Trapt have worked for well over a decade to reach this point. Their 2002 self-titled debut surpassed sales of 2 million units, and its lead-off single “Headstrong” was ranked the #1 alternative song and #8 rock song by Billboard. They were a featured act on Rock Band and Tap Tap Revenge 2, and they also fueled countless WWE specials. In addition, they’ve shared the stage with heavy hitters such as Mötley Crüe, Nickelback, Hinder, Chevelle, and many more. Most recently, No Apologies entered the Billboard Top 200 at number 25 in 2010.
Still, Reborn is the next level for Trapt. Brown concludes, “Everything is new again. It’s an incredible feeling. Our fans have stuck with us since the beginning, and we really made a record for them. If the music makes them feel empowered and ready to take on their challenges, then we’ve done something right. I hope it inspires confidence and pushes them to stand up against fear or judgment. We’re proof that you should never give up.”
Trapt is currently in the studio recording their 6th album DNA and have released a song from the album called “Passenger” that embodies the more progressive side of TRAPT’s brand of hard rock as an intro to what fans can expect from the album. The band is also gearing for their summer tour dubbed the “Life In Your Own Hands” Tour. The new album DNA is shaping up to be a landmark album for TRAPT. It surpasses anything the band has done before and subsequent singles will show the true power that this band possesses. Get ready for DNA, it’s going to change everything.
Stroke 9 formed in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1989. The band has since recorded five albums and toured extensively in the United States, Canada and Europe. Fueled by the commercial success of the hit song Little Black Backpack, their third album, Nasty Little Thoughts, went gold in 2000.
Taylor Hicks is one of the most beloved AMERICAN IDOL winners of all-time.
From the start, Hicks’ material on the mega-hit show set him apart, with a unique take on Southern soul, R & B, country and blues. More than 63 million votes were cast and nearly 37 million viewers tuned-in to crown Hicks the Season 5 winner of AMERICAN IDOL, making it one of the most-watched TV events of the decade. Hicks’ star continued to rise after he stepped off the IDOL stage. Less than three weeks after his IDOL victory, his debut single, “Do I
Make You Proud,” entered at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100, Pop 100, and Single Sales Charts. Coinciding with the single’s release, a cover story named him People magazine’s “Hottest Bachelor of the Year.” His self-titled album (Arista), debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 and was quickly certified RIAA Platinum. Hicks has performed with artists like Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg, Gladys Knight, Earth Wind & Fire and The Allman Brothers, appeared in
concerts worldwide, and penned a bestselling autobiography “Heart Full of Soul” (Random House).
On Broadway, Hicks starred in the hit musical, GREASE as Teen Angel, and when asked to join the national tour, happily agreed. The 18-month tour connected him with fans across America.
Hicks, who hails from Birmingham, Ala., had music on his mind from childhood. As a young adult, he became a fixture around the Southeast, playing concerts and club dates with stars like James Brown, Tom Petty, Jackson Browne, Robert Randolph, Keb’ Mo’ and Widespread Panic, among others. Hicks also released the independent albums “In Your
Time” and “Under the Radar,” which were later compiled and released by Vanguard Records as “Early Works.”
In June 2012, Taylor Hicks began his residency at Bally’s Las Vegas. As a testament to his musical talent and showmanship, Hicks will continue to bring the roadhouse to the Las Vegas Strip with a year-long extension through 2013 at a larger venue, Paris Las Vegas, making him the first Idol winner to secure a long term residency in Las Vegas. Hicks has rapidly become one of the most popular acts in the city. He will have an exclusive commitment to Caesars Entertainment, bringing his soulful ballads to Caesars properties across the country throughout the year.
He is currently in studio working on his first country album.
American singer-songwriter Teddy Geiger first catapulted onto the national stage in March 2006 when his debut album, the critically-acclaimed “Underage Thinking,” entered the Billboard Top 200 at #8 and yielded a million-selling Hot AC Top 10 single — “For You I Will” — when Teddy was just 16.
This year Teddy is recording and releasing his new album, The Last Fears, exclusively through Pledge Music at www.pledgemusic.com/teddygeiger where fans are invited to help play an integral part in making the album.
Proficient on a number of instruments including guitar, bass, piano and drums, Geiger had first made his reputation as a musician in high school when gigs around his native Rochester, New York, earned the loyalty of an ever-growing fanbase of self-proclaimed “Ted-Heads.” While an internet fan buzz fueled his early burgeoning popularity, Teddy’s first independent release, the regional EP “Stepladder” (on Cred Records), peaked at #1 in Rochester and made the Top 10 in Billboard’s mid-Atlantic regional “Heatseekers” chart, leading to a deal with Columbia Records.
Teddy’s debut album, “Underage Thinking,” was both a popular and critical success. “Teddy Geiger projects an easy charm along with his real pop chops,” raved The New York Times while People magazine, in a three-and-a-half star “Critic’s Choice” review, predicted that “Teddy Geiger should have a long career ahead of him.”
Teddy’s dynamic new school pop, informed by the spirit of rock’s glory days, earned him spots on shows featuring Gavin DeGraw, Kelly Clarkson, and Hilary Duff’s #1 pop tour. Teddy has shared bills with Brandi Carlile, Pete Yorn, Simple Plan, Fall Out Boy, Frankie J, Jesse McCartney, The Click 5, among others. Teddy’s breakout year closed with the artist becoming the first male to grace the cover of Seventeen magazine in five years.
Teddy — who had a dramatic role as an emerging young singer-songwriter in “Love Monkey,” the short-lived CBS cult television series (later picked up by VH1) — made his big screen debut in 2008′s “The Rocker,” a summer comedy starring Rainn Wilson and Christina Applegate which premiered a number of new Teddy Geiger performances in its soundtrack.
Since the release of “The Rocker,” Teddy Geiger moved to New York City and began writing the songs at the core of The Last Fears. New compositions and performances include “Shake It Off,” “Magic,” “Home,” “Ordinary Man,” “One More Night,” and “Walking In The Sun”. The album has a sound not dissimilar from his debut but also showcases both his maturity and depth as a songwriter and craftsman.
The Sixties Show is from NYC and is The Greatest 1960’s Musical Re-Creation Show on Earth. The band features former band members of The Who, Bob Dylan, and NBC TV’s Saturday Night Live band.
“ An Aural and Visual tour de Force!!” “Powerfully Dramatized…. A Breathtaking Musical Experience of Major Importance!” “…The Show is an indisputable Hit!!” “An Immersive Historical and Musical Spectacle…A Must See!!”
This is a show about time travel , going back to the 1960’s, based and around the most remarkable musical re-creation show you will ever see.
This popular theater show is a cross generational crowd pleaser and has been selling out every theater and performing arts center that the show plays at. The band is widely celebrated and known for re-creating spot on, note for note re-creations of the hits, B-sides and deep album cuts from the greatest songs of the 1960’s.
In addition to the concert experience, the show is full multi -media Broadway type production that is powerfully dramatized by a combination of time travel special effects, narration, 60’s archival audio and newsreel footage and a light show. This seen to be believed bigger-than-life, Broadway theater styled show is nothing less than awe -inspiring.
The Sixties Show is a high energy trip back in time that reminds the audience how uniquely inspirational, entertaining, and historically significant the music and events of the 1960’s was and continues to be.
All of the music is performed live, with no samples, backing tracks or prerecorded music of any kind.
The band uses a state-of-the-art sound system but, only plays authentic 1960’s period vintage and re issue vintage gear and instrumentation just like original artist’s and original recordings. This combined with genuine 1960’s mod costumes that the band wears only add to the meticulous detail and authenticity of this popular and powerful theater show.
The members of The Sixties Show were hand-picked to perform and record with Sir Paul McCartney, The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, The Bee Gees, Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen and other legends and individually have performed at the most renown venues in the world such as Madison Square Garden, The Hollywood Bowl, Wembley Stadium, The Grand Rex in Paris, The Budokan in Tokyo and others.
Kate Voegele and Tyler Hilton share a common bond: they were both cast members on the hugely successful series “One Tree Hill”. Both artists have spent the better part of 2015 thru 2017 traveling the globe, selling out venues in Europe, Canada and the US, garnering great reviews from both critics and fans.
On social media, the duo has a strong following, including 360,000 followers on Instagram and over a half million “likes” on Facebook.
About Kate Voegele:
Hailing from a little suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, Kate Voegele first picked up a guitar at age 15. Influenced by the rock and roll history of the city and her father’s songwriting, she began to pen her own songs from the minute she learned to play her first three chords. Voegele embraced this newfound passion, recording her first EP during her freshman year of high school, and soon after landed gigs alongside artists like Counting Crows and John Mayer. Those shows quickly led to attention from labels in New York and LA, and Kate spent the majority of her high school years diving headfirst into a career in music.
After high school, Voegele decided to attend Ohio’s Miami University, where she quickly found new inspiration, and simultaneously found herself uploading song after song to her MySpace page. Kate managed to get the attention of the social network’s founder, Tom Anderson, and just a few weeks later, she became MySpace Records’ first signed artist. In spring of 2007 Voegele finished recording her first full-length record with Marshall Altman in LA and decided to swap her text books in for a tour bus and a year full of shows throughout the US.
Over the next couple of years Voegele toured the country playing hundreds of shows. While traveling through LA, Kate auditioned on a whim and would eventually land the role of Mia Catalano on the CW show, “One Tree Hill.” What was supposed to be a two-episode run became a four-season recurrence, and Kate found herself performing eleven of her original songs to millions of viewers over the course of the show. Record sales jumped dramatically after Voegele’s first appearance on the show, and she was subsequently upstreamed to Interscope Records in January of 2008. At this point Kate toured internationally with artists like Natasha Bedingfield and Jordin Sparks. She split her time between the road and the television set, and released a second full-length, “A Fine Mess,” in spring of 2009.
After her first two records sold over 500,000 units, Voegele signed with ATO Records in 2011, releasing “Gravity Happens.” She spent the next two years continuing to tour the US and Europe, writing new songs from airplane window seats and ultimately embarking on a new chapter in her life.
In fall of 2013, Voegele moved her home base from LA to Nashville, getting back to her songwriter roots. Being in Music City has given Kate the opportunity to work with writers like Nathan Chapman and Liz Rose, and open up opportunities to work with the country’s best creative talents. In November ’14 Voegele released the “Wild Card” EP, which debuted in the top 10 on the top pop albums chart on iTunes, and currently carries a 5-star review across all distribution outlets. For more information go to www.katevoegele.com.
About Tyler Hilton:
Tyler Hilton was singing and playing in coffee houses as a 15 year old, when a chance encounter with Los Angeles radio personalities Mark and Brian from KLOS led to multiple appearances on their radio show, live concert dates with the duo, and national exposure. He released his first album independently shortly thereafter, which led to major label interest and eventually signing to Maverick/ Warner Records where he released “The Tracks of Tyler Hilton” which garnered two singles on the Billboard Top 40 charts. While on tour promoting the album, Tyler was cast as his child hood hero Elvis Presley in “Walk the Line” where he worked with T-Bone Burnett on the soundtrack, and for which he received a gold record.
An opportunity to sing on TV’s “One Tree Hill,” a notorious breeding ground for new musical talent, led to a series long run, several appearances on MTV’s “TRL” with the cast, and a national tour with Gavin DeGraw and Michelle Branch who also sang on the show. Taylor Swift admitted to being a fan, and asked Tyler to star in her music video “Tear Drops on My Guitar” which became a huge crossover hit. The two appeared together live several times and later Tyler appeared via interactive video on her stadium tour. The independent comedy “Charlie Bartlett” followed with Robert Downey Jr. and Anton Yelchin and where Tyler met his wife, Megan Park, who was also in the film.
Tyler moved to Nashville where he began exploring his family’s country roots and made several records with well known producers including Dan Huff, Nathan Chapman, Matt Serletic, and John Alagia. Sadly, none of these records saw the light of day as staff and roster upheaval plagued Warner Brother Records, and eventually led to Tyler’s departure. One of these unreleased songs made their way to Joe Cocker who recorded it on his final album. Tyler then started his own label, Hooptie Tune Records, and released “Forget the Storm” the following year. It became the first record of Tyler’s to gain international success and led to several European tours and a new fervent fan base. His follow up, the mellow folky country album “Indian Summer,” was recorded live in studio with a bluegrass band including his uncle, Tommy Hilton, on guitar. While recording, Tyler landed a role in Halle Berry’s “Extant” on CBS and continued to film the show over the course of its two season run, touring and filming the holiday movie “Christmas on the Bayou” with Randy Travis, Ed Asner, and “One Tree Hill” alum, Hilarie Burton, for which he also recorded the single “One Foot in the Bayou”.
Following the end of “Extant,” Tyler landed a starring role in ABCs sitcom, “The Fluffy Shop” alongside Gabrielle Iglesias where he played a character named after himself but, ultimately, the show wasn’t picked up. Tyler’s currently based in Los Angeles where he’s working on a new album and gearing up for a Winter 2016-2017 US Tour.
“There was a point in my childhood when I thought I was going to be a preacher,” says Michael Grubbs, the frontman-songwriter behind Brooklyn’s Wakey Wakey. “I was going to have a congregation, talk to them about life, about how to get by. I guess this is kind of my pulpit now.”
Ever since his single “War Sweater” jettisoned him into stardom five years ago (thanks to a game-changing plug on One Tree Hill), the indie-pop singer has built a following that’s as passionate as his compositions. His fans have bought 45,000 copies of his self-released debut, the exquisitely tortured Almost Everything I Wish I’d Said the Last Time I Saw You. They’ve permanently inked his lyrics on their bodies (you can find them on display at the “W!W! Tattoos!!!” Pinterest board). And in the ultimate gesture of support, they crowd-funded his self-released follow-up album, the fittingly titled Salvation—and even exceeded the goal by 141 percent.
“My whole childhood was like boot camp for music,” he says, fondly. “When we were growing up, I think my mom wanted me and my sister to be The Carpenters.”
A fan of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, Grubbs majored in theater during college, but upon graduating, high-tailed it to Manhattan to chase his dream of being a serious actor..” He soon quit to pursue a more storied New York occupation: struggling-artist bartender. After 10 years of playing bars and open mics—notably, as a regular during the anti-folk scene at the East Village’s Sidewalk Café—he simply gave up. Around that time, he’d penned songs such as the sweeping “War Sweater,” mostly out of necessity. “I wrote stuff that was so syncopated, so aggressive, because half the time you played in bars, people wouldn’t shut up,” he says, laughing. In May 2009, the creator of One Tree Hill discovered Wakey Wakey through a friend. He placed “War Sweater” on a season 6 episode of the show and cast Grubbs in a small role as a bartender. “Literally a day after ‘War Sweater’ debuted on One Tree Hill, it was Number 13 on the iTunes chart,” marvels Grubbs. “Being an artist feels like you’re in a marathon. You see what you think is the end, but you realize it’s the starting line. You run, and you run, and you run. I was so beaten down. But…here I am!”
What he has now is vantage. On his upcoming third album, Wakey Wakey combines experience and lessons learned through the filter of the emotionally-political landscape of being an independent artist, pushing the bounds on his music to push the bounds on this exploration of self.
Stop. Close your eyes. Take a moment to remember. Do you recall a time, not so long ago? A time of innocence? A time of simplicity? A time of Dunkaroos, Beanie Babies, bubble chairs, white eye-
liner, Ring-Pops, bucket hats and bicycle shorts? Let’s be honest…It’s no secret that the 90’s were by far the most colourful, dynamic and entertaining decade of all. It really felt as though life couldn’t get any better…
Then along came the Spice Girls. It was 1996 when the hit song “Wannabe” swept the world in a
swell of pre-teen, bubble-gum hysteria. Ginger, Baby, Scary, Posh and Sporty became the new faces of
pop music and girls (boys too!) everywhere were instant fans! With 65 million records sold world-wide,
the Spice girls became the best selling girl-group of all time. It was total Spice-Mania!
Fast forward twenty years or so, and millennials are all grown up. Now, more than ever, people
are feeling an urge to reminisce. With 90’s nostalgia in full swing and talks of a Spice Girls reunion
circulating online, there happens to be a new group in town that aims to satisfy the world’s absolute
craving for SPICE!
Meet Wannabe: A group of “90’s kids” who grew up to become some of Toronto’s most
passionate and entertaining performers. They also happen to be real-life best friends! Brought together
by a mutual love for the Spice Girls, this quintet has traveled across the continent, dazzling audiences at clubs, festivals, concert halls and theatres everywhere.
The girls of Wannabe take their jobs very seriously. Being a Spice Girl is hard work that requires
serious training, energy and dedication, while staying true to the core Spice Values. With giant
personalities, costumes, accents and platform shoes, Wannabe delivers the ultimate 90’s party,
celebrating friendship and creativity and reclaiming girl power for the 21st century.
Get ready to jump into a time machine and revisit all your favourite Spice Girls songs, plus a
handful of covers of delectable 90’s jams. Please feel free to stand up, dance, sing along and make lots
of noise! As a wise woman once said: “Spice Up Your Life!”.
“1964” focuses on the quintessential moment in history, when The Beatles actually played before a LIVE audience.
The Beatles toured the world in the early 1960’s, but now only a precious few remain who actually saw them LIVE. Who actually felt the “mania” that brought them to world acclaim.
Today, all that remains are a few scant memories and some captured images in pictures and on poor quality film and video.
“1964” meticulously re-creates the “MAGIC” of those LIVE Beatles’ performances with artful precision and unerring accuracy.
For those that never saw The Beatles LIVE and always wanted to know what it must have been like…this is as close as anyone could possibly get to…FEELING the MAGIC!
For over 30 years, “1964” has thrilled audiences with what is considered to be the most authentic and endearing tribute to The Beatles.
This has been accomplished by a steady and consistent cast of talented professional musicians, who painstakingly recreate the look, feel and note for note sound of an actual LIVE Beatles performance.
The “ultimate Sublime experience” fronted by Dane Scott. Dane is a 6-time San Diego Music Award nominee for his work with the band, Tubby, and with 40 Oz. 40 oz won the San Diego Music Award for best tribute band in 2010. Dane has toured the country with Tubby, The Fryday Band, Smooth Move, and now 40 Ounces to Freedom. His soulful voice and face melting guitar riffs contribute to an energetic show which leaves the audience craving more.
