Check out our article in the physical print of RELIX magazine this month!

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Check out this recent article written by Morgan Rousseau and published in this weeks Times Ledger newspaper, about some recent and future happenings in the Consider the Source world. Thanks Morgan!

Bayside prog rockers were U.S. road warriors in ’08

The Middle Eastern−influenced band Consider the Source plans to start off the New Year with a serious bang, with hopes to keep its momentum going strong as 2009 progresses. And it looks like it will be a groundbreaking year for the Bayside−based group, with multiple national tours, a new album and various festival appearances in the works for 2009.

In the year since the group was profiled in these pages in December 2007, Consider The Source has worked its way through three national tours and four festivals. Its new album “Are You Watching Closely?” drops sometime in March. The album follows “Esperanto,” its debut full−length album, which was released in 2006.

In July, the group did a six−week residency at Mehanata, a Lower East Side club formerly called The Bulgaria Bar (www.mehanata.com), the underground hot spot where the gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello launched their career.

In September, Consider the Source headlined a festival at The Knitting Factory in Tribeca called The Media Allstars alongside artists G.E Smith, legendary guitar player and former band leader of Saturday Night Live, and Adam Levy, Norah Jones’ guitarist

In August, the band organized and headlined a festival at Crash Mansion on the Lower East Side called Image of Music, which featured musicians and artists displaying their talents, many of whom painted live to the music and auctioned the art off at the end of the night. Their Knitting Factory show also included live artists, as well as other smaller scale shows with artist and musician combinations.

“It’s an idea we had to create a community of experimental, expressive free thinkers in the five boroughs,” percussionist Justin Ahiyon said. Ahiyon described CTS as going for an interactive sort of show, with plans of expanding this idea to include dancers, aerial performers and comedy teams.

“We try to bring (our fans) all together under one roof and cross pollinate our art, music, inspiration and ideas on making the evening worth much more to the customer than the $10 door admission,” he said. After the new album is finished, the band’s goal is to keep this style strong as it brings its show around the country.

“All this touring has made us tighter as a unit,” said Gabriel Marin, who plays the guitar and fretless chaturangui (an Indian adaptation of the slide guitar) for the group.

Ferrara and Ahiyon, both Queens natives and Queens College alumni, met Marin, a Hunter College alum and Upper West Side native, through a heavy rock circuit of musicians when they were in their mid−teens.

Since that time, CTS has done a lot to craft its eclectic sound and promote its music in New York and beyond, putting 40 thousand miles on its van in 2008 alone. This is why the group is promoting its Sullivan Hall show as a fund−raiser — to buy a new van. It plans on hitting far more spots this year — doubling the number of shows.

“We plan to more than double that distance in 2009, but we need a rugged van to handle the load,” Ahiyon said.

Over the past year, the group’s national tours brought its unique progressive ethno−fusion style to 45 cities from coast to coast, including Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Dallas and among others.

While the New York City shows have been scarce compared to the countless cities where CTS has spent its nights, the band did perform last week at Sullivan Hall in the West Village. The gig was its last before heading to their Brooklyn recording spot.

“On the last album, we were trying to confine our stuff,” Marin said. “We’re doing this album much like a live show.” Which means more improvisation, and longer stream of consciousness songs.

The title may seem random, but the band cites a quote from the film “The Prestige” starring Christian Bale as the source. “The movie in general is really cool,” bassist John Ferrara said. “The [Alfred Borden] quote ‘Are you watching closely?’ talks about magic and how it is an illusion. A trick, pretty much.”

Ferrara said the band tries to do the same thing with its music. “We try to take our audience by surprise. Try showing them new things.”

Referencing certain films in its performance is not new to the band, which has been known to dub quotes from “Borat” over its live music, mainly as a transition, lightening the mood when its songs wind into heavy tones. Film audio dubbing adds a vocal texture to the music, filling vocal space. Although it is open to guest performances and other collaborations, CTS has said it does not feel its music lacks anything in the absence of a singer. According to Ferrara, “the three of us are the core.”

That strong sentiment, that dynamic connection in music, has made self−promotion a natural and productive way of supporting its music. CTS relies on “word of mouth” and Internet promos from its MySpace page. The independent musical trio say they wouldn’t have it any other way.

“So far we enjoy doing it,” Ferrara said. “We have a street team. We have a lot of support.”

When considering the future of CTS, Marin said he is very hopeful that 2009 is going to be a good year. “The future is very bright. I think this album will give us a big boost.”

The band’s upcoming shows are announced on its Myspace music site, myspace.com⁄considerthemusic, or considerthesourcemusic.com where the previous two albums, “Esperanto” (2006) and their self−titled EP “Consider The Source” (2005), can also be purchased.

By Matt Franciskovich - relix - https://www.relix.com/

Instrumental Sci-Fi prog-rockers Consider the Source (CTS) dished out an intense night of tunes to a packed Sullivan Hall in downtown Manhattan on Saturday night, welcomed by family and friends for the three-piece’s first show in their hometown since September of last year.
The trio (Gabriel Marin on fretless guitar and fretless chaturangui, John Ferrara on bass and Justin Ahiyon on drums, percussion and samples) brought their A-game and delivered a 90-minute set stuffed with established favorites, new developments and a taste of things to come.

Wasting no time, CTS started the night off with two fast and funky numbers that have become staples of the band’s kinetic live performances: “Taihai For the Straight Guy,” a math-rock riff session that left ample room for Marin to explore his array of unworldly effects and “Keep Your Pimp Hand Strong,” which grabbed guts and mashed brains with Ferrara’s visceral bass bumping that shook the building.
“No Touching,” a softer new song from the band’s soon-to-be-recorded album, turned down the distortion while Marin incorporated a flute effect on his double-neck during a Radiohead-ish jam.
The trio’s foreign influences came out during the next tune, beginning with a sitar drone accompanied by Middle-Eastern twangs that eventually swelled into an airy guitar solo played with an ebow (electronic bow) to create a rising and fading essence.
Deemed the band’s “ode to Zoolander,” a tune called “Blue Steel” involved seamless transitions from chaotic freak-outs to head-banging riffage without warning and demanded the attention of all in the room – which it received.
The respectful crowd listened closely as what could be called the band’s only ballad (it’s a stretch) of the night swept through the air with a bluesy finger-picked progression that recalled Eric Clapton’s beautifully clean guitar wails on “You Look Wonderful Tonight,” if only for a few seconds. Proving to be the most mellow song of the night, this stray gem was gently tucked into a powerful set of tunes and lightened up the atmosphere before CTS buckled down their rocking helmets once more.
With a return to the heaviness of songs from earlier in the set, the band flawlessly grooved their way through three more intense jams, showcasing their diversity and pushing their instruments to the proverbial limit.
Before the last song, Ahiyon thanked the audience for its support and dedicated the show “in memory of [his] dad who recently passed.”
Then, Ferrara eased his way into accelerated slap-pop mayhem during an extended bass solo while Marin sat down on the stage and along with everyone else in attendance, watched in amazement as the bassist’s strumming hand turned into a flesh-colored blur. Eventually, Ahiyon kicked in and, after listeners’ ears had been cleansed from chaos momentarily, Marin got up and carved his way back into the arrangement culminating in a fleshy free form explosion of sound to end the set.
With no label backing, Consider the Source is preparing to hit the studio during the first week of February to record its second full-length album, Are You Watching Closely? to be followed by a national tour.

We have an exciting year ahead of us starting with our highly anticipated January 17th show in NYC @ Sullivan hall, the recording of our next album "Are you watching closely?" due out this spring and multiple tours. We just posted the tour dates for our first national tour of 09. Check em out! We will be adding more dates so be sure to check back. Also do let us know if you feel neglected and want us to come to your town. We hate to disappoint. See you on the road!

09 tour dates:
2/11 Albany NY
2/12 Oneonta NY
2/13 TBA
2/14 Philadelphia PA
2/15 TBA
2/16 Richmond VA
2/17 Annapolis MD
2/18 Virginia Beach VA
2/19 Raleigh NC
2/20 Fayetteville NC
2/21 Asheville NC
2/22 Atlanta GA
2/23 Hilton Head SC
2/24 Orlando FL
2/25 Orlando FL
2/26 TBA
2/27 TBA
2/28 TBA
3/2 Neworleans LA
3/3 Houston TX
3/4 Austin TX
3/5 Denton
3/6 Dallas
3/7 Denton
3/8 Ft. Worth
3/10 memphis TN
3/11 TBA
3/12 Madison WI
3/13 Milwaukee WI
3/14 Chicago IL
3/15 Bloomington IN
3/17 Toledo OH
3/18 TBA
3/19 Pittsburgh PA
3/20 Philadelphia PA

More dates will added shortly be sure to check our Myspace page for updates!!

ConsiderTheSourceMusic.com

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Consider the Source will be giving fans a glimpse of some brand new tunes on this amazing night of music and visual projections. Bassist John Ferrara says " This is our first NYC show in a while and knowing our amazing fans and all the festivities we have planned for this night it will be our biggest, wildest show yet" . Don't miss it!

Hey everybody. Here are some of the reviews and interviews we have done in the past. We are certainly missing a bunch, so if anybody has anymore or knows of some we missed, let us know. Much love.

Oneonta State Times
......On Saturday, Consider the Source played for another crowd. While this was Consider the Source's first time playing the Black Oak, they are certainly not strangers to the Oneonta music since they have played muliple shows in the area over the past few years. The all-instrumental band has developed quite the following among Oneonta students, and it's easy to see why. The three piece band from New York City always puts on a memorable show led by guitarist Gabriel Marin.
         Standing well over six feet tall, Marin is a sight to see. His presence is accentuated by his sometimes unreal sounding guitar playing. On a fretless, double-necked guitar, Marin led the band through a night of mood enticing jams. All three members of the band are incredible musicians, with John Ferara playing a funky slap bass and Justin Ahiyon on drums that filled the room and kep the energy alive. It continued to amaze me that a mere trio was playing this music and not a larger ensemble.
         Although their styles changed throughout the night, the standout portions were when they experimented with Middle Eastern sounds that felt like they could easily be feautured on the "Lawrence of Arabia" soundtrack. Using these sounds as a theme, the band seamlessly transitioned into full out jams, especially in their much demanded encore. As senior April Hilmer put it "[the band] has a lot of energy and the put on an amazing live performance."

AnyMuseWillDo
What happened on Sunday the 17th was an exceptional example of how Pittsburgh develops a scene. In a crowd of maybe 40 people, I would venture to say that at least half of them were musicians, many from influential bands in the city. This is step one. Step two, which Consider the Source takes care of simply by showing up, is you have to get people's attention.
     Many acts attempt step two by creating crazy stage antics, constantly bantering with the audience, or otherwise "performing". But Consider the Source is hardly an "act" "performing". It takes a lot of practice to get as good as these guys. I'm talking like, "Congrats on your baby boy! Here, I bought him a drum kit! Oh, by the way I already have the other bandmates lined up for him. Just give me a call when he can sit up straight." Like someone scouted out these angels at birth... Even bands who sign deals with the devil do not wind up this damned good.
From the first song, the audience was speechless. Muted by the complex, yet engaging, melodies and rhythms that CTS winds through their songs. Filled with poly-rhythmic stops and starts, cohesive melodies, consistant and flowing energy, these guys really know how to transport an audience. Damned good.
       New song... "This one's a bit hard" Ah yes, because we all followed what you were doing on the other songs anyways. DAMN, you don't even SEE Gabrial's fingers move while he plays! They are a blur of precision! And then, he is suddenly - as if by electronic magic - playing trumpet, keyboards, you name it! All from the same instrument. Magicians. Damned good. Really f*ing good.

Fresno Famous
        Fresno ....tsk tsk tsk..you missed out on a GREAT show last wednesday night(sept. 3rd) at Club Habanos. 
     Consider The Source headlined the night, and they kicked ass. Consider The Source is a three piece instrumental group from New York who are fixtures on the "instrumental scene" in The Big Apple. These 3 young men are devastating with there music. The Drummer plays a fusion drum kit with regular drum set, middle eastern drums, and congass. The Bass player singled handedly led the group, and the guitar player is a shredder from hell..using a double necked guitar and synthizers to create electic sounds and shred sessions that I've never heard.
      This young group has toured US twice and won a competition on a music show named "fearless" that is a nationally syndicated show on FOX. They told me it comes .. MAD TV.

Guilt Free Pleasures
Next up was Consider The Source, who has one of the most enthusiastic fan bases I've encountered yet. I missed them when they played with Julius C, and I was immediately inundated with messages from their fans and friends telling me that I missed out. Listening to their music on their myspace on my crappy laptop speakers, I didn't really understand the appeal because they seemed like your standard jam band, but I thought I would give them a try anyway. And now, having seen them live, I completely understand why people are so fanatical about them. They were amazing. They totally blew me away. The band is composed of Gabriel Marin (playing a double-necked guitar), John Ferrara (bass) and Justin Ahiyon (drums and samples). Each of them is so skilled and they play with such speed and precision as I've never seen before. Not to mention they were perfectly in sync as a band. Their passion and ferver was infectious. I found myself head banging with the crowd on more than one occasion. They fused a number of styles together - funk, rock, classic rock, metal, psychedelic - and there was definitely a heavy Middle Eastern influence in there.
      On another kind of random tangent, when John Ferrara was doing his bass solos, it almost reminded me of Saturday Night Live's "bass off" skit. His hands were moving so fast that they were blurry to the human eye. It was crazy. And Gabriel Marin makes the best faces when he's playing the guitar (see right). He seriously looks like he's in ecstasy. One other thing I found interesting was that drummer Justin Ahiyon was the one who spoke to the audience. That's kind of rare. Maybe it was just because he was the only one with microphones near him, but I don't know if I've ever been to a show where the drummer was the only member of the band who spoke to the audience. Usually they sit quietly at the back of the stage.
           Consider The Source is kicking off their US tour here in New York on April 3rd. For you Minneapolitans, they'll be in town April 24th and 25th. Check out the rest of their tour dates on their myspace. Definitely go see them if you have the chance. They're extremely talented.

AnyMuseWillDo
    These guys are just flat-out awesome. If you see ONE more YIV show for the rest of the summer, for your own sake, make it this one. I will personally refund anyone who leaves unsatisfied, whatever your musical taste may be. This is the first stop outside of NYC on what will be a monumentally amazing 2-month tour.
   Gabriel, a herald in his own right, played a double-neck guitar. But if I hadn't seen it, one may have thought it was a sitar. It also sounded like it may have been Jesus himself playing guitar. These are not compliments I throw out lightly. If he had not looked like an angel on stage, these would not be my chosen words. And the music he was making was even more impressive than his stage presence.
         The caliber of musicianship in this three-piece does not decrease by order of appearance in this story. Instead, the three musicians interwove their instrumentation to a degree that was moving. Like shake-the-ground-you-walk-on moving. Like this-is-the-feeling-I-get-when-I'm-on-top-of-the-world moving. I applaud these guys for finding harmony within themselves that extends out in every direction to the corners of the universe.
       John keeps the funky bass backbone going through all variants of quick turnarounds and polyrhythmic variations, and is one of the few electric bassists I've seen do a truly kickass bass solo. Like "wow, is that Jimi reincarnated as a bassist or what?" He seemed to be having a really great time on stage too, enough to almost spark a "man, I wish I were singing with these guys" twinge of jealousy. 
       Justin has a set full of various percussive elements, and you can hear him play doumbek on "Dumbekistan". Being able to switch off on the pieces of his kit without batting an eye, and still keep the foundation of the rhythm so solidly tight is a truly amazing feat. There is no lack of drummers who are able to do only one or the other, but this will not be a case of that. Instead, he gave me renewed excitement that, given enough dedication and love for an art, anyone can be a (musical/painterly/dancing) DaVinci.
     Did I mention that they're also very friendly, humble guys? This is, again I reiterate, something I *never* take for granted.
    The fact that Club Cafe wasn't sold out was obviously no measure of their skill. Of the uncountable shows I've seen at Club Cafe, this is one of the two best ever. The other, being very stylistically different, was John Hayes' Midnight Cabaret live. CTS could easily sell out the Peterson Center, give it a few years and 2 more albums. And, while their recorded music is really great, their live shows are even better. How often does that happen??
Honestly, if they're not picked up by a major label on this tour, I will lose all hope for the major players in the music industry. Or perhaps I'll offer to pick them up on my label, though there is simply no way I could do them the justice they deserve at this point in my career. They are Consider the Source, from NYC, after all.

Eyes Wide Music
*Previously published on chichi212.com
           There's a pretty big crowd here at Ace of Clubs in Greenwich Village. I've got every stereotype around me: kids with tattoos and All-Stars, kids with Birkenstocks and girls with heels. Parents, too. There's no demographic for this band. And everyone's staring at the stage with dropped jaws and deer-in-the-headlights stares.
"How'd the f*ck he do that?" someone murmurs between solos. He's mesmerized. Almost salivating.
I'm at a typical Consider The Source (CTS) show. It comes off more performance art and less rock show. But this isn't because the band is showy – they're just real musicians. I know, unheard of.
There's the towering, unassuming guitarist on stage left. He's holding a double-necked, fretless guitar. His hair is flailing around his face like yellow silk in the fan's wind. He looks serene one moment, and he's banging about the next. This is New York based musician and songwriter Gabriel Marin, whose relationship with the NY rock scene has been prolific, especially considering he's barely a graduate. After seeing Marin play, you'll be air-guitaring in the mirror pretending you were him, not Hendrix.
He's played in a few different bands, including The New Mexikans and Earth Stood Still. He's played in India with world-renown musicians. He's played at house parties and in basements with hipsters. He's played jazz, classical and straight-up stoner rock. He's played to naked belly-dancers. He's played with rappers. They just finished up a show-packed national tour, including a performance at the esteemed Burning Man festival and they're readying for their next between August and September.
But now, he's standing on stage with CTS, one of New York City's more popular rock bands. They're not signed – yet, but they're following is devout to a seemingly religious extent. Self described as "Psychedelic middle eastern rock," the band bloomed about three years ago, and have been gathering more steam ever since. And a lot of steam it is: Jazz Times writer Howard Mandel wrote for the New York Press, "This white-hot trio has the juice of this moment....using Middle Eastern motifs as a launching pad for maniacal electric jams that suggest they've just come back from Iraq and can't wait to demonstrate what exhilaration amidst chaos sounds like."
Marin plays with two incredible musicians: bassist John Ferrar and drummer Justin Ahiyon - and their trippy, heavy, ethnic melting pot musicianship sounds sort of like the apocalypse. But a sexy apocalypse, if that's at all plausible. Citing their influences as Tool, North and South Indian music and jazz-rock bands like The Bad Plus, Marin says improvisation is a key component of how much their music rocks. Marin explained it to me: "We use odd rhythms and melodic ornamentation found in various eastern musics. Combining that with the psychadelic jazz and rock influences we have is the key to our sound."
   I admit I've got some bad tastes (I'll listen to Taking Back Sunday any day of the week) but I know good music when I hear it. CTS doesn't offer that same Shins-esq sound that every Brooklyn-based rock band is toting now. And they're certainly not some hippie kids pretending to incorporate Middle Eastern sounds into their music. They've got musical training, passion and travels abroad comprising the backbone of their sound.

Queens Time Ledger
       They consider it "Progressive Ethno-Fusion," while others would call it ideal late-night entertainment for the college aged youth of New York City. The eclecticism reflected in their music is ever-present in New York, from the Turkish corner store to the Indian restaurant a few blocks away. Consider The Source is a band that appreciates the layers of cultural dimensions that make up their city. Thanks to their relentless dedication and independent promotion, CTS plans to make 2008 their year to shine.

On Nov. 10 at The Village Underground on West Third St. guitarist Gabriel Marin, a tall young man with classic rock star shoulder length blonde hair, shows off a distinctive style of playing his fretless guitar – hunched over and eyes closed, clearly lost in a musical realm of his own making. A Hunter College alum, Gabriel, 25, hails from the Upper West Side in Manhattan, but met fellow band mates and Queens natives John Ferrara and Justin Ahiyon, both 24, through a heavy rock circuit of musicians when they were in their mid-teens.

Bassist John and drummer Justin, both Queens College alumni and Oakland Garden natives, perform with a mesmerizing ability to raise your heart rate with steady, growing energetic rhythms. Justin's vigorous drumming combined with a hot, cramped venue like The Village Underground prompts him to go shirtless mid-set. They are hard to miss, even through the smoky air of the tiny club. Sweaty and furiously thrashing, something in their music still manages to come across as serene. Most likely it's the Eastern tint in their musical style. 

Something all three of these young men have in common, though, is their down-to-earth modesty. They smile and hug members of the audience when their set ends. They even hit up near-by bars, inviting everyone in attendance to tear it up with a late night after party. Their amicable reverence for each other is nearly tangible. These guys share an unspoken relationship for each other, thanks to their music.

"We've become friends through the music. The three of us have a unique style on our instruments," Gabriel said in reflection of the band's roots. CTS began at a party one night about three years ago when Gabriel and Justin started jamming together. "He was the only other person that was into Turkish music," said Gabriel. Soon after they brought John into the mix.

What culminated was, as Justin put it, "a dynamic connection in music," so the musicians decided to make it official. They named their band, started recording their improvisations and booked venues.

Their use of Indian and Mid-Eastern musical style comes straight from the source – in January 2006 Gabriel and Justin traveled to India in search of authentic lessons in life and the exotic music of the land. They proudly announced on their homepage, considerthemusic.com that "we're traveling across the globe with our instruments, in pursuit of music and inspiration." According to Gabriel, "The trip didn't change our style as much as it reconfirmed that it was the direction we wanted to go in."

While in India the pair crashed with the musical Gurus they were studying under in Calcutta, and at other times stayed in cockroach ridden youth hostiles. They were completely submerged in the poverty and chaos of the city, but took it as a learning experience. After a thirty-three hour journey to the South, they were pleased to stay in a decent apartment with other percussion students. They opened their minds, and tuned into the teachings of the East in the hope of brining a newfound strength to their music.

And so they did, only to return to the U.S with a deeper connection to the music of the Far East, and a spirituality that beckoned them to explore the idea of genre bending.

According to Gabriel, this aspect of their music includes Bulgarian folk tunes, Jewish folk music, Northern and Southern Indian classical music, Persian music, Turkish music and American jazz and heavy metal undertones. "We all grew up playing jazz, and I was really into classical, too," Gabriel said. "[The fusion] comes from the metal, jazz and classical music in our blood. We were a fusion band for a year and a half before we went.

John picked up on his band mates' enthusiasm for the sound right away. "It's rhythmic, and in-depth. Once it was exposed, we had to explore it," he said.

Justin described Indo-Eastern music as having the ability to "make you leave yourself," like a vehicle for spiritual transportation. Once they started applying this aspect to their improvisational jamming, the two sounds of East and West just fell together.

With no lead singer, the band compensates for their absence of vocals with the sporadic insertion of one-liners from an electronic sampler, mostly in the form of quotations from the movie "Borat." CTS said they are inspired by movies, and enjoy having a sense of humor when they perform because it lightens up their performance, and gets a kick out of the crowd.  John said that the band is an instrumental trio that has no problem taking risks with their audience. He said that their strong instrumentation works for them because they have open-minded fans that produce what Justin considers "an atmosphere of love."

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we're just back from our 6 week national tour. 40 shows spanning 35 cities in 45 days. ohh yea, non-stop rocking! Word is spreading like wildfire. We now have a solid fan base and national awareness from coast to coast. Packed houses in cities as diverse as Milwaukee, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, all over Texas, Philadelphia, NY state and more....
This is only the beginning. 2009 will be jam packed with tours from Feb until Sept.

here's the official Itinerary and a list of a few of the amazing bands we played with along the way.

August 14th - September 28th 2008

All Asia Bar - Cambridge MA
The Fire - Philadelphia PA
Mehanata - New York NY
Your Inner Vagabond - Pittsburgh PA
AJ Rocco's - Cleveland OH
The Jazz Estate - Milwaukee WI
The Brass Rail - Whitewater WI
Public Space - Madison WI
Reggies Music Joint - Chicago IL
The Nomad Pub - Minneapolis MN
The Bit Saloon - Seattle WA
Chromasound - Seattle WA
Chaos Cafe - Portland OR
Yen Ha Lounge - Portland OR
Java Lounge - Sacramento CA
Retox Lounge - San Francisco CA
Climate Theater - San Francisco CA
Cigar Bar - Fresno CA
The Ugly Mug - Orange CA
The Good Hurt - Los Angeles CA
Dream Street Cafe - San Diego CA
O'Connells Bar - San Diego CA
Rocky Larue's - Lubbock TX
Andy's Bar - Denton TX
Lakewood Bar & Grill - Dallas TX
The Boiler Room - Denton TX
Cool Beans - Denton TX
J&J's Pizza - Denton TX
Bank Street Bar - New Orleans LA
Newby's - Memphis TN
Five Spot - Atlanta GA
The Rock Shop - Fayetteville NC
Cary Street Cafe - Richmond VA
The Whiskey - Annapolis MD
Knitting Factory - New York NY
Sake Club - Oneonta NY
Oasis Pub - New London CT
Red Square - Albany NY
Haverford Festival - Havertown PA

And Some Awesome Bands we played with... Tremendous thanks for all your music, love and support!!

Infinien (myspace.com/infinien)
Miz Metro (myspace.com/mizmetro)
Scribes of Fire (myspace.com/scribesoffire)
Complex Complex (myspace.com/ComplexComplexTrio)
Doppler Shift (myspace.com/dopplershift)
The Danglers (myspace.com/thedanglers)
Snoose Junction (myspace.com/SnooseJunction)
Barabbas Quartet (myspace.com/thebarabbasquartet)
Blue Rabbit (myspace.com/BlueRabbitMusic)
Mercury Tree (myspace.com/mercurytree)
Patrick Contraras (www.myspace.com/patrickcontreras)
800 Pounds (myspace.com/eighthundredlbs)
Good Dog (myspace.com/gooddogband)
Can't Hang (myspace.com/canthang)
Social Hero (myspace.com/SocialHero)
Julius C (myspace.com/JuliusC)
The Lawn Boys (myspace.com/thelawnboys)
Wreckloose (myspace.com/wrecklooseband)

That's right in our quest to spread our name we have done what few instrumental power trios have done. We got on TV!!!! This Saturday Night , 8/23 @ 12:30 after Mad TV (Eastern Standard Time) our song "Do Not Shrink Me Gypsy" will be on Fearless Music TV on Fox 5. We are going to be the third band on the show.

The way the show works is the band who gets the most votes wins another slot on the following week so PLEASE VOTE FOR US!!! You can vote for us before and after the episode airs by going to the Fearless Music website (www.fearlessmusic.tv) and voting for us.This is a big step in the right directions for us but we need your help to spur us along!

If you are not in the New York time zone then check out Fearless TV's nation wide time listings here http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=2799638&blog
ID=356905129.

Thanks for all of your support guys! Spread the word!

John
CTS

We are heading out on our next Cross country tour in a couple of weeks and wish to kiss our NY fans good bye with a CD GIVEAWAY TOUR KICK OFF SHOW !!! It's gonna be at CRASH MANSION and we will be co headlining it with ROB SALZER & FRIENDS.

If you don't recognize the name Google ROB SALZER and check him out, he and his band are FRIGGIN AWESOME!!!

We also have some very close friends of ours playing, all of which are awesome.

Check em out:

7pm - iNFiNieN - myspace.com/infinien
Sickly talented friends that we'll be touring with. Ambient odd time progressive jazz rock.
They just recorded a new album that we had the pleasure of hearing and it is UNREAL! Def come early and check these guys out

8pm - SCRIBES OF FIRE myspace.com/scribesoffire
Rockin aggressive metal, tight and energetic. These guys are in the middle of a cross country tour now and we've heard they've been tearing shit up in every state.

9pm - MIZ METRO- myspace.com/mizmetro -
Just one a slot two weeks in a row on FOX 5's Fearless music TV. She has an awesome jazz/ rock voice with a kickass band backing her. She also hosted The Urban Gypsy Circus Parties that we used to rock at back in the day.

10pm - CONSIDER THE SOURCE- Over an hour set!!!!!!!
myspace.com/considerthemusic
We'll be debuting a few brand new tunes- "Sudden Valley"- (Chilled out, sad and nostalgic but rocking) "Blue Steel"- (Odd time Hyper Latin, Metal)and one more yet to be named!

1130 PM - ROB SALZER & FRIENDS- myspace.com/umelt
These guys are INCREDIBLE!!! DO NOT MISS THEM!! They will be perfoming an amazing two hour set. These guys insanely talented and know how to rock out a venue. We are excited and honored to be playing with them.

1:30 AM COMPLEX COMPLEX- myspace.com/ComplexComplexTrio
Our good friends from Wisconsin. A mix between the Bad Plus, Dub Trio and jazz bassist Avishai Cohen. Amazingly talented dudes with some really cool tunes. They'll be ending the night and I promise you it'll be worth it to check them out.


Be sure to stick around!!!

When you get there say your here for Consider the Source and get your free CD!!! Come early and check out all the bands, stay late night for the OPEN BAR @ MIDNIGHT!!!! This will be a CTS show for the ages!!!

See you guys there!!

Saturday August 16th
Crash Mansion - CD giveaway/Tour kickoff Show W/ Special guests!!
199 Bowery st
NYC
Doors @ 6 pm
CTS @ 10pm sharp!
OPEN BAR @ MIDNIGHT!!!!!!!!!!
$10

Directions:
199 bowery between Spring St. and Rivington. The closest subway stop is the 6 train at spring street you walk with the traffic (so you are traveling east ) to Bowery. Across the street at 199, Large Grey front.

The J & M trains stop at Bowery and Delancy St. you walk north on Bowery to 199.

You can also take the F train to 2nd ave stop, walk to Bowery which is west. make a left.

walk down three blocks to 199

ConsiderTheSourceMusic.com
CrashMansion.com