“Flesh and Bone” New Ascending to Avalon Track Posted on Band’s MySpace
Palm Harbor’s Ascending to Avalon have been hard at work on their follow up full-length, Behold the Wicked, at various locations in Pinellas County. To show their progress, the band has posted the first track, “Flesh and Bone”, on their MySpace page.
Singer/guitarist/writer Ryen Gerson shares on the band’s blog:
“‘Behold the Wicked’ is an exercise in being a hard rock band. it takes the heavier sounds we touched on in the EP and magnifies them, it really gets that out of our system. It also touches on sounds we have not explored as a group. I guess in short this record is part heavy rock record and part art rock record, i won’t say any more though
I’ll leave that a surprise for the ones who come to the shows and pick up the record.”
Behold the Wicked is due in April/May 2010.
10 Best Drummers of All Time
The drums. The spine and pulse of a band. A bad drummer loses an audience. A good drummer keeps the flow going in unison. A great drummer owns the stage. Being a bass player, I have always been intrinsically tied to drummers as we both have the duty of keeping things “in the pocket.”
It is out of love that I share with you my Top 10 Drummers of all time.
10 – Josh Freese (The Vandals, A Perfect Circle, Devo, Nine Inch Nails, all over Modern Rock radio) – One of the most sought out studio drummers in Rock music, Freese — a Florida native — cut his teeth in a Disneyland band when he was 12. At 15, he was already touring with the seminal/joke/genius punk band, The Vandals. Freese has appeared on close to 300 records.
2 New Rise of Saturn Live Tracks
Enjoy these two tracks recorded live at Gasoline Alley, Largo, FL on September 25, 2009.
Rise of Saturn and Variety Workshop – Live at Gas Alley, Largo, FL – March 13
Live @ Gasoline Alley
Rise of Saturn
Variety Workshop
Push Button Press (Tampa)
AddaX (Miami)
Saturday March 13
Doors 8:30
Discounted tickets online: $5
$8 under 21 and $6 over 21 at the door
Soulfound Calling It Quits
After a decade as a fixture of the Tampa Bay modern rock scene, Clearwater’s Soulfound have decided to call it a career.
“All of us have not been in the same room since April 2009 and we don’t plan on ever playing as Soulfound again (never say never but there are no immediate plans),” singer-bassist Ivan Pena wrote on the band’s MySpace page. “There is no bad blood and most of us remain friends.”
So what happened? According to the band, they hadn’t really seen each other since this Creative Loafing interview, and members had already gone on to other things.
The Bull Pit Podcast Features No Lip Vol. 3 Artists
Songs by 900 Pound Gorilla, Dead Sea Surfers, The Dearly Depraved, Ascending to Avalon, Bull Lee, In Transformation, Wits End and Soulfound were featured in Episode 30 of The Bull Pit.
The podcast is hosted by Bull Lee’s guitarist John Dissed and features awesome music and interviews.
Enjoy it at http://thebullpit.podbean.com/
No Lip Vol. 3 Available Now on Amazon and iTunes
Hey kids! No Lip Vol. 3 drops through Amazon and iTunes today! Below is the tracklist:
1) “Down” Anomie Belle
2) “Roller Derby Girl” 900 Pound Gorilla
3) “Squaranoid” Variety Workshop
4) “Already Home” Dead Sea Surfers
5) “Superbad” Rise of Saturn
6) “This Works 4 Sure” The Dearly Depraved
7) “Comfortably Apathetic” 20WT
8 ) “Shine in the Dark” Ascending to Avalon
9) “Kingdom Come” Steve Connelly and the Lesser Gods
10) “Maximum Security” Bull Lee
11) “To The Stars” In Transformation
12) “Rut-o-rama” Wits End
13) “Fuego!” Soulfound
Stay tuned for more news and info about all the bands, plus a special edition CD.