Artist of The Week 6/13/10-The SilenTreatment
This Week, The Mad HairBear Bunch take up the mantra of handling the artist of the week, and our choice is The SilenTreatment!
Hailing from the Scranton/Wilkes Barre, PA Area the band was formed in 2006 when Anthony Giamusso got together with Sam Chiarelli, and the band’s nucleus was formed. Tony and Sam tracked down Mike Sharkey, Mark Lieback, and Stephen Martin and the rest as they say is history.
The guys while playing gigs in 2007 caught the attention of a management firm, and began recording their debut album Sinful Acts of Audio and immediately after release, the band was catapulted to the top of the indie music charts with Pretty Little Girl spending several weeks in the #1 slot along with tracks like Boogie, and Sweet Ending all showing the band’s versitillity, and attention to not only the licks, but the lyrics as well.
Tony’s been quoted as saying “The songs on Sinful Acts of Audio rock and ooze emotion. “We think ’Sinful’ is a damn sexy record,” Giamusso adds. “It really captures the true essence of the band. There are 10 songs full of love, lust and passion that everyone can relate to.”
July of 2009 brought us the release of the 4 song EP, titled “Passion In Progress” and once again showed the talents of the band, and gave them the chance to “hone the ST sound” and has been well received by fans, and radio stations around the world.
This year, the gang’s back in the studio turning out more music, and have also included a podcast of their own called The TST Fancast along with several videos posted on YouTube, as well as their music videos.
Listeners can purchase the band’s albums and individual tracks on iTunes, as well as albums on the band’s website
If the first two albums were a prequel, the junior offering from this group of guys is going to be AMAZING!!!
Artist Pick of the Week: Prophets Rose
Prophets Rose began in the early nineties in the Merseyside mining town of St Helens. Gaz Pickett & Dave Madge met through working together in the biggest sinkhole of the town. Through a mutual love of rock music, Gaz having a lot of previous live experience and Dave for the buzz, they decided to form a band, “Prophets Rose”. The song writing partnership of Gaz and Dave soon produced ‘The Prophecy’ a three track demo recorded at The Ranch studios, Liverpool. The demo soon became a popular soundtrack to Friday Rock nights in their hometown and was regularly played on local radio. A lot of small local gigs were played which built up a popular following but the fame they sought seemed always tantalisingly out of reach. The music was to sit on the back-burner and as time is impatient and unkind, the two guys remained close friends but got on with their lives. For Gaz the flame still burned and when My Space arrived it rekindled his dream of bringing Prophet’s Rose to a new audience. Gaz and Dave are currently finishing work on two new studio albums ‘Paranor’ and ‘Beyond the Edge of Time’ Dave is also credited with the novel ‘A Comedy of Terrors’ and a compilation of poetry entitled ‘Visions of the Rainbow’ Gaz has also co-written ‘Under a dreaming moon’ with Dave which awaits publication and is currently writing a new novel. PROPHETS ROSE have announced that they are to re-form !!!!!
Here’s the video for Follow The Storm
The new studio album ‘PARANOR’ was be available through www.myspace.com/prophetsrose late 2008 – early 2009 with live dates and venues to be announced soon after.
Artist of The Week: Shawn Michael Perry
Shawn Michael Perry has taken the multi-hyphenate to new heights. This singer, songwriter, actor, educator, and activist was born in Southern California into indigenous heritage (his father is Native American of Salish ancestry; his mother, of Panamanian of Mayan ancestry). Shawn has embraced his culture, past and present with an eye to the future.
Shawn first came to the public’s attention through his acting skills. He has appeared in films as diverse as Last of The Mohicans to WildBill and television production such as Murder She Wrote and CBS after school special, My Indian Summer
His stage credits include the highly acclaimed production of Ghost Dance at Los Angeles Actors Gang Studio. Presently Shawn played “Chief Neawah”, in So Far From Scioto at the acclaimed Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. An Indian Initiative to include the histories of the native peoples in the 18th century.
Shawn’s musical ambitions led him into the studio with a collection of songs which was the outcome of his latest masterpiece, Shawn Michael Perry & Only The Brave CD/DVD.
Highlighting the human experience as seen through indigenous eyes. The strength of his music and beauty of his words was enhanced by producer John Avila, the talented bassist/producer of Oingo Boingo. Shawn and John furthered their collaboration by placing Fight in a documentary/drama about Poncho Gonzales, the famed tennis master which aired on SPIKE TV in 2006. Final polishing was added by the skillful mastering of techniques of Ron McMaster (Capitol Records). The results were marketed as the limited edition Run 2 U. Tracks Freedom, and Libertad (The Spanish version of Freedom) recieved terrific response and airplay. Due to their popularity these songs are featured on the full-length CD/DVD Shawn Michael Perry & Only The Brave.
Shawn has opened for and shared the bill with Redbone, Badlands, Bill Miller. Mary Youngblood, Keith Secola, Jeff Healey, Thee Rhythm Kings, Yaiva, just to name a few. Shawn’s song Forever has consistently been in the top 20 in country pop and adult contemporary radio formats across the world.
Now in 2010 Shawn’s video Forever continues to get critical acclaim. Together with his band, “Only The Brave”, Shawn is on the road spreading his message.
Stay tuned for the latest info on Shawn’s upcoming sophomore album Hungry For Heroes, which includes the latest hit 4Ever-In -My-Heart.
Stay tuned for Shawn’s upcoming tour-fund raising program, “All The Culture: Music of The America’s, which will include the best of indigenous artist. Shawn’s goal is to put music back into the classroom. A portion of the tour proceeds will be donated to schools in rural areas to establish musicial programs. Please see the All That Culture page for insight on our educational program All That Culture: Music of The Americaa’s
here’s Shawn’s video to his biggest song to date:
Shawn and the bands music can be purchased directly form his MySpace Page, or at his website.
Special Note: Shawn will be joining the RadioGalactica Staff this Coming Sunday at 5pm EDT/10pm BST (2pm PDT on the US West Coast) During the Weekend Chronicles for a chat!
Artist of The Week: Caduseus
Welcome to our first Artist of The Week!
DJ SilverLady chose Caduseus as her pick this week! here’s a little on the beginnings of the band, a place to buy their music, and a YouTube video as well!
2 Years BC (before Caduseus)
Jim Griffin was quietly contemplating his future, sitting, sipping coke in the beer garden of The Buck public house in Newton, Mid Wales. With nothing but a black bin liner filled with all his worldly goods, for company. Jim was preoccupied with finding a new direction to his life.
Then his friend Gary Watson, a well-known local guitarist with The Naked Glue Sniffers, walked by and noticed that the contents of Jim’s bag were spilling out all over the floor, he stooped down to help Jim replace the items.
“Oh don’t worry about it”, blustered Jim, as he hurriedly collected up some dog-eared papers, “It’s only a bit of poetry I wrote”.
“This is not just poetry, Jim” uttered Gary, still clutching on of the pages as his eyes hurriedly scanned over the spidery scrawlings. “These are good lyrics my friend”.
It was the summer.
Purchase Music:
You can purchase all of the current Caduseus tracks directly form their website
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