newsletter
April 10th, 2006


CONTENTS
BlowUpRadio.com 
Special 
Events Message From 
Lazlo
Album Of The 
Week New Songs Added 
This Week
Check out these 
MP3s Local Music 
News
Local Concert Picks 
of the Week Concert 
Calendar


BlowUpRadio.com Special 
Events







Message From Lazlo




Hi Everyone,

So, last week marked the Folk You! x 2, with both a Goldhawk show and a SICA show. I want to thank everyone who made it out to the shows, and a special thanks to the great performers at both shows. The Goldhawk featured incredible sets from double-breasted, Tired Starling, and The Cucumbers, and the SICA show featured more incredible sets, this time from Aeria records artists, Agency, Amsterdam, and Jon Francis (who replaced a performance by label head Colie Brice at the last minute).

It is now with some remorse that I must let you know that the SICA Folk You! shows will soon be coming to an end. There are several reasons for this, none of which have to do with SICA itself, which is a venue I enjoy, and will continue to be a patron of. However, a combination of the following factors is causing me to bring the Folk You! series at SICA to a end after next month's show:

1. The inconsistant attendance. I hate to say it, but some months SICA would be packed with people there to see the performers, and other months they'd be playing to me, my wife, the other performers, and SICA's staff, and that's just very diheartening.

2. My busy life. I am now running BlowUpRadio.com and Lazlo's Den, both of which has been receiving and increase in submissions and e-mail. Since I listen to everything I get and do my best to respond to all e-mails, that has been keeping me extra busy lately. I also have a day job, family and friends, some of which I haven't been devoting as much time to as maybe I should be.

3. The stress of booking the show, dealing with the acts, trying to get people out to the show, etc. I sound like I'm complaining, but I don't mean to. By and large the acts I have worked with have been so easy to deal witht hat I hope to be able to work with them again, but the combination of everything has just become too much lately, and I decided that the SICA Folk You! shows would be the first (and hopefully only thing) to go.

I make it sound like it's the beginning of the end, but it's not. BlowUpRadio.com and Lazlo's Den are far too much fun for me to give up, and the Goldhawk Folk You! isn't going anywhere (unless Goldhawk decides not to let us continue on there) . I'm just doing my best to reconcile my limited amount of time to the best amount of use it can be. This is the downside to BlowUpRadio.com being predominantly a 1 man operation. Maybe one day I will get interns, but for now, this is how it has to be.

BUT, there will be one more BIG BlowUpRadio.com Folk You! show at SICA, and what a show to go out on! It will be on Saturday, May 13th, my birthday, and feature acoustic sets by Mazeffect, Jim Testa & John Raido, Jeff Devito (Particle Zoo), Chris Pierson, Michelle Vecchione, and Scruff (Kohuff). So mark your calendars now, and come out to SICA on May 13th for the very last Folk You! there, and a b-day celebration for me!

Peace,
Lazlo

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Album Of The Week

click 
here for more info on BlowUpRadio.com's Album of the Week


Agency - 'Agency'

Formed from the ashes of other leading area acts such as Brian Saint and the Sinners, Virginia, Shiva Copal, Broken Atlantic, and Lifesite, the artists formerly known as Republic are comprised of Brain Saint on lead vocals and acoustic guitar, Michael Scotto on lead guitar and backing vocals, Mike Thompson on bass, and Joseph Savio on drums...

Click here for more info on the Album of the Week




New Songs Added This Week

ARTIST SONG ALBUM
Augmented done with you lonesome sky
John Raido too late for goodbye act two




Check out these MP3s

ARTIST SONG DOWNLOAD
Souls' Release love triangle from their website


Local Music News

March 24th, 2006

Wave Gathering Comes to Asbury Park May 20th & 21st


A showcase of premier national and regional talent, including performances from Jersey Shore artists who recognize the Asbury Park music scene as their home

The Asbury Music Company t/a The Saint (Asbury Park’s home for the best live original music) announces the first major multiple day entertainment event showcasing the fine musical talent that this city has been known for throughout the world over the last fifty years.

The Wave Gathering will run the weekend of May 20 - 21, 2006, starting Saturday afternoon and continuing through midnight Sunday evening. It wil be an 18 and up, 21 to drink event... (more)


Local Concert Picks of the 
Week
Lazlo
BlowUpRadio.com

Friday - Souls' Release, Echofission, Ape Fight @ Loop Lounge ...(more)
Jim Testa
Jersey Beat

Friday - The Black Hollies @ Maxwell's

Saturday - Straight Dope Cherry, Hero Pattern, Hey Tiger @ Maxwell's ...(more)
Gary Wien
Upstage Magazine

Friday - Juggling Suns @ Stone Pony ...(more)
Jared Migden
WRSU

no new pick this week...(more)


Concert Calendar

TUESDAY APRIL 11TH
BANDS VENUE
Joe Whyte Piano's
158 Ludlow at Stanton
NYC
Graveyard School 169 BAR
169 East Broadway
NYC

THURSDAY APRIL 13TH
BANDS VENUE
Rick Barry
Days Awake
SICA
20 Third Ave
Long Branch
Meet Me In Montauk
Rich & Royal
THE COURT TAVERN
124 Church St
New Brunswick

FRIDAY APRIL 14TH
BANDS VENUE
Mazeffect
Kohuff
the 
O>matics
The Ergs
The Rail
350E Main St
Bound Brook
Bad Biscuit THE SAINT
601 Main St
Asbury Park
Souls' Release
Echofission
Ape Fight
LOOP LOUNGE
373 Broadway
Passaic
Little Dipper Kiskos Tavern
119 N Washington Ave
Dunellen
Juggling Suns THE STONE PONY
913 Ocean Ave
Asbury Park
Straight Dope Cherry BITTER END
147 Bleecker St
NYC
(212)673-7030

SATURDAY APRIL 15TH
BANDS VENUE
Straight Dope Cherry
Hero Pattern
Hey Tiger
MAXWELL'S
1039 Washington St
Hoboken
Speed Crazy BLOOMFIELD AVE CAFE
347 Bloomfield Ave
Montclair
Kevin McGowan
Anthony Fiumano
INDIGO COFFEEHOUSE
1208 Route 34
Aberdeen
Aviso Hara
Sparks Fly From A Kiss
THE COURT TAVERN
124 Church St
New Brunswick
John Rango KROGH'S
23 White Deer Plaza
Sparta
Jo Wymer Green Planet Coffee
700 Arnold Ave
Point Plesant Beach
Debra DeSalvo Piano's
158 Ludlow at Stanton
NYC
The Commons Freddy's Backroom
485 Dean St
Brooklyn, NY
Mike Ferraro Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
NYC
Days Awake Grape Street Pub
4100 Main Steet
Philadelphia, PA




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