rockcandymusic

Check out this live tribute concert for our dear friend Ronnie Montrose going on right NOW on Ustream!!! Rockcandymusic!!!!!! Go to Ustream, and type that in!!! This show has a mega turn out of GREAT musicians paying tribute to the PHENOMENOL Ronnie Montrose! GO NOW!!!

Second Story Alibi CD Release Party at Pistol Petes this Friday March 16th!

Hey all you rockin people! The long awaited release of Second Story Alibis CD is here!!!! This friday at Pistol Petes in Auburn CA. @ 9PM. Come out and see this hard rockin, booty shakin’, a** kicken southern rockers! Recorded, engineered with love, tone, Coors Light (and often a dose of Crown) at Tanglewood Studios, this album ROCKS! Come out and see these guys and support them on their way to the top! I promise you will LOVE them! See you there! The cover is cheap (5 bux) and you’ll be able to say “I saw them when…!”

CBJ Flamenco Ensemble Concert

Flamenco in Sacramento! Coming to the Crest Theater Sunday, October 23rd @ 3pm is the Chris Burton Jacome’ Flamenco Ensemble!  Chris’ new album features the music, lyrics and even the footwork created for the flamenco spectacular by the nationally touring flamenco dance company, CALO FLAMENCO, Ballet de Martín Gaxiola. LEVANTO will have you yelling, “Olé!” long after you’ve finished listening to it. “LEVANTO is fabulous flamenco that can stand alongside any created in Spain or by those inspired beyond its borders.” — World Music Central.

 

 

CBJ Flamenco Ensemble Concert.

PRIVATE CRIMINALS shaking down Auburn tonight!

Private Criminals are playing tonight @ the Club Car in Auburn CA. If you want to get out and have some fun to a groovin’ rockin’ dance situation head over to the Club Car! Private Criminals are fresh out of Tanglewood Studios with some of the best original rock around! Fun guys, big talent, great music!!! This is a must do on your list tonight!!!!! I wouldn’t steer you wrong. Show starts @ 9. Club Car is on Lincoln Way in Auburn. They have a good beer and wine selection too.

Private Criminals playing in Sac and Auburn this week!

Come out to see Private Criminals and shake your booty! This is a great band, fresh out of the studio, that is a crowd pleaser! Funky originals, rockin’ originals and great cover choices! They do not disappoint! They are playing 2 shows this week one in Auburn and downtown Sacramento. 

Thursday 1/13

Old Ironsides 9:30pm

1901 10th Street downtown SacramentoCover $5

Friday 1/14

Club Car 9pm

836 Lincoln Way

Auburn
A blast is to be had with this band! Come out and enjoy the show!

“Making It” in music

You’ve got to be fully old school or new school.

Old school is sell your soul to a major label.

If you’re doing this, you must make music that can be played on the radio. You’ve got to be willing to do what the company says. You must promote the hell out of yourself in order to try and get people to pay attention to you at the same time you’re causing a backlash and make very little money all in the name of fame, which pays fewer dividends than ever before.

New school is do it yourself. With a team that you control.

You give away your music. You stay in touch with your audience. You keep giving them more and more, for free, in the hopes that the bond will get stronger and they’ll support you, buy your merch and recordings and come to see you live. But new school depends on two things:

1. Being good.

2. Having friends.

You’re building a tribe from the ground up. It’s very slow. You’ll slog for years before you find out if you’ve made it. But once you have, your fans will continue to support you, you’re not flavor of the moment, you’ve built something.

You can study and ace one test, but that won’t get you into Harvard.

If you do it new school, you’ve got to have substance. It’s what’s on the inside that truly counts. But, like getting into Harvard, that requires a lot of hard work, over a period of years.

All the hard work at the label has got little to do with you. It’s relationships with radio and TV and songwriters and producers. Which is why they can abandon you so easily, and you end up being famous for being famous, not much more. Take off the blinders, look straight into the future and dare to be great!

Music and the Dream

This was from a conversation today with a very good friend, who is also well informed in the music industry. From our conversation came my commentary about the direction of music now, in regards to the musicians hopes and dreams. She felt it worthy of a post so I am……”and dreaming can still happen, it’s an understanding of the old and the new paradigms that most people miss. Work hard, play hard, be great. The rest will be what it is.” ‘Nuf said.