Come check out this exclusive in-depth with Jon & Matt Phillips, the founders of Silverback Management and Controlled Substance Sound Labs. These guys are responsible for managing Sublime, Slightly Stoopid, Pepper, The Expendables and more.
The interview also includes exciting Stoopid and Pepper updates, so what are you waiting for?
Feb 1 2008 Mad Italian Flagstaff, Arizona Feb 2 2008 McKee’s Pub W/ The Big Spank Lake Havasu City, Arizona Feb 3 2008 SuperBowl Party @ Jason’s Lake Havasu City, Arizona Feb 16 2008 The Marquee Theater W/ Badfish Tempe, Arizona Feb 29 2008 O’Connell’s Pub San Diego, California Mar 1 2008 Flashrock.com Los Angeles, California Mar 4 2008 Blue Beat Lounge Hollywood, California Mar 6 2008 The Ocean House Carlsbad, California Mar 8 2008 DiPiazza Long Beach, California Mar 18 2008 Marquee Theater W/ RX Bandits Tempe, Arizona Apr 12 2008 Phoenix Municipal Stadium W/ Yellow Man & Kamani Marley Phoenix, Arizona Apr 18 2008 Zepplins W/ Border Roots El Paso, Texas Apr 19 2008 Ralli’s 4th St. Pub Albuquerque, New Mexico Apr 24 2008 W/Dirty Heads - TBA Denver, Colorado Apr 25 2008 W/Dirty Heads - TBA Colorado Springs, Colorado Apr 26 2008 Smitty’s Greenlight Tavern Pueblo, Colorado May 2 2008 Monte Vista Fire Station Albuquerque, New Mexico
Thanks for all the input and the suggestions for who Pier readers would like to see open on the Slightly Stoopid/Pepper Summer Tour.
There was quite a mixed bag of up and coming and established acts suggested. Whoever opens the show whether it is based on one of these suggestions or some other band/artist, regardless we all know it is going to be a kick ass summer tour.
Thanks again and no more suggestions will be posted or considered. Feel free to continue to discuss all the great bands in the genre by posting on The Pier MySpace. It's a great central meeting place.
Hey Everyone, Just wanted to fill everyone in on what has been happening recently with Iration. We have spent the majority of the last two months (Dec. and Jan) in Hawaii writing material for a new album along with Grammy Award Winner Charles Brotman at his studio (Which you can check out at: www.lavatracks.com) in our hometown of Waimea (Kamuela), HI.
We have written a total of 12 new songs and will be spending the next month and a half in California rehearsing the songs in preparation for recording them in March. We will continue writing new songs during this time and will be playing these songs at our live shows. The album is as yet untitled and will definitely be a step in a new direction for the band. We are continuously trying to grow and figure out exactly what Iration music is. This album will represent another level of growth for the band and we hope you all come and hear some of the new tracks live. Aloha to everyone for your support of our music and we want you to know we make the music for you so if you have any ideas or suggestions we are completely open to them.
Next Weds at The Pier look for new interviews with Matt and Jon Phillips, founders of Silverback Management & the new Controlled Substance Sounds Labs record label.
This interview will include great personal memories of the early Sublime and Slightly Stoopid days, plus all the latest happenings with Slightly Stoopid, Pepper, The Expendables and more.
Including new album info from both Stoopid and Pepper's camps!!!
This feature will be a great look at behind the scene's of two of the most popular bands going around today!
Hey Everyone! we have been in the studio this past month working on our first album Step Inside. We're having a ton of fun watching the songs come to life and we can't wait to show it to all of you! It should be ready to drop around late Feb/ early March. If you like the songs from the demo, please buy the new album, you wont be disappointed. Thanks so much to everyone who supports us and our dream, we can't do it without you!
We just got done recording two songs over at Highland Recorders in PHX with Jumbo Jim from Phunk Junkeez behind the control board. The new tracks will be posted on MySpace (Another Day MySpace) soon!
Look for the new tracks: Strange Days & Walkin and Talking
Firstly, leading 880 South on the Youth Bus Sampler available for DOWNLOAD HERE and now following up with a new Ask Weege advice column on how to Get Great Press.
There is also a couple of new CD Reviews up as well, so make sure you check those out. Remember each review now links to the band's MySpace page so you can hear them for yourselves. Go discover your new favorite band today!!!
Gadfly Fans... our record, Problem to Solve all your Problems is ready for production but we decided to offer another disc before the release date. GadflyLive and Unreleased is available right now and includes dub versions of songs, outtakes, tracks that didn't make the new album and live songs. This is a limited run and will not last long. Pass this on. The link to purchase the album is on our MySpace page so hit it up!!!!!
In a mammoth Pier exclusive, for one week only grab a sneak preview of the upcoming sophomore album, Youth Bus Sessions Vol 1, from 880 South.
Weege and the boys have taken it to a whole new level, which is clearly evident from these un-mastered clips included in the sampler. The songs are: Going South Apartment 28 Trust In Me Can You Feel It Huh Sex on the Beach
At the end of this month we are going into the studio for our next CD! So at the Feb 2nd and Feb 16th shows we will be playing new songs from the CD!!
FEB 2ND RAC w/ Dogboy, Dirty Heads and B Foundation all ages at the Clubhouse, we have presale tickets for $10, with a presale from us you will get either a RAC CD or a new RAC shirt.
FEB 16th MARQUEE THEATER show with Badfish (tribute to Sublime) Going to be a big show. It is also Matt's 21st B-Day so make it out to that. Presales are $15 and with a presale from us you will get either a RAC CD or a new RAC shirt.
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So come on out to these next shows and hear new RAC songs!!!
Leading off a huge next week at The Pier, on Sunday night look for an Exclusive MP3 Sampler of new songs from the new 880 South album Youth Bus Sessions Vol. 1!!!
That's right this will be your first chance to here some brand new 880 South!!!
Next Tuesday a new Ask Weege will be online and Thursday will be the launch for a brand new in-depth interview with the mighty B Foundation!
The pre-order for Stick Figure's sophomore album, Burnin' Ocean, is now available at the solo artist's MySpace Page RIGHT HERE. You can also listen to a few samples from the new album there, so go check it out.
POD and Sprung Monkey are playing a Super Bowl weekend show in Phoenix Arizona (Feb 2nd Hayden Square). Sprung Monkey is also playing a special engagement show at Club 710 San Diego CA, Jan 26th.
Performances by the band are rare these days so try to catch them if you can.
Ocean Beach's Lurker now has its own MySpace page. The band also has The Pier's MP3 Exclusive Leak this week, so go check out its page (HERE) after you download the free song.
Take a gander at the new tune, Ooh La La, below (recorded live at Slim's in San Francisco this past summer) that will be on the band's new CD due out this spring.
Lurker is a project / hostile / getaway / band that functions unbelievably well in it's dis-functional environment. This is an Ocean Beach project in the heart of temptation but surrounded by motivation. The songs happen totally organically and a different writing technique is used on all the songs with no expectation other than to collaborate.
The Lurker track up for download (bottom right) is Another Day Hustling (Feat: Touch of CAS).
Firstly check out this tight video of Damian 'Jr Gong' Marley with Chali 2na at Reggae on the River August 2007. Then go to Chali 2na's MySpace page and download his new track Rock It from Fish Market Pt2.
Ok guys, a cool fan of The Pier did up a sweet new Pier logo and I temporarily currently have it up on this slightly new look front-page.
Now The Pier knows our web-design is pretty simple at best (hey we are going for content!!!) But which do you prefer the old school blue logo or the new funkier slight reggae influenced one?
The Pier will keep whatever the majority wants and implement it throughout the site. Please have some input into this, especially if you are a regular visitor to the site and may actually care what it looks like.
Drop us a message or comment on MySpace RIGHT HERE.
Come support Left Coast Boardwear and artists 880 South & Starving Millionaires.
880 South and Starving Millionaires will be performing on the Mavericks music stage. Left Coast Boardwear will be in full effect with new apparel So get your shirt and listen to some sweet music while you watch the surfing pros do their thing. Bag of Toys and Mermen will also be playing.
2008 WEBCAST -- LIVE, FREE, & POWERED BY MYSPACE Watch this year's Contest from the comfort of home, and don't miss a thing! Check it out HERE.
Kingspade’s explosive live show was caught on tape for the release of the group’s first DVD release Throw Your Spades Up! Live At The Key Club Hollywood.
The DVD includes a live performance captured in November 2007 at Hollywood’s legendary Key Club, performing tracks from their self titled debut and P.T.B. release. Produced by Devin Dehaven(Busta Rhymes, Method Man, Papa Roach), this show was filmed with five HD cameras. The DVD includes the live performance, interviews with the group, a photo gallery, behind the scenes footage as well as all of Kingspade’s videos.
Track List for DVD: 1. Spaded, Jaded and Faded 2. This Dat Beat 3. Who's Dwn 4. We Ridin 5. Drunk In Da Club 6. Who Run This 7. Neighborhood Trends 8. The Deal 9. Lifestyles 10. Down 4 Da Krown 11. Tsunami Brothers Breakdown 12. That's The Shit 13. Smokin Doja 14. Havin Fun 15. P-Town 16. That's How It Goes 17. High Ridaz 18. Same Ol' Bitches 19. Life 20. Credits - Check Yo Bitch
Josh will now open the tour with The Expendables and The B Foundation.
Here are the dates if you missed them:
Jan 18th - Sacramento, CA - The Boardwalk Jan 19th - Petaluma - Phoenix Theater Jan 20th - South Lake Tahoe - Bar 24 Jan 22nd - Vail, CO - The Sandbar Jan 23rd - Ft. Collins, CO - Aggie Theater Jan 24th - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater Jan 25th - Colorado Springs - The Black Sheep Jan 28th - Fresno, ca - The Crossroads Jan 29th - Santa Barbara, CA - The Velvet Jones Jan 30th - Bakersfield, CA - Fishlips bar and grill Jan 31st - San Diego, CA - HOB Feb 1st - Malibu, CA - Malibu Inn
Some of the shows are already close to being sold out so get your tickets soon.
This Sunday night The Pier will post another Exclusive Mp3 Leak from SoCal supergroup Lurker. The band features members of Gadfly, Diego Roots, Bargain Music & the man Mike Pinto himself.
As an interesting twist, The Pier wants you to choose what song we will post. You have two choices and you can vote for your choice by either posting/messaging The Pier MySpace or by sending an email to Lurker Song Poll.
Lurker mastermind Tommy Dubs describes your two options as follows:
"Honestly you never know who will be asleep in the Lurker studio when you open the door in the morning. Sessions usually start at 9am and last into the wee hours of the morning. The studio has been a refuge from friends kicked out by girlfriends, people passing through town, bro's too fucked up to drive home or homeless people sleeping in the shed behind the studio. With Lurker songs, sometimes two people start out a song by recording the rhythm section, leave it open on the computer, and when they get back... the song has been taking over by different people and the song is going a completely different direction. Lurker really is made up of a bunch of lurkers..." Another Day Hustling (Feat: Touch of CAS)
"The title says it all... It's about taking life into your own hands and not waiting around for it to come to you. This song was written, played and recorded in 6 hours by Tommy Dubs, Touch of CAS and R. Kelly. This song is a perfect example of how shit just happens... when we came together to record, we had no idea what we wanted to lay down that day so this is what came out. If you listen close to the hook, you here "Another Day" being sung and it really pulls the hook together. The funny thing is, is that this was a total accident in the recording process. We accidentally left a mic on when we were hearing play back and we were just fucking around and this got put to tape. We discovered it hidden on a vocal track when we were normalizing and now the shit is the backbone of the hook."
So what will it be P-dubs Sleeping or Another Day Hustling?
Check out the ridiculously awesome Burn Tonight RIGHT HERE.
This song along with three other brand new ones will be released next month on a mini-EP. Other featured artists on this disc are Bobo David (Judgement Yard), Phileano, Tony Tiger Styles, and of course Big Nes.
311 are back in its Hive Studio in Los Angeles writing, jamming and having a good time exploring new material for their next album. The band have several new song ideas in the works. As you know, making a new album takes time, but the good news is that it's all underway! The band is in the initial writing stage, so there are no song titles, album title or release date at this time. We are still a long ways away from those details, but wheels are turning for new tunes from 311.
As P-Nut previously stated, “We are playing in the studio's live room and making ideas as we go, and we are planning on going-through those sessions and making songs from them. It's a dream-come-true to be working like this, relaxed and fun. Expect great things.”
I'm sorry to all our fans who thought we would be going on tour with The Expendables and The B Foundation. There was a misunderstanding, that is why we are on some of the flyers. It has nothing to do with the bands themselves, we love The Expendables and The B Foundation and hope they have a great tour. To our fans that hoped on seeing us, I'm sorry and hopefully we can make it out your way soon.
In the meantime check out this vid of the Dirty Heads live on Japanese radio.
The Supervillains Sign Another Deal With Law Records
The Supervillains MySpace reports:
Just got back from San Diego Where I met with representatives from Law Records and Controlled Substance Sound Labs. After much ganja smoke and deliberation we worked out terms to the next album.
Preproduction has already begun and recording will start within the next month. What songs will be on it you might ask?
The slowed down version of Little Girl, The Pit and CarSex to name a few.....
I'm on the Amtrak regional headed from Philly up to NYC. I've got a photo shoot tomorrow with my old friend and photographer Brandon Finney. I just spent the last three days in studio finishing up with the Houseman and Mark Boyce and my remaining touchups for the new record. We are really closing in on it now and we will deliver the finished record by Feb 14th. It feels good--real good. Of course we have too many tracks to fit on one album so the hard part is here choosing which tracks make the cut and which will be released as b sides on the internet and overseas. It’s always a tough call. Then of course I have to name the record. My working title has always been "Down and Dirty" but now there are a couple different titles in the lineup.
I spent today overdubbing on my favorite new jam "Peace, Love and Happiness" and a classic from my side project Lottery titled "Lottery" which GLASS recut for the new record. That joint sounds sick. I also cut vox on the smoked out "Who's got the Weed". Today was one of those good days in the studio where everything is clicking and I was on it. I will be back in Philly next week for 2 days and that should wrap it for me.
On other news, Barack Obama housed the competition at the Iowa Caucus with an eloquent and passionate speech that was highly publicized on the post-caucus commentary. My Dad is a big Obama supporter and even though I've been pulling for Clinton I might need to jump on the band wagon soon. Anyway, it is time for a change and I'm excited that I have a record coming out during the election year. It’s funny because even though this record feels like a party a lot of the tracks are politically conscious.
Check out Suburban Surfer from Tropidelic's forthcoming EP. Grab it - bottom right of this main page.
Band Bio Tropidelic(Myspace Page) is a funky surf-hop reggae band from Kent, OH. MISSION: Bring the sunshine to the gray Ohio skyline. Their medium to deliver the positive vibes is their gripping live show and unique style.
No Doubt's Adrian Young made a special appearance on Loveline earlier this week. He revealed that fans can expect "a little bit of the old" on the new No Doubt album and that it will have more ska songs than previous albums.
As stated in The Pier's Most Anticipated Albums of 2008 feature, fingers crossed.
A massive collection of 1970s music including original recordings by reggae greats Bob Marley and Peter Tosh has been from the archives of the former Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation.
27th Annual RaggaMuffins Festival / Tribute To Bob Marley
Sat. Feb. 16 Beenie Man, Capleton, Anthony B, Sly & Robbie, Collie Buddz, Roots Underground, Cherine Anderson, Cultura Profetica & more
Sun. Feb. 17 Alpha Blondy and the Solar System, Gregory Isaacs, Midnite, Sly & Robbie, Anthony B, Gentleman, Tarrus Riley, Queen Ifrica, The Aggrolites & more - (artist line-up subject to change) - International Arts & Crafts Fair - Long Beach Arena - 300 Ocean Blvd. Downtown Long Beach - 12pm doors / 1pm showtime - All Ages (Children 12 and under Free with Paid Adult) - Tickets on Sale at all TicketMaster Locations - Hotline: (310) 515-3322 / Vendors: (310) 515-3355
Mon. Feb. 18 27th Annual Tribute To The Reggae Legends (Tribute to Lucky Dube) Featuring: Alpha Blondy and the Solar System, Gregory Isaacs, Barrington Levy and Detour Posse, Capleton and the Prophecy Band, Sly & Robbie with the Taxi Gang (also backing Cherine Anderson, Queen Ifrica, and Martin Campbell), Gentleman, Don Carlos, Midnite, Cultura Profetica, Tribal Seeds, and MC Makeda Dread (artist line-up subject to change) - International Arts & Crafts Fair - San Diego Sports Arena - 3500 Sports Arena Blvd. San Diego - 12pm doors / 1pm showtime - All Ages (Children 12 and under Free with Paid Adult) - Tickets on Sale at all TicketMaster Locations - Hotline: (619) 230-1190 / (619) 230-1237
January 5 - Version City Party the Knitting Factory: NYC, NY w/Mile 21, In the Face, Ex-Skatalites members, and more! January 10 - Rendezvous: Baltimore, MD w/Ballyhoo! January 12 - Half Shell: Virginia Beach, VA w/No Dreads January 13 - Hell's Kitchen: Norfolk, VA January 15 - Lenny's: Atlanta, GA w/Groove Stain January 17 - Ralph's: San Antonia, FL January 18 - AKA Lounge: Orlando, FL January 19 - Happy Hour Show @ Surfer's Sports Pub: Cocoa Beach, FL January 19 - Beachside Tavern - New Smyrna, FL w/HOR!ZEN
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