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Last Updated: 12/17/2009

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City: Buffalo
State: New York
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/8/2006

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Friday, November 13, 2009 

Current mood:  happy
Category: Travel and Places
Dear Friends,

Son of the Sun's "How Can it Be?" was recently placed in Roadtrip Nation Season Six on PBS!

There are 2 timeframes in Episode 6 where How Can it Be? was placed.

The 1st is at: 4:11

The 2nd is at: 15:08



How Can it Be? was also placed on the CD Sampler used to promote the television series on Roadtrip Nation's COLLEGE CAMPUS PROMO TOUR.

SOTS RTN PBS TV Series Soundtrack
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 

Current mood:  excited
Category: Music
From SOTS Banners


http://www.magichat.net/ontour/vote

Guys and gals.......we really need your help on this one. SOTS made it into the Top 10 Final Bands of Magic Hat's "WE WANT TO SPONSOR YOUR BAND's TOUR CONTEST".

It would be greatly appreciated if you take a minute of your time to visit this website and VOTE for SON of the SUN:

http://www.magichat.net/ontour/vote

If we win this contest, it will help us put together a six city tour and will also help us fund the release of our new album "The Happy Loss".......not to mention all the Magic Hat we can stomach.

VOTING ENDS November 29th so please, VOTE and tell a friend.

Thank you all kindly.....with love,

-SOTS-
Currently listening:
Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964
By Sam Cooke
Release date: 2003-06-17
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Saturday, November 07, 2009 

Current mood:  breezy
Category: Music


Ticestar Entertainment Presents: Son of the Sun live at Staples on Allen St in Buffalo, NY with our good friend and collaborator Mike Brown and the Sneakies!

Friday Night - November 13th 2009 @ Staples - 253 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY
Doors are at 9pm...Come early as Staples will fill up FAST and this is an amazng line-up we have in store for you! Don't miss out!

This is also a little B-Day celebration for our good friend Carrie Skrobacz!

$5 at the door

THIS IS A 21+ Event

Drink Specials: TBA

Remember to Leave Your Drama At Home!
Currently listening:
Dvno
By Justice
Release date: 2008-05-20
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 

Current mood:  accomplished
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
SOTS selected as a Top 10 Finalist in the Magic Hat Band Sponsorship Competition!
Check us out here: http://www.magichat.net/people and get ready to VOTE Nov 10th - 30th to help us win 1,000 bucks and a Mini-Tour sponsored by Magic HAT BEER!

The money will help us pay for our upcoming album The Happy Loss due out this Winter!!!

thanks and love, 

sots


and remember to drink your #9!!!


Quote from Magic Hat website:

"Please welcome the second Finalist for the On Tour competition: Son of the Sun. This Upstate New York quintet's mellow melody is tight, and when they say their harmonies are reminiscent of The Kinks, well, they ain't lying. Check out their submission How Can It Be? and decide for yourselves. Stay tuned for Finalist #3!"
Magic Hat Blurb

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 

Current mood:  jubilant
Category: Music
Some snapshots and footage of Son of the Sun recording their album "The Happy Loss" at Temperamental Recordings in Geneseo, N.Y.
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Monday, October 19, 2009 

Current mood:  optimistic
Category: Music
Click here to Vote!

SON of the SUN Nominated for "Best Original Band Award" by 29th ANNUAL 2009 BUFFALO MUSIC AWARDS

Click the link to Vote for Son of the Sun Below!

 - 75 Awards - 6 Bands - Thursday November 19th, 2009 - Doors 7:30PM | Showtime 8:00PM Club Paradise - 3950 McKinley Parkway Blasdell, NY - Sponsored by Night-Life Magazine Mighty Taco and Miller Lite

http://www.bestofwny.com/entertainment

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Monday, October 19, 2009 

Current mood:  high
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

First installment of the Happy Loss sessions recorded at Temperamental Studio, Geneseo, N.Y.

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Monday, October 12, 2009 

Current mood:  working
Cincinnati City Beat Review / MPMF 09 Cincinnati City Beat Review / MPMF 09 A flood of adjectives immediately comes to mind upon exposure to Son of the Sun's music - lush, affecting, shimmering, languid, dreamy, and ethereal, to name a few - via five guys who surely have albums by Gram Parsons and the Velvet Underground scattered amid their Buffalo practice space. Truth in advertising: if the son of the sun actually formed a band, this impressive sonic sigh would probably be what it would sound like. Dig: Mazzy Star fronted by a dude, The Beatles in slow motion, lazy Sunday mornings. - Cincinnati City Beat / MPMF 2009
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Friday, October 02, 2009 

Current mood:  hopeful
Click HERE to check us out on the Magic Hat Beer Co. Website.

Check out our Magic Hat Band Profile. We have a chance to win a $1,000 bucks and a 6 city tour with Magic Hat venues across the USA. Also, please leave a comment if you get a chance.

HOW it WORKS (from Magic Hat website)
Bands can enter their music until October 31st. Then Magic Hat will brood over beers and bands to select 10 finalists. From November 10th to November 30th, it's up to YOU to vote for the winner!

We need your input on these bands! We've offed many a beer in the past, so some may consider our judgment a little iffy. The more you comment, the more we'll be able to see why the band you like is so badass. Tell us why this band should be a finalist, and we might listen. The final 10 bands will be voted upon by YOU, the libation loving public, on November 30, 2009. Constructive criticism, deconstructive criticism, we want it all and we want it bad.

If you dig the tunes please share this link http://magichat.net/ontour/bands/son_sun on facebook, myspace, or whatever else your social networking preference may be.

much love,

sots
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Sunday, September 13, 2009 

Current mood:  grateful
Category: Music
Buffalo News - Joe Sweeney Story Link

7th Music Is Art Festival offers unparalleled sonic stimulation
By Joe Sweeney
NEWS CONTRIBUTING REVIEWER

“If there’s anything you haven’t tried, today’s the day to try it,” Robby Takac exclaimed Saturday afternoon on the front steps of the Albright-Knox—referring, of course, to art forms. The statement encapsulates the appeal of the Music Is Art Festival, a yearly smorgasbord of locally produced creativity that practically forces people to open their minds.

Saturday marked the seventh edition of the festival, and it was a testament to the success of Takac’s not-for-profit brainchild. The Goo Goo Dolls bassist founded Music Is Art in 2004 with the goal of stressing the importance of music in our community, building awareness in local schools and shining a spotlight on deserving local musicians, leaving no genre unturned.

Music Is Art has not only done that, it’s also given us the most sonically stimulating local event of the year — if you’ve ever used the Buffalo music scene as the butt of a joke, this year’s festival would make you lower your head in shame. We’re talking 12 straight hours of live performances, bouncing across three stages, organized by people who don’t give a rat’s patoot about pleasing demographics.

And our pool of local talent was more than large enough to fill every second. Son of the Sun delivered a set of shimmering melodies that did justice to its name. The opening song, “How Can It Be,” is so rich, dramatic and true, it could be a Roy Orbison ballad.

Family FUNKtion & the Sitar Jams immediately followed, a trio of brothers (sitar player, drummer and bassist) that mixes raga, funk and jazz to create some uniquely intoxicating grooves. This Medeski, Martin & Shankar style simultaneously spans continents and moves rears; the group’s entertaining genre mash-ups are a microcosm of the festival itself.

Things just got more eclectic from here — at one point, the hip-hop duo Crooked Letta was on the main stage, singing and spitting rhymes about poverty’s stranglehold on the lower class, while a children’s Irish dance troupe waited in the wings.

The precocious singer/songwriter Erin Sydney Welsh shared her brand of Tracy Chapman-ish folk, which featured some impressive lyrical twists for a 13-year-old. She was followed by Soul Bodega, whose utterly infectious, Spanish-language hip-hop jams were the highlight of the day for me. The trio’s energy was palpable, their joy plain on their faces, and their verses generous portions of syncopated bliss.

Local legend Dave Schulz gave a midday performance, backed by his crack L. A. backing band. The former Goo Goo Dolls keyboardist and leader of Buffalo funk stalwarts C. O. Jones shared material from his debut album, “Connect,” braving some technical difficulties and busting out a handful of big, soulful pop songs that aren’t so far removed from his most famous affiliation.

If Music Is Art was purely a live music experience, it would be impressive enough. But on top of all the beats, chords and harmonies, practically anything else that could be called art was represented.

A walk from one end of the event to the other could have included glimpses of the following— metal sculptors, groups of hula hoopers, painters, photographers, Darth Vader, ballroom dancers, film screenings, a marching band, live DJs, Clifford the Big Red Dog, potters, a Rock Band video game setup, graffiti artists, a food court and beer garden.
Lord Vader was there as a part of The North Ridge, a Star Wars re-enactment group that performed at different points throughout the day.

Concert Review
Music Is Art Festival
An all-day festival featuring music, dance and other entertainment, Saturday outside Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

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