Archive - Feb 1, 2010

The winner of the tickets for tomorrow night's G. Love & Special Sauce show is Erin Crowe. Your tickets will be waiting under your name at will call. Congrats!!

For the first time ever, we are excited to add a meet and greet to our list of giveaway's. Two bands are headed to Warehouse Live this week – New Found Glory on Thursday, February 4 and G. Love & Special Sauce on Saturday, February 6 – and we are excited about letting you have the chance to take in both performances for free. Also, we are looking forward to making some lucky fan's day by giving them the opportunity to meet New Found Glory before the show. All you have to do to win is leave a comment with what show you'd like to attend, as well as your full name and a way we can contact you if you get chosen (e-mail or telephone number). YOU CAN'T WIN IF YOU DON'T LEAVE A WAY FOR US TO CONTACT YOU! We will be announcing the winners on Thursday for New Found Glory, and on Friday for G. Love, so be available those days in order to not lose out.

We hope to incorporate several more of these meet and greets into our repertoire, and couldn't do it without the regular support from The Messina Group, AEG Live and Warehouse Live. If you are interested in going to these shows, but have a social phobia that disallows you to meet your favorite artists, feel free to purchase tickets at WL's ticketing pages for each show: New Found Glory and G. Love & Special Sauce.

Words by Michael "Grits" Smith
Photos by Anna “Hash Browns” Vernon

These So-Cal pop rockers emerged when I was in high school. I remember seeing their video for Blue Side, the only single off their first record, in rotation on MTV (they did play music videos once upon a time, but now that I think about, it may have been VH1…). Since that time, the music industry has had their "Oh Shit!" moment, kind of their equivalent to the real estate crash of '08, after everyone figured out what file sharing was. Record labels have traded in their recoupable dinners for sack lunches and shed employees like prom dresses. A lot of bands on the brink have lost everything they worked for as their A&R guys have gotten the axe. I don't know if Rooney some how got lost in this fray of music industry meltdown in the last few years, because to be honest, I had no clue these guys were still together till BOT asked me to cover the show. Being a sucker for pop, I was pretty stoked to hear them. Read the rest of my review after the jump.