They (Blankface) were one of our favorite bands from NC and we are so excited to share the stage with them once again. Uzzard will be opening the show and they are super heavy and probably our favorite band in our hometown right now.

We’re working on lining up some special guests for the reunion show and will be pulling out a lot of the older songs we haven’t played in many years.

Codeseven will be playing more shows this fall in other areas of the country (probably not in NC though) but with a shorter set and probably not as many older songs. Details on those dates coming in the following weeks. So if you’re planning a road trip from another state just a heads up but for the full experience then Greensboro is what you want to see.

8.20.10 – Greensboro, NC @ Green St. Club

Codeseven
Blankface
Uzzard

$10 In Advance

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The list of bands  featured on the Webcast ranges from DEVO,  Passion Pit,  De La Soul, and many more.

To watch the Webcast:  GO HERE

Coachella Artist Spotlight: Sunny Day Real Estate

No hiding the fact we love Sunny Day here at Revivl and for those attending Coachella this will be the show to see. The album to pick up if you’ve never heard them is Diary. This was my introduction to them and is still my favorite (don’t overlook The Rising Tide though). Do yourself a favor and pick it up if you don’t have it.
Buy Diary At Masterbeat.com

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I felt like I had been given the biggest guilt trip ever and it was kinda working.

Why Music Matters promo:

Then I saw this one. Dammit……Sigur Ros is a part of this coalition as well? Now I really feel super guilty. What other of my favorite bands are with “Why Music Matters“? It was time to do some investigating.

Sigur Ros – Why Music Matters promo:

The Music Matters website has a tab for “supporting sites”. Thats a good place to start. Lets see…….. Spotify, Itunes, We7, MTV, Napster, ……….Amazon,……………….? WTF! These are all sites that would gain from people not illegally downloading. Where are the bands that are supposedly supporting this? Who the hell owns this site?

ASSHOLES!

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Edit 2: The site was down for a bit thanks to the unreliable hosting of Media Temple (they had a cluster go down). Should be back up and good hopefully.

According to Billboard.com the Rock Band Network is set to open some time today. No confirmation from Harmonix or MTV just yet and many rumors had been swirling that the network would be revealed next week at SXSW. A post from the official Rock Band twitter accounts tells followers to stay tuned for a big announcement later today.

So what is the Rock Band network? Well, Rock Band basically gave out all of the same tools they use build and mix songs into the game to anyone willing to sign-up for a developers license and hopefully a little bit of audio engineering background. These new developers can now offer their services to any band or label seeking to have their music in the game. One of these authoring companies is Rock God Games who is comprised of touring musicians and studio owners.

“We’ve spent the last 15 years working as full-time musicians touring with the now defunct band Codeseven (Equal Vision Records). During that time frame we built our own studio and have been recording various bands and our own side projects. We know music and the music biz better than anyone and working with the Rock Band Network has been very natural and fun for us. All of those hours of transcribing music as a kid has really paid off now” – Rock God Games

Rock God Games offers a discount rate for unsigned artists at $574 a song and for signed artist start a $250 setup fee and $175 a minute of music with rates going down the more songs you have authored. Other authoring houses like Tunecore start out at $999 a song and will be upping that price to $2500 soon according to their website.

For Rock Band fans you will now have a plethora of new music to choose from which will be consistently uploaded daily. Currently there is 119 songs to choose from in the network and 300 more just waiting in the wings. Well known artist like “Steve Via” or “The Shins” all the way down to your average local band will be available for download.  Prices will range from $1 -$3 bucks (MS credits will be used to actually purchase the song) which the artist or label will determine from song to song. You will also be able to search and sort for songs by genre, label, author and all the way down to the “difficulty” level.  Before you buy you can download a free demo of the track to see if you like it, which I think will be 30 to 60 seconds of the song.

Will unsigned bands be discovered? Can this new format possibly save the music industry? It’s hard to say but it all looks very promising and could add some significant revenue for all the struggling record labels. Offering a rock band track with the purchase of an album? Wow the possibilities could be endless!

Jeff Marshall explains the Rock Band Network

Songs Now Available in the Rock Band Network Music Store:

A Drug Against War–KMFDM
Angel Lust–Fake Shark-Real Zombie!
Another California Song–Zack Wilson
Arigato–Gandhi
Australia–The Shins
Backyard Buildyard–Steve and Lindley Band
Battles and Brotherhood–3 Inches of Blood
Buried Cold–Rose of Jericho
Burn it Down–Five Finger Death Punch
California–The Kimberly Trip
Can I Stay–Stephanie Hatfield and Hot Mess
Cease and Desist–The Main Drag
Children of December–The Slip
Creepy Doll–Jonathan Coulton
Crushed Beyond Dust–Skeletonwitch
Day of Mourning–Despised Icon
Disengage–Suicide Silence
Don’t Let Me Down (Slowly)–The Main Drag
Dove Nets–The Main Drag
Drunken Lullabies (Live)–Flogging Molly
End Quote–Full-Source
Even Rats–The Slip
Fade Away–Of Last Resort
Far Away from Heaven–Free Spirit
Fight Back–Ron Wasserman
For the Love of God (Live)–Steve Vai
Fortune–Kristin Hersh
Get the Hell Out of Here–Steve Vai
Give–The Cold Goodnight
Goth Girls–MC Frontalot
Grumpytown–Speck
He Sleeps in a Grove–Amberian Dawn
Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse–of Montreal
Homosuperior–The Main Drag
Horses in Heaven–Fake Shark-Real Zombie!
How We’d Look On Paper–The Main Drag
Hyperbole–Glass Hammer
Icarus’ Song–Furly
If Not Now When–Color Theory
If Trucks Drank Beer–Error 404 feat. CJ Watson
Ikea–Jonathan Coulton
In Memories–Giant Target
Inside Out–Nick Gallant
It’s Good–The Humans
It’s Not You, It’s Everyone–Full-Source
Juke Joint Jezebel–KMFDM
Kick Some Ass ‘09–Stroke 9
Lady in a Blue Dress–Senses Fail
Lemon Juice–Scratching The Itch
Lilith in Libra–You Shriek
Limousine–Stars of Boulevard
Liquid Smog (StompBox Remix)–WaveGroup Feat. Becca Neun
Little Black Backpack ‘09–Stroke 9
Liverpool Judies–The Fisticuffs
Love During Wartime–The Main Drag
Mechanical Love–In This Moment
Megatron–The Main Drag
Mississippi Kite–Kristin Hersh
Moonboy–The Dirty Love Band
Nancy Drew–Pink Flag
No Direction–Longwave
No Heroes–You Shriek
Not My Fault–Ultra Saturday
Ox–Zack Wilson
Paper Valentines–James William Roy
Parhelia–Heaven Ablaze
Persistence of Vision–Matter in the Medium
Race The Hourglass–Audio Fiction
Red Sky At Morn–Full-Source
Requiem for a Dying Song–Flogging Molly
Rip’er–Lead the Dead
River of Tuoni–Amberian Dawn
Running for the Razors–Fake Shark-Real Zombie!
Rx–Wounded Soul
Sequestered in Memphis–The Hold Steady
Sestri Levante–Fake Shark-Real Zombie!
Sick–Bif Naked
Signs–Giant Target
Sissyfuss–Surprise Me Mr. Davis
Sleep On–Glass Hammer
Stand for Something–Skindred
Still There–Bojibian
Superhero!–Ultra Saturday
Survive–Lacuna Coil
Tadpole Search and Rescue–Chaunce DeLeon and The Fountain of Choof
Talk About–Dear and the Headlights
Talk Them Down–The Main Drag
Teeth, Face, Outerspace–The Main Drag
The Attitude Song–Steve Vai
The Buddy Disease–Scratching The Itch
The Complexity of Light–Children of Nova
The Future Soon–Jonathan Coulton
The Heist–DnA’s Evolution
Tongue Twister Typo–Blackmarket
Top Back–Alias Unknown
Tricky Girl–The Main Drag
Trippolette–Andrew Buch
Turn Yourself Around–Nick Gallant
VP of Booty Reports–Speck
Watch It All Go Down–Foreword
We Are the Best–C&O
Whatever Is Wrong With You–Marillion
What’s Your Favorite Dinosaur?–The Main Drag
You Got That–The Everybody
You’re My Everything–Scratching The Itch

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In the day I learned how to play the guitar there was no internet. You would take private lessons to get your knowledge and chops up to speed. The problem with that, it was only 30 minutes to an hour a week. You we’re left hanging for up to 7 days if you hit a speed bump. That’s when frustration builds and some people give up.

So how did I solve this problem? V.H.S tapes! Remember those? In the back of a guitar magazine there was an ad for a guitar training course (The Metal Method) and my dad bought it. It was a game changer to say the least. I had a guitar teacher 24 hrs a day and could rewind, fast forward and pause if I needed. Brilliant idea and it worked amazingly!

With the internet things have only gotten faster and better so we’re going to take a look at four products that will help you get to your goals of becoming an accomplished guitarist!

1. Jam Play – Online Guitar Lessons

Jam Play is a site dedicated to teaching you absolutely everything you need to know to learn and master the guitar. Provided is over 19,302 minutes of lessons from 24 instructors.

• Access to Phase 1 Beginner Lessons, Phase 2 Advanced Lessons, & Phase 3 Song Lessons
• High-definition lesson quality with scene selection & supplementals
• Full Chord Library to Print, Memorize and Access Any Chord
• Supplemental tools & Printable guitar Lesson Documentation
• Ask Jam Play guitar instructors your questions, get video responses

Price: $19.95 / Monthly
Visit The Site For More Info

2. Guitar Tricks – Learn To Play Guitar

Learn guitar from a hand-selected group of instructors, technicians, and professional guitarists. You have access to a large library of video and audio lessons, tutorials, sheet music, reference, exercises, personalization tools, and more.

• Thousands of streaming videos and tutorials
• Connect directly with instructors in the exclusive Full Access Subscribers Forum
• Jam Station software offers 150 tracks of backing music for you to practice over
• Proprietary Metronome and Tuner tools

Price: $12.95 / Monthly
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3. Guitar Superstars – Guitar Training

Guitar Superstars is the guitarist’s choice in either advancing their stellar performance career or that beginner who would like to learn how to take their guitar playing to the next level.

• Hundreds of lessons in video format
• Personal lesson plans
• Award-winning Jam machine technology & prerecorded jam tracks
• Supplemental tools & Printable guitar Lesson Documentation

Price: $37.00 / One Time Fee
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4. Metal Method – Electric Guitar Lessons

DVD guitar lessons that specialize in classic rock, hard rock, metal, and neoclassical shred electric guitar lessons. Includes beginner, intermediate, and advanced lessons.

• Instructor Michael Angelo Batio was 2009 Guitar World Magazine’s Reader’s Poll
• Lessons are shipped on DVD format
• Metal Mike Chlasciak (Halford) and shred master Rusty Cooley (Outworld) are former students
• Instant access to evaluate the quality of the products including instructional programs, product demos, and live concerts.

Price: N/A
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* Metal Method is mostly a DVD course although they do offer some free online material. Due to the fact that I’ve gone through his previous training as a kid I felt it should be mentioned.

Overview

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