Music & Performances

See what I said? Here's another band promoting themselves with stickers. The provenance here seems to go like this – these four guys are the Tim Meils Band when they're playing Tim's solo material, and Fly Lion when they play the band stuff. That's the best I can figure out from their MySpace page and their Facebook page, where you'll find some of their songs on their wall. The rest of the ...

The desire for the bass knows no bounds. And thanks to this portable subwoofer thing, you can have bass wherever you go. Just place the WOWee One Gel Portable Speaker on a flat surface and it turns that surface into a subwoofer. Boom boom boom all you want then. The company also sells accessories for sticking your WOWee One to surfaces more permanently. It's just a little box, about the siz...

I remember college radio. Back when I went to the University of Missouri there was a kind of mystique about the campus radio station. That was mostly forged by the student DJs who finally had a forum to play the Germs and Heino back-to-back, and nobody could tell them not to! In reality the place was a dump in the basement of a crummy dorm. But I've seen some modern student radio stations, ...

The custom band sticker is a StickerGiant staple. Most new bands don't have much money for advertising or promotion. Stickers are incredibly cheap, easy to distribute, and can give you a presence in the places your audience hangs out. Custom stickers last a long time, don't spoil and never go out of style. They are easy to transport (hundreds will fit in your coat pocket) are very cheap to ...

Today's subject is a potpourri or a mish-mash or even a tiny smorgasbord of radio stations. Why? 'Cause that's the way the StickerGiant wanted it. And incidentally, what is it with radio stations and Flash? I mean, I keep a lot of tabs open and stuff, and I hardly ever restart my browser, but seriously, loading these three radio station websites at once nearly choked my poor Safari. Firs...

It'a an old-time revival. Not in the religious sense, just in the sense that the 80's were a long time ago now, and here we've got a band from the 80's, back together in 2010, playing 80's hits. It's The Chest Pains from Ocean City, Maryland, bringin' it (what is now) oldschool. Look at some of the songs in their songlist -- it's New Wave heaven all the way: "Mirror In the Bathroom," "I Mel...

Maybe Not Even are a duo, or maybe a four-piece, from Annapolis, MD. See, it's always been Jeff K (vocals, bass) and D.J. Rocco (guitar). These days though the band performs with Brian Sparrow (drums) and Tony Cannon (saxophone). Their sound is a fusion of rock, blue-eyed soul and pop music. Rocco lays down lots of funky riffs and Jeff K reminds me of that blues guy with the long hair from ...

We received this shot from a customer, one who obviously appreciates the finest in prog rock -- Yes. Yes, it's Yes, the band with the positive name and the psychedelic sound. Anyone here watch "The Venture Brothers"? There's a sequence in Season 3, I think, maybe Season 4, where Dr. Venture introduces Dean to prog rock because it's his inspiration for "doing science." Only he leaves Dean...

Superfunkybass! That's what Doug Johns promises, and listening to the guy at www.dougjohns.com, you gotta agree that he brings it. The guy hails from Cleveland, and his second record, Pocket Fulla Nasty, came out in 2008. Go buy it on iTunes or something, whydon'tcha? It's crazy virtuosic jazz-funk fusion, like the soundtrack to a 21st Century blaxploitation film, in space. Or something, I ...