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10 Nov
2010

Vonnegutt Shares New Song “Going Home”, Free.99 Mixtape On The Way

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Vonnegutt is a band that draws inspiration from several musical genres. And as a result of being co-signed to Big Boi and Manchester Orchestra’s record labels, they are constantly surrounded by different sounds and styles of music. Vonnegutt’s upcoming mixtape, Free.99, gives fans a little taste of what a day in the life of Vonnegutt sounds like and is sure to surprise many along the way. It wouldn’t be any fun if we gave away ALL the guest appearances and collaborations quite yet, but a couple of friends that will be on Free.99 are Big Boi, Will Pugh (of Cartel), Cutty Cartel, Aleon Craft, Sugar Tongue Slim, Tony Williams, Shanell, and Andy Hull (of Manchester Orchestra). Free.99 will be all new collaborations and three new original Vonnegutt songs, including “Going Home,” which is available via the link below. Vonnegutt released their debut EP, The Appetizer EP, two months ago with their debut LP, Falling Up The Stairs, to see release in 2011.

“Going Home” MP3

Purchase The Appetizer EP on iTunes

Purchase The Appetizer EP on Amazon

Vonnegutt also has a handful of upcoming tour dates with 2AM Club, Jared Evan, Big Boi, Chiddy Bang, Constellations, Sam Adams, and LA Riots. Don’t miss them!

11.10.10 – The Plaza Theatre – Orlando, FL *
11.12.10 – Knoxville Civic Coliseum – Knoxville, TN ^
11.24.10 – Smith’s Olde Bar – Atlanta, GA #
12.01.10 – Hurricane Harry’s – College Station, TX @
12.02.10 – Trees – Dallas, TX @
12.03.10 – Republic Live – Austin, TX @
12.06.10 – House of Blues – Houston, TX **
12.07.10 – House of Blues – Dallas, TX **
12.08.10 – La Zona Rosa – Austin, TX **
12.30.10 – Smith’s Olde Bar – Atlanta, GA

* w/ 2AM Club & Jared Evan
^ w/ Big Boi
# w/ Constellations
@ w/ Chiddy Bang
** w/ Sam Adams & LA Riots

www.Vonnegutt.com
www.facebook.com/Vonnegutt
www.twitter.com/Vonnegutt
www.myspace.com/Vonnegutt

06 May
2010

Huntington Beach’s RUNNER RUNNER Signs With EMI’s Capitol Records/Worldwide Pants, Inc. In Alliance With MRV

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Runner Runner, a dynamic young band hailing from punk mecca Huntington Beach, CA, have just been signed to the new partnership of EMI Music’s Capitol Records, Clear Entertainment/C.E. Music (a new label formed by late night host, David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants Inc.), and Jack Ponti’s MRV label. The band, frontman Ryan Ogren, guitarist Nick Bailey, guitarist Peter Munters, bassist Jon Berry and drummer James Ulrich, have over eight-million plays on their MySpace, were named a 2009 Band to Watch by Alternative Press, and have played shows with the likes of Angels & Airwaves, Fall Out Boy and All Time Low.

Veterans to the music industry, bassist Berry was a founding member of the SoCal pop-punk band, Rufio, Ogren was the vocalist/guitarist for New Jersey’s Don’t Look Down, and Munters, Bailey & Ulrich were members of OC’s Over It. They all came together in 2008 to create what is now Runner Runner. The five members are a combination of skillful songwriting and musicianship, punk-infused intensity and songs with humongous hooks with tremendous potential.

The band is currently recording their self-titled debut album in Los Angeles with producer Dave Darling (Stray Cats, Brian Setzer, Soulive), and plan to tour extensively after their album drops later this summer. Their first single, “So Obvious,” will be released to radio on June 15th, and you can take a listen right here. Get to know Runner Runner a little better by checking out their YouTube, Facebook or official site, and to see a list of their tour dates, head to their MySpace.

TOUR DATES w/ AMBER PACIFIC & CARTEL

MAY
20 Satyricon, Portland, OR*
22 El Corazon, Seattke, WA*
23 Icon, Pocatello, ID*
24 Kilby Court, Salt Lake City, UT*
25 Black Sheep, Colorado Springs, CO*
26 The Blue Goat, Salina, KS*
29 Luna Bar & Grill, Lake Charles, LA*
30 The Parish @ House of Blues, New Orleans, LA*
31 The Hangar, Wichita Falls, TX**

JUNE
2 Old Rock House, St. Louis, MO**
3 Chubby Rain – House of Tunes, Poplar Grove, IL**
6 Wasted Space @ Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, NV*
8 Chain Reaction, Anaheim, CA*
9 Ramona Mainstage, Ramona, CA*
11 The Vault, Temecula, CA*

* with Amber Pacific
** with Cartel

www.myspace.com/runnerrunnermusic

www.runnerrunnermusic.com

www.twitter.com/runnerrunner

www.facebook.com/runnerrunner

www.youtube.com/ryanrunnerrunner

02 Mar
2010

The 3rd Annual Bamboozle Roadshow Featuring All Time Low, Boys Like Girls, LMFAO, Third Eye Blind And More! (Presale Today!)

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New Jersey based Rock & Pop Festival THE BAMBOOZLE will hit the road for their 3rd nationwide tour this Summer kicking off May 21 in Columbia, MD. The tour features headliners Boys Like Girls, All Time Low, Third Eye Blind, & LMFAO, along with a stacked billed of support and is set to hit 26 major U.S. cities.

THE BAMBOOZLE ROADSHOW 2010 will be an ALL-DAY Event with 2 stages of talent, a main stage with rotating artists ALL TIME LOW, BOYS LIKE GIRLS, LMFAO, THIRD EYE BLIND, GOOD CHARLOTTE, HANSON, FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS, HELLOGOODBYE, & CARTEL, and a Second Stage showcasing the talents of many up & comers. More artists to be announced soon! (All festival dates may not feature all artists, check your local listings.)

Pre-sale began at 10 a.m. local time on Tuesday, March 2, and will run though 10 p.m. on Friday March 5, with Public on-sale beginning Saturday March 6 @ 10 a.m. Local Time. Pre-sale tickets are available here: http://www.thebamboozleroadshow.com.

Maryland’s All Time Low is currently finishing up a sold out Australian tour. The band’s two latest Hopeless Records releases, Nothing Personal and MTV Unplugged have been comfortably perched on Billboard’s top indie charts since their release. Their original song “Painting Flowers” also appears on Almost Alice, the soundtrack to the upcoming Tim Burton film, Alice In Wonderland.

www.alltimelow.com

THE BAMBOOZLE ROADSHOW Routing:

May 21 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion

May 22 – Charlotte, NC – Uptown Amphitheatre @ The Music Factory

May 23 – Atlanta, GA – Six Flags Over Georgia

May 25 – West Palm Beach, FL – Cruzan Amphitheatre

May 26 – Tampa, FL – Ford Amphitheatre

May 28 – Houston, TX – Verizon Wireless Theatre (No 2nd Stage)

May 29 – San Antonio, TX – Six Flags Fiesta Texas

May 30 – Arlington, TX – Six Flags Over Texas

June 2 – Phoenix, AZ – Cricket Amphitheatre

June 5 – Concord, CA – Sleep Train Pavilion at Concord

June 6 – Chula Vista, CA – Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre – Parking Lot

June 10 – Minneapolis, MN – Cabooze Plaza

June 11 – Milwaukee, WI – Eagles Ballroom

June 12 – Chicago, IL- Soldier Field – Parking Lot

June 13 – Eureka, MO – Six Flags St. Louis

June 15 – Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre

June 18 – Cleveland, OH – Time Warner Cable Amphitheatre @ Tower City

June 19 – Cincinnati, OH – PNC Pavilion @ Riverbend Music Center

June 20 – Philadelphia, PA – Festival Pier @ Penn’s Landing

June 23 – Pittsburgh, PA – Amphitheatre @ Station Square

June 24 – Jackson, NJ – Six Flags Great Adventure

June 25 – Hershey, PA – Hershey Park Pavilion & Stadium

June 26 – Nassau, NY – Nassau Coliseum – Parking Lot

June 27 – Boston, MA – Comcast Center

(All dates may not feature all artists, please check local listings)

More dates will be added, so stay tuned!!

Check out the tour site

05 Jan
2010

CD GIVEAWAY: CARTEL – CYCLES

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    THIS GIVEAWAY IS OVER!

Those fun loving southern pop punk rockers from Georgia, Cartel, have a new album out, Cycles. It possesses a little bit of each of the band’s previous albums and builds on them to create the band’s most infectious sound yet! If you haven’t bought your copy yet, we’re disappointed in you. You should be listening to this album! In fact, we’re going to give away a copy of it to ONE lucky reader! Email us your name and we’ll email you back if you win! (USA/Canada entrants only, sorry!)

Go to www.Cartel.com and www.myspace.com/Cartel for the latest on the band!


21 Dec
2009

ALTERNATIVE PRESS & RED launch the second AP mini-magazine

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ALTERNATIVE PRESS’ latest min-mag (2009 Review/2010 Preview Edition), will be exclusively available in the music department of all Walmart stores on Dec 22 for only $5! This 52 page mini-mag is fresh off the heels of the highly successful “Summer of Rock” min-mag guide, which debuted at #165 on the Billboard Top 200. The double-sided cover features Cartel representing the best rock of 2009 and Motion City Soundtrack representing next year’s new noise.

“We’re so excited to be a part of these mini music magazines with RED,” says Mike Shea, president/founder of AP. “In these difficult financial times during the peak holiday season, they are an innovative way to get a lot of new music into fans’ hands at an affordable price. Since they’re digest-sized, fans automatically have an extremely cool AP stocking stuffer to get for their brothers, sisters or friends.”

The new AP Review/Preview mini-mag includes more than 25 exclusive band interviews and reviews, two limited edition cover artist rubber bracelets and a reversible locker poster. Also, each mini-mag comes with two bonus CD’s with music from Say Anything, A Day To Remember, Hey Monday, Cage The Elephant, Relient K, Third Eye Blind and more!

In addition to the new mini-mag fans have a chance to win fantastic prize packs through two online contests:

Customized Epiphone Guitars Contest:
www.apminimag.com/contest and www.altpress.com/contests

Friends Or Enemies Guest Editor Contest:
www.friendsorenemies.com/group/callingallwriterswanttogetpublished


18 Dec
2009

Cartel Releases Behind-the-Scenes of “Let’s Go” Video

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Cartel has released a behind-the-scenes look at the making of their video for “Let’s Go,” the first single off their recently released album, Cycles. Watch as the guys in the band give some observations about the video, as well as commentary from the producer and the director.

Check out the band’s Myspace page for all tour dates and details and make sure to pick your copy of Cycles in stores and on iTunes everywhere!

07 Dec
2009

Cartel Free Download for “Let’s Go”

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Courtesy of Coca-Cola, fans of Cartel can download the band’s latest single “Let’s Go” for free until the end of the day tomorrow (12/8) on MySpace. To get the free MP3, visit www.myspace.com/formula-for-happiness now. “Let’s Go” can be found on Cartel’s third studio album, Cycles, in stores and on iTunes now.

04 Dec
2009

Cartel Performs “Let’s Go” On Fearless Music TV

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Cartel will be performing their single “Let’s Go” this Saturday evening on Fearless Music TV. The show, which features bands performing live from the Crash Mansion in New York City, airs Friday or Saturday evenings in most markets. For a full list of stations that air the show, visit the Fearless Music website.

“Let’s Go” is the first single from Cartel’s third album Cycles, available now in stores and on iTunes.

15 Nov
2009

Cartel @ School of Rock NJ 10/24

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If you’ve ever attended a full show at School of Rock, you know that you’re walking into a suana. Making your way through a bunch of kids that aren’t old enough to drive yet, you also become somewhat resentful of the venue’s lack of a bar. Regardless, October 24th would be a momentous occasion as it marked Cartel‘s return to the School of Rock in South Hackensack, NJ where the band had last played four years earlier when the venue opened. Currently promoting their new album Cycles, Cartel would play to a nearly sold out crowd mixed with teens, their moms, a few industry execs and this reviewer. Opening with “Let’s Go”, the first single off of Cycles, Cartel were ferocious and energetic despite frontman Will Pugh seemingly slightly ill. The band seemed to be completely rejuvenated and recovered from the under-appreciated self-titled album they recorded in the MTV/Dr Pepper bubble-dome in 2007. In fact, nearly all of Cartel‘s setlist (see below) was comprised of songs off of the new album as well as the band’s debut, Chroma. The audience seemed most accepting of the opening song, “Faster Ride” and “27 Steps” from Cycles which easily could’ve been songs leftover from the Chroma sessions. Despite the return to its traditional sound on those songs, the rest of Cartel‘s new material seemed to fall flat on the audience. Even the supercharged rollercoaster “Deep South” didn’t seem to move the young crowd despite it being the song the band rocked out the hardest to. Maybe the audience was anxious that the band might not play their biggest hit to date, “Honestly.” Luckily for them, Cartel saved it for the encore.

Setlist (incomplete)
Let’s Go
Faster Ride
Typical
Settle Down
Runaway
27 Steps
Matter Of Time
It Still Remains
Say Anything (Else)
Deep South
Only You
The Minstrel’s Prayer
Q

Encore
The Perfect Mistake
Honestly

Thanks to Nicole Laudati for the first five photos and to Krista Calogero for the additional photos (Click to enlarge).

12 Nov
2009

TAP Exclusive Interview: Cartel

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A few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of hanging out with the guys from Cartel before their show at the School of Rock in South Hackensack, NJ. Check out our interview with them below as we discussed the whole Dr. Pepper/bubble event, being on a new label, their love of Nascar, and much much more. Everyone was around for the interview except Nic who was working on his guitar for most of it but returned near the end. You’ll probably hear Kevin the most on here. Anyways, listen below:

1. You guys were on Epic for your first two full albums. Now you’re on Wind-Up. Why the change?
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2. Any backlash to being on the same label as Creed?
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3. The second album in the bubble. Was it rushed? Do you regret it?
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4. Besides the bubble, how was recording this album Cycles different?
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5. You guys are big into golf. Are you any good or just video game guys?
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6. Any unusual musical guilty pleasures? Would you ever work with any of them?
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7. Having been a band for almost forever, do you guys ever get annoyed or bored with each other?
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8. Pull pranks on each other on the bus?
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9. Halloween’s coming up (this was done before Halloween). What age were you when you stopped trick or treating?
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10. Any newer bands you’re into?
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11. Biggest misconception about being a band from Georgia?
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12. Favorite song to play live?
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13. Will, you got married between albums. Would you say that you’ve changed at all as a person or as a songwriter because of it?
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14. What’s the most unusual thing you have on this tourbus?
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