Q*Ball will be performing with Bumblefoot at the Just Plain Folks Music Awards,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 at the Wild Horse Saloon in Nashville, TN!
Q*Ball's This Is Serious Business has been nominated for 3 independent music awards, including
Best Electronica Album!
Q*Ball's video for John Hughes was also nominated for Best Video.

A new review of Q*Ball's This Is Serious Business is online at the
i heart guitar blog.

Q*Ball's Hey DJ was recently spun on DALECAST and Pinguinix Music.
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Mixing for Return To Earth's Automata continues - about 4 songs are completed,
with the rest expected done over the next couple of months. Stay tuned!

Join Return To Earth's new page on Facebook!
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Swashbuckle follows up the European leg of Paganfest with some late December dates
on the Darkness Over Xmas Tour with Heaven Shall Burn, Dark Tranquility, & Deadlock!
Check out tour dates here!

Q*Ball's This Is Serious Business has been nominated for an independent music award by
Just Plain Folks in the Best Electronica Album category!
His Name Is Goliath & Pez Dispenser have both been nominated for Best Electronica Song, as well.
The awards show will take place on August 28 in Nashville, TN.

A new review of Q*Ball's This Is Serious Business is online at Nightwaves.

Q*Ball and Black Pig are featured artists at Plattsburgh Pipeline Radio!

Q*Ball's Beautiful was recently spun on Minority Movie Report.
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Episode III of Return To Earth's 'The Making of Automata' is up on YouTube!
Tracking for the new album has been completed and the songs will be mixed by Bumblefoot with hopes of a late Fall 09 release!
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Swashbuckle hits the road once again at the WACKEN OPEN AIR FESTIVAL (with Motorhead, In Flames, Coheed and Cambria, and many more), July 30 & August 1, followed by the European leg of PAGANFEST beginning in mid-September!

Swashbuckle's new album, Back To The Noose, will be available JULY 24 in Europe,
and AUGUST 11 in the North America, from Nuclear Blast!
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Bumblefoot is currently touring as guest guitarist with Lita Ford! Check out tour dates here.

Q*Ball's video for John Hughes will be featured on LMM Entertainment on NY Channel 115,
Saturday, May 16th and again on Saturday, May 30th at 10pm EST.
If you're in the NY area, tune in and watch!

Q*Ball is now featured on Ourstage!
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The latest webisode of Return To Earth's 'The Making of Automata' is up on YouTube!

Check out Return To Earth at urSESSION!

Look for new Return To Earth 'Automata' t-shirts in our STORE this summer.
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Swashbuckle has hit the road as the opening act at PAGANFEST thru the end of May,
with support dates opening for Primal Fear to follow in September!

We have re-stocked our Swashbuckle t-shirts! Pick them up now in the STORE

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Bumblefoot makes a cameo in the new indie film, The Perfect Age of Rock N' Roll,
starring Jason Ritter & Peter Fonda.

NEW Q*BALL VIDEO!

Check out Q*Ball's new video for JOHN HUGHES, featuring a cameo by Bumblefoot.
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Directed by Seth Kushner + Carlos Molina, Culture Pop Productions

See a full-screen version in HD on Vimeo! Or on YouTube!
Read the official press release here.

Q*Ball also provides the score for Christopher Irving's interview with graphic artist Paul Pope.
Check it out here!

Q*Ball's 'Baby You Drive Me Crazy' was featured on the new Monaco Ironman DVD.

And check out Q*Ball at urSESSION and Cycast.
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A new interview with Swashbuckle is up at Heavy Metal Examiner
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More Bumblefoot and Return To Earth on the upcoming Red Bull X-Fighters DVD!
BBF's 'Thank You' + 'Turn Around', and RTE's 'A New Sound' + 'Get Your Knife'
are all on the soundtrack!
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Black Pig's 'Dip To The Bottom' + 'Black Pig' were recently featured on DALECAST.

"JOHN HUGHES" - NEW Q*BALL VIDEO!
3.3.09
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The new music video from Q*Ball, featuring Bumblefoot!
Directed by Seth Kushner + Carlos Molina, Culture Pop Productions

See a full-screen version in HD on Vimeo!
Or on YouTube!

Read the official press release here.

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New reviews of Return To Earth's "You Built The Fire, I Brought The Match"
are up at The C0nsensus

Bumblefoot's 'Thank You' & 'Dominated', and Return To Earth's 'Get Your Knife'
will be featured on the upcoming Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour DVD!

Our little pirates are growing up.

It is with mixed emotions that we watch our favorite pirate metal band Swashbuckle set sail to
well-renowned extreme metal label Nuclear Blast.


We signed Swashbuckle in 2006 after Bumblefoot
saw them perform at a party in New Jersey some months earlier. Since then,
the pirate thrashers have evolved from a one-note goofy metal act into a vital force
in the metal community, with rave reviews in CMJ, major airplay on college
metal radio, a memorable performance opening for Shadows Fall, Alice Cooper,
and Queensryche at Loco Fest 07, and a classic on-air appearance at the
legendary WSOU.

We will continue to promote and sell Swashbuckle's debut release,
Crewed By The Damned, here, and at Amazon, CD Baby, and all your
digital retail outlets.

In the meantime, don't forget to check Swashbuckle out at
PAGANFEST 2009!
Tour dates available at www.myspace.com/swashbuckle

We at Bald Freak wish all the best to
Admiral Nobeard, Captain Crashride, and Commodore Redrum!
-RS-

Return To Earth continues work on AUTOMATA - Chris has tracked drums for the
new album, and guitar tracking begins later this month. Look for a new making-of
webisode on MySpace and the RTE website soon.

Brett from RTE is now endorsed by Suhr Guitars!


A new review of RTE's CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY is online at Heavy Metal Addiction.

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Q*Ball's new video for "John Hughes" is almost in the editing stages.

Check out more photos and info about the new video here!


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Bumblefoot's new acoustic EP, BAREFOOT, Is now available in the STORE

*PLUS* - new ABNORMAL guitar straps and 1" buttons!


Bumblefoot is featured in this month's edition of Total Guitar Magazine!