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Mike Brindisi CD Release Party

Mike Brindisi & the New York Rock have finished their first full-length record titled 'Counting Pennies', and we couldn't be happier for them. If you've never heard Mike's tunes, you're severely missing out. Mike is a brilliantly creative songwriter who knows how to hook you in and leave you wanting more. In addition to that, the band that he assembled is extremely tight and puts on an arena rock show on a smaller scale. Give it some time though, it could make an arena some day soon. Their new CD will be released this upcoming Friday night, March 20th, at The Haunt with The Gunpoets amping things up for the crowd. If you find yourself wondering where your friends are Friday night and why you're alone, it's probably because they're all going to be at this show. Here are two exclusive cuts off the record as well as a youtube clip of what to expect Friday night. Dig it and dig it well.

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Ithaca Festival Performers Needed!

The 2009 Ithaca Festival is starting to heat up! The festival already has a lot of buzz around it this year, with people starting to get very excited, and we of course want you to be a part of it! If you're interested in being a performer for the Ithaca Festival this year, it's easy, but you're running out of time. The deadline is March 17th, and you can apply right here http://ithacafestival.typepad.com/applications/2009/01/performer-application.html . We wish you the best of luck with getting in on this wonderful opportunity and either way hope to see your presence down at this year's Ithaca Festival, let the sunshine in!

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Band Submissions

We've created a fairly extensive list of the local artists in this town and included a few regional favorites that come here to play often enough. Our idea is that every band should have a mini-profile where people can find out about your band, what you play, and see some photos and hear some songs. We've written some rough information that we'll eventually upload if we don't hear from you, but you know your band best.

Judy Hyman of The Horseflies, one of Ithaca's most legendary bands, has been kind enough to be among the first to submit information to us. This is what their profile looks like, and what yours will look like too!

If you click on the picture below, a form will open where you can enter all the pertinent information about your band or yourself as a performer. When you send the form, we'll get an email with everything, including the pictures and songs you upload; then we'll get it on the site as soon as possible. So if you play around town, and want people to know more about what you do, please click below to get started. We look forward to hearing from you!

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We wanted to write a quick little ditty, much as we do with our Forum here on IthacaMusic.com. We've been trying to utilize it more often because not everything can be written about in a full article. If you check out our Forum page above you can get involved in the action, read some good news, start your own news, and check out concert photos and reviews as well. In a band? Why not let people know more info about your upcoming shows than what we post in our events calendar? Increase your show turnout for free! If you're one of the 200+ account holders already signed up, just log in and you'll be all set to start posting. What's in the Forum right now? Well, why don't you head on over and see, but before you do, don't forget to create a free account to the left of this article so that you can join in!

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JBB Re-Amplify

It's time to Re-Amplify

Just announced, John Brown's Body will be hitting the road again in support of their new 6-song Remix EP titled 'Re-Amplify'. Some crazy cool remixes are expected by Disashi of Gym Class Heroes as well as Australian phenom, Blue King Brown. Here's all the juicy details, don't miss JBB's homecoming show at Castaways on April 24th with SOJA!

"When we go back on the road next month we will have a NEW RELEASE with us called RE-AMPLIFY. The ep features 6 remixes from AMPLIFY and a live track that was recorded during our fall tour with Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad at The Aggie Theater in Fort Collins, CO.

RE-AMPLIFY will debut exclusively on iTunes March 3rd and then a full release on March 17th. You can pre-order the record, see the album artwork, and pick up a new JBB shirt inspired by one of our most popular tour posters here: PRE-ORDER RE-AMPLIFY

We have a diverse group of producers and artists on the record from all over the world. The story of this EP is every bit as interesting and inspiring as the music itself. We will start putting together some of our experience working with these wonderful people and let you know more about how this project took off in the coming weeks. We will be posting many of the songs soon.

The producers involved on RE-AMPLIFY include:

Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo: guitarist from the Gold Record Certified Gym Class Heroes
Tommie Sunshine: American rave legend and remixer of songs by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Killers, Panic! At The Disco, Good Charlotte and others
GoldieLocks: up-and-coming artist/producer from the UK, recently nominated for DJ Mag Best British Breakthrough Producer and featured in a photo spread in Maxim
Dubmatix: one of Canada’s best known reggae producers, recently nominated for a Juno
Blue King Brown: Australian reggae/afro-beat masters, of whom Carlos Santana said, “…my favorite band right now”
Wrongtom: London DJ who has remixed Hard-Fi, Lily Allen and Roots Manuva

'RE-AMPLIFY takes the Future Roots sound we achieved on AMPLIFY even further into directions we might never have gone on our own,' says drummer Tommy Benedetti. 'It’s been exciting hearing our songs in other producers’ hands. We enjoyed Dubmatix’s version of ‘The Gold’ so much, we are going to start playing it that way live. Then we bring it full circle to the early JBB sound by ending the record with a new roots track we’ve been having fun playing on the road.'

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We are hitting the road hard starting next month with Blue King Brown for 8 shows in Colorado and the West Coast, and then we join SOJA for 7 dates in the East Coast including some of our most anticipated concerts in Ithaca and Boston!

Be well and we hope to see you all soon.

Peace,

JBB"

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