With a blend of old – school punk, wold beat and modern pop influences, the Chicago based band combines experience with exuberance and are one of only a few bands chosen to perform the entire 2010 Warped Tour run prior to releasing a full-length album. The band was formed almost two years ago – with the encouragement of Sublime producer Miguel Happoldt- by longtime bandmates and pals, singer/songwriter Adam Krier, drummer Chris Smith, guitar and backup vocals John Schmitt, Luke Schmitt on keyboard and backing vocals and bassist Jason Schultejann. The band’s debut album, “WE DOn’t Stand a Chance”, will be released on June 8th, 2010 via Virgin Records
After a few years of playing music as members of other bands, brothers
Stephen and John Gomez, along with longtime friend and fellow musician
Jessica Bowen, set out in the spring of 2007 with a new idea in mind,
and, with new found lead singer Brian Dales on board, they formed The
Summer Set. Read the rest of this entry →
• MySpace Streams = 45,000,000 MySpace Friends = 337,000 Twitter Followers = 8,871
• On entire Warped Tour 2010, Headling world tour in 14 countries in Feb/Mar/April/May
• Sold 135,000 albums and 300,000 singles, charted # 65 on the Billboard Top 200
• Previous tours with Chiodos, Silverstein, The Devil Wears Prada, A Day To Remember
• 10 out of 10 review of The Emptiness in Outburn, cover of Substream Mag, cover of AMP, featured in Alt Press, Revolver, Kerrang!
• Covers of Geki Rock (Japan) Jan 09, and Grita Magazine (Mexico) Feb 09
• Remained in Top 100 MySpace charts for 3 years.
Alesana “The Thespian” Music Video Q&A w/Guitarist Shawn Milke
How did you come up with the concept behind this video?
SHAWN MILKE The video follows the story of our record very closely, albeit with some modern artistic license applied. Our story, The Emptiness, follows a sketch artist in a small town in England at the turn of the 20th Century. He wakes one morning to find his lover, Annabel, has been slaughtered in the bed next to him. The story follows the Artist as he struggles with madness, love, murder, and forgiveness. Our director, Stephen Penta, is a genius. He read our story and just completely saw eye to eye with us on our vision.
How does it reflect the narrative of your new album?
Although The “Thespian” is the sixth of 11 chapters on the record, the music video actually spans much more of the story than just the one chapter. We could have just focused on the one piece of the puzzle, but it felt better to get the whole story out there in the video. While it does interpret much of the story, it still leaves a lot for the viewer to discover and decipher on their own.
What was the most difficult part of making the video?
The most difficult part was building our own sets and making everything work in the four days we had to shoot. The process was very D.I.Y. but that is exactly how we wanted it done. Much of the entire process during The Emptiness was D.I.Y. and we wanted the music video to reflect that feeling. Again, I can not say enough about Stephen Penta and his patience and devotion to the project. The music video would not be what it is without his expertise.
MEET THE MEAT SLUTS: Taking the c*ck outta rock, putting p*ssy into punk, these meat muffins are four tunnels of fun from San Francisco. With members of the Womentors, Double D’s, Jaded Fucks, Lost Puppy and EX-members of Deranged Pussy, Loudmouths, McCools… THE MEAT SLUTS have cum together to ROCK BABY, ROOOOOCK and leave you hungry for more! It’s time to mess around! Time to get some action! Time to punk ‘n’ roll!
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Photo of Slash’s new touring band — featuring the VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist alongside vocalist Myles Kennedy (ALTER BRIDGE), bassist Todd Kerns (SIN CITY SINNERS, STATIC IN STEREO, AGE OF ELECTIC), rhythm guitarist Bobby Schneck (WEEZER, GREEN DAY) and drummer Brent Fitz (ALICE COOPER, VINCE NEIL)
The video below was just posted to Slash’s Youtube channel and features a different bass player – Dave Henning (Big Wreck)
Slash’s solo album is due out on April 6. To kick off the release, Slash will be the featured performer at Revolver Golden Gods Awards, with several of his album collaborators making special guest appearances. Slash will also make a series of late-night performances with talk show hosts Jay Leno, George Lopez and Craig Ferguson.
Slash TV dates to watch (check local listings):
* Tuesday, April 6 – “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” (NBC)
* Thursday, April 8 – “Lopez Tonight” with George Lopez (TBS)
* Thursday, April 8 – Revolver Golden Gods Awards ceremony from Hollywood (airs May 22 on VH1)
* Friday, April 8 – “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” (CBS)
The first single from the set, called “By The Sword”, features vocals from WOLFMOTHER frontman Andrew Stockdale.
The guitarist uses a different guest vocalist on each track, including Fergie, M. Shadows, Kid Rock, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl, Lemmy Kilmister, Iggy Pop and others.
Check it out! We’re premiering our new music video for ‘Robots May Break Your Heart’ AND giving away an MP3 of the song for FREE over at VansWarpedTour.com (’cause you know, we’ll be playing that whole mother this summer).
Local Austin boy, Michael Sieben did all art for the video and this company in Burbank, Bang Zoom!
(they do a bunch of anime and post-production work on trailers and live
action and animated shows for TV and web), animated it all together.
Red Pens has been compared to bands like Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth, and My Bloody Valentine, and while the Minneapolis duo possesses some similarities to these fan-favorites, it is clear that they have established a sound all their own. Read the rest of this entry →
