Wednesday, March 7, 2012

March: Madness, Wisconsin & Lovehammers

March is usually the signal of spring; a time of rebirth, sunshine, and a signal that the warm fun of summer is on the way.  For some March means baseball beginning with spring training, SXSW, hockey playoffs and March Madness.  For others spring just means more time by the lake, eating out, and enjoying their fine cities.  This will be our first March as Vintage Blue and we are looking forward to an amazing first spring as a band.

First off, at the end of February we had the opportunity to have our first band webcast!  It was such a cool experience and over 35,000 people viewed our live broadcast on Stickam.com.  We will be making this a REGULAR appearance every first and third Tuesday or each month, starting on March 20th!

Secondly, March will represent the first time we get to play a couple of new venues, and our first time in MILWAUKEE!!!  On March 23rd we will have our first show at the Tonic Room in Chicago, where will we be welcoming in New York City's own Deadbeat Darling as they make their way down to SXSW.  On March 24th we will be invading our neighbors to the north when we play Fire On Water in Milwaukee.

Thirdly, We are so excited to play this Saturday with Marty Casey and the Lovehammers at House of Blues Chicago.  This will be our fourth show at the most prestiguous music venue in Chicago in the last six months and we are more excited than ever.  It will be an epic evening and has already SOLD OUT!!  Hope to see you all there!

Lastly, March is the time of year when booking for summer festivals gets going.  We need your support!  Please share our music, website and info with all your friends.  We thank you in advance!!!

-Vintage Blue

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Strike The Mics: Released

Over one year of creative energy, serious commitment, love, frustration, countless sleepless nights, listening and relistening, tweaking, tracking, practicing, recording, mixing, re-mixing, travelling and mastering finally consummated in the release of our first LP Strike The Mics.  We could not be happier with the result.

Many thanks go out to all the fine people who helped make the album what it is today.  First and foremost to our producer and good friend Jamie Candiloro.  Thank you so much for everything you taught us.  About becoming professionals, about listening, about focus and about becoming true writers and builders.  Thank you for your commitment to us and everything we wanted our music to be.  We cannot ever thank you enough for the work you did on this record and we look forward to working on the next one with you.

To Krista, Jason, and everyone at Rock Ridge Music, our marketing gurus: thank you for your commitment to pushing our record to every corner of the country; getting us press coverage in SOCO Magazine, on Windows Media Guide and into webzines and  blogs from Los Angeles, Nashville and New York.  Thank you also for your continuing efforts to push our music to Billboard.com and to Chicago outlets as well.

Thanks also to all of you that supported us during the making of this album.  Because of you, we have a very real shot of showing up in the Billboard Charts which would be a truly amazing next step for this band.  Not only that, but our e-mail, fanpages and mailing list has nearly doubled in size and we are so excited to continue bringing you our music on bigger and better stages here in Chicago.  We hope that you will continue to tell everyone you know about the band, about the record and about whatever songs move you.  THANKS!!!

BONUS:  On the release date we were on Fearless Radio here in Chicago.  We performed two songs live and acoustic in studio.  You can download the podcast here in case you missed it!  http://www.fearlessradio.com/index.php/component/k2/item/2502-vintage-blue.html