Ignore the forecast! This Saturday is going to be the hottest night of the year. Burning Angel Jessie Lee and the infamous Joey Nova team up for Pretty In Pink, a monthly rock n roll dance partysponsored by BurningAngel.com, and held at one of the hottest spots in Williamsburg, Public Assembly! Pretty In Pink has the sex drive of a porn star, and the soundtrack of the East Village! Rock out with musical guests Radio America! Steamy burlesque by Kissy Wishes and VaVa Verloren! Sexy go-go by Burning Angel Nicole Baby! Resident dirty DJs Joey Nova and d'zgra ( RebelRebel) set the tone with five hours of bad-ass rock n roll! Drink specials include $4 Pink Pussycat cocktails all night! All this plus prizes and giveways from BurningAngel.com ( that means free porn!) Doors at 10pm. Cover is $10, $8 if you come wearing pink! $8 advance tix available through http://Going.com include one free drink ticket!

Ok.

Tomorrow we depart for LA LA land and we couldn't be prouder to announce the performances that we have lined up for this road trip.

To lead off the trip we go to the sunset strip in West Hollywood to close the Foundation room at the fucking House of Blues on Thursday, September 18th.
We play at midnight.
www.hob.com

The next night (Friday, September 19th) we end up back on the sunset strip to open up a show at the world famous Viper Room!
We play at 8:30.
www.viperroom.com

On Saturday, it's all the way down to the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro for the Annual Lobster Festival. This is a 3 day celebration put on by la's top indie station 103.1. We play at 3p.m.

We cap off the trip with a long Monday (September 22nd)
We start off in Beverly Hills with a live acoustic performance and interview for the Hunnypot Radio Show at 7pm.
Listen Here: http://www.hunnypotunlimited.com/?page=radio
Hunnypotunlimited.com

Immediately after, we shoot over to Hollywood to play RockMondays at Les Duex. This is a FREE show and we play at 11p.m.
myspace.com/rockmondays

So come along, and/or tell your friends.
And make sure to tune in to the hunnypot radio broadcast on monday night.
We'll send postcards
-ra

Hosted By: Rock Mondays at Les Deux
When: Monday Sep 22, 2008
at 10:00 PM
Where Les Deux
1638 N. Las Palmas Ave.
Hollywood, California|5 91611
United States
Description:
Rock Mondays at Les Deux

Click Here To View Event

Radio America had the honor of playing last night with BE YOUR OWN PET at Mercury Lounge.  We had a great time, and the gang from BYOP were very cool and friendly.  The room had a great, great vibe and apparently, there were scribes in the audience, and we want to thank the crew at the very-cool Pop Tarts Suck Toasted music blog for the following about the "four dudes from LIC" (that's us):

"The four dudes from LIC are four dudes I had never before heard of, but from the second the literally jumped on-stage and began playing I knew they would be the type of rock I was into. With just their drummer kicking off the set with a furious beat the other three members leapt onto the stage from various points of the audience, grabbed their instruments, and launched into their set. It was a great starting point and the band really didn't let down from there (though there was a minor technical problem between two songs, the lead guitarist kept things going with a bit of a nosiy, buzzed out guitar solo!). The music was fresh and rocking but hard to pin down. At various times I heard elements of punk, ska, post-punk, grunge, and a shit load more in their sound. It almost sounded like some demented version of Weezer, one that basks in the spotlight instead of wilting in it. It was a damn good set though, which is a damn good thing, because I was bit worried that they wouldn't be able to fully warm us up for Be Your Own Pet. Boy, was I wrong."

thanks a lot and to everyone who came as well.  lovely to make new friends!

-tom

Hello All!

So, it's been a wild week for the group--we wanted to take a moment to say hello to the tons of new friends who knocked on our myspace door this past week.  We're very glad to have found you all...and we hope that you stay tuned for all of the rad shit we're going to be pulling out of our sleeves in the near future.

For one, we'd like to announce that two very exciting projects are in the works right now:

1. The Official Mahabharata Video: This past weekend, Radio America worked with friend and brilliant, young filmaker Robi Ferri (yeah, he's Italian) on the video shoot for our single, Mahabharata.  In fact, he's probably editing it right now as we speak.  Look for it to uploaded below very soon!  Hopefully, in the next few days, we will have a sneak peak for you all in the form of a Photo Album of stills captured from the shoot.

2. A NEW Digital EP!: Radio America will be releasing our first ever EP (and first-ever digital-only release).  The EP will be called "You Will Pay for This" and it will feature the following tracks--

*Two-Thousand Seven * The Battle Hymn * 27 Octobre * Nazarene * Dead Man Rock (acoustic version)

All songs, of course, have become staples of Radio America's recent live sets and we are pysched about them all.  Two-Thousand Seven (already uploaded to our myspace player) will be the featured Single from the EP.

Talk to you all soon,

-tom

PS: a PSA to all our new friends: if you're in New York and coming to Rockwood Saturday night the 26th (tomorrow), introduce yourselves! 

 

Dear Friends,

Check out this video link

It's of next week's One Tree Hill episode.  There's a little secret we've been keeping up our sleeve for a few months now!  Well anyways, here it is:

Kevin Federline will be lip-synching our song, MAHABHARATA on One Tree Hill next week at 8pm.  Check it out. 

We have no words to describe how weird/surreal and fabulous this is.  None.

-RA

Dear Adoring Masses, Burgher Tyrants, and Loving Lovers,

Radio America has disappeared again.  Sorry about that, it couldn't be helped.  However, we would like to now take stock on the year that was, and take you by the hands into a tour of what is to come:

Part 1: Thank you's and Pardon-me's ---

So, in October, our album "Raise High" will be one year's old.  Jesse and Tom would like to thank everyone very much for the overwhelmingly positive response to the album (raising a special glass to you Boston's The Noise, New York's The Deli, Cool'Eh Mag.) and even some of the reactionary responses that we earned (here's looking at you WonkaVision.com, Verbicide).  One way or another, no one was neutral!  Everyone had a real opinion on the work, and no one seemed to be untouched by it, for better or worse. 

The downside of the year was our desparate straights in the rhythm section.  Which meant that we could not promote the album as much as we wanted, or honestly, very much at all.  This makes us all the more proud of and indebted to all the college radio stations from Ohio to Washington State to Philly who played album cuts and charted us anyway.  

Anyways, the whole experience has been trying and the outporings of support have been great, and we can't do anything but hope that we emerge stronger (which is a cliche, but what's the alternative: "Say boys, you know what, I believe that all of this adversity we've endured has criminally and terminally weakened our resovle to continue...what's say you?").

Part 2: Plans and/y Planos ---

 So now where are we?  Well, we have nothing better to do, so we've decided to start recording a massive, possibly double, album.  We know, we know.  Hubris and the lot.  Whatever.  Our hope is to expand upon all the goodwill and constructive criticism from "Raise High" and go even a bit beyond it. 

We'd also like to introduce to everyone our friend and new Guitar Player: Gabe Wilhelm.  Jesse and Tom are unbelievably excited about having him in the inner circle of affairs.  Maybe he'll even say an e-hello to all sometime.  Anyway, he's an accomplished songwriter in his own right, so also look out for Spiral Flag shows in the upcoming months, to see a unique reconfiguration of your favorite RadioAmerican mainstays.

Call back soon,

-R.America

Dear Staff Editorialists,

Just read in the fucking NME of all places that yet another Manhattan venue is closing up shop and going the way of the buffalo.  They blame the ridiculous boom in Lower East Side real estate for not being able to meet ever-increasing demands for rent.  This is happening all over, soon the entire music scene in New York will be located in Brooklyn, and once that is destroyed, who knows where.

Now, before I go on to offend the entire Western World with the following rant I would like to say this, I am in no way suggesting that real estate prickery is anywhere near the level of reprehensibility of action that terrorism is.  Yes, I agree, an asshole who blows himself up in the market square causes a hell of a lot more suffering and irreconcilable damage than a some asshole behind the controls of a crane building a new glass-tower condominium. 

That said, the cumulative effect of the builders and tycoons is totally fucking destructive.  Their is nothing sensible or positive about turning every square foot of Manhattan island into living quarters.  It doesn't make sense.  Commerce, big and small, is the root of the modern city.  People cannot simply turn every Bodega and Club into a co-op.  Where will we work?  Where will we watch the musicians, artists, and students of the modern metropole work and eat and get drunk?  We have been pushed and pushed and yet we contribute to the economic and social life of the city as much as anyone, perhaps disproportionately so.  Certainly disproportionately to our political influence or security.  The only reason anyone wants to live on the goddam Lower East Side or Chelsea is because they became a cultural centers after the fucking hippies and freaks and so-called "creative types" got thrown out of Soho and the Village (in a similar invasion of capital).  We are the fucking canaries in the cave! 

And the thing is, what's the difference to us if some asshole--from outside of our community, who doesn't value the things about our community that we do, who doesn't see the poetry in our 'way of life' that we see--strapped with dynamite blows up CBGB or Sin-E or Tower Records or Bowery Poetry Club, etc. or if some venture of Big Capital--equally alien to our community--simply outbids for the rights to the lease?  Either way, that place we knew...it's fucking gone.  It's fucking gone forever and that's it.  That's our choice, as a city.  We just let it go down.  That's the price of our negligence, and cultural spaces are like old growth forests, you can't just architect their replacement so easily.  If the Apollo gets closed by the new Harlem Real Estate Renaissance and it re-opens in Clinton Hill, the effect is not exactly the goddamn same.  Truth is, half of these spaces, which ought to be city landmarks, turn into parking garages for Condo next door.  An ignominous defeat to be sure.

And why the fuck should I care?  I live in Queens, I like it here.  And it is just as easy for me to hop the bus or ride my bike to Greenpoint to see a show than to ride the train all the way downtown.  But for some reason, people are nostalgic beasts, and my sense of truth and beauty is offended.  I don't want New York to die inside.  It's already getting pretty cold out there.

--Tomas

 

 

As a reminder...

All members of participating european countries can spend their hard earned euros on angry american rock music in buying Raise High at musicishere.com.  It could very well be bought with a myriad of currencies on itunes also, I don't know.  These folks advertise the songs as being sold in euros, and thought that worthy of announcing Raise High as officially released to european audiences. 

http://musicishere.com/artists/Radio_America/Raise_High/

Radio*America's Raise High has been described by Robin Umbley at the Noise as being "completely and utterly satisfying on so many levels. I'm surprised because most bands have a genre limitation or something that needs improvement. But with this CD, I would not suggest doing anything any differently. Well done."

Another thing.  We're always looking for feedback on Raise High and on anything we do, but now Rolling Stone is too.  From being on Rhapsody, we have an audio streaming/review page on RollingStone.com.  So if you have solid opinions about the album, but no means to express them, you can write a review for Rolling Stone.  Or if you're lazy, just go to the page and decide the star rating of the album that has been compared to Green Day's American Idiot. 

"By all rights, those accolades for Green Day's "punk rock" "opus" should be refocused on young, hungry, unsullied bands like Radio America. If you're looking for angry rock and roll idealism, Raise High should be your primary source."  – Brett McCallon (2006, The Daily Copper)

http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/radioamerica/albums/album/12316154/raise_high?source=radioamerica_rssfeed

Also, reviews and ratings are also welcome on the iTunes page. http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/

Radio*America will be performing at Hunter College on April 15th with Kris Gruen as part of the Hunter College Indie Music Series.