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10:30pm Friday 12/17 - Make sure you catch Halestorm in Streaming Live RealVideo from P-Wave http://www.p-wave.com/showtime/showtime.html. Halestorm has been getting a ton of local buzz and some label interest - catch what they're all about. Try http://www.p-wave.com/live/live.ram for a direct stream link. 6:00pm Thursday 12/2 - 2 things to emphasize: 1) The PA Musician Toys for Tots benefit - Sunday, December 12 at the Rusty Nail in Harrisburg. Tons of Bands and Solo acts including Halestorm, Emily's ToyBox, Poptart Monkeys and members of The Badlees. The Web site can be found at http://www.parocks.com/pamusician. The fourth annual Millenium Music Conference is just around the corner. Deadline for showcase applicatons is December 16, so get yer apps in soon. Check out the web site at http://johnharris.com/mmc2000. 1:30pm Wednesday 11/24 - Bunch of Stuff to report. About the site - check Real Video - it's up and working. Looks like it might get finished sometime. Today's the day before Thanksgiving, which traditionally around here is the biggest night of the year. So, tonight's a good night to go see your fave band. Usually bands are at home base, and the place is packed. For example, Martini Bros at Gullifty's, - but there are examples all over the state. Actually, there's good stuff Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday as well. Sharks reunion at the Village on Thursday. Good live streaming video on Sunday at P-Wave - D'arey October at 4 Anthrophobia at 5. Check Real Video for links, and take a look at the Schedule page for some ideas. there are instances all over the state. 7:30am Friday 10/29 - Hot internet action on Sunday, Halloween at 4pm. Go to P-Wave - http://www.p-wave.com/showtime/showtime.html - and check out Cloud Party record their new CD live on the internet. Live Streaming RealVideo, concert recording for release on CD, perhaps an internet 1st - check it out. 4:30am Tuesday 10/19 - Big Show - Live and The Martini Bros. at Hersheypark Arena on New Year's Eve. Tix available on the Live website at www.friendsoflive.com - then everywhere in a few days - act now for good tix. 4:00am Friday 10/15 - 2 Things - 1) take a look at the new schedule page - not done by any means, but it's new style, with links to 54 schedule pages from around the state, a place for you to add your own dates (co-branded with pamidstate.com and the standard schedule (under construction) where what you send gets put up and other selected dates. It could be almost as useful a reference as the old schedule which many of you fondly remember. 2) Big news for Central PA rock fans coming Monday, October 18. Not spilling what but it's pretty big. Watch for it here after the announcement on Monday or it'll probably be on Harrisburg, Lancaster area TV and radio. 7:30pm Thursday 10/7 - 1) Millenium Music Conference johnharris.com/mmc2000 meeting at Gullifty's parocks.com/gulliftys; 2) National Act Caroline's Spine at Gullifty's tomorrow (Friday 10/8) The X low dough show $1.05; 3) Fallfest '99 on Saturday 10/9, 8 bands, @ DJS, Martini Bros., Big Tubba Mista, Soveren, The Dead 50's, more, parocks.com/fallfest for more. 6:00am Friday 10/1 - PA area bands on the national scene. Billboard issue date October 9 - Modern Rock Tracks - #4 - Live "The Dolphin's Cry" #15 - Nine Inch Nails "We're In This Together" #20 - Jimmie's Chicken Shack "Do Right" 11:00pm Friday 9/24 - Politics / Economics time - if you haven't yet, move from stocks and other intangible assets to cash, gold, and other tangilble assets. You'll thank me if you do. 11:30pm Monday 9/13 - CD RELEASE NEWS - 9/21/99 new Nine Inch Nails. 9/28/99 new Bloodhound Gang. 10/5/99 new Live. 8:00am Wednesday 9/1 - CD Shop is up. So, now Bands, Venues, Web, Interact, and CD Shop are done. 5:00am Monday 8/16 - BIG CD RELEASE NEWS On August 24, both The Badlees and Jimmie's Chicken Shack will be releasing CD's. The Badlees CD is called "Up There Down Here" - Click Here for more. Jimmie's Chicken Shack's CD is called "Bring Your Own Stereo" - Click Here for more. 1:00am Monday 8/9 -Second PA Rocks Night. Gullifty's - Thursday August 12. 2 cool bands - D'arey October and Anthrophobia. Those of you from the Harrisburg area might be most familiar with D'arey October and Anthrophobia from when they played with Godsmack at the City Island Pavillion in February 1999 for the Millenium Music Conference. Anthrophobia went on right before Godsmack and D'arey October went on right before Anthrophobia. Due to scheduling issues, I got there too late to see D'arey October, but got to see Anthrophobia. Very ferocious music - hundreds of fans jumping up and down, smacking into each other, quite a sight to see. Anthrophobia is a national act (based out of Reading, PA, as is D'arey October), signed to Oxygen records, have sold over 10,000 CD's, and have played on the Warped Tour. I was very disappointed to have missed D'arey October's set, as there was quite the buzz for them, but they went on earlier then scheduled, what can you do? But I did get the chance to talk to them and to get a CD "Fighting the Moon". Often one hears in reference to a young band (and D'arey is a young band - 2 are in high school and one just graduated) that they're promising, that with some work, they could be top level. Well, with D'arey October, and "Fighting the Moon", we're talking about a CD that needs very little if anything to be released (except more songs, as the CD is 6 songs long). Basically, I would characterize D'arey October as Heavy Modern Rock, but with piano on some songs, and an occasional pop feel. I've heard them compared to Garbage, as well. (I'm not that good at comparing and the like) Do check out their web page - http://parocks.com/dareyoctober - their album is up in streaming realaudio and there are a bunch of video clips. This band should be signed - come to the show Thursday 8/12 and find out what I'm talking about. - Jim Lott, PA Rocks 3:45am Wednesday 8/4 -The Venues section is up. 100 PA music venues with web pages are represented. Send any other Venue links to PA Rocks. 3:15am Wednesday 7/20 -First Millenium Music Conference Organizational Meeting - PA Rocks Night. Gullifty's - Thursday July 22. The meeting is at 8 pm. If you have any ideas about the next Millenium Music Conference, be there to share them. Would you like to help out? Be there to help make the fourth annual Millenium Music Conference the best ever. Special announcements planned. This is a meeting to go to. Then, catch 2 cool bands - Poker Face (9:30) and Velcro Mary. Poker Face is probably the leading truth / freedom band in the nation. They have played numerous rallys in DC and elsewhere, appearing on national TV, revealing the truth about our modern political condition. Make sure you talk to Paul, get on his e-mail list to find out what's really going on. Velcro Mary is cool. They've been compared to Sonic Youth, Pavement, Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr. by critics. They (Jason Erb mostly/especially) are about D.I.Y. / Lo-Fi . I really like VM. I have listened to their Goodbye, Cowboy more often in 1999 then any other CD / tape. PA Rocks nights are about new, different, interesting music - not finding the latest hit single. Go there, I'll (Jim Lott) be there taping and talking to you. 12:30am Wednesday 7/20 -Have had serious computer problems on this end. If you've sent e-mail to parocks@paonline.com or JOLIII@aol.com since Sat. 7/17, it won't be seen for a while. Send e-mail to parocks@parocks.com. 8:00pm Thursday 7/1 -web is up - New adds for web include graphics for webmasters to use to link to PA Rocks. Venues are next. 9:00pm Sunday 6/27 -u-z is up - Web is next - Thursday 7-1 7:00pm. New adds for web include graphics for webmasters to use to link to PA Rocks. 7:00pm Thursday 6/24 -q-t is up - u-z is next - Sunday 6-27 7:00pm. 8:00pm Sunday 6/20 -m-p is up - q-t is next - Thursday 6-24 7:00pm. 8:00pm Thursday 6/17 -i-l is up - m-p is next - Sunday 6-20 7:00pm. 7:00pm Sunday 6/13 -e-h is pretty much up - i-l is next - Thursday 6-17 7:00pm. 7:00pm Thursday 6/10 - The rolling new, improved redesign of the PA Rocks site begins. The new PA Rocks covers the entire state of PA. For those of you who prefer the earlier form, it will remain available at parocks.com/old/ and parocks.com/north. I do not anticipate any changes being made in the /old/ and the /north/ sections - they will serve as time capsules of a sort. You might find some broken links, or the old pages may remain up for a while. The new additions will be announced here. The number of links to bands and clubs will be vastly greater than prior to the redesign, and many more types of pages will appear in the links section. The schedule will be updated (finally), and will contain dates that PA Rocks receives. So, if you'd like to see your date appear on the schedule, send it on in to parocks@paonline.com. There will also be numerous links to other schedule pages throughout the state. Articles and/or reviews will be written, so feel free to send in a CD for a review. So, as of Thursday, 7:00 pm, 6/10, the updated section is Bands A-D. There are 316 bands/artists page links on Bands A-D. Bands E-H is coming Sunday 6/13 7:00 pm. I hope you enjoy the new PA Rocks. |
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