Posts Tagged ‘Robert Schwartzman’

First off, HAPPY THANKSGIVING. I’ll be celebrating my first ever Thanksgiving today

Sorry for the lack of updates… I’ve been on vacation in LA for a while now, unfortunately I have to go home Saturday… But what better way to end your vacation than going to see Rooney?

I usually don’t do this, but I got the chance to see 100 Monkeys (among a bunch of other bands ), and seriously if you get a chance to go to one of their shows, GO! They’re amazing live.

Another great band is Crash Kings who’ll be on the Wild One tour with Rooney. Their album “Crash Kings” is really good, so check them out before you catch a show on this tour. You can get the track “It’s Only Wednesday” for free, if you just post a tweet about it via this website.

Robert announces Rooney’s Wild One tour 2009
 

All the tourdates for the Wild One Tour should be up in the Tour dates section now, including ticket info. If Rooney plays a show near you, head out and support them

There’s a couple of contests where you can win tickets to the show @ El Rey on Friday.
URB MAG : the contest is open until midnight tonight (Thursday)
Radio Free Silverlake : the contest is open until noon Friday

WILD ONE STREAMING. There’s clips of all the songs from the Wild One EP up on Rooney-band.com, go listen to them now. I gotta say, I think it sounds amazing

Robert now has his own private twitter – rcschwartzman

Rooney did the Pablove Benefit on Nov 21. This is an amazing benefit, and you should read about it on Pablove.org

Here’s some pictures from the benefit

credit : Losanjealous

credit : LA Weekly

Rooney To Release Self-Produced, Limited Edition EP

 L.A. five-piece Rooney is gearing up to release a new, limited-pressing EP, Wild One and will embark on a national headlining tour beginning November 27th at Los Angeles’ El Rey Theatre, in support. Fans can get a first listen to Wild One as the EP will be available exclusively at these upcoming shows before becoming available at iTunes in early 2010. Only 5,000 EPs will be pressed.

Wild One was produced and engineered by the band, and features four brand-new tracks. The EP was mixed by Dave Trumfio (Wilco, Built to Spill and My Morning Jacket) and mastered by Dave McNair (Willie Nelson, Patti Smith.)

After signing with a major record label and working with some of the music industry’s most esteemed producers since their inception, the band is proud to showcase this collection of songs they crafted entirely themselves. Rooney’s latest offering features some of their best, most inventive and original material to date.

Rooney was signed to Geffen Records in 2002 after independently releasing a series of EPs and demos. They released their self-titled debut in 2003; shortly thereafter they saw significant success with single “I’m Shakin” and a cameo appearance on hit teen drama The O.C. The band has toured with a variety of superstar acts including Kings of Leon, Weezer and The Strokes.

Rooney is Robert Schwartzman (vocals/guitar,) Taylor Locke (guitar / vocals) Ned Brower (drums / vocals) Louie Stephens (keyboard / vocals) and Matthew Winter (bass).

Wild One track listing:

1. Suckceed
2. I Don’t Understand
3. Wild One
4. The Days Keep Going By

Credit : Fanbolt.com

New Solobob youtube channel up – http://www.youtube.com/solobobmusic - which includes the music video for ‘The Victim’

Hey Friends,

Hope your Halloween was fun. I’m writing to let you know we’re going on tour next month and we’ll need you’re help promoting the shows. It’s always hard to get the word out that we’re on tour. I’ve heard people complain about not knowing about a show in his/her town. It’s always effective to think of the various ways you’ve heard about a tour coming to your town. Coffee shop windows, indie record stores, college campus, etc. There’s always a good spot for a tour poster. Also, there are lots of ways to make noise online. I’m not hip to all the ways, but things are growing and changing so rapidly, the “DIY” approach is more effective than ever. We’re one of the few bands in this world that has a dedicated fan base who take things to a new level, the street team. Most fans don’t want to go above and beyond and help a band he/she loves. Thank you for helping and being apart of our bands future. We do recognize the work you do for us and appreciate the time you invest. Hopefully, our band will continue to grow and appeal to newer fans and recruit new street team members. Please come and say hello at the shows; it’s nice to connect with you face to face.

Rooney

If you are not already a member of the Rooney Street Team, please join to stay updated.

Sorry for not updating sooner. I’ve been really busy and then I got sick… I did try to tweet everything

There’s a new SayNow update… Most interesting news (if you ask me ;P) is that there’ll be 4 songs on the Wild One EP.

Speaking about the EP… In case you haven’t heard, the EP will only be available at the shows on the Wild One Tour (though I’m sure they’ll put them up in their merch store if they have any left afterwards).
Opening on the Wild One Tour will be Tally Hall and Crash King.

There’s been created events on facebook for the Rooney concerts – remember to RSVP if you’re on facebook and going to a concert – http://bit.ly/8ZTfp

There’s 2 tour posters… One with the dates (that we know so far) http://bit.ly/iLNfp and one ‘Wild One Tour’ http://bit.ly/iLhuX - Print them out, post them in your city or on your myspace, facebook and everywhere you can think off

Studio 21 has a video interview with Rooney from when they were at Trinity University earlier this year.
Watch it here.

In case you haven’t seen it, I’ve added a lot of tourdates. Sorry about not posting about that before, I seem to forget to post because I tweet There should be more tourdates soon.

I’m very curious to know if anyone is going to any of the shows, post a comment here or tweet me? Remember we always love to see pictures and/or videos from the shows, so please don’t hesitate to send some

On another note, it seems like the EP Robert talked about will be out in November. Hopefully in the beginning, but who knows My guess is that they’ll bring them when they go on tour (and hopefully have them up in their new merch store).
Comment about the EP from Rooney-band.com (Ned)

I’m a little late on posting this, sorry but I’ve been very busy

Wellesley College…get ready to rumble.

And Robert tweeted this reply to @memo90061
“Soon, we’re still working on it, but planning on releasing an EP this year. Full album to come early next year. RS”
That’d be awesome to get an EP this year…