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OZOMATLI & UPGROUND - ON SALE NOW

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Upground opening for Maldita Vecindad and The Skatalites

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Hello Everyone, We want to thank everyone who came out to the Final :( Temple Bar performance. We had some great times at this venue and we want to thank the Temple Bar for supporting "Live" music! We are still in studio working on our NEW cd, so we have limited shows for the next couple of months and we want to see YOU there!! Sunday, September 21st Upground and Maldita Vecindad at the House of Blues on Sunset, Hollywood California Friday, October 17, 2008 Upground and The Skatalites in Tijuana, Baja California at Planeta Tijuana av. constitucion entre calles 6 y 7 centro de tijuana, Tijuana, Baja California 22454 Upground y The Skatalites en Tijuana Upground se presentara en Tijuana por la primera vez . Nosotros, recivimos muchos emails de nuestros amigos en Tijuana. ?"Que, cuando vamos a tocar en Tijuana?..........pues ay lez va cabrones! Un show the poca madre!!!!!!!!! Tambien, nuestros amigos de San Diego, Chula Vista, San Clemente South OC no se pierdan este show!

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WHATSUP EVERYONE THIS TONY, THE LATEST ADDITION TO THE UPGROUND

FAMILY...ITS BEEN ABOUT 5 MONTHS NOW (it seems like less) AND I HAVE TO SAY ITS

BEEN ONE OF THE WILDEST RIDES OF MY LIFE...WHEN JOE ASKED ME IF I'D BE

WILLING TO JOIN THE BAND I HAD NO HESITATION TO SAY YES! I SHOULDA THOUGHT

ABOUT IT FIRST! HAHAHA JUST PLAYING.... AFTER ABOUT A WEEK OF PRACTICE(2

DAYS), I WAS SENT TO TEXAS FOR THE SXSW TOUR AND THAT WAS PROBABLY ONE

OF THE BEST EXPERIENCES OF MY LIFE (next to losing my virginity) haha just

playing...IT FELT GOOD TO GET AWAY FROM L.A. AND WORK HAHA...THE REAL

HIGHLIGHT HOWEVER WAS FREEBIRDS AND THE MONSTER BURRITO...MAN THAT WAS

THE BEST BURRITO IVE HAD OUTSIDE OF EAST LOS...WE ENJOYED IT SO MUCH WE

HAD TO GO BACK A SECOND TIME...UNFORTUNATELY I WAS BROKE BY THEN BUT

LUCKILY ADOLFO SPOTTED ME...I THINK I PAID HIM BACK...WELL THATS ENOUGH OF

THAT...WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON OUR NEW EP WHICH IS THE FIRST THAT I

WILL BE FEATURED ON...IM LOOKING FOWARD TO THAT...QUETZAL HAS BEEN COMING

IN TO HELP US OUT WITH SOME OF OUR MUSIC AND I HAVE TO SAY THIS NEXT EP IS

NOTHING LIKE THE PREVIOUS RECORDINGS...WELL THATS ALL FOR NOW...I GOTTA

GET BACK TO PAYING ATTENTION IN CLASS HAHA...PEACE AND BLESSINGS TO ALL!!!


-TONY

so we (upground)played once again with ozo at this kool new venue called the wavehouse and even though i got the usual underage special survalence on me it was all good cause 5 minutes before we go on ARTURO VELASCO orginal poncho sanchez trombone player and the jazz on the latin side basically hes a big deal .. like the master trombone player, anyway all of the sudden i flipout and quickly introduce myself to him i flipped out even more when he said he heard about me and was interested in giving lessons ..the best part was me and tony got to jam with ozo on stage with one of the fatest horn lineups since the first one ...arturo/shef/uli/asdru/and myself

and that was quit an experiance but enough about me ..im pretty excited cause i get to tell all of you about the new E.P were working on ..its SUPERMADNESS we cant wait to release it, and i deffinatley cant wait to record it ..we have been working hard and quetzal is working us hard to make sure we do what we do best. so check it out soon

peace
JOe

YUP -THAT'S RIGHT!! We were so fortunate to have worked with these great people for our upcoming CD (still w/out a name). We meet with Quetzal Flores (of Quetzal) on Monday and hopefully start production soon. Wildog produced one of the tracks " The Starting Line" and Cava did back ups. Robert Carranza who does all of Quetzal, Ozomatli, Jack Johnson... bottom line he's the man- we got to work with him as well. And then there's the amazing Martha Gonzalez (of Quetzal) she came in and wrote a song with us, if we get it right hopefully that to will be on our new CD (still w/out a name). All we have to say is THANK YOU. We've been fortunate to have met many great musicians and we have amazing fans!

June 13 - Friday the 13th yikes! We are on our way to Center Staging to produce/record/edit and make a video for McDonalds. Myspace & McDonalds  selected a few artist(and we are fortunate to be one of those) to work on the new BIGMAC CHANT they are getting ready to kick off a major contest so they asked us to take part of the intial phase (along with Nina Sky, Christina Milian, The Procession and a few others)It's going to be a long day,but it will be worth it. What better way to spend the day than in a major recording studio doing what we love to do.......MUSIC!!

Stay tuned -the video and "jingle" will be ready and up n running by Monday! We'll ask you what you think when its out.

"TWO ALL BEEF PATTIES, SPECIAL SAUCE,LETTUCE,CHEESE, PICKLES, ONIONS ON A SESAME SEED BUN" LOL

What's up everyone. We are posting new videos  & footage up on youtube.com- from our various trips/shows. Check it out. A few from our recent trip to Detroit @ The Ford Motor Co. as well as a few others.

Check it out www.youtube.com   search UPGROUND