Question: what do muscle cars, tribute bands, flesh eating fish and charity have in common?

Answer: they are all a part of one kick ass, hard rockin’ podcast.

Press play now so you can hear how they all come together.

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Here are the songs heard on this podcast and links to each artists website.
Muscle Car – “Hell Yeah Lets Rock”
Adrenaline Factor – “Boozin Susan” (download this tune free on eMusic)
Dirty Angels – “Dirty Riddle”
Piranha – “Snake Eyes”
Fu Manchu – “Hung Out To Dry” (download this tune free on eMusic)
The Evil Queens – “Means to An End” (download this tune free on eMusic)
Hollywood Roses – “My Deceit” (download this tune free on eMusic)
The Failures – “Cheese Motherfucker”

Other links mentioned in the show:
Rockin Benefits – More information about that Rockin’ for Big Brothers Little Sisters .
HeavyAsHell.com – Promote your band, your favorite band or just hang out.

Most of these and a ton of other great artists can be found on the Pod Safe Music Network.

Off night…
Note to Fu Manchu; I screwed up when I announced your song. I should have said “Hung Out to Dry” but I said “Means to an End.” I owe you one. Also, note to Adreneline Factor; I screwed up when I didn’t mention your name or the song (At least its in the show notes right?) I owe you one too.

It is almost impossible to keep up with all of the review requests I get. Most of the time I just take a quick listen to see if there is anything I can use in my podcast. If it is really good, I will write something if I REALLY think it is worth it. But today I want to give you the chance to participate.

Starting with this post I to give you the opportunity to read and hear the music review requests I get from artists. I’ll call it the “You Music Review.”

Here’s how me can do it, Rather than me spending hours upon hours writing about why I like it and why you should, why don’t I let you play the roll of reviewer. I will post a portion of the review request on the blog, you can check it out and then – love it or hate it – put your comments below.

To make it interesting I will be posting requests from different genres. For those of you interested in doing a more full scale review I have a bunch of CD’s at home that I could send you to review.

Today I start with Read the rest of this entry

Guest post: Treadmarkz is a Human Beatles Encyclopedia and author of the weblog Treadmarkz.wordpress.com

Buddy Holly wrote his own songs. Chuck Berry wrote his own songs. Little Richard wrote his own songs. Paul McCartney and John Lennon, being devoted followers of all three, began writing their own songs early, and often. McCartney wrote rough versions of “I’ll Follow the Sun” and “When I’m Sixty-Four” in about 1957. And many of the originals from the Beatles first album were written by John and Paul around that same time. They knew that it set them apart from the other up-and-coming bands.

But rock n’ roll had changed drastically by 1960. Holly was dead, Berry was in jail, Little Richard had become a preacher, and Read the rest of this entry

I recently received a question from a musician who is having more than her fair share of problems obtaining print media coverage in areas where her band is touring.

Hopefully, my advice and ideas that I gave her can benefit you and your band as well should you experience similar difficulties with obtaining print media support for your gigs/tours. Read the rest of this entry

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. Nooo, it’s the stress rising from your body as the soothing sounds of this podcast flood your senses.

Yep, it is time once again to mellow out and get loose. Press play, and get away.

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Here are the songs heard on this podcast and links to each artists website.
Supersuckers – “I don’t Wanna Know”
Jim Armstrong and the Sonic Deli Band - “Gypsy”
Pugslee -”Freewheelin”
Tim Young Band – “Unemployment Line”
Mama’s Cookin – “Aquarius Skies”
Mama’s Cookin – “What I Am”
Black Crowes – “Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution”

Most of these and a ton of other great artists can be found on the Pod Safe Music Network.

Guest post: Treadmarkz is a Human Beatles Encyclopedia and author of the weblog treadmarkz.wordpress.com

The Beatles competed to be the best ever since their days as the Quarrymen in Liverpool in the late 1950′s, and during their stints as a bar band in Hamburg, Germany from 1960-62. This desire to be the best did not stop in February 1964 when they were seen by 73 million people on the Ed Sullivan Show, or in April ’64 when all of the top five singles in the U.S. belonged to them. It didn’t stop when they were the first rock band to sell out a Major League Baseball stadium, when they rocked Shea Stadium in the summer of ’65. Desire, some might say ego, is what pushed them beyond teen idols to legend status.

In December 1965, the Beatles released the album Rubber Soul. The Beach Boys’ leader Brian Wilson would later say Read the rest of this entry

Guest post: Treadmarkz is a Human Beatles Encyclopedia and author of the weblog treadmarkz.wordpress.com

Jeff Healey, the blues/rock/jazz guitarist who gained fame in the late-80’s with the song “Angel Eyes” passed away Sunday from cancer. He was 41.

The Canadian-born singer-guitarist had retinoblastoma, a form of ocular cancer which first developed when he was one year old, leaving him blind for life.

He began playing guitar when he was three, developing an idiosyncratic style of playing, with the guitar`laying on his lap, which, ironically (as his disability was surely seen as an impediment) allowed him more freedom in chord structure. In recent years, Read the rest of this entry

I’ve collect a few covers over the last few months and, simply put, it is time to share them with you. As far as style goes, I have a little bit of everything in this one; pop, rock, and metal are all represented.

Press play and see how well these artists

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Here are the songs heard on this podcast and links to each artists website. Check them out.
Blake Morgan – “Maybe I’m Amazed” (Paul McCartney and Wings cover)
Clark Datchler – “Shattered Dreams” (Johnny Hates Jazz cover)
Joe Colledge – “American Girl” (Tom Petty cover)
Echo of Souls – “Games Without Frontiers (peter gabriel cover)”
Wensday – “Only Women Bleed” (Alice Cooper cover)

Website mentioned in this podcast.
Coverville

These and a ton of other great artists can be found on the Pod Safe Music Network

For those of you who have the slightest taste for great hard rock, you need to check out the band Airbourne ASAP. They kinda look like AC/DC, they kinda sound like AC/DC, and they effing rock like AC/DC (maybe even more as of late).

From the first song through the last they don’t let their foot of the pedal. Hard driving, king size cockrock with a capital C. I am addicted.

Download the whole thing because every song kicks ass. Trust me.

For those of you in Twin Cities area – or in the upper midwest – these guys will be at The Rock Nightclub in Maplewood, MN on the April 12th with another great new band EndeverafteR (check out podcast 015). That should be a great show and I am not going to miss it. In fact I am going to buy six tickets right now.

If anyone wants to hook up at the show or ride up with me let me know. I’d like to get nice group together. And with tickets only being $8 measly dollars there should be no excuses. Hell maybe we can get a few rooms and really party.

Lets try to hook up a caravan and ride up there together.