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Right as we were trying to begin the PR campaign for The Greatest Yacht Rock Revival in the Universe, Weezer decided to go and announce their cruise: Weezer, Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh, Gene Ween, Wavves, Boom Bip… and the Yacht Rock Revue?  Apparently this is a big deal so YRR was mentioned in Pitchfork, Spin, MTV [...]

This week we’re on the road to Nashville to play at the Mercy Lounge Friday night (TICKETS.)  The show will feature a special guest appearance from legit ’70s yacht rocker WALTER EGAN, the artist behind the smash hit “Magnet and Steel,” writer for Gram Parsons and others, and friend of Fleetwood Mac!  His appearance is [...]

May is always one of the busiest months in our business… thus, the lack of bloggings.  But here is a quick synopsis: We punked Josh Rifkind at 500 Songs for Kids by replacing Lionel Richie with Joe Cocker (to everyone’s benefit, since we couldn’t do the Lionel song without our bassman Greg Levi’s.)  Persona shifts [...]

We had another fun excursion with our friends from Sixthman on the VH1 Best Cruise Ever last weekend from Tampa to Cozumel.  Cheers to all of our new pals!  Bencoo loved his jam with the undermanned (and amazing) One eskimO, and Pat from Train told us we would be huge if we had a hit [...]

Reagan Rock Prom II was a bash!  Productions of that magnitude always wear us out: we learn a lot of tunes, storm a lot of brains, and engage in a lot of crafts to make the show happen.  It’s nice when it comes off so smoothly… and with air conditioning.  If you [...]

The annual PleaseRock involvement at the Limerick’s Junction St. Patrick’s Day Celebration was an extravaganza this year, with six bands on three stages and lots of drunk honorary Irishmen and women.
I was in Austin playing SXSW with Lovett the week of St. Pats.  I yummied down on food trucks (Korean tacos!), saw some excellent bands [...]

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 [...]