RethinkPopMusic Presents: Ambassadors, The Yes Way, Fugitive Souls, Emily Long and Dinosaur Bones – The Village Voice

A little RPM love over at The Village Voice camp. Reposted from: http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/rethinkpopmusic-presents-ambassadors-the-yes-way-and-dinosaur-bones-1655446/

“Five bucks, five bands, free booze” RSVP at http://www.RPM-RSVP.com to enter for only $5 and get a FREE download! RethinkPopMusic’s youngest band Ambassadors, is excited to announce that they are back and stronger than ever after a 2009 full of adversity. Ambassadors’ keyboardist (Casey Harris), who has been blind since birth, had to have a kidney transplant (from his mother) last November. The kidney disorder wasn’t discovered until he was a senior in high school and little is known about the disease because the correlation with vision loss is EXTREMELY rare. However, have no fear! Casey is back to 110% and the time off allowed Ambassadors to incorporate some new instruments into their already outstanding live show. The showcase at Santos Party House on 02/18 will be Ambassadors first since taking 3 months off following a very successful UK Tour and CMJ Showcase. RSVP and RethinkPopMusic will email you a secret link to download their first single “Tropisms” which was featured on mtvU The Freshman. Their self titled debut EP is slated for an early summer release.

Tags: 5 bands 5 bucks free booze, ambassadors, dinosaur bones, emily long, fugitive souls, RethinkPopMusic, santos party house, the village voice, the yes way

Ambassadors at Cameo

Since Casey is recovering from a successful kidney transplant we figured you Ambassadors fans should get a live performance to hold you over till February.

Tags: ambassadors, Cameo, Hank and Cupcakes, RethinkPopMusic, the vanguard

Ambassadors on BalconyTV

While on the RethinkPopMusic vs Laissez Faire Club tour in London Ambassadors performed “Keys” on BalconyTV… check it out!

Tags: ambassadors, Balcony TV, laissez faire club, London, RethinkPopMusic, www.BalconyTV.com

RethinkPopMusic CMJ Showcase

On Thursday, October 22nd RethinkPopMusic hosted an unofficial CMJ Showcase at Crash Mansion with the assistance of Absolut, Spaten Beer, Red Roof Inns, Virgin Atlantic Airlines, U-Haul and Yak Pak.

Once again we had 350+ through the door but I think that has much more to do with great performances by Ambassadors, The Vanguard, The Aviation Orange, The Glorious Veins and our late night guests Lindsay Luv and Mikealis.

Thanks to everyone who came out including all our friends from MTV, S1Songs, The Postelles and ALL!

Tags: Absolut, ambassadors, Bob Berman, CMJ, cmj 2009, cmj rethinkpopmusic, Crash Mansion, lindsay luv, mikealis, Red Roof Inns, RethinkPopMusic, spaten, Spaten Beer, The Aviaiton Orange, The Glorious Veins, the vanguard, uhaul, Virgin Atlantic Airlines, yak pak

Vote for Ambassadors on MTV U!

RethinkPopMusic’s very own Ambassadors debut music video for “Tropisms” will be featured on MTV U’s music video show The Freshman all week. However, if Ambassadors receive the most votes the video will go into heavy rotation and possibly become a Freshman 5 artist of the semester! So please vote now and vote as many times as you can handle.

Let the world know! Voting ends 2pm (EST) on Friday.

Watch it here! But be sure to VOTE HERE: http://www.mtvu.com/music/the-freshmen/nominees-102609/

Tags: ambassadors, MTV U, RethinkPopMusic, tropisms, video

London Day 8

On our last night in London it was obvious we were feeling our candles burn at both ends.

Nevertheless, Eight Legs were kind enough to let two New York bands play their On the Bus showcase at Powers Bar and we were more than happy to soldier through.

We were able to find energy in the most random places

Ambassadors went on first and killed it as always

Next The Vanguard took the stage with a little help from their friends

The Vanguard played so well that we received our first encore of the trip and they were more than happy to oblige with “Take You Out”

While the night started out with a dozen Americans on the verge of passing out, it ended up being one of the best shows of the trip.

We even made some new fans who invited us to a 3am rave party… we never showed

Greenroom:

Tags: ambassadors, Bob Berman, eight legs, jeremy lloyd, laissez faire club, London, powers bar, RethinkPopMusic, the vanguard

London Day 7

We had our second day off on Friday and Jeremy took us to see Ice Black Birds. at The Macbeth.

Ice Black Birds is the second project of Sam Dennison who used to front The Matadors. According to their myspace: “IBB are a bluesy four piece from Brighton via London. They draw influence from 60s and 70s rock ‘n’ roll. They formed from the ashes of old London, Sheffield and Scottish bands and seem set to bring a fresh burst of modern blues back into the industry. The energy created on stage by this band is second to none and with catchy songs that maintain their own dignity, they are most definitely one to watch for 2009. They have already been hand picked by the likes of Golden Silvers, Joe Gideon and The Shark, Wave Machines and We Have Band to support them on tour and played various venues across the country such as Concorde 2, Club NME and Proud Galleries amongst others.”

I thought their guitar and bass play were exceptional and although Sam doesn’t have the extensive range expected of American acts, he commanded the stage like few can. I also heard some definite dance influences in many of the song breakdowns especially when they threw in a cover or two. Great band to check out if they make it here.

We called it an early night because we have one last show to play tomorrow before heading back to NYC for CMJ. Day 8 coming soon plus a full recap of the entire trip.

Tags: ambassadors, Ice Black Birds, jeremy lloyd, laissez faire club, the macbeth, the matadors, the vanguard

London Day 6

So they day finally came for the official Laissez Faire Club vs RethinkPopMusic showcase at The Legion.

The Vanguard kicked things off and despite the fact that Aaron could barely speak all day he was still able to play a terrific set… with a little help from his friends. Ambassadors took the stage next and had the crowd in hysterics despite the fact that Casey’s keyboard lost power half way through the last song of the set. Despite technical difficulties he handled it like a pro and the crowd was none the wiser.

My Tiger My Timing closed the night and then the real party began…

Jeremy was kind enough to invite the bands back to Chelsea for some after-hours fun, but didn’t exactly realize that there were thirty of us. So the entire entourage marched down the street and got onto the double-decker bus. We immediately commandeered the entire top floor and a jam session ensued.

After the INSANE jam session on the bus, which we have video evidence of, we headed to Jeremy’s. This is where things got weird… in the best way possible.

A little Eastern Europe Dance Party!

Gymnastics time?

I was confused

And then it was “chill” time

Or pass out time depending on the tolerance

Tags: ambassadors, Bob Berman, Double-Decker, jeremy lloyd, John Kravetz, laissez faire club, My Tiger My Timing, RethinkPopMusic, the legion, the vanguard

London Day 5

Day 5 was relatively mild compared to the others. Everyone slept in before making the hour long trip to Brixton to play The Windmill.

The temperature dropped about 20 degrees by the time we got off the tube and none of us were too prepared. The show went great and we met some amazing people. I found out that The Windmill was the very first venue Yeasayer played in London!

Needing to rest up for tomorrow’s Laissez Faire Club show we all headed back home relatively early. However, Jeremy and I did stay up until 4am arguing about music and drinking Jim Beam with the drummer from Hoodoo Scoundrels.

Tags: ambassadors, Bob Berman, Brixton, Hoodoo Scoundrels, jeremy lloyd, laissez faire club, RethinkPopMusic, the vanguard, the windmill, Yeasayer

White Rabbits and Ambassadors

Have something in common… Atlantic Sound Studios. It appears to me, that the Myspace Transmission was filmed in the same studio that we recorded Ambassadors debut EP which will be out soon!

White Rabbits – “Right Where They Left” from Transmiss

MySpace Transmissions | MySpace Videos

Can someone verify?

Tags: ambassadors, atlantic sound studios, Myspace, Myspace Transmissions, RethinkPopMusic, White Rabbits