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What's up with roXor blog, and why does the world need yet another blog then?
I have been blogging since 2000, since really before the word blogging came into the public consciousness. Life intervened and I have not been able to run a true blog for a few years now.
The best blog I ever published was a fairly high profile music blog that I sold a few years ago - so I wanted to get back to that. But this time around I wanted to include movies, videos, artists, etc. so I decided to publish an entertainment blog.
And not that kinda entertainment blog.
Most entertainment blogs are there to tell you about what Britney or Whitney are up to, who is the latest bimbo to have a topless photo set loose on the interwebs, etc. We want to publish an entertainment blog about real music, movies, and artists.
That's all well and good but what about that roxor?
Second, I've been through the phases of roxor ( or r0x0r) being something leet, to something that I have been called as a derogatory comment, to something that had jumped the shark, to a phrase that became sort of an inside joke.
So while I am using it as something cool (I was backstage with Korn, it was so ROXOR), it also carries some baggage w/ it because it was once trendy - so it was a natural choice for my new entertainment blog.
Homo Erectus is Adam Rifkin’s new caveman comedy and it looks fantastic, you can check out a trailer on the website. National Lampoon has signed on to distribute it and it also stars David Carradine and Talia Shire.
OMD says:
A philosophical caveman (Rifkin) yearns for more out of life than sticks, stones and raw meat.
And if you are thinking that it is just an updated take on caveman, well, maybe so, but it still looks like it will be an enjoyable 90 minutes.
With catchy guitar riffs and dueling vocals, The Scene Aesthetic are emerging fast online among the online communities of Myspace and Purevolume. Throughout the year, the story has grown tremendously, with independent promoters flying them nationwide to play.
Now, with over 4 million plays on myspace, the band has more touring plans in support of their new record, “Building Homes From What We’ve Known.”, which will see a digital-only release in July.
JB’s musical history boasts an impressive resume. He’s written songs for Miles Davis and played percussion in the Davis group. Bigham played guitar and keyboard for the pioneering rock-funk-ska band Fishbone for eight years, contributing songs, guitars, keyboards, background vocals and production expertise to the albums The Reality Of My Surroundings, Give A Monkey A Brain and Chim Chim’s Bad Ass Revenge.
Later on, he toured as a side man and played on sessions with artists as varied as Eminem, Dr. Dré, Rosey, Joi, Nikka Costa, Bruce Hornsby and Everlast.
Bigham’s latest solo project The Good Girl Blues is a testament to the forceful beauty of music that’s been stripped down to its essence – guitar, voice and naked human emotion delivered in sparse performances that grabs your attention with its raw and spontaneous power.
Gainesville, Florida five-piece Sister Hazel is planning to release a B-sides disc this summer. “BAM! Volume 1” is scheduled to hit store shelves on June 8th and is the follow-up release to the band’s latest studio album, “Absolutely,” which was released in October 2006. Since everyone in the band writes, there tends to be a lot of music that battles for space on each Sister Hazel CD. The best solution for what is a very good problem to have? “BAM! Volume 1.”
“One day we just said, ‘Let’s build a home for [these songs],’” said the band’s drummer, Mark Trojanowski. “That’s part of the beauty of being an independent artist. When you get fired up about the music, you can just skip the red tape and pull the trigger.”
The Virginia Beach, VA alt/pop/rock band Days Difference has been labeled “America’s answer to Coldplay” ( Is that a good thing? ) and their debut CD “Numbers” will be available everywhere June 5th.
This is the second time Days Difference will be featured on Pure Volume. Just this past Saturday, the band’s music received 18,546 plays, hit number 1 under Top Artists, and over 400 people purchased their music at I-Tunes.”Numbers” will be supported by a tour east of the Mississippi with dates beginning locally and branching out to other states in the Southeast, Northeast and the Midwest. “Numbers” was recorded at Red Cell Studio with producer Jim Anderson at the helm and is distributed by Redeye.
Days Difference believes music is about people with every song they write. “Experience, conviction, and the passions and sorrows of life really define who people are,” says vocalist Jeremy Smith. “Really, it’s the things we and the people around us go through every day that inspire us to write and play. We want to create something tangible, something our audience can relate to. That’s what we are about.” Drummer, Jonathan Smith, adds, “Our band’s name, Days Difference, is the idea that everyone should live each day like its their last. Live life to the fullest. Don’t regret not pursuing what you really love. Take risks, jump at challenges.”
Gran Bel Fisher went into the legendary Sunset Sound, where seminal bands like Led Zeppelin and the Doors recorded.
“One night I opened up this hidden room behind a wall where Jim Morrison did his vocals,” GBF explains. “It was very haunting.”
“Lyrically and musically this is the record I’ve always wanted to make,” GBF says. “The journey of making this album, even with some hard times and problems I ran into along the way, was really just a blessing in disguise.” And with one listen to Full Moon Cigarette, you’ll understand exactly what he means.
Download Crash and Burn from the new album here.
Morrison has more than been discovered in his native Britain and Europe; he’s a conquering hero. His album debuted at #1 on the U.K. charts, remaining there for several weeks with a of a pair of Top 5 hits “You Give Me Something” and “Wonderful World,” an ear-opening dark yin to the yang of Louis Armstrong’s original, in which Morrison reveals: “And I know that it’s a wonderful world/But I can’t feel it right now.”
But he is still somewhat of an unknown quantity over on this side of the pond, but that is set to change as well.
Morrison has had to survive odd jobs as a chambermaid and washing vans, interspersed with busking gigs where he’d perform before crowds of teenage girls, and their jealous boyfriends, for up to 70 quid an hour, to fulfill his ambitions.
“It’s how I got experience playing in front of people without getting nervous,” he says.
“No More Kings is for anyone who’s ever wanted a talking car.”
– Pete Mitchell
After dancing the night away to his fun, high-energy pop/funk/rock, you’ll find snippets of his catchy songs about zombies, Smurfs, and The Karate Kid stuck in your head. And you won’t be at all surprised to learn that this singer/songwriter’s story is as unique as the characters in his songs.
Pete Mitchell is just as comfortable on the West Coast as on the East, in a garage band as in a recording studio, animating cartoons as painting fine art, and his music echoes this ability to swing between the silly and the serious.
“This album is very character-driven, very story-based,” Pete says. A trait he learned as an animator that has carried over into his songwriting is communicating a character’s core to an audience. In “Sweep the Leg,” for example, Pete digs into the head of Johnny, Daniel-san’s nemesis in The Karate Kid, and presents a new way of looking at the story.
Pete Mitchell calls No More Kings’ first album a “thank-you letter to the 80s,” a perfect theme for someone who says that he (and his music) were “born in the 70s, raised in the 80s, and perfected in the 90s.”
They Have graciously provided RoxorBlog a copy of their MP3 Zombie Me so that we could make it available for download.
My name is Jim, and I’m part of a two-piece acoustic
act called Postmark Twain. We recently recorded with Shep & Kenny (Head Automatica, Bayside) and have been playing all over NJ.
We hit the #1 Unsigned spot on Purevolume as a pure promo as well as a purepick, and have been fortunate enough to get some great feedback and online press within the past few months.
Jim dropped me a line the other day: