I am very pleased to finnaly anounce this great show. I am putting on a live performance of the album “Song Reader” by Beck Hansen as performed by some of my favorite Phoenix musicians: Black Carl, Jim Adkins, Adele Stein with Wooden Indian, Tobie Milford, Emby Alexander with the Phoenix Chamber Brass, Spirit Cave, and Mr Mudd & Mr Gold to be held at the Crescent Ballroom on Thursday April 4th.

In December of 2012 Beck released his latest album “Song Reader” elusively as a book of sheet music. Beck has yet to release any official recordings of the 20 songs from the book. Instead he has encouraged musicians to record their own versions of his songs and post the online, on the albums own website SongReader.net and sites like YouTube.

On Wednesday April 10th a collection of these songs will be preformed live, possibly for the first time ever in a concert environment, by a group of some of the best musicians in Phoenix. Each artists will have to choose songs from the song book and perform their own interpretation of the song live having never listened to an official version as a frame of reference. For the audience they will get to hear these “covers” with a fresh set of ears having never heard an original to compare with.

The proceeds of the event will be donated to Rosie’s House. Rosie’s House: A Music Academy for Children is committed to playing a pivotal role in a child’s future and strengthening our community. At Rosie’s House, a free music academy for children in inner-city Phoenix, they believe music education is a catalyst for changing the life of a child. They work to build the heart, mind, character, home, community and future of their students through the power of music education.

Get info and tickets here.

Last week I put on the IAMWE CD Release show at Crescent Ballroom. I worked with the greet people at Electric Legend Pictures to make this video spotlighting the band and their show at Crescent. If you have not heard of them it is worth a glance.

SENSES FAIL ANNOUNCE SPRING 2013 HEADLINE US TOUR
PureVolume Presents Senses Fail with Such Gold, Real Friends, and Major League

SENSES FAIL today announce an extensive US headline spring tour in support of their upcoming album, RENACER (ray-nah-serr) which will be released on March 26, 2013 on Staple Records. The tour is presented by PureVolume.com and includes support from Such Gold, Real Friends, and Major League. The tour kicks off April 3, 2013 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and currently wraps on May 11 with a special New Jersey. The tour will come to Martini Ranch in Scottsdale, AZ on April 18th.

The band is offering their fans pre-sale tickets for the tour beginning TODAY at Noon local time at: http://tixx1.artistarena.com/SensesFail/.

The first 500 fans who purchase their tickets during the pre-sale will receive a three song digital EP of cover songs recorded exclusively for the pre-sale and not available elsewhere.

COVERS EP:
1. “Mouth For War” (Pantera)
2. “Suffer” (Bad Religion)
3. “AM/PM” (American Nightmare)

Additionally, every fan that purchases a pre-sale a ticket will receive a $5 coupon redeemable for any full-priced apparel item sold at the band’s merch booth along the tour.

Renacer is Senses Fail’s fifth full-length studio album and was recorded in Los Angeles, California at both The Airport Studio and Red Bull Studio with producer Shaun Lopez (Far, Deftones) at the helm.

Info & Tickets.

Psyko Steve Presents

SENSES FAIL

SUCH GOLD, REAL FRIENDS, MAJOR LEAGUE

Thu, April 18, 2013

Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 7:30 pm

Martini Ranch

Scottsdale, AZ