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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 [...]

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 [...]

How many blog posts in the last couple of weeks have been titled “Winning?”  Way to go, gang!  Enthusiastic audiences in Nashville and Atlanta pulled us through a challenging weekend, and for that we salute you.
It seems like the Nashville Nation of Smooth is really starting to come together judging by Friday night’s show at [...]

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 [...]

By now you’ve probably heard we’ll be performing the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon on Wednesday, September 29 at Smith’s Olde Bar.  (Both albums in their entirety from start to finish.)  TICKETS.
But with us it’s never that simple.  We’ll be pairing Floyd’s opus [...]

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 [...]