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Don’t ever let someone tell you that staging a festival reviving an entire genre of under-appreciated music is easy.  From massive tent rentals to beer sponsors, from volunteer schedules to big band riders, from press releases to assembling 1,000 John Oates fans… we’ve been working hard for a long time to bring you our very [...]

When we moved to Atlanta in 2002, our goal was to make a living playing music, and we’ve achieved that goal in a manner we never would have expected. We’ve bounced from indie rock struggles to backing up a rock violinist to creating cartoon music to dentist office rock.  Rather than using this blog to [...]

The Dark Side of the Moon / Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band / Black Sea show at Variety Playhouse was so filled with good vibes it’s tough to put into words.  So we’ve got all the pictures below!  (Here’s a cell video of our encore.)
The Yacht Rock Revue returns to action this weekend in [...]

It was a whirlwind end to 2010 and beginning of 2011 for the PleaseRock collective: 2 sold-out shows for our Second Annual Yacht Rock Holiday Special, a sold-out New Years Eve at Park Tavern with Quasi Mandisco and DJ MP3PO, and Glove Night at 10 High last Thursday. Wow.
We’re keeping it fresh in 2011, [...]

The Second Annual Yacht Rock Holiday Special will be held on Friday, December 10 at the Park Tavern in Piedmont Park!  This is a festive entertainment blowout on 3 levels that could only be brought to you by PleaseRock. It sold out the Variety Playhouse last year, so we recommend advance TICKETS.
If you need a clue [...]

Attention all Buckheads (not to be confused with Dead Heads):  The Yacht Rock Revue returns to Andrews Upstairs, er, 8 Traxx Disco on Friday night in a rare B-head appearance!  It’s an early show, with doors at 9pm and music VERY shortly thereafter.  TICKETS.
Last week’s Please PleaseRock Me show at Smith’s was good times – [...]

Audio Archivist Mark Bencoo and Web-ist ?Mark have teamed up to bring you a plethora of new sound clips on PleaseRock.  Put your ears on some musical highlights from the first Please PleaseRock Me show, new live cuts from Constantly Awesome, and fresh XTC-isms from Nigels With Attitude (who just announced a new show at [...]

Late in 2009, Dart Industries – owners of Tupperware Corporation – found Dick Johnny, Feet Olson, Stuart Bencuya, and Bart Cobb. These are our aliases when we perform as the popular PleaseRock band the Tupperware Party. The corporate giant sent the above-named party a cease and desist letter rightly claiming the band name [...]

Nation of Smooth – Prepare to celebrate your holidays with the Yacht Rock Revue!
First up:  Be thankful for Turkey Eve with Yacht Rock at Andrews Upstairs.  Another first annual for the YRR.  Come out for Atlanta’s newest and best Thanksgiving Reunion Party!  Back in town on holiday from college?  Way out of college, but returning [...]

Hi. Thanks for being here. If you’re looking for Y O U, the Yacht Rock Revue, the Tupperware Party, 3 Dog Stevens, the Flying Wallabies, Rock Fight… even Limozeen (see the photo to the left.)  We’re all here!
Thanks in advance for bearing with us as we robust-ify our new bloggish site. We’ll [...]