Band Weblogs

Family, friends and fans will join together for a special event at Humphreys in honor of San Diego native Carl Evans Jr., frontman of nationally acclaimed jazz band Fattburger on Sunday, February 10, 2008 from 6 pm to 12 am.
Evans is in the midst of some serious health challenges and all proceeds collected from the [...]

ActionAid’s Bollocks to Poverty On Tour invites promoters, musicians, and other artists to put on events around the UK to highlight issues of global poverty and inequality. So far it’s been a massive success - with club nights, comedy shows and high profile gigs right across the country …

Anthology will present two concerts to benefit Carl Evans Jr., the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Concerts Benefit for Carl Evans Jr., on Sunday January 20, 2008 in San Diego, California.
Carl Evans Jr., underwent surgery on December 10, 2007 to remove his left leg below the knee. This surgery was necessary to continue his ongoing [...]

BBC Children in Need and Pudsey are back! Terry Wogan is set to host the 28th BBC Children in Need Appeal Show on Friday November 16th, 2007 at 7.00pm on BBC One …

Eclipse Sports & Entertainment announces today the inaugural, 18-city Survivor Celebration Tour - celebrating breast-cancer survivors and benefiting supporting organizations - will begin September 23rd 2007 in New York and end 23-days later October 15th in Los Angeles. The Tour will promote an inspirational Survivor Celebration music CD, a new social networking website for cancer [...]

Organizers have announced that the Live Earth bands and artists set to play the 7/7/07 concert in the USA will be taking place at Giants Stadium in New Jersey.
Acts scheduled to perform at the US concert in New Jersey are to include:
AFI, Akon, Alicia Keys, Bon Jovi, Dave Matthews Band, Fall Out Boy, John Mayer, [...]

Live Earth founder Kevin Wall has announced on LiveEarth.org that Madonna is to be one of the headlining acts set to perform at the upcoming Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium in London July 7th, 2007. In a bid to help raise awareness of climate change and to fight global warming, over one hundred bands [...]

It’s because of the new Babyshambles & Friends release, a cover of The Clash’s brilliant song “Janie Jones” that brought the new cd Janie Jones (Strummerville) to my attention. There’s more behind the appropriately named cd than meets the eye though, as it’s to benefit the charity organization The Joe Strummer Foundation For New Music.
The [...]

First of all, hats off to both Green Day and U2 for donating proceeds from their new single, “The Saints Are Coming” to Music Rising. Music Rising is a campaign founded by U2’s The Edge, music producer Bob Ezrin and Gibson Guitar CEO Henry Juszkiewicz which helps to replace instruments and musical equipment that was [...]

This just in from The Hellset Orchestra Headquarters:
Hellset Orchestra vocalist Michael Wetherburn shall be joining the mighty instru-metalists The Legion of Doom in an evening of celebration of the great Freddie Mercury. Freddie would have been 60 this week and to toast this occasion the said performers will be playing a variety of Queen’s greatest [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Seattle, Washington-August 26, 2006– Jam Camp is an accomplished jazz-rock-fusion band based in the Seattle area. After releasing two critically acclaimed studio albums, Jam Camp and Black Hills Jam-Preserves Volume 2, the band has selected 11 tracks from recent live performances for Jam Camp Live!, which will be a limited release [...]

Ottawa power-pop outfit Cherry Suede, will be one of the featured musical guests at the 2006 edition of Chateguay’s Annual ‘Musical Village’ Fundraiser. The annual summer event which is held on Beethoven Street, was created in 1995 to raise funds for various charitable organizations in Montreal, including, Canadian Cancer Society Of Châteauguay, The Children’s Wish [...]