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03/03/08 02/04/08 01/25/08 BIG STUDIO NEWS 12/18/07 Check out The Real Rock TV-NJ Christmas Show tonight, Tuesday Dec 18th at 9:30pm for a new live video of Kurt and Kristin performing "Christmas, Bring Us". This show is found on Comcast Cable CH26, , serving Union, Hudson, Essex and Middlesex Counties in NJ. 10/2/07 Kurt talks drumming
on Modern Drummer Website! 9/28/07 The
Grip Weeds go from Basement to Billboard, literally. 9/25/07
9/13/07 "Salad Days" is #7 on the Garage Chart in Billboard this week! 8/25/07 House
Of Vibes Revisited is now available for download at iTunes.
Be the first to review the album there! 8/13/07 On Tuesday 8.14, to coincide with the release of House Of Vibes Revisited, the new music video for the lead single "Salad Days" will premiere here at gripweeds.com. The disc will initially be available for purchase here, or from Not Lame, Jam and Koolkat Musik. Koolkat is offering a deluxe version which includes the CD version of SEE YOU THROUGH, The Grip Weeds' first ever 7" release, previously out of print. However you get it, the disc offers and enhanced link to a special online “Secret Attic Space” with more in-depth info, more video, more audio, and all sorts of added goodies to explore. This link is active on date of release. 8/03/07 HIGHLAND PARK, NJ- THE GRIP WEEDS’ stellar reputation for bringing rock ‘n’ roll’s past into the future has come full circle. With the Aug. 14, 2007 release of HOUSE OF VIBES REVISITED (Ground UP), it’s their own history that New Jersey’s pioneering DIY power popsters are boldly carrying forward.
“Salad Days,” the lead single from HOUSE OF VIBES REVISITED, was just proclaimed “The Coolest Song in the World” on the immensely popular nationally syndicated radio show, Little Steven’s Underground Garage. For HOUSE OF VIBES REVISITED, the band updated original multi-tracks using digital technology in a way not even possible just a few years ago. The dramatic and sometimes astonishing sonic difference allows listeners to hear the music the way the band always wanted but only now does technology allow them to achieve. Back then in the pre-digital era, THE GRIP WEEDS were at the forefront of the home recording movement, a benchmark of the band’s longstanding dedication to independence through the DIY process. Long out of print, the original House of Vibes was hailed by Goldmine as “loaded with cool songs that are sometimes trippy, sometimes poppy, sometimes garagy, but always appealingly structured and highly melodic... definitely a road worth traveling...quite a triumph." Featuring an impressive blend of Beatle-esque sensibilities fused with rock edginess, the band’s trademark lush harmonies and high caliber songwriting, the original release put THE GRIP WEEDS on the map. “The original album was the turning point for us, where everything crystallized,” says Kurt. “Kristin joined the band, it was our first full-length effort, and it was the start of our methodology and way of working." HOUSE OF VIBES REVISITED will be available at CDBABY.com, Amazon.com, iTunes, at most major digital download destinations and, of course, direct from www.gripweeds.com. 8/1/07
5/23/07 THE GRIP WEEDS COMBINE PERFORMANCE WITH RECORDING IN NJ SEMINAR SERIES The
Grip Weeds are presenting the first in a series of BASEMENT TO BILLBOARD: D.I.Y. RECORDING W/ THE
GRIP WEEDS HIGHLAND PARK, NJ - Make a world-class recording at home! International recording artists THE GRIP WEEDS take you on the journey of a song, from demo to finished product ready for download, with special emphasis on doing it yourself from your own home. Along the way, THE GRIP WEEDS will perform live, show videos and demonstrate basic recording techniques. Topics to be covered are song arranging, making a demo, recording and overdubbing, mixing, mastering and finally uploading the song to iTunes. The first session in the FREE “Basement to Billboard: D.I.Y. Recording with the Grip Weeds” performance/seminar series will be held Saturday, June 9 at the Ocean County Library, Toms River Branch, 101 Washington St., Toms River, NJ. Start time is 2 p.m. For more info, call (732) 349-6200 or go to www.oceancountylibrary.org. The idea for the show was hatched when Grip Weeds singer/drummer Kurt Reil participated in a Producer/Engineer panel at Brookdale Public Radio's Guitar Show this past Winter. "I found that there are many artists out there struggling to make sense of the recording technology now available to them," Kurt says. "We're in a unique position to help because we have been there- The Grip Weeds and our studio were founded on the principle of self-reliance." Based in Highland Park, New Jersey, THE GRIP WEEDS are a critically-acclaimed psychedelic/garage/powerpop quartet consisting of brothers Kurt and Rick Reil (on drums and guitar respectively), Kristin Pinell (guitar) and Michael Kelly (bass). The band has released four full-length CDs (three on the Rainbow Quartz label), performed throughout the US and in Europe, and has garnered significant radio/internet airplay including several songs spotlighted on Little Steven’s Underground Garage radio shows. THE GRIP WEEDS have produced all of their recordings at their NJ studio (House of Vibes) as well as those of many other artists: Most recently, Kurt engineered and co-produced Meet The Smithereens, a CD tribute to the Beatles by New Jersey's The Smithereens. The Grip Weeds' latest release, House Of Vibes Revisited, is a remixed and remastered edition of their debut disc, which celebrates and cements the band's reputation as D.I.Y. recording stalwarts. Additionally, the band will be featured on compilations to be released on Little Steven’s Wicked Cool Records this year. Basement to Billboard: D.I.Y. Recording
with the Grip Weeds (732)
349-6200 Please call or register online to reserve seating. 12/31/06 "Christmas Bring Us" was featured on Little Steven's Underground Garage Christmas show as the Coolest Song in the World this week!! This nationally syndicated radio show reaches over two million listeners via radio and internet streaming. Thanks, Steven! 10/26/06 New
Grip Weeds Song for the Holidays! "Christmas, Bring
Us"- click
to hear a sample. Full song available for download this November- check this site
for details. 7/31/06 CHRISTMAS
IN JULY ('Yulefest' for our Australian fans) 7/12/06 THE GRIP WEEDS featured on Power Pop Compilation to be released in August
An exclusive remix of “Out of Today” is included on THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO VOLUME 2, a new power pop comp to be released this August by JAM Records. The collection features 28 tracks drawn from the playlists of THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO, "one of the best radio shows on the whole friggin' planet", hosted by Carl and Dana on WXXE-FM in Syracuse, New York. This will be the FIRST opportunity for fans to hear the newly remixed version of “Out of Today” from the forthcoming re-issue HOUSE OF VIBES REVISITED (more on this later as it develops). The disc also features a stellar lineup of artists including Richard Barone, The Cowsills and Chris Von Schneidern, and also marks the debut of The Bar (Jim Babjak, Danny Adlerman and Grip Weed Kurt Reil). The CD will be available from JAM Records, CD Baby, Not Lame and more... 6/6/06 MY SPACE REVIEWThe Grip Weeds’ MySpace player features four sterling cuts from their fourth album “Giant on the Beach” (Rainbow Quartz, 2005)…While these four tracks could be convincingly passed off as chart-toppers in the Summer of ’67, the patchouli quotient of the epigrammatic lyrics about love and lost innocence is effectively hopped up by assertive, more modern playing that makes each song fresh-sounding. This is not your father’s (or grandfather’s) drowsy, zen-positive hippie music. I would imagine Paul Weller and Andrew Loog Oldham might listen to this stuff while pouring themselves Sunday morning black and tans. | ||||||
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SPRING NEWS!! Once again, Spring brings renewal, dandelions and Grip Weeds... “FIVE
WAY STREET: A TRIBUTE TO BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD" Click
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12/22/05 WORLDWIDE
DISTRIBUTION for GOTB The
Grip Weeds and their label Rainbow Quartz now enjoy true worldwide distribution
and have penetrated many new international markets in 2005 and will continue on
this course in 2006. Soon, music fans in Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland will
see the release of the entire Grip Weeds Rainbow Quartz catalog; Grip Weeds music
will also be made available to listening audiences in SATELLITE
RADIO Little Steven's
Underground Garage Channel is a premier satellite radio station that features
the coolest DJs in the world, hand-picked by Little Steven himself, to expose
the masses to music that still goes relatively ignored by corporate FM radio.
While FM Radio's Triple A format has been extremely supportive of The Grip Weeds
this year, Little Steven's Underground Garage Channel has become a huge driving
force in exposing countless new bands and independent labels. You can frequently
hear numerous Rainbow Quartz recording artists played on a single four-hour 09/20/05 GRIP
WEEDS DONATE MUSIC TO HURRICANE RELIEF 8/16/05 1. CBS TELEVISION USES GRIP WEEDS SONG FOR
NEW FALL PRIMETIME SERIES : “What’s
In Your Mind” was discovered by CBS Director of Drama Promotions
Brad Roe, through an iTunes search. According to Roe, “The title of The Grip
Weeds song had grabbed me, but it was the chorus that was exactly what we needed,
as the lyrics sell the premise of the show. I also liked the energy of the song
and felt that its contemporary sound would appeal to a younger demographic.”
The song was recorded at the House of Vibes and remixed there to great effect
for the Rainbow Quartz reissue of The Sound Is In You. 2.
VIDEO NEWS: MTV Latin America reaches 35 million potential viewers in the US and 17 different South American countries, and airs 24/7 on cable. Music Video 8 reaches 1 million potential viewers on cable in the San Francisco bay area . The show airs on Friday at 1:30 AM for one hour on cable. “Astral Man” is also a featured video at Havoc Television, a music channel which is available nationwide via Comcast and Adelphia digital cable service providers. According to Havoc, “The Grip Weeds mow over their pre-Woodstock love-and-peace vibe with a treble-heavy, early 70s guitar attack.” http://havoctv.com/videos.asp | ||||||
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