour: DATE CITY VENUE Thu 7/10 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre Sun 7/13 Kitchener, ON, Canada McLennan Park Wed 7/16 Mansfield, MA Xfinity Center Sat 7/19 Cadott, WI Rock Fest Tue 7/22 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center Fri 7/25 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre Wed 7/30 Inglewood, CA The Forum Sat 8/2 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena Fri 8/8 Stateline, NV Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena At Harveys Wed 8/13 [Read More]