Maroon 5 announced a special show on September 29, 2008 in New Orleans, LA. All proceeds will go to the Make It Right Foundation to help with the redevelopment of the Lower 9th Ward – devastated by Hurricane Katrina. To find out more about Make It Right click here. Tickets for this show go on sale this Saturday at 10:00AM CDT. Get your tickets here. Brandi Carlile will be the opening act and it’s sure to be an evening to remember.

MTV is letting YOU decide the 2008 VMA nominees. Want to help nominate Maroon 5 for a Video Music Award? Keep your eye on this link and help them get “If I Never See Your Face Again” Ft. Rihanna and “Wake Up Call” nominated for Best Pop Video! Voting closes on Wednesday 07/30 at 11am EST. So start voting!

When the price of fuel started its monumental climb a few months ago, The Influence, a Virginia Beach-based band, started looking for alternative ways to travel. Their solution: a tour bus converted to run on waste vegetable oil. “[Travel] was eating up any profits we might have made at any shows,” said Dave Cogan, The Influence’s manager, who is from Falls Church. The engine on The Influence’s tour bus is now from Grease Car, a New England-based company that converts diesel engines to run on waste vegetable oil from restaurants. Falls Church-based Bubba’s Restaurant and Old Hickory Grill provide their waste vegetable oil to the band whenever they come through the D.C. area. “The bus is able to run most of the time on waste vegetable oil, although it also converts to regular diesel if you can’t find [vegetable oil],” Cogan said. “Sometimes when it’s in the mountains or if they’re driving it at high rates of speeds and the engine needs to be running most efficiently, they have to shift back over to diesel. It’s this little onboard computer that does it automatically.” While not everyone can convert their vehicles to a more efficient engine, other musicians are also using alternate means of transportation. In a recent trip to Charlotte, N.C., Shane Hines, of Shane Hines and the Trance, and his road manager took an SUV instead of their normal 15-passanger van. Read the rest of this entry »

While cleaning my harddrive, I came across these great concert pictures, I hadn’t posted before. Happy Watching!

Okay, first things first. As you might discovered already, we have new ads on this site. Yeah, they’re ugly and they mess up the layout, BUT they keep us online the way we are. Right now, I’m working on a new layout to make it atleast a bit better looking. Sorry about that, but there’s nothing I can do about it!
Otherwise, I added another photoshoot and I’m pretty sure you will love this one!