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Aidan Has A Posse – a Benefit Concert featuring Buckcherry and The Toilet Boys

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August 10, 2011, New York, NY – 10th Street Entertainment, Flying Television and Bowery Presents announce AIDAN HAS A POSSE, a special benefit concert featuring a performance by rockers Buckcherry, Toilet Boys and Pisser on Thursday, August 11th. This intimate event is being held at the Music Hall of Williamsburg and will include a silent auction with items such as an 6 day rock n’ roll cruise with performances by Buckcherry, Hellyeah, Hinder and others, a guitar played and autographed by Keith Nelson of Buckcherry, New York Giants tickets, a Samsung Galaxy Tab, unique rock memorabilia and much more.

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience Supports The Monkees 1967 Tour: Were You There?

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Yesterday I had an interesting comment added to This Post from a Dutch Jimi Hendrix fan and collector named Ben. Ben has a web page where he documents stories and images from the 1967 US Summer Tour by The Monkees on which The Jimi Hendrix Experience were the support act. Ben writes, “if you are a Fan of The Showdowners, Lynn Randell (other support acts on the tour) or The Monkees and you have been to the concerts seen below then I would like to speak to you. I am very interested in your “Experience” from those days. I hope you will be able to help me out. Any help will be welcome, from your personal memories, photos, newspaper clippings and even sound or/and video recordings from these concerts where The Jimi Hendrix Experience was the support act.” You can visit Ben’s page at This Link and if you were at one of these shows and have any information to contribute to his quest you can email him at maythisbelove@yahoo.com. Good luck, Ben!

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Brooklyn Star Restaurant to Showcase Local Bands At Rad Knitting Factory Concert!

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On Monday, July 11th, The Brooklyn Star restaurant will put on a concert at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, featuring a handful of staff members and their bands. In the New York City restaurant business, it’s not uncommon to have musicians and artists as a part of your restaurant team and The Brooklyn Star is no exception. Ryan Spoto (Des Roar, Two Tears), Dave ‘The Wave’ Klein (Outtacontrollers), Travis St. Clair (DJ Bats), and Jesse Crawford (Peacekillers) will all perform. Between sets, raffles will be held where audience members can win cool prizes donated by local businesses. How awesome. Continue reading Brooklyn Star Restaurant to Showcase Local Bands At Rad Knitting Factory Concert! →

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Virgin Mobile Announces Monster Blogger Contest for Lady GaGa’s 2011 Tour

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WHAT IT IS: Virgin Mobile is looking for 10 amazing bloggers or video journalists (or any Lady Gaga fan for that matter) to submit a 1-to-2 minute video showing us why you should be the Little Local Monster Blogger. The 10 winners will join one of the Monster Ball shows alongside Virgin Mobile’s Monster Ball blogger, Dannielle Owens-Reid. Nine (9) winners must be residents of the U.S. and one winner (for the Newark NJ show) must be an international participant.

WHO IT’S FOR: Lady Gaga fans, emerging video journalists and bloggers. Participants must be 18 years of age or older.

WHO IT’S FROM: Your friends at Virgin Mobile. We provide unlimited data on our Beyond Talk plans to fuel your unlimited obsessions.

HOW THE WINNER WILL BE CHOSEN: The 10 winners will be selected from the highest voted submissions for each show. From this talent pool, final selections for the blogger for each show will be made by Virgin Mobile representatives, based on talent, originality, writing ability, style and creativity.

WHAT THE WINNER GETS: The winners will get behind the scenes access to assist, interview and document alongside Monster Ball blogger Dannielle Owens-Reid on their selected tour date.

TOUR DATES TO SUBMIT TO: There will be one winner per Lady Gaga Monster Ball tour show. Except for the Newark show, which is open ONLY to international (non-U.S.) participants, transportation, accommodations and other expenses are not provided and are the responsibility of the winner.  Participants must refer to the tour dates below and pick the location of the show nearest them for their entry (participants will be submitting for a chance to blog from that show). If you are an international participant, you can only submit for the Newark show.
Tour Dates Are:

· MARCH 25 / LAS VEGAS – MGM Grand

· MARCH 26 / PHOENIX – US Airways Center

· MARCH 28 / LOS ANGELES – Staples Center

· APRIL 8 / HOUSTON – Toyota Center

· APRIL 9 / NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans Arena

· APRIL 13 / MIAMI – American Airlines Arena

· APRIL 18 / ATLANTA – Gwinnett Center

· APRIL 19 / NASHVILLE – Bridgestone Arena

· APRIL 22/ NEWARK – PRUDENTIAL CENTER*

· APRIL 23 / UNIONDALE – Nassau Coliseum

* Newark Show: Only participants living outside of the U.S. may enter (flights and 2 nights accommodation and a letter of invitation, if required for visa purposes, will be provided by Talenthouse for this show)

WHAT TO DO NEXT

Make a 1-to-2 minute video showing off your best work to be the Little Local Monster Blogger in your city, and upload it to YouTube. Be sure to tag & title your video submission on YouTube using the following key words: virginmobile, ladygaga, [city] of the show you are submitting for, talenthouseusername, talenthouse, littlemonster

Example: virginmobile, ladygaga, losangeles, lolly, talenthouse, littlemonste

To submit your video, upload your submission to YouTube, then click the “Participate” button and enter your Youtube URL and click “Get Video.”

Please be sure to upload your final video to YouTube at least 48 hours prior to the submission deadline.

Your video being submitted for the Creative Invite (the “entry”) must be in acceptable YouTube format. The Entry must not exceed two (2) minutes in length and must not exceed thirty (30) MB in size. The entry cannot have any music in the background. The entry cannot have been submitted previously in a promotion of any kind or exhibited or displayed publicly through any means.

DATES TO REMEMBER

Submission Deadline: March 7, 2011

Voting Starts: March 8, 2011 at 10am (PST)

Voting Ends: March 15, 2011 at 10am (PST)

Winner Announcement: March 17, 2011 at 10am (PST)

Good luck!

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Robert Plant & The Band of Joy at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom

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Photos by Geoffrey Dicker

A one-night-only performance by former Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant and his new group, The Band of Joy (which sold out NYC’s Bowery Ballroom through Ticketmaster in, literally, fewer than 60 seconds) was indeed a joyous performance: one that, for me, ranks among the most vibrant and emotionally satisfying live shows I’ve seen, ever. While Plant and his band proved beyond doubt that they can rock out, this wasn’t what you’d call a “Rock Show,” nor was it the kind of music I’d assume your average Led Zeppelin fan would find easily accessible. Still, Plant’s latest gig fits him like a second skin and the 500 or so people lucky enough to cram themselves inside the very packed venue were clearly enthralled.

Robert Plant and the Band of Joy performed a smooth mix of impeccably written standards and select favorites from Plant’s catalog, dipping into compatible genres from Americana to Country, Blues to Roots and even a little Gospel. Opening with a cover of Low’s “Monkey,” Plant found his groove and never let it go. Through a set that included cuts from the Band of Joy CD, several re-worked Led Zeppelin classics and songs from Plant’s recordings with The Honey Drippers and his recent Grammy winning disc with Alison Krauss, it was mesmerizing to watch this legendary vocalist take things down to a solo vocal only to have the band explode around him a split second later. Unbelievable.

At age 62, Plant’s voice remains untouchable and the band is truly phenomenal – each a gifted and well known musician individually, together they create a new and beautiful sound. Whether it was Buddy Miller’s outstanding work on both the six and twelve string guitar’s, Darrell Scott’s ringing mandolin, banjo, steel guitar or six-string, Patty Griffin’s larger than life vocals, Byron House’s versatile bass rhythms  and Marco Giovoni’s perfectly nuanced drums, there was something to be amazed at continuously.  It was also great to see Plant retreat to the rear of the stage and provide background vocals while Darrell Scott, who has an amazing voice, sang lead front and center, or wailing on the harmonica as Buddy Miller took the lead. You really got the feeling you were witnessing very special musical relationships evolving. This is a tour not to be missed.

Sunday night’s one hour and forty-five minute set was comprised of the following songs:

Monkey / House of Cards / Please Read the Letter / Misty Mountain Hop / Rich Woman / Trouble / 12 Gates to the City / Kings Horses / Satisfied Mind / Move Up / Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down / Central Two O Nine / Angel Dance / Houses of the Holy / Down to the Sea / Tall Cool One / Gallows Pole

Encore:

Harms Swift Way / Rock and Roll / Goodnight

Thanks again to Rounder Records and Ken Weinstein of Big Hassle for the hot guest list action! You can buy or download the Band of Joy album now, as it was just released today!