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Rhino kicks off its 30th anniversary year in January with its first #1 album on the Billboard Album chart: the Juno soundtrack. As the indie comedy phenomenon continues to gather steam (Juno garnered four Academy Award® nominations, including one for Best Picture), its quirky soundtrack continues to rack up sales -- with an additional vinyl release in the wings.
The Junoverse expands next month as a limited-edition orange vinyl version of the Juno soundtrack arrives on February 18 (suggested retail price: $13.98). February also brings a Juno ringtone, Ellen Page and costar Michael Cera's cover of The Moldy Peaches' "Anyone Else But You," available from all major carriers. The charming duet, which closes the film, has also been added as a video on MTV.
The Juno soundtrack was initially rolled out to digital retailers in December as the film was opening in select cities. Juno has steadily gained momentum in the marketplace thanks to strong word of mouth -- and an unusual degree of synergy between the movie and its soundtrack. The film's young star, Ellen Page, suggested using the music of The Moldy Peaches, and the 19-track Juno soundtrack includes eight songs featuring that band's Kimya Dawson. The album debuted on the Billboard Top 10 -- largely on the strength of digital sales.
“Anyone Else But You” Streaming Video:
http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/juno/v_fl_juno_-_original_soundtrack_anyone_else_but_you_vi deo_single_450.mov
http://rhino.edgeboss.net/wmedia/rhino/juno/v_fl_juno_-_original_soundtrack_anyone_else_but_you_v ideo_single_300.wvx
Juno Mixtape E-Card:
http://www.rhino.com/juno
Don’t Forget to Digg the E-Card!:
http://digg.com/music/Juno_Soundtrack_Mixtape_E_Card_is_tha_Shizz
You can download cover art, photos and press release here:
http://www.specialopsmedia.com/assets/Rhino_Entertainment/JunoSdtk_Assets.zip
Junoverse Website:
http://www.thejunoverse.com
iTunes Buy Link:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=269736803&s=143441
Preferred Retail Link:
http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=410236
This fall, Colorado based not-for-profit Conscious Alliance continues its mission to help feed America’s hungry communities, hosting food drives at various music events this winter/spring. Look for Conscious Alliance at the Langerado Music Festival www.langerado.com at the Big Cypress Indian Reservation in Florida on March 6th -9th , along STS9 and EOTO Winter Tours, and at select one-off concert events including Keller Williams and The WMD’S on February 2nd at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, Colorado and New Monsoon (featuring Tim Carbone from Railroad Earth and EOTO with special guest Michael Kang) on February 9th at The Fillmore in San Francisco, CA. As always, patrons can donate 10 non-perishable food items or $10.00 to receive a limited edition rock art poster.
For this trip, Conscious Alliance will host their second Student Service Learning Project. The program offers exciting alternative service-learning experiences for college students during their fall/spring breaks. The Student Service Learning Project synthesizes service learning by combining education and hands-on service. Participating students learn about hunger related issues, as well as Lakota culture, by providing compassionate cross-cultural community service on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. While on the reservation, students lodge with community leaders Floyd and Natalie Hand, as they sort and distribute food to community members in need, aid with home repairs for Lakota families, participate in educational sessions with Lakota elders, and communicate with Pine Ridge college students and peers about current cultural, social, economic, and environmental issues. This spring, March 23rd - 29th, Conscious Alliance will organize a group of students from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Please visit http://www.consciousalliance.org/projects.yah.htm for more information.
Conscious Alliance started off the 2008 by partnering with Jam Cruise to host a school supplies drive to benefit children living in Roatan, Honduras, one of the stops along Jam Cruise 6. Conscious Alliance, Jam Cruise, Pangea Organics, The Children’s Fund of Roatan and Zero Hero teamed up to deliver dozens of backpacks and boxes of school supplies, which were collected from passengers when the ship docked at port. Additionally, Pangea Organics donated 1000’s of bars of organic soap that were divided between a school, orphanage and clinic on the island. The Children’s Fund of Roatan shared their history to a group of 40 Jam Cruise volunteers, and children at the orphanage received an acoustic performance by Jam Cruise musicians including Jon Fishman, Jamie Janover, Jeff Coffin, Dave Watts and Dan Lebowitz.
For Conscious Alliance, the 2008 winter/spring season comes on the heels of a hugely successful 4th annual Turkey n’ Trimmings holiday fundraiser. As a result of a generous outpouring of donations, Conscious Alliance was able to deliver nearly 2,000 holiday dinners- three times the amount delivered in 2006! Deliveries were made to communities on Pine Ridge, Northern Cheyenne, Rosebud, Standing Rock, and Fort Peck Indian Reservations. In addition, the 4th annual Toy Drive received a huge boost this year thanks to a donation from JAKKS Pacific http://www.jakkspacific.com . The contribution landed the total number of toys donated at nearly 10,000, resulting in distribution to dozens of communities on Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Northern Cheyenne and Fort Peck Indian Reservations. Instead of wrapping paper, toys were given out in pillowcases sewn by quilting groups across the Midwest, thus eliminating excess waste.
Please visit www.consciousalliance.org for more information on the important work of Conscious Alliance.
This Mardi Gras (February 5th), Bonerama and OK Go will release You’re Not Alone, a five-song digital EP. Bonerama and OK Go spent the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina recording at Piety Street Studios deep in the city’s Upper 9th Ward. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the EP – available exclusively at iTunes – will benefit members of New Orleans’ music community such as R&B legend Al Johnson, who are still struggling to rebuild their homes and their lives in the aftermath of the flood.
“New Orleans is one of the last places in America where music is truly a fundamental part of everyday life,” says OK Go singer Damian Kulash. “People get together on the weekends and parade through the streets just playing songs; 12-year-old-kids learn funk on the tuba; everyone dances. Life elsewhere in the world simply isn't as celebratory. If we allow the culture of New Orleans to die by leaving its musicians marooned around the country, America will have lost one of its great treasures.“
This weekend, OK Go and Bonerama will finish up the second of two benefit shows: a January 11th gig at New Orleans’ Tipitina's (as part of the legendary club’s 30th anniversary celebration) and upcoming February 2nd show at The 9:30 Club in Washington, DC, which will be streamed and podcast by NPR. Bonerama will open the DC show, then play material from You’re Not Alone with OK Go, who will close the evening with a full set.
On Monday, February 11th, Bonerama and Kulash will perform “A Million Ways” on CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman.
Engineered by Mark Nevers (Bobby Bare Sr., Calexico, Bonnie “Prince” Billy), You’re Not Alone is an astonishing collaboration, with Bonerama lending its loud, trombone-and-tuba New Orleans swagger to OK Go’s bombastic rock. Together, they re-interpret three tracks from OK Go’s most recent album, Oh No: “A Million Ways,” “It’s A Disaster” and “Oh Lately It’s So Quiet.” A pair of covers – David Bowie’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide” and Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released” – round out the collection. Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, who wrote “Carnival Time,” the unofficial anthem of Mardi Gras, contributes haunting vocals to the latter.
Johnson’s Lower 9th Ward home was washed off its foundation by the levee failures during Hurricane Katrina and later demolished by the city without his knowledge or consent. He has been living in Houston, TX for the past two years. Proceeds from You’re Not Alone will go towards building a new Habitat For Humanity home for him as well as to Sweet Home New Orleans, an organization dedicated to helping repatriate and support the thousands of local musicians who were scattered by Katrina.
Enthusiasm for the project has proved contagious. iTunes has agreed to donate all proceeds from EP sales, and digital distribution powerhouse IODA is servicing and promoting it free of charge. In addition, free freight shipping was provided by EFM Worldwide/Horizon Cargo, and Music Travel Management contributed free airfare for the two benefit shows.
About Bonerama:
Bonerama carries the brass-band concept to places unknown. Hailed by Rolling Stone’s David Fricke as “The ultimate in brass balls” last Fall, the band served as the House Band for the live all-star comedy event COMIC RELIEF. The 2006 event, which featured a long list of A-talent including hosts Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams, was recorded live from Ceasar’s Palace last November. Recently, Bonerama snagged the coveted “Best Rock Band” honor from the 2007 Big Easy Awards.
The current list of confirmed Bonerama tour dates is as follows:
February 01 8x10 Club Baltimore MD
February 02 9:30 Club Washington DC Benefit performance with OK Go
February 04 Howling Wolf New Orleans LA
February 07 The Pour House Charleston SC
February 09 Berkeley Cafe Raleigh NC
February 10 The Garage @ The Biltmore Asheville NC
February 13 Smith's Olde Bar Atlanta GA
March 08 The Gretna Jubilee Gretna LA
March 26 Iowa City Yacht Club Atlanta GA
March 27 Cabooze Minneapolis MN
March 28 Overture Center For the Arts Madison WI
March 29 Martyrs' Chicago IL
April 04 First Energy Berks Jazz Fest Wyomissing PA
April 05 The Swamp Thing and Crawfish Festival Austin TX
May 02 Mid City Lanes New Orleans LA
May 20 Bourbon Street Music Club Sco Paulo Brazil
May 29 Chans Woonsocket RI
June 01 Mike Arnones Crawfish Festival Wakefield RI
July 05 Iowa City Jazz Festival Iowa City IA More dates will be announced.
www.Bonerama.net
St. Louis alternative rock heavyweights Story of the Year will release their hotly anticipated new album, The Black Swan, on April 22nd. Like the title suggests, the group’s third studio album is anything but predictable. Combining the addictive choruses of their platinum selling album Page Avenue and the heaviness of In The Wake of Determination, The Black Swan transcends previous releases as their boldest and most accessible album to date.
Featuring the smash hit single “Wake Up” (mixed by Chris Lord Alge) and the piano driven ballad, “Terrified,” The Black Swan was produced by John Feldmann (Page Avenue, The Used) and “Elvis” Baskette (Chevelle, Escape The Fate). “Making this record felt like starting over,” says frontman Dan Marsala. “We’re like a brand new band. You can hear it in these songs, we’re excited again. I think we’ve really stepped it up on this record.”
Continuing with tracks like the remarkably powerful and deeply personal alt-rock anthem “Doom” and the thought-provoking “Message to the World,” The Black Swan explores social and moral issues close to the band’s heart. With themes of war and prejudice, and taking lyrical inspiration from the likes of Carl Sagan among others, the group’s latest album finds the band in a refined state. “Musically, we've grown so much. We have some very unique, timeless, face melting guitar riffs and solos that have come to define our sound, without compromising the idea of a classic song,” explains guitarist Ryan Phillips.
Story of the Year’s first single, “Wake Up,” will be available for digital download beginning February 19th. Fans are encouraged to join the band’s online fan club, www.ArmyoftheBlackSwan.com, for updates and exclusive opportunities.
The Black Swan Tracklisting:
Choose Your Fate
Wake Up
The Antidote
Tell Me
Angel In The Swamp
The Black Swan
Message To The World
Apathy Is A Deathwish
We’re Not Gonna Make It
Cannonball
Terrified
Carl Sagan Interlude
Welcome To Our New War
For More Information:
www.Epitaph.com www.Myspace.com/StoryoftheYear www.armyoftheblackswan.com/ www.Storyoftheyear.net
Last night, 1/23/08, I was invited to a special party in Boston for a new restaurant and bar that has opened. This new bar is called Lobby. The location is right in the financial district at 131 Broad Street.
I got there about 7 pm and the place was buzzing. I immediately introduced myself to the host with a Skope and a smile. Everyone was very warm and inviting.
Without anytime to waste I went right over to the bar. I thought it was open bar but I did not want to look cheap. The bartender, Scott, let me know drinks were on the house. I love that!
Within minutes the owner came over to say hi. I was taken back by how friendly she was and very attractive. As a matter of fact, the whole staff was very good looking. This place will draw crowds just on the staff there alone, very nice!
I sat down at a table to wait for my date to join me. I got a good chance to take in the decor. The place is very classy and almost like a lounge. They have a huge HD TV and the lights were dimmed just right. The music was a mix of house & dance music. It was at a perfect volume so you could still chat.
My date arrived around 8 pm and we sipped champagne, wine, & Amstel Light as we ate samples of appetizers being served to all the tables. This food was great!
Overall it was a great night. If you are looking for a place to take a hot chick on a first date this is the place. If you are looking for a place to have a nice pre-drink, Lobby is great for that too! I will be back to try the filet mignon.
Lobby Bar & Kitchen
131 Broad Street
Boston, MA 02110
T.617.261.5353
F.617.261.4201
www.LobbyBoston.com
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