The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is The Regulators. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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Fund Raiser CD For Kids With Cancer - Need Music!
Open call to bands of all genres!
StreetBlast.com is working with StompOutCancer.com to help them search for music for their upcoming CD "Stomp Out Cancer Volume 2: Hope." All proceeds from the sale of this CD goes to research for Ewing's Sarcoma, a type of cancer that attacks children and young adults.

This is an open call for music! We are looking for songs about overcoming obstacles, heros, victory, winning, and tribute. All genres are accepted, however, we would really like to keep this CD positive and upbeat!

The submission deadline is September 1st, 2008 @ midnight. If you are interested in submitting music for this project, please download the .PDF form via the link below, and mail in your CD with the select tracks you would like us to consider.

Information About The CD:

1. 500 copies will be produced, if all sale as planned we will raise $10,000.00 for the John Hopkins Sarcoma Research Center.

2. All submissions are donations.

3. Please click the link below to get our permission sheet, and mail your CD to the address on the form:

http://streetblast.com/legal/musicrelease.pdf

If you have any questions regarding this project, please visit: www.stompoutcancer.com, or please call Jake A. Wheat directly at: 502-366-8006.

DO NOT, again DO NOT contact me (Loren @ SoCalRocks.com) about this. I know nothing and am just passing along the info that I have to help a good cause. In fact, anyone who STILL contacts me to ask for details will not be replied to and should be immediately excluded from the project do to your inability to follow simple directions. Just my opinion. :)

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is JohnnyMarkandtheRicks. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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Advertise on SoCalRocks.com!: Click HERE to find out more about banner advertising opportunities on SoCalRocks.com!

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is RESEEDED. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Cloud 9. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

Advertise On SoCalRocks.com!: Do you have a product or service that caters to live music fans or musicians? Are you a live music venue that would like to catch the eyes of more SoCalRocks.com visitors? If so, click HERE for information on premium banner advertising space on SoCalRocks.com. Prices listed are currently 50% off the usual rate! So, lock in your rate now and keep it for the life of your ad!
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The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is OCD. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Ricky B & The Stingers. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is The Savage Diva Herself. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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Your SoCalRocks.com webmaster, Loren Scott, is playing drums with his own band, The Regulators, this evening (June 28th) from 7pm to 11pm at the Temecula Wine and Beer Garden. If you're in the area with nothing better to do, please swing on by. End of shameless plug.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Savage City. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

Advertise on SoCalRocks.com!: While classified ads on SoCalRocks.com are 100% free, banner ad space on SoCalRocks.com is valuable marketing real estate that receives up to 60,000 unique views per month by live music fans and performing musicians. SPECIAL OFFER! All banner ad orders placed during the month of June are HALF OFF the published rate. This applies to new banner ads as well as for renewals of existing banner ads. If you have a product, service, or venue that you would like to promote on SoCalRocks.com, visit http://SoCalRocks.com/advertise for complete details.
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The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Brick Alley. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Those Guys. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is The Hypnotics. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

Due to a technical error, a band that had just recently been the Featured Artist was inadvertently re-added to the queue before their time. The correct SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is FastForward. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is The Working Poets. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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Advertise on SoCalRocks.com!:While classified ads on SoCalRocks.com are 100% free, banner ad space on SoCalRocks.com is valuable marketing real estate that receives up to 60,000 unique views per month by live music fans and performing musicians. If you have a product, service, or venue that you would like to promote on SoCalRocks.com, visit http://SoCalRocks.com/advertise for complete details.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is JUMPER. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Telegraph Canyon. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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Every now and then I get an e-mail from a band listed on SoCalRocks.com in reference to not getting any bookings through SoCalRocks.com. Since I have just recently gotten a few e-mails like this, I'll take a moment to educate everyone on what the purpose of SoCalRocks.com is, and also what it is not.

SoCalRocks,com’s primary focus is not to get bookings for bands. There are many other sites that do that (for a fee), such as www.gigmasters.com. SoCalRocks.com’s primary focus is to let fans of live music know where to go to see good local bands play. This helps the fans, which in turn helps the bands by bringing more thirsty people to your gigs, which in turn helps the venues by allowing them to sell drinks to quench the thirsts of those same people. That, in turn, helps the bands again by making the venue happy with your turnout and making it more likely that they will hire you AGAIN. But, getting hired in the first place is up to you. Rock on!

In case you did not already notice, SoCalRocks.com added a new feature to the Artist and Venue profile pages at midnight on May 1st. A 'page views' count has been added that displays the number of page views since the counter was activated (on May 1st, or later for artists or venues added since then). The view counters are somewhat intelligent in that you cannot just keep refreshing the page to increment them. Rather, you have to actually leave that page and exit the site or at least view another artist/venue page to reset it before it will add another count. Artists and venues can now see how busy their own page is by watching their counter go up.
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The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is THRILL MACHINE. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

For all of my fellow musicians and singers out there, you HAVE to see this video of this little Korean kid still in diapers singing Hey Jude. He looks barely old enough to talk, and he is really good. Click HERE to view it.
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The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Wildcard. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is CRASH DANCE. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is NOTHING MATTERS BAND. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is BURTON LORD. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is 502. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

SoCalRocks.com Is In The News! Your SoCalRocks.com creator and webmaster, Loren Scott, was recently interviewed by Ashley Cook from the Temecula Valley News and the issue just hit the newsstands today! You can also read all about it online HERE.
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The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is The Working Poets. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

ADVERTISE ON SoCalRocks.com! Besides the FREE classified section on SoCalRocks.com, venues and others who want to promote their business should know that banner ad space is also available for reasonable a fee. My good friend and guitarist for Daisycutter Roxx, Jimmy Stanford, is SoCalRocks.com's first (and only) official sales rep and will be making the rounds to some of the venues within the Inland Empire to provide information and to take orders on behalf of the site. He can be reached at 951-247-3799 or via e-mail at jimmy@socalrocks.com. You may also view detailed information on banner advertising opportunities on SoCalRocks.com HERE.
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SPEAK YOUR MIND! In case you did not know, SoCalRocks.com has a public forum where fans can rave about bands that were hot and rant about bands that were not, and where bands can exchange info on what venues were great and which venues were a nightmare. Speak your mind HERE!
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The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is The Regulators. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The "It's A Grind" coffee house near Guitar Center in Murrieta is holding a fund raiser event on Saturday, March 29th from 9am-1pm to benefit Murrieta firefighter Matt Moore who is in a coma and fighting for his life after being infected by a deadly amoeba, Balamuthia mandrillaris. Bands interested in volunteering to perform at the benefit must contact Dot at 951-306-2986 or via e-mail at dot14@ca.rr.com.
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The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is BONTEMPOBAND. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is CITY LIMITS. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

PROMOTE YOUR GIGS! Temecula Valley News is a local weekly paper with a circulation of about 17,500. The paper features one page called "The Valley Scene" in the Entertainment section which is a free listing of music entertainment within the Southwestern Riverside County. Any bands performing within the general Temecula Valley area (all the way out to Hemet and down to Fallbrook) can get your shows listed by sending your dates, times, venues, cover charge or not, and any other critical details to Ashley Cook (Editorial Assistant at Temecula Valley News) at acook@myvalleynews.com, and she will list you in the paper. That's it! There is limited space for these listings. So, it is on a first come-first served, space-available basis. All SoCalRocks.com artists should take advantage of this additional resource for FREE promotions!
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The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is BOBBY G and the BEAT. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Blue Reed. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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SPEAK YOUR MIND! In case you did not know, SoCalRocks.com has a public forum where fans can rave about bands that were hot and rant about bands that were not, and where bands can exchange info on what venues were great and which venues were a nightmare. Speak your mind HERE!

On January 31st, I attended the Inland Empire Music Awards in Riverside as the official photographer for the band Souljourners. Besides Souljourners, I could not resist getting some shots of Big Papa and the TCB, Waiting For Decay, and 15 North during their performances as well. You can view the images from the event HERE.
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The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is UNIDOS. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Rhythm Kings. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Little George and the DUI's. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Goth Lolita Orchestra. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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Besides running SoCalRocks.com and being a musician and live music fan myself, my "day job" is as a full-time professional photographer. I shoot weddings, family portraits, actor/model head shots, musician/band promo shots, live bands on stage, glamour/boudoir, and maternity portraits. So... if you (or someone you know) is in need of a photographer, please swing by www.LorenScottPhotography.com to see some of my work and let me know what I can do for you. Cheers!

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Day Trip'n. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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Ron Shannon of the band, Epstein's Mother, has created a cool web site, www.musictrekker.com, that contains really cool trivia information about various musicians and bands. It's really pretty interesting stuff. Check it out.

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all the Southern California live music fans and bands from your SoCalRocks.com webmaster, Loren Scott. May it be a happy, safe, and rocking' year for everyone.
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The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is MELTDOWN. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Mad For Mary. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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GIFTS FOR MUSICIANS & FANS: Looking for a last-minute affordable gift for your favorite rocker or fan. It is not too late to pick up a t-shirt, coffee mug, baseball cap, or other musician-wear from the SoCalRocks.com Store. Click HERE to start e-window shopping!

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is The Impulse Band. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Donna Austin. Check her out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is The Myx. Check 'em out!

For more info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Johnny on the Spot. Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

For those who tried to access SoCalRocks.com somewhere during the past 24 hours and received an error message, the site is now back up. I'm not exactly sure what caused the problem itself, but I just changed part of the code for the site to work around the error while I investigate the cause further. So, in the meantime, the site is fully functional now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is FLIGHT LINE. Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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If you have been on SoCalRocks for awhile, you know that I rarely offer personal plugs for bands or products. However, on those rare cases when I do, it is because the band or the product have seriously blown me away. This is one of those rare cases.

If you are a guitarist who loves the blues and are either looking to learn the moves of your favorite blues legend, or if you have been playing the blues for too long and just find yourself in a rut and need a quick surge of new techniques to breathe new life into your fingers, then this is for you.

Griff Hamlin has been a professional guitarist and educator for over 20 years. He has created an awesome package called "Playing Through The Blues". At only 37 bucks, even the poorest musician can afford to jump start their blues licks today.

Griff is a personal friend of mine, having played guitar in my own band, "Freddie Welfare and the Food Stamps", a few years back. So, I can personally attest to the talents of this man, and the incredible value of this program.

I won't take up any more of this space with the details. You can read more about it HERE.
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Lastly, my own 44th birthday is this Saturday the 29th. Whoo-Hoo!!! I think I might jump out of a perfectly good airplane like I did last year. Or, I might drop in on a few of my favorite local bands to listen to some good music and maybe jam on a few tunes. Thank you to all of my friends who have already sent some early birthday wishes and donations my way. You rock!!

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Nightshift. Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Rhythm Kings. Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is RecklessDriver. Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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RUSH FANS: Being an early 40's guy myself, one of my early influences as a drummer was Niel Peart from Rush. Well, I am proud to see that my 12 year-old son, Brandon, has followed in my footsteps and mastered the drums at an earlier age than I ever did. Click HERE to watch a video of him playing drums to Rush's YYZ on YouTube.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Wildcard. Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Little George and the DUI's. Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

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If your band already has a web site that lists your upcoming show dates, and you also list your upcoming show dates here on SoCalRocks.com (as you should), it may seem somewhat of a pain in the rear to have to constantly remember to update your show dates on both sites. Well, now you can access your upcoming show dates from the SoCalRocks.com database, and display them directly within a page on your existing band web site!

One of the coolest things about this system is that once a show date listed on SoCalRocks.com has passed, it is automatically purged and removed from the schedule. So, you no longer have to worry about removing the old obsolete dates from the calendar! [MORE]

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Planet Groove. Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Jungle Juice . Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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ATTN Electricians: As you may or may not already know, your SoCalRocks.com webmaster, Loren Scott, is a full-time photographer in his "day job". He is currently in need of some electrical wiring for track lighting as well as some speaker wire run for a surround-sound system in his Murrieta home. If you (or someone you know) is interested in trading some electrical work for some photography work (portraits, live or posed band promo shots, etc), contact Loren on his cell phone at 714-401-8849.
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Also, BEWARE of scammers answering your classified ads with poor grammer and promising to send you a money order for your goods. Nine times out of ten, it is an old scam where they will send you a counterfeit money order for MORE than the agreed-upon amount and ask you to send the balance to some associate of theirs. Their hope is that by the time your bank notifies you that the check was a fake, you have already sent the goods to them as well as some of your hard-earned cash to their partner in crime.  BE CAREFUL!
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Lastly, SoCalRocks.com went over the 1,000,000th visitor a few weeks back and I was too busy to make an announcement then. So... raise a glass of your favorite drink and share a toast with me now! I thank you all for your ongoing support of this humble little site that I started just over four years ago. Cheers!

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is The Neil Deal. Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Michael Chain. Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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Your SoCalRocks.com webmaster, Loren Scott, has been very busy lately with my "day job" as a photographer. Besides shooting weddings most Saturdays, I have been doing a lot of photo shoots for bands lately, both on stage and in the studio. Click the links here to see some recent shots of Train of Thought, Those Guys, Marc Seal, Souljourners, and Mike Couts from Souljourners and Phil Collen from Def Leppard in the studio working on the new Souljourner's CD, and Eclipse. I've also recently done live event shots for California Jammin' and Daisycutter Roxx.

So, if your band is in need of some professional photography, or if you or someone you know needs an experienced wedding photographer, jump on over to my photography site at www.LorenScottPhotography.com. Rock on!

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Smooth Touch. Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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LOREN'S TIP JAR!
Every band loves it when a live music fan drops a little show of love in their tip jar. Has SoCalRocks.com helped promote your band? If so, then please toss a little love to your SoCalRocks.com webmaster, Loren Scott, by dropping a little contribution into my own TIP JAR to help support my time and expenses working on SoCalRocks.com. Remember... there is no staff of many here. It's just me. So, your humble contributions go a LONG way here. Thank you for support!

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Room 179. Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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Okay, so I don't do this very often, but I am going to take this moment to do my own shameless plug. Actually, it is a plug for my 12 year-old son, Brandon. He's been banging on my drums since he was about 4 and got just serious on them over the past few years. So, to support his efforts, I made a video of him playing "YYZ" from Rush for him to add to his MySpace page. It is posted on YouTube and you can view it and leave comments on it here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=MEMo2pQCp3A. He reads all of the comments left there. So, please have a look and leave him a note of encouragement. Daddy is proud! Thanks!

Happy New Year from your lone SoCalRocks.com staff member, Loren Scott.
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The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Boneyard Dogs. Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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Besides operating SoCalRocks.com in my spare time, my full-time day job is as a photographer. You can check out my work at www.LorenScottPhotography.com. I mainly shoot weddings these days. However, I also shoot promo and live shots for bands as well, and have done so recently for Eclipse, Daisycutter, and California Jammin'. So, if your band is in need of some new promo shots, or if you or someone you know is getting married soon and in need of a photographer, take a look at my site. Thank you!

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Eclipse. Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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Lake House Party of the Year! New Year's Eve Celebration 2007. The house will be rockin' with Reseeded. Classic/Current Rock 'n' Roll. Fabulous Caribbean buffet. Champagne at midnight. Special door prizes. 8pm to closing. Get your tickets now. Call today: 951-246-9900. $25 Pre-sales. $35 at the door. Dance and party all night at Lake House in Canyon Lake!
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Last but not least, in this time of holiday giving, please don't forget to toss a coin or three to your lonely SoCalRocks.com webmaster, Loren Scott -- the creator and still the one and only staff member here. I only blantantly beg for donations once a year, and this is it, folks! It takes money and time to keep SoCalRocks.com site alive -- both of which I am unfortunately in very short supply of lately. To help me to help you get more live music fans to your shows, and to help me to help you combat the growing invasion of DJ's and Karaoke Nights, click HERE to offer your support today, and keep SoCalRocks.com alive.
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Have a safe and happy holiday everyone!

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Wildcard. Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.
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The Top 20 Most Active Artists section of the site has been replaced by the Top 20 Most Active Venues. This is to address the issue I was having with some bands padding their numbers with bogus gigs. I'd like to also take this moment to point out that the band PILOT was NOT the problem. My public apology to them for mistakenly implying so.
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If you have not yet tried out the Venue Finder™ or Band Finder™ features of SoCalRocks.com, have a look. If you are looking for live music in your area or looking to book a band on a specific night, these features will make you happy.

The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is TrunkMonkey. Check 'em out! For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

It has come to my attention that some artists on SoCalRocks.com are not listing a specific venue for the event and instead using either a "Call For More Info" or "Private Party" venue listing. Since the purpose of SoCalRocks.com is to let the music fans directly see where and when a band is playing, this type of listing does not work. For example, the Venue Finder feature on the site relies on bands listing their accurate venue info so that the system can let a fan know what band is playing at a venue near them.

Therefore, I ask that you please either alter those listings to show the venue that you will be performing, or remove them. If the venue is not already listed on SoCalRocks.com, the system allows you to add any new venues that you will be playing at.

Any event that is for a real Private Party, may be listed under that heading. However, any obvious "fluffing" of schedules with mass qualities of false "Private Party" listings does the fans no good, and those events will be promptly removed from the system. Same for any "Contact Band For Info" listings -- any of those remaining after about a week from this notice will be removed from the system. So, update them now (if they are valid) while you have a chance. Thank you for your cooperation.
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The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Jumper. For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

Since SO many of you on SoCalRocks.com (67 so far!) sent me birthday wishes and/or birthday donations through site, it was easiest just to drop a note here to everyone thanking them for their ongoing support of my work on the site. I'd also like to thank you all for making great live music!

To celebrate my big 43, I will be jumping out of a perfectly good airplane in Lake Elsinore tomorrow (Saturday) at about 2pm. So... for those in the area with nothing better to do, come on by Skydive Elsinore (http://www.skydiveelsinore.com/directions.html) and see if I splashing into the lake or land safely on the ground to play music another day!

Thanks again everyone. You ROCK!

--Loren--

I am 43 year-old today! Happy Birthday to me! That's all the news for today. --Loren--

Sorry for the massive gap in news updates. But, quite frankly, this site is doing quite well without me even touching it. The live music community is alive and well. As I write this, this site has just topped 700,000 visitors and consistently receives over 50,000 visits per month! There are 305 active artists (by "active", I mean that they have had a live event listed here within the past 90 days), 432 active venues (again meaning at least one event listed within the past 90 days), and over 1200 upcoming events currently listed. Rock on!


Speaking of upcoming events... PLEASE be real and, say for example that you are the house band someplace and are basically booked to play there every week until you die or piss off the manager, PLEASE do not list every week's gig for the next frickin' year on the site. Let's try to keep those type of regular bookings to no more than the next 90 days, PLEASE. Otherwise, it just looks silly. Thank you for your support!

To support even MORE live music fans and bands in the Southern California area, SoCalRocks.com is now open to bands and venues in FOUR additional SoCal counties -- Imperial, Kern, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura. Welcome aboard!
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I had previously asked for people to let me know about regular JAM SESSIONS. One of them happens each week at Perq's in Huntington Beach every Thursday night from 8:30pm to midnight. Bring yourself... Bring your band! All styles of music are welcome. Drums, amps, mics & PA equipment are all provided. Just bring your own guitars and/or sticks! For more info on the Perq's Jam Night call Louis @ 714-505-0044, and tell him you saw it on SoCalRocks.com!
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The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is Hit Men. For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

I have been so busy lately that I seem to have let all of the Open Mic / Jam Session listings lapse. So... if you know of any regularly scheduled jam sesions that are open to the public, just drop an e-mail to me (Loren Scott) at info@socalrocks.com with all of the info and I will be sure to get the dates posted.
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The SoCalRocks.com Featured Artist is The Neat. For info on adding your photo to SoCalRocks.com, click HERE.

Hi Gang!

An advertiser on SoCalRocks.com has just been preyed upon by one of the most popular Internet scams going on right now. Fortunately, he did not fall for the scam. But, as a service of SoCalRocks.com, I am alerting all of you about this scam as well so you can be alert for it.

Typically, the way this scam works is that you are contacted via e-mail about some item or service you are selling. This contact usually comes from someone out of the country. They say that they are interested in buying the item or service you are selling and say that a money order will be sent to you from their "associates" within the U.S. If you agree, a short time later you do receive the money order. However, it is NOT for the correct amount, but is for MUCH more.

You contact the buyer and inform them of their "mistake", and they play dumb and say to just send them a check for the difference when you send them the merchandise. If you do, you have just been scammed. The money order they sent you is a counterfeit that will take your bank a week or two to process. And, when they do, those funds come right out of your own bank account. So, now you are out your money AND the stuff you were selling in the first place. Since these crooks are overseas, usually in Nigeria, the chances of bringing them to justice are almost