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St. Louis Rockers Cavo Premiere "Thick as Thieves" + Free Download

Notes From The Pit, Wednesday, August 31, 2011

St. Louis Rockers Cavo Premiere "Thick as Thieves" + Free Download

Cavo premiered their new single “Thick as Thieves” Monday on St. Louis’s alternative rock station, KPNT, and has followed it by offering a free download on their facebook page for THIS WEEK ONLY.

“Thick As Thieves” is the follow up to the band’s #1 rock single, “Champagne” from the album Bright Nights Dark Days (Reprise/Warner), and the first taste of the band’s sophomore release from Eleven Seven Music, out in stores in February of 2012.

A free download of the song is available at www.facebook.com/Cavo.

“We went through a lot as a band on this last album cycle that, in some ways, really challenged our friendships. It was all new for us and we had our difficulties dealing with it, but came out a stronger better band cause of it. Thick As Thieves really explains our mindset as a band, we realized that nothing can come between us unless we allow it to, and we got back to basics as a band, just four guys writing music that really meant something to us first. We believe that it'll translate to the fans better if it comes from an honest place.” – Casey Walker (lead singer of Cavo)

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Win an Every Avenue Bad Habits Prize Pack

Notes From The Pit, Sunday, August 28, 2011

Every Avenue’s latest release Bad Habits is the band’s third full-length album, with the popular singles “Tell Me I’m a Wreck” and "No One But You" getting significant air play. The video for "Tell Me I'm A Wreck" has been featured on MTV2 and as Kerrang!TV’s Video of the Week.

Notes From The Pit is giving away an Every Avenue prize pack including an autographed CD, wrist band and sticker.

How do you win? All you need to do is email your name and email address to notesfromthepit (at) gmail.com. US entries only.

Contest Rules

No purchase necessary.

Contest begins at 12:01 AM Central Time August 29 2011 and ends at 11:59 PM September 5 1011 Central Time.

Contest open to North American entries only.

Prize winners will be selected from a random drawing held on or around September 6, 2011 from all eligible entries received. Sweepstakes promoters and/or Sponsors are not responsible for lost or stolen entries.

Only one entry per person will be accepted during duration of contest.

Bad Habits is available via Fearless Records, iTunes and in stores.

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God Bless Ozzy Osbourne screening at Regal Cinemas 18 at St. Louis Mills

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God Bless Ozzy Osbourne screening at Regal Cinemas 18 at St. Louis Mills

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The Muppets: The Green Album Debuts

Notes From The Pit, Tuesday, August 23, 2011

OK Go has teamed up with The Muppets to cover the “Muppet Show” theme song. (Check out the fun video below)

Out today, “Muppets: The Green Album” features a collection of Muppets songs performed by Weeser, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, The Fray, Alkaline Trio, My Morning Jacket, Amy Lee, Sondre Lerche, The Airborne Toxic Event, Brandon Saller, Andrew Bird, Matt Nathanson and Racheael Yamagata.

OK Go and The Muppets

Rachael Yamagata's "Starlight" Video

Notes From The Pit, Friday, August 19, 2011

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR "STARLIGHT"

Chesapeake, Rachel's first studio album in three years is set for an October 11th release date through her own Frakenfish Records. The album features an eclectic collection of songs projecting Yamagata's optimism and hopefulness, showcasing her sultry and smoky voice, rich, layered harmonies, striking ballads and soulful grooves.

Yamagata will hit the road on an extensive tour of the United States starting on October 24th in Portland, Maine at the Port City Music Hall and wind down on December 22nd in New York City at City Winery.

RACHAEL YAMAGATA 2011 TOUR DATES

OCTOBER

24th - Portland, ME - Port City Music Hall

25th - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground Lodge

27th - Ithaca, NY - Deliah's

28th - Northampton, MA - Iron Horse

30th - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall

31st - Philadelphia, PA - World Café Live

NOVEMBER

1st - Washington, DC - Birchmere

2nd - Baltimore, MD - Sound Stage

4th - Brooklyn, NY - Knitting Factory

5th - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Café

6th - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom (Small Room)

7th - Detroit, MI - St Andrews Hall

8th - Chicago, IL - Logan Square

10th - Milwaukee, WI - Turner Ballroom

11th - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line

12th - Davenport, IA - Redstone Room

14th - Kansas City, KS - Record Bar

16th - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge

18th - Salt Lake City, UT - State Room

20th - Spokane, WA - A Club

21st - Vancouver, BC - Media Club

22nd - Seattle, WA - Crocodile

23rd - Portland, OR - Doug Fir

25th - San Francisco, CA - Slim's

27th - San Diego, CA - Casbah

29th - Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour

30th - Tuscon, AZ - Crescent Ballroom

DECEMBER

2nd - Austin, TX - Parish

3rd - Houston, TX - Fitzgerald's Upstairs

4th - Dallas, TX - The Loft

5th - Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom - 2nd Stage

7th - St. Louis, MO - Blueberry Hill

8th - Nashville, TN - 12th and Porter

9th - Birmingham, AL - Work Play

10th - Atlanta, GA - Vinyl

12th - Charleston, SC - New Brookland Tavern

13th - Charlotte, NC - Visulite Theatre

15th - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506

16th - Charlottesville, VA - The Southern

17th - Louisville, KY - Headliners

18th - Columbus, OH - The Basement

20th - Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's

21st - New York, NY - City Winery

22nd - New York, NY - City Winery

www.rachaelyamagata.com

Red Hot Chlli Peppers reveal new video for "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie"

Notes From The Pit, Thursday, August 18, 2011

http://redhotchilipeppers.com/

SuperHeavy unveils video for "Miracle Worker"

Notes From The Pit, Tuesday, August 16, 2011

The wait is over - SuperHeavy has Internationally unveiled the music video for "Miracle Worker", the super-group's debut single. Watch Mick Jagger, Damian Marley, A.R. Rahman, Dave Stewart and Joss Stone rile up the crowd in this vibrant video.

Watch SuperHeavy's 'Miracle Worker' Music Video here.

Self-titled album in stores September 20, 2011.

Mick Jagger has teamed up with Eurythmics founder Dave Stewart, soul singer Joss Stone, Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack composer A.R.Rahman and reggae star Damian Marley to form a band cooperative project called SuperHeavy. This diverse and eclectic line up who share eleven Grammy Awards between them, have been recording together in various studios around the world, with the majority of the tracks on the project laid down over three weeks in Los Angeles earlier this year. The album will be unveiled in September and tracks include the first single 'Miracle Worker', plus 'One Day One Night', 'Energy', 'Unbelievable,' 'SuperHeavy,' I Can't Take It No More,' 'You're Never Gonna Change' and 'I Don't Mind.'

It's little wonder that Stewart refers to SuperHeavy as, "A mad alchemist type experiment". Fusing the talents of one of the greatest front-men of all time, a two time Academy award winning Indian composer, a soul vocal prodigy, a three time Grammy winning reggae star, and one of the most sought after producers in the world, you would expect the explosive results to defy categorisation.

SuperHeavy came together after Jagger and Stewart considered what a band comprising of musicians from different genres would sound like. Jagger explains, "Dave really wanted to make a record with a different group of musicians, in other words, with different backgrounds of music. Instead of everyone being a rock musician, or basically a blues musician, or some other genre, he wanted to get as many genres together that would fit. I said it sounds like a good idea, I never thought it would actually happen."

Despite their disparate backgrounds, they instantly connected and hit the ground running, writing twenty-two songs in the first six days. Stone was thrilled with the results, "That's what you need, all these opinionated people who have been brilliant in their own field, shove them together and see what comes out. It's really unexpected, it's mind blowing" she enthuses. Similarly enthused was Rahman, "The first day I was in a daze thinking, 'What am I doing? What's my role?' and then slowly we started writing with each other, and it was great. It took me way back to my high school days when I was playing in a rock band, but this one was a real one!" Jagger says of the writing process, "We ran the gamut of all our different styles mixed up, so we got Joss singing, Damian doing toasting, and me singing different styles."

However, despite the free flow of creative juices and the easy rapport they established, getting the band together in one place became very difficult, as Stewart explains, "It's the most complicated record ever made. Imagine, some of it's recorded in LA, some of it's recorded in the South of France, some of it's recorded off the coast of Cyprus, some of it's recorded in Turkey, some of it's recorded in Miami, some of it's recorded in the Caribbean, and some of it's recorded in Chennai, in India."

The project needed a name. Marley had been riffing the term "SuperHeavy", inspired by Muhammad Ali being the super heavy weight champion of the world and the phrase became the band's catchphrase, "It was Mick who said, 'Why don't we call it SuperHeavy?", recalls Stewart, "We all thought about it for ages and then it sort of stuck."

SuperHeavy is a new and spontaneous way of working for all the collaborators as Jagger explains, "I said to Dave, normally [with the Stones] we'd always have written songs before we go into the studio, but the jam sessions resulted in some great work believes Stone, "It felt better when we were just jamming, that way we made it up as we went along and it was easy."

Back to that alchemical experiment, Jagger, Stewart, Marley, Rahman and Stone appear to have created a new genre. It's a new kind of music, it's a new genre, one that cannot be placed" says Stone. Yet, Jagger is keen to point out the music is accessible, "It's very approachable. If you're a Rolling Stones fan there's definitely stuff you can relate to. Other stuff that you can't relate to so much, maybe if you listen you'll enjoy it."

As far as the future of SuperHeavy goes, "We haven't planned to do a tour or anything, but if people really like it maybe we will. We'd love to get out and play some of it live," says Jagger humbly. "As soon as we started playing together in the studio it gelled, and all these different styles didn't seem to be a problem to make them fit together... I hope people will like it...."

MIRACLE WORKER STREAM

http://bit.ly/SuperHeavyMiracleWorker

MIRACLE WORKER SINGLE

iTunes | Amazon

SuperHeavy in the Studio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu_MhgIFDGM&feature=player_embedded

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Review: Blue October "Any Man In America"

Notes From The Pit, Thursday, August 11, 2011

The Chills

Blue October’s latest release, Any Man In America, is Justin Furstenfeld’s emotionally raw telling of his experience as his marriage crumbled and of his continued fight for his child.

The pain, frustration, hope, disappointment and heartbreak expressed resonate throughout the album. Furstenfeld’s revealing honesty is well known by listeners who have been touched by his lyrics. While the emotion can be a bit uncomfortable, which is a testament to the powerful reality expressed in the music, makes the listener think and feel a range of emotions.

The musicianship of Furstenfeld, Ryan Delahoussaye (violin, mandolin, and piano), Matt Novesky (bass), and Jeremy Furstenfeld (drums), is as strong as ever on Every Man In America. Their talent and diversity are the perfect partners to Furstenfeld’s lyrics.

Any Man In America portrays an example of what truly any man in America dealing with custody issues may be going through. You don’t have to be a father to understand and relate to the album. Anyone who appreciates thoughtful lyrics and multi-layered music should check out this album.

Any Man In America is available in stores and online at iTunes and Amazon.

Blue October on tour:

WED, 17 AUG 2011 | House Of Blues |Dallas, TX

THU, 18 AUG 2011 | House Of Blues | Dallas, TX