SubCat Emerging Artist Stage

We've finally got our lineup for the SubCat Emerging Artist Stage.

Friday, June 6, 2008

12:00 – 12:25 p - Caleb Micah
12:30 – 12:55 pm - Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
1:00 – 1:45 pm - Steve Wolf & Blues Express
2:00 – 2:45 pm - Chris Lizzi
3:00 – 3:45 pm - The Barrigar Brothers
4:00 – 4:45 pm - Kh’ Mi
5:00 – 5:45 pm - Caesar Fadari
6:00 – 6:45 pm - The Action
7:00 – 7:45 pm - Mat Burke
8:00 – 8:45 pm - Huela
9:00 – 9:45 pm - Mike Brindisi & The New York Rock
10:00 – 11:00 pm - Torment The Vein

Saturday, June 7, 2008

12:00 – 12:25 pm - Pirate CNY Contest Winner
12:40 – 1:05 pm - The Andrea Doria
1:20 – 1:45 pm - Vapor Aevum
2:00 – 2:25 pm - Fairway
2:40 – 3:05 pm - Fazeshift
3:20 – 3:45 pm - HondoMesa and Midnight Mike
4:00 – 4:45 pm - 3rd & Main
5:00 – 5:45 pm - Grey Tide
6:00 – 6:45 pm - The Icon And The Axe
7:00 – 7:45 pm - Honor Bright
8:00 – 8:45 pm - Anorexic Beauty Queen
9:00 – 9:45 pm - Rocko Dorsey
10:00 – 11:00 pm - Merit

Find the artists online at:
3rd & Main – www.3rdandmain.com
The Action – www.myspace.com/bandtheaction
The Andrea Doria – www.myspace.com/theandreadoria
Anorexic Beauty Queen – www.myspace.com/anorexicbeautyqueen
The Barrigar Brothers - www.myspace.com/thebarrigarbrothers
Caesar Fadari – www.caesarfadari.com
Caleb Micah – www.myspace.com/calebmicah
Chris Lizzi – www.chrislizzi.com
Fairway – www.myspace.com/fairwaymusic
Fazeshift – www.myspace.com/fazeshift
Grey Tide – www.myspace.com/greytide
HondoMesa and Midnight Mike – www.hondomesarecords.com
Honor Bright – www.honorbright.net
Huela – www.myspace.com/huelamusic
The Icon And The Axe – www.myspace.com/theiconandtheaxe
Jeffrey Pepper Rogers – www.jeffreypepperrodgers.com
Kh'Mi – www.myspace.com/khmi
Mat Burke – www.myspace.com/matburke
Merit – www.gomeritgo.com
Mike Brindisi & The New York Rock – www.thenewyorkrock.com
Rocko Dorsey – www.myspace.com/rockodorsey
Steve Wolf & Blues Express – no website
Torment The Vein – www.tormentthevein.com
Vapor Aevum – www.myspace.com/vaporaevum

coding

I spent most of today coding a new website for Aux. I have a love-hate relationship with coding. It is always nice to redesign a page but turning the idea into reality is another story.

Look for the launch of the new site by Friday.

Merit & EVE6

Merit plays with EVE6 in Binghamton in a couple weeks. Check out the TV commercial for the show and get your tickets soon. This one is selling out.

Eve 6 at Magic City

We revived the Auxcast

We went a couple years between podcasts but have started them back up. They are short. They feature music and Aux news. Feel free to subscribe here:

Gramophones, phonographs and the summer ahead

So if you are just a casual reader of what I post you might not have the full back-story on this one so I'll recap things a bit. I run Aux. A record label that I started in 2003 that's still going strong today. I also teach college and had a full load this semester - 4 classes of about 100 students total. It was an awesome semester of advertising so far (2 weeks left) and as it winds down I get to prep for the summer and fall. I finish up at Syracuse University in early May and get the opportunity to go back to running Aux full-time for the summer. It's always been full-time but that meant 40 hours of teaching classes/grading and another 40+ of label work. Now I get to do the label exclusively for several months, perhaps longer. We're moving to an even bigger office just about a year after we moved to our current location. We're on the verge of adding another band and have a couple stages to run at events that will touch over 1 million people. I might get to tour, hit Warped Tour, Cornerstone and finish my book while on the road. If I do, that million might just become 1.5 or 2...

That all leads up to the fall. I just had the chance to interview for a pretty amazing music business teaching position. If I get it, I finally have the opportunity to use the PhD and label experience in one setting. I'll hear about it in a few weeks either way. As part of the interview I had the opportunity to explore part of the school's audio archives. If you've never heard a gramophone, phonograph or any other early music player in person, it's one of the experiences you must have. I had heard recordings but nothing in person. Hearing this old wooden machine pump out a song via a steel needle running along the wax cylinder or record gave me a little thrill. It's a much more exciting experience than today's new players. I've had 7 ipods and this 100+ year old box was more fun than initially firing up those ipods. Sure it's not portable and can only play 2 minutes at a time but it was awesome. I think I'll need to release a record for one of the bands sometime soon. It also gave me a few ideas for production tricks in the studio if I can get my hands on one.

So this was a long post to say:
1) Look for big releases and events from Aux this summer
2) If you are in an active band that has recently recorded and are on a label, I might need you for another chapter in my book. Get in touch.
3) Tour. Even a week or so would be great. Bringing Jonas would be even better. That might be Cornerstone since he wants to meet up with Flyleaf and The Almost.
4) The records that your great grandparents heard owned.
5) New office. Come visit once the move is finished. I'll let you know.

-Ulf

Tonight Was Epic

I just got home from the Anorexic Beauty Queen show and if you missed it, you missed something special. It was the first show since the original ABQ lineup reunited and it was loud, slightly angry and had an intensity that I've never seen the band have. Epic is the best way to describe it. Mike delivered vocal lines drawn from the depths and pumped guitar riffs through two cabs, Jake thrashed around and delivered a bass line you could feel in your chest and Nick could quite possibly be the hardest hitting drummer ever. He blasted through both sides of his snare leaving it mangled, dented, and by the end of the set, only the kick drum survived. Give it a few days and you might find some video on the Jerk Magazine website or youtube.

Epic.

I want to do some touring with them and do this every night. Let's make it happen.


-Ulf

ABQ at DecoyMusic

We’ve got an ad running over at DecoyMusic.com for Anorexic Beauty Queen. It’s to the right of an ad from Tooth & Nail for Showbread’s latest 2 releases - Anorexia and Nervosa... Both ads caught my eye...

Check it out at decoymusic.com/

Say Anything That You Want

It’s been too long since I checked in but I’ve been finishing up a project that should land the record label in a number of national publications. It’s something that a few of you have coaxed out of me via IM but for the most part, it will be a big reveal. I’m just about done with things so hopefully I can announce it Friday. I’m not blogging about it to give the teaser but rather to force me to finish it. Maybe I’ll put in another late night to make it happen.

I’ve got a ton of new/recent/rediscovered music to make it through. One band I need to plug is One Star Story. Their EP was officially released today but it hit itunes a few weeks back and it’s had a ton of play on the ipod. I’m hoping to get them to come through the area at some point this summer. They are hitting the road with some friends - Another Day Late (they used to call Ithaca home). ADL made the trip to Cali, got signed and now can stop "home" when they tour through NY.

You should drop a few bucks on One Star Story’s latest The Empty Room as well as ADL’s newest EP News Said It’s Raining In New York. As far as their tour, only a few dates have been announced and they are out west but it should be a 30-date tour so most of the country will get to see them. If you miss it, you can always play the EPs back-to-back to get your fix.