Friday, December 2, 2011

Acoustic Performer Joe Firstmas

Name of Artist/Band: Joe Firstman
Latest Album/EP: Swear It Was A Dream
Hometown: Charlotte, NC 
Members: Joe Firstman
Bio: Joe Firstman bought an $18 cross-country Greyhound ticket from his home in North Carolina to Los Angeles, arriving with a beat-up guitar and head full of songs. He quickly found the big stage. It all happened quickly: first came the big Hollywood gigs, then the industry buzz, then the big deal with Atlantic Records and national tours with big rock stars like Sheryl Crow, Jewel, and Willie Nelson. There was ego and excess and beautiful ladies and music, music, music. Firstman wrote it all down and sang his songs like his life depended on it. 


"In the songs of Joe Firstman, sensitive young men prowl the hills of Los Angeles, searching for fame and beauty, only to find self-destructive behavior and egos gone wild…” wrote Jim Farber in the New York Daily News. “While Hollywood's peaks and pitfalls have been prominently charted by songwriters from Don Henley, Stevie Nicks and Jackson Browne to Warren Zevon, Firstman aims to reinvent the milieu for his own generation."

When the world stopped spinning, he’d landed a regular gig as the bandleader on the “Last Call with Carson Daly” show. For four years, this was his university – playing and writing songs in whatever style the show’s musical guests played and learning how to engage a studio audience, day in and day out.

Firstman released his 7th studio album, “Swear It Was A Dream,” on September 6, 2011. The album features 10 new songs written and recorded over the last year in studios in Charleston, SC, Mexico, Los Angeles, and Nashville. Of the album, Firstman shared, “You can really feel the year in the record, you can feel the whole journey in there and it’s my best piece. It’s my best thing thus far.”

The album’s first single, “Who’s Turning Your Light Out?” is Firstman’s exploration of straightforward, unadulterated songwriting. “It was just a very personal lyric, but I tried to make it into a pop song that everybody would get. Its got lyrics about South Carolina and falling asleep with your head in your hands—I thought the imagery was relatable, “ says Firstman. 

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Bands of December!!!

It's that time of year again!!! New band 0f day everyday of December!!! Enjoy


Name of Artist/Band: Make the Years Last
Latest Album/EP: The Cedars
Hometown: O'Fallon, MO
Members: Mikey Mckeever- Vox
John McCarthy- Guitar/ Backup Vox
Curtis Ochsner - Guitar
Matt Kenney- Drums
Andy Tannehill - Bass
Bio: Make The Years Last came to be in late summer 2010 in O'Fallon MO. They are a five-piece pop punk band that just set out to make music and do whatever they want. No limitations, no regrets, no one holding them back.

https://www.facebook.com/maketheyearslast?sk=app_178091127385