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July 22, 2009 - Wednesday

Volunteers return from national tour... free NYC show Saturday!
Category: Music

we made it all the way to austin texas...found ourselves in portland, LA, san diego, vegas, colorado, etc...we played dozens of shows and we drove thousands of miles, as much as 10 hours a day to play our music.

Sometimes we played to large crowds, sometimes we played to almost nobody. We suffered injuries, exhaustion, financial despair, and gross lack of privacy and comfort...we laughed, we cried, we hurled...(seriously).

it was our first national tour and we pulled it off with the grace of a drunken swan....

special thanks to everyone who let us stay at their place, gave us some food, got us some weed, or did anything else that was helpful. we met so many great people on this tour.

we wanted to do something special to celebrate our return home to NYC, what better than a free show at Rockwood Music Hall, an intimate Lower East Side venue, that is known for its great sound and its cozy atmosphere. The venue lends itself to the acoustic vibe...so this show will feature some acoustic instrumentation, as well as some different arrangements to some of your favorite Volunteers songs, yet we will keep the energy high and tear it up at 11pm!

Rockwood Music Hall is located at 196 Allen Street, NYC 10002.

feel free to bring some friends and party it up with us!

-Volunteers

http://myspace.com/thevolunteers

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July 7, 2009 - Tuesday

notes from the road

more than halfway into our tour, we are approaching fresno california for a show tonite before making our way to LA, san diego, texas and than finally home after approximately 30 shows over the course of a month.

we are constantly in motion, we share food, stories, advice, we argue, laugh, smoke weed, and write, practice and play music every day. this is our first extended tour and the band is so much tighter as friends and musicians. we know this will continue to grow with more tour and more motion.

in the van we have some recording equipment and we are working on our third album in the van. it is exciting to embrace the latest technology which makes it possible for us to edit and record music while we move towards the next town. everyone in the band is involved in the process and the van itself has become a mini recording studio.

we spend our time watching bad movies with the occasional good flick stumbled upon such as steve martin, helena bonham carter, and laura dern in novocaine.

we are relying a lot on the kindness of strangers who take us in after our shows in various towns and offer us their floor. sometimes we get lucky and wake up to the smells of a breakfast cooking. on the nights that we dont have a place to stay, we have been camping! we are on the west coast with lots of beautiful national parks.

we were camping in oregon yesterday and our drummer paul fell and injured himself. luckily we had the day off so we had the time to take him to the hospital and get stitched and medicated without cancelling any shows.

we have had quite a journey so far, from our kick ass shows opening the tour in DC< Baltimore, Cleveland....to our amazing reception in Colorado....we still have LA and Austin to go which are looking to be pretty sweet shows.

all of us are having such a great time on this tour, we all agree that we want to tour as much as possible in the forseable future. if you like our music please tell your friends and come see our next show in your town.

-Dan
Volunteers
myspace.com/thevolunteers

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July 7, 2009 - Tuesday

notes from the road

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June 4, 2009 - Thursday

Live interview with Dave on Mingle Zone Network Radio
Current mood:

chill
Category: Music

Hi Volunteers,

Our bassist Dave will be on MZNR at 2pm tomorrow (Friday the 5th) doing an interview with the most lovely Ravenda...

They will talk about the Philly and NYC (The Studio@WebsterHall) shows this weekend along with Dave's new plan to stop the violence in the Middle East. Along with whatever comes to mind. It will be good.

*****There will be no talk of dolphins*****

so be sure to check myspace.com/minglezonenetworkpromo for the details.

Free website - Wix.com

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May 20, 2009 - Wednesday

Volunteers "Life of Glamour" summer tour!

Hello friends and fans of the Volunteers!

we are excited to announce our "Life of Glamour" summer tour in celebration of our glamourous existence as rock and roll animals

we are coming to your town and we'll help you party down!

please bring us weed and please come out and see us on our first ever national tour!!!!!!

this is a huge milestone for us as a band of 5 years...

if you are in a band and you want to play a show with us on the tour, email us,

if you want to have us over for dinner, let us stay at your house, or make out with us before, after or during a show...please email us!

specific show dates are listed on our myspace page, check it often for updates!

- DC
- Cleveland
- Detroit
- Chicago
-Milwaukee
- St. Paul
- St. Louis
- Lawrence
- Denver
- Salt Lake City
- Boise
- Seattle
- Portland
- Chicago
- San Francisco
- Fresno
- LA
- Las Vegas
- Flagstaff
- Amarillo
- Oklahoma City
- Ft. Worth
- Austin
- New Orleans
- Atlanta
- Charlotte
-Baltimore
- Philly

see you there!

xxx

Volunteers

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May 15, 2009 - Friday

Volunteers play the studio at Webster hall June 6th, its our tour kickoff!
Current mood:

excited

hello friends, lovers and ex-lovers,

we are excited to announce that the Volunteers will be playing a very special show at the studio in webster hall. it is our biggest show to date and we really need your support!

not only is it our biggest show, but it is also a farewell show before our monthlong national tour! that is right, the volunteers are going national, come see us off on

Saturday June 6th in the Studio @ Webster hall!!!

but don't come just to support us, come because we are going to rock your face off with some mind meltingly awesome rock and role!

we even managed to convince one of our favorite bands that we saw at SXSW, the Steps to come all the way from their hometown of Austin, texas to play this show with us. Please come help us show our friends how we do it in NYC!

we are also playing with the young lords, a kick ass band from right here in our backyard of brooklyn!

ticketst are 10$ presale and $12 at the door, you can support us huge by buying in advance online at

https://www.etix.com/ticket/servlet/onlineSale?action=selectPerformance&cobrand=websterhallstudio&performance_id=984521

we truly look forward to seeing you June 6th!

thanks so much for all your previous support....

and of course, you can listen for free to all Volunteers songs, and download most of them for free by visiting us on ReverbNation or iLike here:

http://www.ilike.com/artist/The+Volunteers

http://www.reverbnation.com/volunteers

xxx

Dan

the Volunteers

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March 27, 2009 - Friday

They Will Rock You
Current mood:

chill
Category: Music

Hello Volunteers,

We would love to give thanks to Sally and all the fine people over at They Will Rock You... Sweet Zine.

They gave us some great ink as their spotlight band!
http://theywillrockyou.com/spotlight/

Check it out, hope you dig it.

-Volunteers

4:22 AM

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March 13, 2009 - Friday

Volunteers on MTV's Real World
Current mood:

chill
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Hello Volunteers,

In case you weren't paying attention, our song Vampire Joe was used on MTV's Real World Brooklyn episode 9. Its a weird season of RW as all of the members in the house seem to have social issues. For example one is a trans-sexual...

One of the members is an Iraq War Veteran, and he came out to see us at a Iraq Veterans Against the War benefit concert at Sullivan Hall in NYC. You should check out IVAW.org as its a really good cause.

See ya soon at SXSW!

-Volunteers

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March 4, 2009 - Wednesday

Pretty Sweet interview with Jersey Beat
Current mood:

chill
Category: News and Politics

We got some pretty good ink here, check it out....
http://www.jerseybeat.com/thevolunteers.html
Thanks to Jim and everyone at Jersey Beat, its a great publication and you should all get familiar with them.
-Volunteers

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