PleaseRock

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 [...]

PleaseRock embraces the chaos as summer ends and we rev up to change identities 15 times a month for the rest of 2010.  That’s more often than most of you change your underwear.  We heard.  Anyways:
The Greater Vavoom warms up for Juliette Lewis Tuesday, August 24 at Smith’s Olde Bar.  Cox and Lewis will have [...]

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 [...]

We’ll have details on the lawsuit that is causing the Tupperware Party to change its name to Constantly Awesome and our new Beatles project Please PleaseRock Me very soon.  But first let’s tie up some loose ends:
Y O U donated the pseudo-hit Firefly to Paste Magazine’s Songs for Haiti effort.  Donate and get the Y [...]

NespoJohnny had the honor of opening for Clay Cook’s CD release at Eddie’s Attic earlier this month. NespoJohnny began exploring musical life after Y O U with some new tunes (and some Y O U classics.)   Clay took a moment off from his busy touring schedule with the Zac Brown Band to make a rare [...]