Unfrigginbelieveable!!!

I think I'm gonna send Lynn Allen a t-shirt and CD to celebrate!



It's official! The punk rock band the FLAT TIRES and their album "Freeborn" that I had the honor of producing last fall has been put into rotation on Pandora! Here's a link to their station for your listening pleasure :) Headphones apply. NSFW.

Jeezzus I love working for start ups! And these four guys from Hickory, NC are definitely some diamonds in the rough. Since last fall the crowds are getting larger, louder and in most cases drunker. Long story short - word is getting out. These guys are a hellfirehonkeypunkrocknroll force to be reckoned with. You know that bar from the Blues Brothers where the band had to play behind chicken wire? That's nothing...last week at their show in Cleveland they played behind a chain link fence. I guess the show went pretty well since they left the door open.



I can't imagine how hard it would would have been just a few years ago for a band to get noticed. The process of booking shows, get radio airplay, trying to get your music stocked at a traditional retailer (where people could actually find it) would have been an incredibly manual, time consuming process. Yet in a few years, what would have taken weeks (or months) now takes moments, and other efforts have become altogether obsolete.

So what's next? More mid-west shows are coming up fast over the next few weeks. First, they'll be heading up to Pittsburgh, PA on Saturday, the 2nd of April courtesy of the 31st Street Pub.



The following Friday night they'll be in Hammond, Indiana courtesy of the 5th Amendment (formerly Eli's Pub). So if you're in the Chicago area (ahem...Mark Schmeding...cough ;) leave work a bit early and get outta town. The show is being put together by an incredibly talented local tattoo artist that also created the poster for the show.



For Saturday the 9th, the band will head west to Fort Wayne, Indiana to play at the Brass Rail. Then back to North Carolina on Sunday. Back to work Monday morning.



And if you happen to see Lynn Allen rocking out and wearing a Flat Tires t-shirt, don't even begin to think you can face her in a mosh pit. She's tougher than you ever know. :)