Angel Zuniga Martinez of Angel & the Love Mongers Launches Solo Rock Project

Angel Zuniga Martinez, from Angel and the Love Mongers, launches his new solo rock music project on a night filled with great local Knoxville music on Wednesday, January 21, 2009, at The Square Room at 8:30 p.m.

Knoxville, TN, January 13, 2009 -- Angel Zuniga Martinez, from Angel and the Love Mongers, launches his new solo rock music project on a night filled with great local music on Wednesday, January 21, 2009, at The Square Room at 8:30 p.m. With a voice compared to Morrissey, Freddie Mercury and Mr. Presley,don't miss this chance to experience Angel's unique musical perspective at The Square Room. Knoxville Rockers,SENRYU, will be performing while celebrating Wil Wright's birthday. Opening the show will be the gifted Kevin Hyfantis on the baby grand piano.

To pre-order tickets, or for additional information, please visit http://www.thesquareroom.com. For Angel Zuniga Martinez information or to preorder Angel's upcoming album, The Cage, visit http://www.myspace.com/angelzunigamartinez.

About:

Angel Zuniga Martinez's roots may be in South Texas, but his music is positively pan-galactic. This baritone singer and southpaw guitarist made his move to the East Tennessee hills in Knoxville after his college career at Texas A&M University, and a fateful encounter with a beautiful woman. "Isn't it always because of a girl?," says Angel. Angel's songwriting takes a poetically thick, melodically quirky perspective on life, love, and sin. Plus, Angel's live shows are fun and energetic with the talented support of David Slack on bass and Frank Sheadrick on drums. For more information, visit the above websites or search Facebook or LinkedIn.

Angel and the Love Mongers were formed in the spring of 2004 in Knoxville, TN, by Angel Zuniga and drummer Eric Nowinski. Their self-titled first album was produced by Don Coffey, Jr. (Superdrag), and released on Disgraceland Records in February 2005. For their second album, they turned to veteran Mitch Easter (R.E.M., Let's Active, Wilco), who produced and played on The Humanist Queen, released by Rock Snob Records on September 4, 2007, following the band's June appearance at the Bonnaroo Festival. For more information, visit http://www.myspace.com/angelandthelovemongersknoxville.

The Square Room is a new, state-of-the-art performance venue located in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee in the Historic Market Square district.

Angel Zuniga Martinez will also be performing, Saturday, January 24, 2009, at 9:30 p.m. at Swanks Jazz Club and Restaurant in Downtown Maryville. Swanks is located at 100 N Court St, Maryville, Tennessee 37804. For more information, call 865-984-8649 or http://www.myspace.com/swanksjazz

Angel Zuniga Martinez will also have a more intimate performance, Thursday, January 29, 2009, at 8 p.m., at The Bistro within The Bijou Theater. This will be part of The Bijou's 100th Anniversary Jubilee and is located at 803 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Tickets are available in advance at 865-684-1200, by phone at 865-684-1200 or http://www.knoxbijou.com.
Zunimar Music is a BMI affiliated independent music publishing company owned by singer/songwriter/guitarist, Angel Zuniga Martinez, based in South Knox. http://www.zunimarmusic.com.

To Anyone with a Heart and a Head

To my 42 million GENERATION "X" Brothers & Sisters

To the gifted 90 million GENERATION Y Future Dreamers,

My main avenue to earn money is not from music.  I wish it was, but I still consider myself having a heart of an artist-dreamer.  For almost 15 years, I've been working within the banking and financial industry.  Most of my experience has been serving the wealth and influencial in our society. 

There is fear and anger moving about in this circle.  I've read about something like this coming for years.  I've dreamt it.  I've even had a horrible vision of Mexico being owned by the US.  It then became a harbor for the US poor after being affected by a huge financial meltdown. 

THE BAILOUT IS NOT THE ANSWER!  It will only create a false sense of peace and calm for maybe 3 to 5 years before a huge demonic depressive storm.  It will reward and give continuance to the "leaders" of capitalism and government that took us down this path.

I say let fall the towers of greed that created this mess.  Let rise a new generation of leaders with hearts of stewardship!  Call the Josephs out of the prisons. 

Let TRUTH come out!  If that takes us into recession, so be it!  Better to burn a little now that to be eaten by the fire.  Better to cut off a bad arm than to lose the whole body..

When a TREE is falling in the wrong direction after a BAD cut, the tree cutter CANNOT make an "adjustment" cut to correct the wrong.

Let's let the tree fall!  Don't let our "leaders" bully us and our generation into swallowing a horrible, bitter pill.

Say NO to the Bail Out under ANY conditions!

Angel Zuniga Martinez

Angel and the Love Mongers

I have laced and will continue to lace alot of my songwriting with my insights on the levels of love, spirituality, religion, abuses of power, and spirit world evils that touch everyone's lives.  They say write what you know.  My community of Knoxville has recently been affected by both a school and Church shooting from both a mentally ill man and an angry young man with troubled pasts. 

My mind wrestled with the "truth" of new Politics and Hope coming from our Presidential candidates and the reality of my local community healing its own needs and hurts.

We don't need government.  We need each other. 

...I didn't have a song in my heart at this moment...but I needed to vomit this out somewhere.

Angel

I just came back from the Durango Songwriter's music expo (www.durango-songwriters-expo.com ) held this weekend in Asheville, NC.  Wow....I'm so inspired and excited about where the music and artistic community is heading in the near future.  Some of the folks that stood out for me were:

Bruce Burch, the head of UGA music biz program and my former Belmont Publishing professor who is so REAL and full of insight. www.terry.uga.edu/musicbusiness

Jonny Vire (www.myspace.com/jonnyvire ), a young kick ass singer/songwriter from Boston whose voice and attitude I absolutely love.

Chris Gelbuda (www.myspace.com/chrisgelbuda ), man! this guy is FUN and a terrific songwriter/guitar player who tours for himself and with other artists.

Chuck Cannon (www.myspace.com/chuckcannon ), Damn! Chuck is such a CAT...He's a Nashville based songwriter that wrote "How Do you Like me Now?" but he's so much more than that!!!!!  He made me tear up.

Steven Melrose -While Steven was at Retone Records, before he was A/R at Island Records, he was quoted as saying "Our whole thing is to have two fingers up to the major labels, and the other hand in their back pocket taking their wallet."  (the 2 fingered salute is U.K.'s equivalent to flipping-the-bird in the U.S.)  I love this man, as well as his fellow Brit friend, songwriter Roger Harris.

Anyway, I've got it on my calendar to be at the Next Durango Expo in August in Colorado!  If you are a songwriter, I would highly encourage you to go....Come out and hang!

Love and Regards,

Angel Zuniga

Angel and the Love Mongers

Hey Happy new Year to every one.  2008 will be a year to be fruitful.  Find Joy in your toil and come out tomorrow to Knoxville Club 106 in the Old City at 8pm sharp to see the show and hang.

Love and Regards,

Angel

"The Humanist Quuen" will be hitting the college radio airwaves this coming Tuesday August 28th.   Please call your local radio station and request Angel and the Love Mongers.  We would love to be able to say  that with your help we shot up the CMJ charts.   Thanks for the support and keep spreading the love...

Angel and the Love Mongers

Thanks to Brian for providing us with a bit of video footage from Bonnaroo.  There is a short YouTube clip of "The Dance Hall" from Bonnaroo embeded on our myspace page - please check it out.  Thanks.

It's also posted on our web site:  www.angelandthelovemongers.com with some additional footage of Beatle Bob dancing away. 

Hello!  In preparation for Bonnaroo - Lauren Spuhler at the Knoxville News Sentinel has posted a short video segment on the Love Mongers.  Please check it out! (We're the middle band on the right)

http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/bonnaroo2007/