May 25th Update:

We've entered a Warped Tour contest for the July 12th date in LA, on the DIY stage. You can vote for us by going to www.diystage.com, click the voting icon, scroll to the LA show on 7/12, check Grounded and hit the enter key. You can vote once per 24 hours, per IP address, per show. Vote often and tell of your friends to vote as well.
--Thanks

If you haven't already checked it out, visit the Engage Internet Radio site on our Top 8 and vote for "Misery." Check out all the other cool bands while you're there as well.

More news from Grounded (April 30th)

We were just informed that we've been selected to play a date on the Vans Warped Tour this summer, on the Hot Topic/Kevon Says Stage. We'll be in Pomona on July 7th! We hope you all (atleast those in So Cal) can check us out then. We are really excited about this!

Also, both albums, "All Too Human" and "Revolution Jukebox" are now available on iTunes, Napster, and every other download service out there. Check it out, tell your friends, and listen to Grounded all day long.

We just finished the leg of our tour that included Chalkie, from Orange County. They joined us for 5 dates in Las Vegas and Nor Cal. Check them out at myspace.com/chalkie.

See ya at the next show,

Philip

Hey everyone, we're hitting the road again!  We're very excited to see old friends and make new ones along the way.  This weekend will take us to the Arizona/California border, and we'll be leaving for 8 straight weeks beginning April 12th or 13th.  Wish us luck.  As you can see from the calendar, we'll be starting out in Las Cruces and making our way to Nor Cal, via, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Flagstaff and Las Vegas.  After a week in Nor Cal, we will head up through Oregon, Washington and eventually land in Vancouver, Canada.  Yep, Canada!  This leg of the tour will take about 4 weeks, and after we will head back home to Riverside playing more shows along the way.  Check the calendar for a So Cal show to end the tour in early June.

During our Spring Tour, some friends wil be joining us to play shows along the way.  Check the calendar for the specific dates, and check out these great band's pages:

Made On Malice, from Riverside; myspace.com/madeonmalice

Chalkie, from Santa Ana, myspace.com/chalkie

A Single Second, from Sacramento; myspace.com/asinglesecondsacca

Dexx, from Manteca; myspace.com/dexxmusic

No Bragging Rights, from Riverside; myspace.com/nobraggingrights

When summer rolls around, you will find Grounded playing local shows, heading out on a few weekend tours, and writing new material.  We haven't had much time in the past 10 months to work on new ideas, since we've been touring and working a lot, but we're excited to have that time this summer.

Philip--GROUNDED

We are on the final leg of our 8 week tour.  It is really wierd to think about everything we have done since we left.  Two months can be a very long time if you are living in a van with three other guys. We have all gone a little crazy. We haven't resorted to cannibalism, however...well, atleast not yet. 

We did a radio interview over the phone with Alaska.  We did an in studio radio interview at Cal State Sacramento last week also. 

In Las Vegas we bet all of our gas money on red and won.  Then we bet again on black and lost. 

I had to go to the hospital for strepp throat in Livermore.  That was unpleaseant, but the show at UNITY skate shop was great.  We also got to see the premier of A REASON TO LIVE, the Unity shop's docu-skate video.  You should really pick one up...it is great.  Two live video's of GROUNDED as well as some other really good bands that have come through UNITY.

Partied with the Czech Republic again.  Too much fun.

Got rained on in Sacto but had some really special people feed us. 

Got rained on in Manteeeeeeca also.  Food provided by Nick and Sheri.  Thanks so much!

hmmmm....

No, we didn't pick up any hitch-hikers.  Ok, just one.  It was raining and he was going the way we were.  Interesting stretch.

St. Helena is the same.  Vineyards, sky, mountains, trees, Amanda's birthday party.  All good things.

I have forgetten so much, but hopefully we can put some pictures up when we get home.

Talk to ya soon!

::Exhale::

The past four days were very tough, but the outcome was amazing.  We played 9 performances in four days.  Wed-Fri we played at three different high school in New Mexico, two sets on Thurs.  These high school shows have been turning out great.  It is free for everyone and especially fun for us because we always have a big crowd. We try to advertise our all ages shows at the schools.  We are expecting Wednesday's show at Sol Arts to sell out.

Wednesday night was kinda lame.  The booker dropped the ball and didn't book any other bands to play with us.  There were a handful of people and we made the best out of it, but it could have been better, much better.

Thursday night was awesome!  The local hip magazine in Santa Fe advertised our show.  A few groups of people actually came out to see the SoCal touring band even though it was our first time to the area.  The crowd was really having a good time.  A group of students from the American Indian Art Institute invited us over to their party after the show. 

Friday night was rad as well.  We were so stoked that some of the students from the school we played earlier that day came out to see us again. The P.A. system at the club was giving us technical difficulties through a couple songs, but the crowd was forgiving to say the least. We had a great time rock'n the Warehouse 21 in Santa Fe.  After the show we went back to the home of our artist friends where they were having an even bigger party.  They invited us to perform, and if you know us then you know we never turn down a show.  We even did some jamming with a local rapper named GODSENT.  A great ending to our busy day.

Last night's show at The District in Abq. was cancelled.  The promoter was fired and Goth Night was setup to take our place.  No one informed us.  Fortunately, we were able to sweet talk our way onto the stage of the Tiki Lounge, probably the coolest rock club/bar in town.  We opened up for some great bands and were able to sell a good share of merch to make up for gas expenses.  THANK YOU TIKI LOUNGE!

We have three days of rest now, and we are loving it.  We are still working on all the behind the scenes business crap everyday however...we never really get a break.  But this is what we live for.

Talk to you when we get to Flagstaff.  It's gonna be cold.

Ian

From the first floor library of New Mexico State University.

A lot has happened the past week, I will attempt to re-cap.

El Paso, TX.  We had to drive all night from Tucson to El Paso so we would be at the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP) by lunch. Woke up, played our set, snuck into the school showers, should have slept but didn't. Some old friends from our high school days surprised us at the show. We werent expecting to see any familiar faces for a while, so that was pleasant. We spent the evening with them and kinda caught up. 

We had another show at a bar in eastside El Paso which also went well.  During our day off we walked up to the local radio station and gave the DJ a copy of our CD.  He was nice enough to announce our show over the air minutes later.  Thank you 95.5fm!

El Paso is at the southern foot of the Rockies. A beautiful mountain view.  Just across the freeway you can see Juarez, Mexico.  It was pretty amazing to see the difference in living standards first hand.  Paved roads turn into dirt streets.  A set of mansions nestled into the side of El Paso's southern range seemed to viciously taunt the unprivileged dwellers below.

Las Cruces, NM.  A bit colder here. Been sleeping in the van quite a bit now. We played an all ages show at this little place called the Bean.  We were surprised at how many people came out to see the show even though we were the only band.  I guess our advertising has paid off.  Made a lot of new friends.  A girl named Adriana invited us over for lunch the next day.  Her dad made us some authentic Mexican soup, I have shamefully forgotten the name of it however. It was the perfect remedy for my sore throat which, by the way, is still killing me.  Another guy named Will Smith (i know, i know) hooked us up with an opportunity to perform at his high school this afternoon.  We owe a big thank you to him.  It went great!  Can't wait until we come back thru Las Cruces, it is going to go off!

We have 7 shows in the next 4 days...wish us luck!

A couple weeks ago we sent our CD to around 300 college and independent radio stations across the USA.  The goal in these sort of campaigns is to break into the top 200 so you get regonition from the CMJ report which is published periodically.

Last week we were at 187 and this week we moved up to 151.  That number reflects number of play in rotation across the nation, including all bands of all genres. So far we have a total of 163 stations that have the album in rotation.

Not too shabby.

We'll be published in the CMJ music charts shortly.  Hopefully we keep getting spins!

We are all really excited for this recent success.

Tucson is nice this time of year.  This is our second time back.  We played at Mt. View High School on Friday to promote our show that evening at Gameworks Studio.  Both turned out great.  We owe a great deal of thanks to our streetteam members who helped us advertise the show.  You all rock.  We also added a bunch of new members so next time around should be even greater.  Also played a High school this afternoon.  Meet more cool folks.  Another High School tomorrow as well as an all ages show at Skrappy's.  Should be cool. 

This awesome family known as the Parkers has taken us under their wing while in Tucson.  Great cooking, comfortable couches, good times.

We'll keep ya updated on next week.  Uncharted territory...Texas and New Mexico here we come.

On a more sober note, Ian's Grandma who has been suffering in recent years passed away tonite.  It was expected, but no less depressing.  Our thoughts go out to the Barraza family in these tough times.