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PledgeMusic Fiasco: See how you can help Latin Pop artist Melissa Otero complete her album campaign

February 14, 2019

We would like to introduce you to another amazing hard working artist that has been affected by the PledgeMusic fiasco. Latin pop artist Melissa Otero was hard at work gearing with her campaign at PledgeMusic for the release of her new album, Erotomania. Shortly after becoming aware of PledgeMusic’s ongoing financial situation, she had to immediately pull her campaign to protect her fans and their money. Melissa is still on track to release her album on April 27th. She has created a PRE-ORDER GoFundMe campaign where you can contribute to the making of the album as well as order items that were originally available through PledgeMusic. Head over to her GoFundMe page and place your order or contribution here: https://www.gofundme.com/melissaotero-erotomania Check out the details on the new campaign here: PLEASE READ THROUGH: Welcome! After working so hard for almost two months on our original campaign over at PledgeMusic, we decided to cancel the campaign due to an ongoing situation with the platform’s finances. I kindly invite you to look through this entire page and see what [Read More]

Space Monkeys get creative as they deal with the PledgeMusic fiasco

February 13, 2019

As the PledgeMusic crowdfunding fiasco still in a limbo state, and plenty of artists who are waiting on their payments, many bands have had to get creative in order to finish their projects. The crowdfunding platform PledgeMusic has still not paid out the funds to so many campaigns. Artists are left on hold, fans are left waiting for their pledged items, and there has been no resolution in site, just a waiting game. The last statement from PledgeMusic was on February 1st. Check it out below: A Statement from PledgeMusic To the PledgeMusic community, The situation that PledgeMusic has found itself in is unacceptable and to all of the artists, managers, labels and fans who have put their trust in us, we are deeply sorry. All of us at the company are working around the clock to address everybody’s concerns and are hopeful of reaching a positive resolution soon. To you artists especially, we understand that every last penny is vital to your project’s successful delivery and as such we wanted to share with you [Read More]

Interview with BlackRain at NAMM 2015 and get ready for the new album!

February 17, 2015

One of our highlights from this year’s NAMM 2015 was unexpectedly running into French rockers, BlackRain. They are one of our favorite rock bands and to see them here in the US was exciting, even more so to learn about the new album and returning to the US for possible tour. Check out our quick chat with BlackRain: You can also join in the making of the album by heading over to their PledgeMusic page here http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/blackrain and you can pick up some cool perks like the new album, CD, shirt, drum head from the recording even a guitar or drum lesson! The first time I heard BlackRain is when my son Rockin Ryan played Overloaded for me and I was instantly transformed back to my nights spent on the Sunset Strip in the ’80s. At first I thought I was listening to an old Motley Crue track!! Swan on vocals just blows you away with his powerful voice and he has perfected the high vocal ranges of the ’80s. They have some shredding guitar with [Read More]

Blue October SWAY concert review by guest contributor by Mark Iman

November 19, 2014

by Guest Contributor Mark Iman, MarkImanConcertReview.blogspot.com November 12, 2014 kicked off the final installment of touring for Blue October’s most recent album, SWAY, at The Fillmore in Silver Spring, Maryland. Starting the evening off was Harvard Of The South, a side project created by Blue Octobers Justin Furstenfeld, Matt Noveskey, Jeremy Furstenfeld and longtime collaborator and friend Steve Schiltz of Hurricane Bells and Longwave. The band recently released a 5 song EP titled Miracle and is currently available at the shows. I made sure to grab my copy and have a hard time switching to anything else. It has a great old school grunge feel only with less teenage angst. As I heard someone in the crowd state “Imagine if Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Smashing Pumpkins had an illegitimate love child, this would be it.” Being that all the bands listed are a staple in music history I see no better way to compliment them and look forward to hearing more music in the future. The show started with a brief video telling everyone about the [Read More]

The Grammy Museum and American Express announce An Evening With Dave Mason

August 20, 2014

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and TRAFFIC co-founding member–will make a special appearance at The GRAMMY Museum® in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, September 16. Presented by American Express®, “An Evening With Dave Mason” will feature MASON discussing his musical journey which spans over 37 years encompassing producing, performing, songwriting and being considered one of rock’s great guitar players, along with a brief acoustic performance. Tickets are on sale now at www.AXS.com, charge by phone at 888-9AXS-TIX or 888-929-7849. GRAMMY Museum’s Clive Davis Theater will play host to 200 lucky fans as they join MASON and host Scott Goldman, Vice President of The GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares, to discussMASON’s songwriting process, beginnings in the band TRAFFIC, acclaimed solo career, current touring project “Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam,” his latest release, FUTURE’S PAST (released May 13, 2014) and much more. Dave is touring the U.S. with his new project billed as “DAVE MASON’S TRAFFIC JAM.” Dates are currently listed as: DATE CITY VENUE Sat 8/23 Modesto, CA X-Fest (Downtown) Fri 8/29 Charles Town, WV Hollywood Casino – The [Read More]

Dave Mason premieres new version of Dear Mr. Fantasy from forthcoming new album

April 17, 2014

The iconic singer/songwriter/guitarist Dave Mason, the co-founding member of Traffic has premiered a new version of Traffic’s song Dear Mr. Fantasy. The song is off the rock and roll hall of fame inductee’s forthcoming new album, Future’s Past which features new versions of some of his classic songs plus new material is set for a May 13th Release on Something Music/MRI. You can listen to the re-interpreted version of Dear Mr. Fantasy here: “It [“Dear Mr. Fantasy”] came about redoing the chords,” MASON tells USATODAY.com of the bluesy rewrite. “I was doing some shows and I was trying to think of something to make it a little more interesting, so I just started playing around with it. I put it in a minor key instead of a major key, and I sort of developed it from there. Of the new album release, MASON says, “There is a version of ‘World in Changes’ that is absolutely nothing like the original and there is a great live version that is absolutely beautiful of ‘Sad and Deep as You.’ There are two or three [Read More]

Jettblack working on new album, get your pre-order in NOW!

March 27, 2014

We have told you many times about Jettblack and I hope you have been listening. These rockers from High Wycomble, England are ready to dominate once again with a new album on the horizon. They have a PledgeMusic campaign to finish their new album and there are a whole bunch of fun items to get. The best thing is that you will have your pre-order in for the new album and won’t miss it. We ran an interview with them a while back that you can check out here. If you are not familiar with them, Jettblack is an awesome high powered, energy driven rock band that you are going to fall in love with. I promise on this one! These guys deliver the goods and by the way, it is so nicely packaged… Well these guys have been touring Europe and we are waiting for our turn to Rock out to this fantastic band. Their music has everything from hot guitar licks, smoking riffs, melodic chorus, heavy basslines and rockin drums. Then you add [Read More]