It’s a new month, which means it’s time for some new music! The newest installment of Keep Your Ear To the Door features two solo acoustic songs done by AJ Butler. Check them out – we think you will dig the intimacy of the recordings:

“The Grove” – A 10 part drawing series

We thought it be cool to explore the idea that if there was a stereogrove, what would it look like, who would live there, and what kinds of things would go on there. What we’ve come up with so far is a series of drawings based on this “dreamscape” realm where instruments and musical equipment grow on trees. This first series depicts the grove from various viewpoints. All artwork done by Tony Hollums. 8×10 prints are available to purchase. Check it out: http://stereogrove.com/the-grove/

March Shows

Thursday March 11th
TT The Bears Place – Cambridge MA
The Gypsy West CD Release Show
9pm – $9
This was a last minute show that we were added to after a band canceled. If you are available we’d love the support for our first time out as one of Boston’s legendary clubs.

Saturday March 20th
Cave Fest
Ludlow VT
Free – 21+
This is a really cool mini festival thown by some people up in Vermont who like to have a good time. Bonfire, Music, Food, and Booze. If you wanna come up with us drop us a line and we’ll give you the details. Free overnight accomadations are available.

Saturday March 27th
Fetzer Fest III @  The Sterling Hotel
Allentown PA
All Ages – $10 adv | $12 dos
Purchase your tickets ahead of here: http://www.stereogrove.com/fetzerfest

Keep Your Ear To The Door

We’ve added some new songs to the “Keep Your Ear To The Door” Series – The series includes jams and song ideas in a rough form. The idea was to be able to let people hear how songs start out in the writing process as well as sharing the bits and pieces of musical awesomeness that happen when we jam. All the songs in this series are recorded in our practice space and mixed by our very own Tony Hollums. Since our last addition came in November, we’ve uploaded three new tunes to cover December, January, and February.

You can stream & download the songs by going here:

Upcoming Shows

2010 is going to be a year that we find ourselves getting out to many cities and towns throughout the Northeast. From Portland to Philly and Worcester to Syracuse, we are hard at work trying to fill the schedule in hopes of spreading the sounds of Stereogrove. We’ve truly appreciated all of the support over the years and we wouldn’t be where we are now without you guys. Our hope is that 2010 will bring your continued support and enthusiasm for what we do. This coming Saturday we will be heading up to Mt. Snow to play at the Rail Jam for the 3rd year in a row. A few weeks later we’ll be heading south back to NYC to play at the Bitter End and then on to Harrisburg, PA for the Millennium Music conference.

FETZER FEST III

On March 27th  we’ll be rocking the Fetzer Fest at the Crocodile Rock Café in Allentown, tickets can be purchased at http://www.stereogrove.com/fetzerfest

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“Keep it on man, keep, keep, keep it on”  – Stereogrove

Also, to spice it up a bit, here is another new sex toy for your ear canal. Part of an ongoing collection of music called Keep Your Ear to the Door.  It’s a tasty romp of a slide guitar jam called “Livin in Hell” and we just may play it at Toad. Let us know what you think.

We never stop working at Stem Co. and we got more stuff coming on the horizon. One of these things is another Free, 3 hour Show at Portobellies in downtown Brighton, which all are welcome for the “All Stem All Day”. (ASAD)

Another thing we have been working on is getting recordings of the songs we play all the time. Nothing  professional, but we are working on getting them out for your listening pleasure for those of you who only have the Album, and just can’t get enough of the boys. In fact we are working on another Ear to the Door volume which will have these tasty treats on it that you will be able to download here and pick up at a show.

On that note here is another great tune, called What You Get. We wrote it around the same time as Lost Love, and Nervous, which came after we recorded the album . It’s a grooving rock tune with a kick ass ending. Enjoy… If this is a song you want to hear live at Portobellies then let us know.

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Its called “Do Something“, though we have considered changing the name to “Dark Side of My Mind“. Its our shortest song at 3:34. We think its pretty close to done, however I say give it a listen and let us know what you think. Currently the song is in a ABCABC format, for those of you who are into, or want to get into songwriting.

Give us your feedback, and also what you think the song should be called.  (leave a comment below) As I said in my last post, you don’t have to be a musician to know whether or not you like something.

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Over the course of the next few weeks im going to be building a collection of tunes called Keep Your Ear to the Door Vol. 3. Which is a collection of unrecorded songs and awesome jams that we tend to give away at shows. Vol 1 we made a few years back well before Vs Them and we used it as our demo. However I think you will enjoy this more. Check out the Download page to get the tracks as well. More to come soon.