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The distinctively known metal hard rock band, Down From Zero, will be playing live at VIP Rockstars in Nashville during the NAMM Convention on June 18 and 19.
Hard rock band Down From Zero will perform two shows live in Nashville, Tennessee on June 18th and 19th in conjunction with the 2010 NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Convention. These very special shows are set up at the top rock club VIP Rockstars located right on 2nd Avenue in downtown Nashville. The event is the official party with the band’s sponsorship partners, CORT (Guitar), BSX (Drums) and their parent company Westheimer Corporation, who will be showcasing their equipment and gear during the NAMM Convention in Nashville.
The NAMM Convention itself is being held at the Nashville Convention Center from June 18th running through the entire weekend. The convention showcases all of the top new and upcoming music gear by the top music related companies that sell music equipment. “This is an important run of shows for the band (Down From Zero),” says Don Lichterman, the head of Down From Zero’s record company, Sunset Records, “they (Down From Zero) are musicians, musicians that are very well known in that music tech world, plus Jonathon (Paul), Jason (Scott) and Brian (Doggins) run their music store in their hometown in Georgia.” Jim’s Ultimate Guitar Shop is located in Dublin, Georgia.
Known for its aggressive hard rock tunes such as "Livin’ The High Life," "Witch Hazel" and " Chaos Theory," (Chaos Theory is currently the Number One (1) song at AOL’s Our Stage in Hard Rock for the last two weeks and for all of June to this day) Down From Zero also played the largest bike rally in Georgia last year in 2009, a free outdoor show the ended the famous annual race. Their driving sound has brought them license deals for their songs to be used in popular video games coming out this year.
By The Lake
This Serbian jazz trio also composes and arranges its music for every one of the ten (10) songs on the full length CD. Woodcock Group’s new debut album, Water Stories (Sunset Jazz Recordings) gives jazz aficionados great evidence that there are new musical artists in jazz; that can carry a wide-range of music of original songs taken as conceptual, the album is now available to pre-order at Amazon and through the Sunset Jazz label. The full length CD is set for the May 3rd street day, with the Sunset Classics & Jazz (SC&J) division, Sunset Distribution Company and then via Republic Universal for digital distribution into stores.
Woodcock Group is a band that is no doubt aware of its mixing modern jazz with traditional jazz music influenced by, among others, Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans and Art Blakey. Born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia, in the spring of 2009 pianist and composer Aleksandar Jovanovic founded the "Woodcock Group." What is now a trio with (Aleksandar) Jovanovic, Marko Fabry is on the bass while Aleksandar Cvetkovic does the drum work on the ten (10) song CD. Their first performance was at the "Umbria Jazz Balcanic Windows" Music Festival 2009 in Belgrade, which they won over 28 bands from the south-eastern Europe regions. Not to mention, they were listed in the top six as best young jazz band in Eastern Europe this year. “I not only plan on using this album to springboard a new sense of direction at Sunset Jazz (Recordings),” says label head, Don Lichterman, “We are also in hope of using Alex’s (Aleksandar Jovanovic) A&R chops to gain more jazz acts for the label.”
The debut album being released at Sunset (Jazz) is inspired by “water” as in a state of a “form” and (Don) Lichterman says that he, “loves the concept” of it. He (Lichterman) goes on to say that he also “loves the deep traditional style of this band (Woodcock Group).” Woodcock Group’s debut recording entitled, Water Stories, has already gained international radio play with “Vrelo,” the first song being worked to radio this year. And the CD has received great critical acclaim after the label released its initial press to blogs and social networks. Look for the CD to be available in stores everywhere that sells CDs along with being made available at every retailer that sells downloads, ringtones and streams
