311 will return to the great city of NEW ORLEANS for 3-11 DAY 2008!!!!
THE ULTIMATE 311 CONCERT EXPERIENCE....with special extended set list and special surprises will return to New Orleans for the biggest & best 3-11 Day celebration yet! 311 will break out all of their classics & rarities for an incredible night of music!!! This is a 311 show like no other!
This week we have Pray for Winter by Philo-san. This is a groovy little reggae track, so make sure you download it while you can.
About Philo-san With a poppy combination of swing, reggae, rockabilly and surf, Philo-san (fye-low sahn) has created a unique sound that is redefining “Detroit Rock.” Hailing from suburban Detroit, this distinctive trio combines catchy melodies, quirky guitar licks, funky bass lines, and versatile drumming to form a retro-rock sound that is much bigger than the sum of its parts.
"Teach your Children Restore Humanity" coming November 14th on iTunes.
The 5 Song Acoustic EP Features Versions of some of Joseph Israel's favorite songs from Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Crosby Stills Nash and Young and more...
The purpose of the Acoustic EP is to help promote the Non Profit Org; Restore Humanity and all the great work they are doing in Africa.
A benefit show for the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund has been scheduled at O'Connells in San Diego (21 and up).
Most of the bands from the HAUNTED BALL AND CHAIN FESTIVAL have gotten on board for the show.
Bands performing so far - THE ZIGGENS, MYSTIC ROOTS, JOSH FISCHEL (SOLO FROM BARGAIN MUSIC), THE B-FOUNDATION, 3RD ALLEY, RAS 1 (SOLO FROM LONG BEACH SHORTBUS), GADFLY, REBEL SOUL BAND, HIGH TIDE, FIGHTING CHANCE, THE BERT SUSANKA BAND, GLUE FACTORY, LUNGBUTTER, JAHROOTSALEM, BOLDBIRD, SEX RAT, HAYES FIELD, BUSHWALLA, WENDY DARLNG, SIX INCH MAN, MIDNIGHT SURFERS, STONE WING, and more being added daily.
The proceeds from the show will go directly to benefit the Red Cross National Disaster Relief Fund. The daily capacity for this event is very limited (approximately 200). Advance tickets will be on sale this weekend through O'Connells, or by contacting us directly.
Check out the new CD reviews for two great up and coming bands High Tide and Tsunami Rising.
Tomorrow there will be an interesting new Ask Weege posted which looks at Women in Reggae (Rock). It is well researched and an insightful read.
Next week Pepper and Bag of Toys interviews. And don't forget to send in your fav CD's of the year for the huge Best of 2007 on the 1st of Dec. Your list will be published on the site! So get to it!
New interview is up with Outlaw Nation. Don't forget to grab the band's Pretty Girls MP3 while you are here.
Also check out the review of the touching tribute show to David Fuentes, by the one and only Rick Brass. There are some nice photos of the event included.
Tonight - New Exclusive Song Leak Tuesday - Interview with NoNeedz Wednesday - Interview with Outlaw Nation Thursday - New CD Reviews Friday - Ask Weege - Women in Reggae
Plus all the daily news updates. ADD US ON MYSPACE!
Things are really beginning to take off. We will have: Interviews with - SoCal MC NoNeedz, Outlaw Nation and maybe one more
New Exclusive MP3 Leak - (hint) could be from one of the above artists
Plus more Reviews and the Daily News
Now for some really big news. In a couple of weeks time, Pepper will be featured in a massive interview. I can safely say there is some juicy goss spilled in this one too. So get ready for that!!!
Don't forget to send in your Top Favs of 2007. We have already got some great responses.
Ok gang, what we are going to be doing within the next couple of weeks is starting to ask for everyone's FIVE FAVORITE ALBUMS of 2007 and what was your FAVORITE LIVE SHOW of 2007.
Why? We are going to publish them all here on the 1st of December! Thats right in a huge feature, everyone who submits their favs for the year will be published on the 1st of December.
This is a call to all fans and people in bands to share with the world what rocked them in 2007!!! This is a chance to give your favorite bands some exposure and thank them for giving you great music!
So start thinking it over and when you are ready send an email with the list to thepierorg@yahoo.com (with subject heading: 2007 Top 5).
Feel free to add reasons why you picked them in your Top 5 and we will include that when it is published.
Due to circumstances beyond our control, the festival is going to have to be postponed. Because of some unforeseen events that have transpired in the last few days, we are going to move the event to a future date. We will be refunding all ticket sales to the cards that they were purchased on. We will be keeping a list of all ticket holders, and will be offering discounted tickets to the future event to anyone who has already purchased a ticket. We are extremely sorry to have to reschedule the event with such short notice. We are working on putting together a small show with a couple of the bands on the line up for Saturday November 3rd, at a local venue. We are doing this for anyone who has already made plans to attend this event. We will keep you informed as to the location and bands on the line up, for this date.Once again we deeply regret any inconvenienced this has caused to anyone. We want to thank everyone who has worked so hard on this event so far, as well as, our sponsors. We will keep everyone informed through this page, as well as, our website as to the rescheduled date.
Sorry and thank you for your understanding in this matter, Haunted Ball And Chain
LiveNation.com, the online destination of the world's largest live music company, announced that it will webcast Pepper, Hawaii's favorite rock trio, live from House of Blues Las Vegas, on Wednesday, October 17th, the first date of their 33-city North American fall tour. Fans of the band can watch the webcast live on Live Nation TV beginning at 8:15 PM PST p.m. HERE.
The uninterrupted performance will be Pepper's first live concert webcast, and will enable their fans from all over the world to watch their eclectic, in your face rock style.
"Since the beginning, we have been a band built from the bottom up," said Yesod Williams. "Our fans have helped shape our sound and our style, so giving them the chance to see us live on opening night is the best way we know how to repay them."
New acoustic video of a song called Rob U Blind is below. Bad Fish is also playing this Friday at the Blue Cafe in Huntington Beach with Burt Susanka and Zen Robbi.
Check it out, the link is to your right in Recent Additions. Fun interview with a little interaction for ya. You will just have to go look at it to see what I am talking about.
Tomorrow new Ask Weege and Friday an interview with Passafire.
That's right guys. Every week we are going to aim to have an exclusive MP3 available for download. This week we got the unreleased Gadfly's track, Cool Down from the band's forthcoming album, Problem to Solve all your Problems.
So bands if you want to get some great exposure and get your music heard (23,000 views in its first 2 months), contact us here at The Pier and we will hook it up.
Also new Shakedown interview is up now and a Mike Pinto interview will be on the site tomorrow.
Pepper is doing a live show in Las Vegas this Wednesday, October 17th, and for all you unlucky fans who aren't going to be there they are going to stream it LIVE ONLINE! Here's the link to catch the show (starts at 8:15 PM PST)
Monday - Interview with Shakedown Tues - Interview with Mike Pinto (exclusive talk regarding his new album) Weds - New Ask Weege Fri - Interview with Passafire
Oh you want more? How about an exclusive MP3 leak of a track from the forthcoming Gadfly's album, Problem to Solve all your Problems.
From the band's newest effort, Submersible. Hot damn, those songs are slamming! Click the pic to go hear them on the band's MySpace page.
In anticipation of the forthcoming album release and tour with Pepper, also look out next week for an interview here at The Pier with all four members of Passafire.
We are headed out with Pepper next week and we wanted to know what songs you want us play. Pick your top 10 songs and send it to us. We really do value your opinions and thank you soooo much for your help and support. Can't wait to get back on the road...
One of The Pier's favorite MC's NoNeedz is taking preorders his new album, FEEL GOOD MUSIK. Hit him up on MySpace by clicking the pic above. You will be able to pick it up for a paltry $8 and get exclusive tracks unavailable anywhere else, like the killer Vast Unknown.
New Ask Weege is up now, check out the link to the right under recent additions.
So I have spent the last couple of days working on the Josh Fischel interview and it is long, but super interesting. So the plan is this, we want to give you the opportunity to read it all - uncensored.
However, in order to not overwhelm you, I will be breaking it down into two parts:
Weds - Part 1: Discussion will mainly focus on Bargain Music
Fri - Part 2: Will cover some Bargain Music, his other projects like producing and video directing (including making the Sublime documentary) and what's he got coming up
To all of are friends and Long Beach Shortbus Family,
To begin with we want to thank you for all of your support throughout the years. We have appreciated all of your dedication through the years. Without you we would not have been able to make it. We also want to thank all of the street team members who have worked so hard to help us out. Thank you for all of your kind words through the sites. We also wish to thank all of the support we have had from all the cities and venues we have played. The band has decided that it is necessary for everyone involved to call and end to the great run we have had. The band as a whole has decided to venture out in new directions. We all hope that one day we will find ourselves back on the road together one day, but that is in the hands of time now.
We will keep you comprised on the individual efforts from different members of the band. As for now Eric will be continuing to play with Stone Wing, and RAS 1 will be performing solo shows. Any updates with Trey, and Damien will be announced through the site as well. We hope to see all of you out there in support of our new projects in the future. This has not been an easy decision for anyone involved. We have not taken any of this lightly, and will miss every one of our friends we have made throughout the years. Everyone one of our fans and friends will hold a special place in our hearts with us. Thank you for your support and understanding on this, and thank you for taking the ride on the bus along with us.
We will be playing one final show as a farewell set. We are sorry we could not make it out to see all of our friends one more time. We hope that as many of you as possible can make it out to this event as possible. For those of you who can not thank you again for everything. The farewell show will be at the Haunted Ball And Chain Festival in North County San Diego, on November 2nd and 3rd. We will be performing the headlining set to wrap up the festival on November 3rd. Sorry about the short notice on this.
Once again thank you to all of our Long Beach Shortbus Family and Friends ,
The Haunted Ball and Chain Festival has just posted this bulletin:
The Haunted Ball And Chain Festival will be the final Long Beach Shortbus show. Look for a posting from the band on Monday. We are thrilled to be hosting such a historic event. Get your tickets now, if you want to see the show. When we sell out they are gone. If you wait till the day of the event and they are already gone, don't say we did not warn you. We have a cap on ticket sales and it is approaching quickly.
Thank you, Haunted Ball and Chain Dr. Echo, Mystic Roots, Livitz Livitz, Bold Bird, and Stone Wing have also been added to the line-up.
Tomorrow we will have a new Ask Weege column, which looks at recording costs and strategies.
On Wednesday prepare yourself for one of the most in-depth and personal interviews The Pier has done. Josh Fischel gives a great insight into some of his favorite Bargain Music memories, his decision to call it quits and life after Bargain Music. I am not lying when saying this is a MUST READ!!!
Next Friday there will be an interview up with Sacramento's Shakedown, dishing out the dirt on its new album New Sound Delivery.
If you like this sexy pic of Geoff from The Expendables and you want to see more great photographic work like that, then check out IrieAZ Photo's work here. There are also some sweet photos of Dirty Heads, OPM, Authority Zero, RAC DUB, Underwater and more.
Ballyhoo! is playing at the Rendezvous Inn in Perryville, MD TONIGHT from 10-1am. The band is going to be recording crowd chants and screams and such for its new album, and they want YOU to be there! Ballyhoo! needs as many people out as possible to make it sound as good as possible! So if you're free, come out! Will be recording around Midnight.
Rendezvous Inn 362 Front St. Perryville, MD 410-642-0045
Check out a great new reggae track from new band Close Enough (featuring NoNeedz). You can listen to I Can See Us Togetherhere. Look for an up-coming EP to be followed by an album of good stuff from these guys.
New CD Reviews this Friday: Toko Tasi (Spiritual Life) and Rebelution(Courage to Grow).
Also look out in the next week or so for new interviews with Shakedown and Josh Fischel, where we discussed everything from Bargain Music to Sublime, in an hour long chat.
Check out Adam and Raul from The Expendables hamming it up and reading the latest music news about artists you probably couldn't care less about at rehearsals.com. Click the Newz icon in the bottom left to watch.
Benefit / Tribute Show for the Fuentes family and Hepcat October 21st at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, Doors open at 6:00 $20.00 and Special sideline VIP tickets $45.00 (ALL proceeds go to the Fuentes family)
Appearing: Colin Giles Penny Reel Duo The Expanders The Allentons Seespot The Debonaires Ocean 11 The Aggrolites The David Fuentes Tribute Featuring Efren of Hepcat
First 500 people receive free Commemorative / Collector Pin dedicated to David
Ballyhoo! is going to be on the morning show of 98 Rock Baltimore this Wednesday. If anyone not living in the area wants to listen in, they can go to 98Online.com and click Listen Live.
The band will be spinning its "40 Oz to Freedom" cover and maybe playing a song live. Listen in around the 9 o'clock hour, East Coast time.
Before I list the two shows I have this week, I want to start hyping my new, self-titled album that will be released by Halloween. It's 12 fresh new tracks that features 3 acoustic songs, and 9 songs with drummer/bass legend Chuck Treece(G Love, Bad Brains, McRad). I'll go out on a limb and say if you liked the first album, you'll love this one. I personally think it is above and beyond the debut album, but I'll let you be the judge. The song "Get Me Down" that's on my page now will be on it, but all the rest of the songs will be the same genre that I've had in the past (so don't think I've switched to folk music haha).
Everywhere I have been traveling, people are telling me how much my music is spreading in their area, so I want to say a huge thanks to all you people who have been popping my disc in the CD player at house parties, and pushing for me to get bigger.
With this release, I will be touring. So stay tuned to my page, because I'll be putting up dates in your area. Also, my MySpace will have all new songs from the new album in the next weeks.
BACK TO THE SHOW INFO 9pm Tuesday, October 2nd The Knitting Factory (Bluebeat Lounge) 7021 Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90028 (323) 463-0204
9pm Weds, October 3rd The Shore w/DreadStarr and Vincent Van Go-Go 1320 Hermosa Ave Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 (310) 376-0414
October the 2nd marks the release of Ziggurats in the U.S. The album will be available through the new Silverback label Controlled Substance Sound Laboratory.
