P!nk Funhouse Tour
April 29, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
Filed under Upcoming Events
P!NK BRINGS RECORD-BREAKING FUNHOUSE TOUR
TO JOBING.COM ARENA IN GLENDALE, AZ
SEPTEMBER 20, 2009
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Featuring Special Guests The Ting Tings
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Tickets On Sale THIS Saturday, May 2 at 10:00 AM
Want the Presale? Use this code starting tomorrow! 1FUNHOUSE for tickets purchased via Ticketmaster!
Glendale, AZ (April 29, 2009) – Having smashed touring and sales records throughout Europe and Australia, international sensation P!nk is bringing her dazzling Funhouse Tour to America, marking the singer’s first U.S. tour since 2006. Featuring mind-blowing acrobatics, an incredible band and dancers flying above the fans, the Funhouse Tour brings its spectacular show—with special guests The Ting Tings—to the Jobing.com Arena in Glendale, AZ on Sunday, September 20, 2009.
Tickets will go on sale THIS Saturday, May 2nd at 10:00am and can be purchased at the Jobing.com Arena Box Office and all Ticketmaster locations, via Ticketmaster charge-by-phone at 1-800-745-3000, Ticketmaster Express at 866-448-7849 (automated only self service line) or online at Ticketmaster.com. Tickets are subject to applicable service charges and event time and date are subject to change.
The Funhouse Tour arrives in the U.S. after breaking records abroad, as P!nk has become the biggest solo touring artist ever in Australia, selling out a whopping 58 arena shows. Sales of the European leg of the tour have surpassed 1 million tickets sold, with 28 sold-out arena shows in Germany as well as five sold-out dates at London’s O2 Arena.
P!nk consistently delivers an impressive and powerful performance, astounding audiences with her phenomenal stage presence that has critics searching for new superlatives. The Funhouse Tour show is packed with hits including the emotionally charged “Who Knew,” “Sober” and classic track “Get The Party Started,” together with songs from P!nk’s latest platinum-selling album, Funhouse. With over 4 million albums sold worldwide, Funhouse is one of the biggest-selling albums of the year, and boasts P!nk’s first U.S. #1 Billboard single for “So What,” as well as current single “Please Don’t Leave Me, ” which can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddZPrJ8ROto
For a sneak peak of P!nk’s Funhouse Tour, click on: http://colewalliser.com/pink/EPK.html
Pick of the Week Mae Sat May 2
April 28, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
Filed under Pick of the Week
Mae @ The Clubhouse Music Venue, Tempe
Green Day announces US Venues! US Airways Center the place to be in Phoenix.
April 28, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
Filed under Upcoming Events
Photo Credit: Marina Chavez
April 28, 2009
GREEN DAY ANNOUNCES VENUES FOR UPCOMING SUMMER TOUR!
MULTI-PLATINUM BAND HIT THE ROAD FOR FIRST NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN THREE YEARS IN SUPPORT OF NEW ALBUM, 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN, TO BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE ON MAY 15TH, 2009
Burbank, CA- Reprise Records’ Green Day has announced the venues for their first proper tour of the United States and Canada in more than three years. The tour begins July 3rd at Seattle’s Key Arena and will cross North America through the summer, including a July 27th stop at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, before finishing up with a show at the Forum in Los Angeles on August 25th. All cities and venues are listed below. Ticket on-sale dates will be announced soon.
Green Day are touring in support of their long-awaited eighth studio album 21st Century Breakdown, which will be released globally by Reprise Records on Friday, May 15th, 2009. Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool have been at work writing, arranging, and recording 21st Century Breakdown since early 2006 with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins). The first single, “Know Your Enemy” is the No. 1 track at Alternative radio — the band’s ninth No. 1 single at the format, making them the artist with the second most No. 1′s of all-time at Alternative.
Green Day recently performed 21st Century Breakdown in its entirety during a series of club shows for hometown fans in the Bay Area. In its review of a show at Oakland’s Fox Theater, Rolling Stone commented that the band, augmented by guitarists Jason White and Jeff Matika, and keyboardist Jason Freese, had the “Quadrophenia-like hang of 21st Century Breakdown‘s classic rock melodies and lifetime-punk drive down solid” and that the album is “rock opera in which the rock always comes first.”
“21st Century Breakdown is Green Day’s best album,” the reviewer concluded, “and at the Fox, they proved that the rock opera can be as punk as a Clash 45.”
21st Century Breakdown is Green Day’s first studio album since 2004′s two-time Grammy Award-winning punk-rock opera American Idiot, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide.Green Day’s upcoming North American tour dates are as follows:JULY 03 Seattle, WA Key Arena04 Vancouver, BC GM Place06 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place07 Saskatoon, SAS Credit Union Centre09 Winnipeg, MAN MTS Centre10 Fargo, ND Fargo Dome11 Minneapolis, MN Target Center13 Chicago, IL United Center14 Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills16 Hamilton, ONT Copps Coliseum17 Ottawa, ONT Scotiabank18 Montreal, QUE Bell Centre20 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden21 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Spectrum22 Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena24 Hartford, CT XL Center25 Albany, NY Times Union Center27 New York, NY Madison Square Garden29 Washington DC Verizon Center31 Nashville, TN Sommet Center AUGUST 01 Atlanta, GA Gwinnett Center03 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum04 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena05 Orlando, FL Amway Arena07 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena09 Houston, TX Toyota Center09 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center11 St Louis, MO Scottrade Center12 Kansas City, 12 Sprint Center13 Omaha, NE Qwest Center15 Denver, CO Pepsi Center16 Salt Lake City, UT Energy Sol Arena18 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion20 San Diego, CA Cox Arena21 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay22 Phoenix, AZ US Air Arena24 Sacramento, CA Arco Arena25 Los Angeles, CA The Forum www.GreenDay.com
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Photo Credit: Marina Chavez
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Toby Keith: America’s Toughest Tour hits Phoenix August 14
April 28, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
Filed under Upcoming Events
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DON’T MISS SUMMER’S BIGGEST PARTY!
Toby Keith
America’s Toughest Tour
Presented by Ford F-Series
with Special Guest
Trace Adkins
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14
TICKETS ON SALE MONDAY,
MAY 4 AT 10 AM!
SPECIAL OFFERS!
Tickets available exclusively at LiveNation.com, Dodge Theatre Box Office, Cricket Wireless Pavilion Box Office, participating BLOCKBUSTER® stores and charge by phone at 1-877-LYV-6671.
*$15 lawn ticket offer is valid thru Wednesday, May 6 at 10pm. Special ticket offers are valid while supplies last. All dates, acts, and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. All tickets are subject to applicable taxes, and service and handling charges.
Pat Benatar and Blondie will share the stage on 6 week US tour!
April 28, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
Filed under Upcoming Events
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Live Nation is proud to present
PAT BENATAR & BLONDIE
with special guest
THE DONNAS
JULY 28
For the first time ever, two pioneering rock legends, Pat Benatar and Blondie, will share the stage. They will be joined by special guests The Donnas. They will embark on a six week trek across the U.S., with a stop in Phoenix at Dodge Theatre on Tuesday, July 28. The Benatar and Blondie ticket gives fans of all ages three decades of hits from the two female rock icons for the price of one! Tickets go on sale Monday, May 4 at 10am.
Between Benatar and Blondie, the tour will feature songs from a combined ten Platinum albums, eight #1 hits and countless other favorites including “Heart of Glass,” “Heartbreaker,” “Call Me,” “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” “Rapture,” “Invincible,” “One Way or Another” and “Love is a Battlefield.”
For more information on Pat Benatar, please visit www.benatarstore.com and www.myspace.com/officialpatbenatar
For more information on Blondie, please visit www.Blondie.net and www.myspace.com/blondie
TICKETS ON-SALE MONDAY, MAY 4 AT 10 A.M.
Special Ticket Offer: 4 pack of reserved tickets $89.00 plus applicable fees.
Reserved tickets priced at $57.00, $42.00 and a limited amount of Golden Circle tickets will be available at , Dodge Theatre Box Office and to charge by phone call 1-877-LYV-6671. Tickets are also available at participating BLOCKBUSTER® stores. All dates, acts, and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. All tickets are subject to applicable taxes, and service and handling charges. For more show information, check out .
The Rescue is today.. are you being abducted with Pete Wentz
April 25, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
Filed under Music News, Upcoming Events
Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy is just one of, hopefully, hundreds of thousands that will be abducting themselves today to bring awareness to The Invidible Children, Joseph Kony’s Child Soldiers.
If you haven’t already signed up, check facebook and look for your local Rescue to find out the details. For those of you in Phoenix. The Abduction, is taking place at the Corner of Mill and Rio Salado, and we will be waiting to be rescued and, if needed camping out at the SRC firleds of ASU. Bring 3 pictures of you, pens to write letters and a sleeping bag. It starts here at 3pm.
Steve-O will be a part of the Phoenix rally, awaiting to be rescued…
Check out his video calling out Steve Nash…
Invisible Children presents: The RESCUE on April 25th
SAN DIEGO- On April 25th, Invisible Children, a media-based organization dedicated to ending Africa’s longest-running war is going global for their third and largest Awareness Event to date: a 100-city, nine country rally called the RESCUE, to demand attention for the plight of children abducted and forced to fight as soldiers in the Lord’s Resistance Army, terrorizing Central East Africa over the last two decades.
For 23 years, the region has been consumed by conflict. Despite a ceasefire called between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and Ugandan government, efforts toward peace were stalled on several occasions by Kony’s refusal to sign the final peace agreement. In early 2009, the Ugandan government and surrounding countries launched a military operation intended to defeat the LRA and capture the rebel leader. The LRA retaliated by murdering and displacing thousands of civilians, while abducting hundreds of children to fight amongst its ranks. A war originally contained within Uganda’s borders has now evolved into a widespread regional crisis, prompting massive international attention.
The RESCUE is a radically unique event, unlike Invisible Children’s previous events ‘Global Night Commute’ and ‘Displace Me’ that had 150 000 collectively sleeping in the streets across the country for the displaced people of northern Uganda. The RESCUE requires participants to ‘abduct themselves for the abducted’. Thousands of people will travel by foot to a location in each city that will become their ‘LRA’ base, where they will refuse to leave until a senator, politician or public figure ‘RESCUES’ them by making a public statement on behalf of child soldiers.
“It’s frightening that this war has now grown into an international crisis,” says Jason Russell, co-founder of Invisible Children. “We need to respond with an international body of activists to increase the visibility of this conflict and end Joseph Kony’s reign of terror.”
The RESCUE began in February, with the launch of their world tour, to show their latest film The Rescue of Joseph Kony’s Child Soldiers as volunteer representatives took the film to schools, churches, concerts and coffee shops throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Ireland with a call to action: be a part of history. ‘The Rescue’ profiles elusive rebel leader, Joseph Kony who has terrorized northern Uganda, and more recently the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and southern Sudan, igniting a new urgency for global attention. It also exposes groundbreaking testimonies from child soldiers, forced to fight amongst the ranks of the LRA. This powerful 35-minute piece of media serves as a worldwide catalyst to combat apathy and injustice, and empower a generation to take action towards a forgotten war. The World Tour continues until the RESCUE event occurs on April 25th.
The attention generated from their previous events widely contributed to the start of the peace talks. The political impact of this event is anticipated to be historical not only for northern Uganda and surrounding areas, but for the power of the new generation of activists.
Nine countries. 100 cities. One collective voice: bring the child soldiers home.
Pick of the week! Matt Costa @ Martini Ranch 04.26.09
April 25, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
Filed under Pick of the Week
Matt Costa @ Martini Ranch, Scottsdale
Internships Available
April 24, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
Filed under Music News
From The Crowd (FromTheCrowd.com)
Music and Marketing Intern
Please note this is an unpaid internship
From The Crowd (www.FromTheCrowd.com ), an online music Zine, is looking for a hard-working, enthusiastic interns, to attend concerts and review music of artists coming to the Phoenix Area this summer. Interns will also be given a chance to preview and express views on some of the latest music releases.
Essential Duties:
1. Attend concerts as needed to promote From The Crowd, by distributing fliers or working at designated tables
2. Provide a written review as a concert reviewer for assigned shows.
3. Provide a written review of provided CDs
4. Assist is maintaining the Concert Calendar
5. Create and maintaining mailing lists, databases
6. Communicate with Music Industry contacts as needed and assigned
7. Update postings on various blogs and announcement boards
8. Research Myspace to locate new up and coming bands
9. Research approved media contacts
10. May assist in band interviews at large festivals.
Job Requirements:
1. A love of music and entertainment is necessary.
2. Basic knowledge of computers and the Internet.
3. Ability to use MS Office, Blogger, Myspace, Facebook
4. Availability to attend concerts
5. Write music and concert reviews of 200-500 words within 24 hours of assignment
6. Conduct self professionally, when meeting artists and attending events
Training and Educational Benefits:
1. Weekly meeting on skill sets (interviews, researching, resume review)
2. Build your writing portfolio
3. Build Social Networking Skills
4. Improves research skills
Perks
1. Free Cds and MP3s
2. All concert tickets are provided by From The Crowd
3. See concerts and festivals from behind the scenes
4. Build your portfolio!
INTERNSHIP TITLE: Music/Marketing Intern
UNPAID, UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOL CREDIT (For Credit or Non-Credit available)
HOURS: 4-10 hours a week required (Internships for credit require 10 hours (3 credits) 20 hour options also available)
LOCATION: Phoenix Metro Area, Arizona
START DATE: May 2009 END DATE: August 18, 2000 (Summer Internship, Fall Internship will be Aug to Dec)
How to Apply:
Email cover letter with a review of the last CD you purchased/downloaded or concert attended and resume to: internship@FromTheCrowd.com or complete this form:
Green Day’s “Know Your Enemy” Video Premieres April 24
April 24, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
Filed under Music News
Photo Credit: Marina Chavez
Friday, April 24, 2009
VIDEO FOR GREEN DAY’S “KNOW YOUR ENEMY” PREMIERES AROUND THE WORLD EXCLUSIVELY TODAY ON MTV AND VH1
Burbank, CA-The video for “Know Your Enemy” — the first single from Green Day’s upcoming album 21st Centu
ry Breakdown — will debut exclusively on MTV and VH1’s on-air and online outlets globally beginning today, April 24th. Viewers around the world will be able to watch the video, which was directed by Motion Theory, on MTV, VH1, The N, Palladia, MTV Networks’ high-definition music channel, MTV2, mtvU, MTV Tr3s, MTV Hits, MTV.com, VH1.com, as well as on MTV and VH1′s international channels tonight at 8 P.M., making it the first global cross-channel video premiere for the MTV and VH1 networks. The single was released to radio and digital retailers on April 16th.
21st Century Breakdown, which will be released by Reprise Records worldwide on Friday, May 15th, is the best-selling trio’s first studio album since 2004’s two-time Grammy Award-winning punk-rock opera American Idiot, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide. In a recent feature, Rolling Stone called 21st Century Breakdown “even more ambitious than American Idiot” and “a record of die-hard punk ideals…tightly scripted, continually ascending classic-rock excitement.”
Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool have been at work writing, arranging, and recording 21st Century Breakdown since early 2006 with producer Butch Vig, who is known for his work with Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, and many others. The band recently announced plans for its first North American tour in more than three years. Please visit www.greenday.com for more details.
Drink Up Buttercups Concert Review at Santos Party House – New York, NY
April 23, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
Filed under Concert Reviews, New York
Buttercups and Horseshit
By Nathaniel Dobson, www.FromTheCrowd.com Contributor
Stage set. Wires have formed a medusa like choke hold of the stage, as at least four maracas are strewn about the floor. A Yamaha synthesizer rests calmly atop a perfect silver trashcan, which remains aware that by the end of the show, his brother will remain a rape victim to sound. A fog machine has lined the roof with a thick pot like haze and masks a heart shaped disco ball which eventually would bathe the crowd in green sprinkles of light. The chatter of the audience can be heard over the DJs spins of what would normally be heard at a candy kid rave. My hopes are up.
Reading other reviews of Drink Up Buttercup, a Philly band that’s barely even a year old, one would think that Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, and Jesus H. Christ himself had formed some sort of super group to tour the indie circuit. Well, they’re pretty damn close. Having celebrated the release of their new vinyl single “Mr.. Pie Eyes,” available digitally on iTunes, the night before, vocalist and guitarist James Harvey had gotten little to no sleep in the past 48 hours. However, from watching their performance tonight, no one could tell the difference.
Any trained musician can perfectly play out a finely tuned musical number on stage, and a good chunk of them could write music that people could tag as “New” and “Daring”, but what separates Drink Up from the masses of avant-garde, E major 7 chord slamming, indie bands out there is their energy. To say these boys don’t make good music would be a balls out lie, but when music as catchy and bizarre as theirs is topped by their live performance, it truly says something of their live performance. The noise, the sound, the yelling and slamming that occurred onstage, it was extremely reminiscent of At the Drive-In during its hay day, had Omar Rodriguez not been so stoned he didn’t know his guitar was out of tune. This erratic foursome maintain a destructive force for thirty minutes straight that keeps you on your toes and begging for more, all the while churning out great music. And in a time where everybody seems to think simply making music louder and faster is better, this is a much needed change.
Honestly, this band is not for everyone. Their eclectic blend of Beatles-esque pop and gypsy avant-garde takes a few listenings to appreciate the eccentricities, at least in its recorded form. The boys of Drink Up have no urge to end up on the same charts as Fall Out Boy and Christina Aguilera, and God bless them for it. As long as they keep up what they’re doing, you will want to keep an eye on them, even if you’re not anywhere near the east coast. Drink up is going places, having already played at SXSW this year, and could very easily end up manhandling the upcoming festival season. If you’re looking for a band to say, “I knew them before they got big,” here’s your chance. To end this off, I would like to state how priceless it was to see drummer Mike Cammarata nearly have to walk off the stage to end the last song of the set. I hope you understand, we in the audience would’ve gladly waited for you to go on as long as you pleased.
As a post script note, Psychedelic Horseshit, (yes, that was the following bands name) just because we expect a five minute noise solo from shoe gazing, please for the love of God try to add something new every bit. Nobody wants to hear the same guitar chord on delay and extreme distortion for two minutes. And to the headlining acts, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, I greatly apologize for not being able to show my support, my sorry ass got stuck with an 8 o clock class in the morning.
Remianing tour Dates:
4/28 – Chameleon Club – Lancaster, PA (w/ Dr Dog)
4/29 – Mr Smalls – Pittsburgh, PA (w/ Dr Dog)
5/8 – Cameo – Brooklyn, NY
5/13 – Pianos – New York, NY (w/ Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers)
5/15 – Southpaw – Brooklyn, NY (w/ Skeletonbreath)
5/16 – Rock ‘n’ Roll Hotel – Washington, DC
Drink Up Buttercup Instrumentation:
Farzad Houshiarnejad: keys, wolf-howler, melodica, bass, vox, smashcan
Ben Money: bass, keys, melodica, mannequin head, percussion, vox, smashcan
Mike Cammarata: drums with water, lemon, and sugar packets
James Harvey: vox, guitar, sawed-off-seagull, walki, opera sounds
