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Great Lake Swimmers are coming to town on May 19th.  The Canadian folk band just released their 5th album called New Wild Everywhere, and they will be coming to Sail Inn with Morning Teleportation.  We have pairs of tickets to giveaway for this show!   Thanks to Stateside Presents!

To enter, send an email to contests@silverplatter.info with “Great Lake Swimmers” on the title. On the message, put down your name and phone number.

Americana musician, Gillian Welch is coming to MIM Music Theater on 6/2!  Sadly this show is sold out, but you can win a pair of tickets to great show!  All thanks to the Musical Instrument Museum!

To enter, send an email to contests@silverplatter.info with “Gillian Welch” on the title. On the message, put down your name and phone number.

Good Luck!

When: April 23, 2012

Paula Tesoriero: What do you like most about touring?

Taylor Guarisco: First thing that comes to mind is just being with my best friends and making each other laugh, you know? It’s beyond the glory of being in a band and beyond the excitement of seeing the world. It’s just being with people you love. It’s a very simple pleasure of life. It’s just like having a second childhood in a way. You know, I had my first family with my older brother, my older sister, my younger sister and we just got to love each other unconditionally and accept each other for who we are and now I have a second chance to do that with these people so I’m really grateful for that.

Kirby Campbell: My favorite part of touring is meeting people, and getting to see all of these crazy national parks, beaches, and wonders of the world that I would otherwise never see.

PT: What do you think of the ceiling of plankton video?

TG: I think it’s really cool. Mimi Cave was the director that came in and she just went her own direction with this idea and we thought she filmed it really beautifully and we went back and forth with some ideas. Music videos can be a weird thing, we’re learning a lot.

PT: Do you find you write more songs in rehearsal or on the road?

TG: It’s a weird thing being in this band, it’s like we’re on the road so much that we don’t really rehearse. We haven’t had a rehearsal in a while. Whenever we do acoustic shows we approach the music differently, so we rehearsed for that recently but we write songs on our own, we write songs together. It’s been hard because in a way I feel exhausted right now being on the road for so long. I have bags under my eyes and my voice is kind of strained. So we’re about to take a good break for the first time in two years. We haven’t taken a break longer than two weeks in the past two years. It’ll be our first month break and we’re excited for that.

PT: What do you miss most about your home?

TG: First off, without thinking about it, is sleep. My first thing is sleep. I miss sleeping 8 hours, I like sleeping. Second is my family. My younger sister is the coolest chick ever and she’s my best friend and I just like hanging out with her. You know just simple things. Being in my own bed, showering in my own shower, little things.

KC: I miss a lot of things that I get to do at home. Like cooking, biking everyday, recording, writing music. Those things rarely happen on the road really.

PT: What has changed the most in the past year?

TG: I think in a year our relationship as a band has changed the most. Whenever you go through so much as we have as a band you kind of come to understand each other better more and more as people and you get to new levels of respect and love for each other. I can’t stress enough it’s like a second childhood. I had all these people as a kid who were there and loving me unconditionally, but they’re the first to tell you you’re an asshole. This band is the same way too. They love me unconditionally, but they’re able to help me be a better person and I hope I offer the same to them. So in a year, a lot has changed as far as all of us just kind of like seeing the same vision for this band and being together.

KC: Well I guess in the past year the main thing that changed was actually releasing the songs we’d been touring and recording for the past 3 years. So finally putting that out into the world and having people know the songs at shows is a totally new experience within the past year.

San Diego’s garage indie rockers, Hot Snakes are coming to town!  They will be playing at the Crescent Ballroom on March 28.  We have a pair of tickets to this show, thanks to Psyko Steve.

To enter, send an email to contests@silverplatter.info with “Hot Snakes” on the title. On the message, put down your name and phone number.

Good Luck!

For more info:  http://www.silverplatter.info/shows/19878

The 11th Annual Cowtown’s PHX AM is having an After Party at the Yucca Tap Room’s parking lot on 3/31!  This all ages event will have stellar lineup featuring No Age and The Growlers!  Radio Moscow, The Goat, and many more are scheduled to perform there!  We have some pairs of tickets to giveaway to this fun show!

To enter, send an email to contests@silverplatter.info with “No Age/Growlers” on the title. On the message, put down your name and phone number.

For more info: http://silverplatter.info/shows/19875

Good Luck

We have 3 new contests for some hot shows, and they are all playing at the Compound.  Read up and enter!

Pittsburgh’s world jam band, Rusted Root is coming to the Compound on April 11!  We have some pairs of tickets to giveaway to this show!  To enter this contest, send an email to contests@silverplatter.info, list “Rusted Root” as the subject! On the message put your name and phone number.

Formerly from Jurassic 5 and Ozomatli, Chali 2na will be coming to the Compound on March 20.  We have a pair of tickets to hot show!  To enter this contest, send an email to contests@silverplatter.info, list “Chali 2NA” as the subject! On the message put your name and phone number.

R&B funk band, Dumpstaphunk is coming to Compound on March 15!  We have a pair of tickets to show!  To enter this contest, send an email to contests@silverplatter.info, list “Dumpstahunk” as the subject! On the message put your name and phone number.

Thanks again to the Compound for all these hot shows!

The Great American BBQ and Beer Festival is coming to downtown Chandler on March 24!  Not just a festival with great food and drinks, they have some outstanding punk acts playing on 2 stages like Face to Face, Goldfinger, Voodoo Glowskulls, Buck-o-Nine and more! Silverplatter.info has pairs of tickets to giveaway for this amazing event!

In order to enter, send an email to contests@silverplatter.info with “BBQ Punk” on the title. On the message, put down your name and phone number.

For more info: http://chandlerbbq.com

Good Luck!

Black Milk w/ Live Band is coming to Chasers on 3/17 with  J. Pinder opening! Silverplatter.info has a pair of tickets to giveaway to an awesome hip hop show, all thanks to UM!

In order to enter, send an email to contests@silverplatter.info with “Black Milk” on the title. On the message, put down your name and phone number.

Good Luck!

By Gabrielle Marshall

Picture taken by me at their Rhythm Room performance last March.

Describing Miniature Tigers sound is no easy feat. It’s got pop infused rhythms with hits of a harder edge, with lyrics that read like a fiction set of story tales that connect to each other. Whatever the case, Miniature Tigers always leaves you whistling along and waiting for that next line that could range from throwing someone into a volcano for their love crimes or staring through their window ala peeping Tom behavior. Promoting their newest album Mia Pharaoh, the boys are making their way to Phoenix’s own Crescent Ballroom this Thursday March 8^th. Having already obtained my copy, I can tell that the new album contains all the great things I love about Miniature Tigers: creativity musically and lyrically. Some songs are more dream pop, while others have just the right amount of bounce to them. For some reason this album has some Hall & Oates  flavor going on that keeps springing to mind the more I listen. But considering my deep and extremely meaningful (to me at least) Hall & Oates obsession, it’s definitely a win in my book.

Every time I have seen the ‘Tigers, their shows have been filled with a truly amazing energy and a vibrant crowd to match. There is dancing, tiger costume heads, and plenty of musical magnificence to satiate the most cynical concert goer. Considering their catalog (especially having heard the newest addition) the show is sure to be saturated with great sounds and atmosphere.  Mia Pharaoh is filled with great indie pop from beginning to end, and the album definitely packs the usual Miniature Tigers punch. This only bodes well for the excellent concert that is yet to come, and I’m sure fans are eagerly waiting in anticipation.

Miniature Tigers will also be performing at a special in-store performance at Stinkweeds in Phoenix prior to the show. For more information go here  . If not, be sure to catch them at the Crescent Ballroom. Doors open at 6:30pm, Tickets are $15.

Chazwick Bundick aka Toro Y Moi is coming to the Crescent Ballroom on March 5 as part of the Red Bull Music Academy Presents with Factores and Yus.   Silverplatter.info has a pair of tickets to giveaway to this awesome show!

To enter, send an email to contests@silverplatter.info with “Toro Y Moi” on the title.  On the message, put down your name and phone number.

For more info: http://silverplatter.info/shows/19980

Roddy Radiation & the USA Skabilly Rebels are coming to town on March 1st at the Rhythm Room with Liam & the Ladies!   The Skabilly Rebels features Roddy “Radiation” Byers of The Specials as frontman!  Silverplatter.info has a pair of tickets to this show, all thanks to Another Raybee Productions.

In order to enter, send an email to contests@silverplatter.info with “Roddy Radiation” on the title.  On the message, put down your name and phone number.

For more info: http://www.silverplatter.info/shows/19658