Some great RDB Reviews!
on Aug23 2007Click on the links to read the stories ~
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SXSW Live 2007 DVD Out Today
on Aug23 2007 
The first-ever DVD compilation from the South By Southwest Music Festival is in stores now. SXSW Live 2007 showcases a mix of cutting edge and established artists, in custom-built clubs where performances were captured in multi-camera HD with 5.1 surround sound at the Austin Convention Center, thanks to Blaze TV, a Shout! Factory company. This unique musical experience was broadcast by DIRECTV as a groundbreaking exclusive three day 24 hour live concert event. The best of these performances are included on SXSW Live 2007, along with exclusive artist interviews and backstage footage.
Live From The Lone Star Lounge: ROCCO DeLUCA & THE BURDEN “Colorful”
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Jack Bauer’s Favorite Band
on Aug23 2007By: Keith Klenowski
After reading good things about Rocco Deluca on random music blogs, I was pleasantly surprised to see that he would be playing at the 20th Century. There has been some buzz about him for a while now, most of it stemming from the documentary for a small tour of Europe in 2005.Keifer Sutherland, who released their first album on his IronWorks label, also acted as their tour manager. I have yet to see the movie, but I guess the former Lost Boy was a handful. They fired ol’ Keifer after the tour, and I’m sure that they would rather have us talk about how good they actually are as opposed to their connection to a celebrity.
I was really surprised when I walked into the 20th Century Wednesday night. The place was already packed for the first opener, Sara Bareilles. She played a nice mix of Piano Pop: Think Regina Spektor with a little Fiona Apple thrown in for the hell of it. She was very appreciative and thanked the crowd for already knowing the lyrics to her new CD, Little Voice.
Newest Rocco Photos!
on Aug23 2007Some photos i have collected over the last few months…..
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July 27, 2007 - St. Andrews Hall - Michigan
on Aug23 2007Many thanks to Nikki for these wonderful pics! Click on the picture below to be taken to the photo gallery!
Congratulations to Jessica!!!
on Aug22 2007Rocco on NBC!
on Aug15 2007Click here to watch the video!
More RDB Review!
on Aug13 2007
Great Rocco Review!
on Aug13 2007Check out Yanni3003’s Myspace
Monday, August 13, 2007
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Rocco Deluca and the Burden Friday night I went up to a local bar called Ziggy’s to see Rocco Deluca. For those that are unaware, Rocco is the artist that Kiefer Sutherland stumbled upon and was so impressed by what he heard that he formed a record label just to release Rocco’s album. It was Kiefer’s passion about the band that inspired me to purchase the album without even hearing a single song. I mean why would someone that has everything he needs and has a brilliant career take such a risk on an unknown musician from
I purchased the album, listened to it and instantly liked what I heard. It was a nice mix of straight rock ‘n roll and blues. But what I enjoyed the most was the beautiful voice of Rocco. If Jeff Buckley wanted to sing rock ‘n roll then he would be Rocco Deluca. It wasn’t a remarkable album but all the songs were good and I could hear the potential for greatness in Rocco so it was no wonder Kiefer took such a chance on him.
As much I enjoyed the album and as good as I thought Rocco was I didn’t expect much from the concert Friday night. It was a little club in small town
If this guy continues to put on performances like this he’ll become one of the hottest musicians in
So if Rocco is coming to a town near you, run, don’t walk to see this show. You won’t be sorry. |
Great Q&A with Sara Bareilles
on Aug7 2007Posted: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 11:38 AM by Chimene Williams
Chimene Williams
25-year-old Sara Bareilles stopped by the studio to chat with Ann and sing her newest song, “Love Song.” Afterwards, Sara spoke with me about touring and what she’s listening to on her ipod.
allDAY: How did you get started in music?
Sara Bareilles: I’ve been singing since I was little. There was a piano in the house. I gravitated towards playing the piano and singing. I was in a musical environment.<
allDAY: Tell me about the tour. How is it going?
Sara Bareilles: It’s amazing. We opened for Rocco DeLuca & The Burden. It’s [the tour] over now. They were just wonderful. We went to cities that we had never been before.
allDAY: What inspires you?
Sara Bareilles: My life experience. I write about very visceral things. I write from a real first person place.
allDAY: What’s your favorite song on your ipod?
Sara Bareilles: Oh! Gosh! I love the new Feist Album. I love the rawness of the way her music is – the production style, the writing style. It seems very natural and organic.
allDAY: What’s up next?
Sara Bareilles: We’re doing a co-headliner with Jon McLaughlin and some good friends, Raining Jane. We’re opening for Maroon 5 after that. And after that we’re opening for Paolo Nutini. We’re doing lots of touring.
allDAY: And do you enjoy touring?
Sara Bareilles: It’s tiring; it’s hard work. I’m traveling with my very best friends: my band members and my road manager are my three best friends. It doesn’t get much better than playing music every night and touring with your friends.
Updated Tour Schedule
on Aug6 2007 08/07/2007 08:00 PM - Recher Theatre
512 York Rd., Towson, Maryland 21204 - 12.00
Direct support: The Last Goodnight Opener: The Midway State http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/1073061 pre-sale:6/1 (mailing list members only) on sale: 6/2
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08/08/2007 08:30 PM - State Theatre
220 N. Washington St., Falls Church, Virginia 22046 - 15.00
Direct support: The Last Goodnight Opener: The Midway State http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/1073061 pre-sale:6/7 (mailing list members only) on sale: 6/8
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08/10/2007 09:00 PM - Ziggy’s
433 Baity St., Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27105 - 12.00
support: The Last Goodnight opener: The Midway State Ticket info: TBD
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Great Review!
on Aug4 2007Click here: ROCCO DELUCA & THE BURDEN “I Trust You to Kill Me” Ironworks - washingtonpost.com
ROCCO DELUCA & THE BURDEN “I Trust You to Kill Me” Ironworks
Friday, August 3, 2007; Page WE06
ROCCO DELUCA was the first act signed to Ironworks Music, the record label co-founded by Emmy-winning actor Kiefer Sutherland and ’80s Brit-pop star Jude Cole. Cole produced “I Trust You to Kill Me,” a debut album credited to Rocco DeLuca & the Burden, though only two of the 12 tracks feature all four band members. Sutherland agreed to star in Manu Boyer’s documentary film of the same name; the actor became the road manager for Rocco DeLuca & the Burden’s first tour of Europe, and the mixture of inexperience and ambition on everyone’s part fueled the resulting misadventures.
The disc reveals an artist whose sound is more interesting than his songs. The contrast between DeLuca’s piercing, sliding dobro notes and his bluesy, insistent tenor is entrancing, especially when wrapped inside Cole’s psychedelic-blues production. The bohemian, rootsy arrangements, alternately lean and grandiose, often recall Jeff Buckley and Chris Whitley. Less interesting are lyrics that resemble random journal jottings and melodies that echo too many hours listening to classic-rock radio.
But when the singer confesses his love for a woman on “Mystified” or “Colorful,” his vocals are so compelling and his backing music so inventive that one can hardly wait for him to further hone his craft and make his next album.
– Geoffrey Himes
Appearing Tuesday at the Recher Theatre and Wednesday at the State Theatre.
20 Questions - Courtesy of the Hub
on Aug4 2007Click here or read below the article by The Music Hub!
20 Questions with Featured Artist Rocco DeLuca!
Name: Rocco
Current of MySpace friends: 29,543
1) What’s the first album you remember buying? CD, tape, vinyl, or 8-track?
Tears For Fears, The Hurting on vinyl
2) Who would we be surprised to find on your iPod?
M.I.A.
3) All time favorite line from a song?
“My heart is lost to one who remains indifferent”
4) Why are you a musician?
I don’t know that I am a musician.
5) If you weren’t a musician what would you be?
Any occupation where I could contribute.
6) How did your family react when you told them you wanted to be a musician?
Never had that conversation. As long as I wasn’t in jail, I think that anything I did was acceptable.
7) Most embarrassing moment on stage thus far (when/where)…
Falling through the floorboard while sitting and playing in a wooden chair. This happened in Long Beach a few years back.
What is something about you that would surprise your fans?
I never talk about guitars.
9) Which line of your own do you wish you’d never written (or are proud that you did)?
“Don’t fix me cause I’m broken, I was that way from the start”.
10) What inspires you?
When people give a shit.
11) Hidden talents?
Connect four
12) Do you have any phobias?
Crowds of people booing and throwing food.
13) Bad habits?
Not calling back.
14) If you could be a superhero what would your superhero name be and what would your special power be?
My name would be Gandhi and my power would be to expose the lack of tolerance amongst people.
15) Mac or PC?
I own a mac.
16) If you had to eat one meal for the rest of your life what would it be?
Wild fish, fresh vegetables, and uncontaminated water.
17) How do you define SUCCESS?
Balance with form and the formless.
18) What do you hope to have accomplished in the next year?
To survive
19) Name two things you simply have to do in your lifetime.
Visit Africa and make another record.
20) What’s the best advice anyone’s ever given you?
Listen!
Great Article
on Aug4 2007July 31, 2007
Rocco DeLuca
f you’re the type of singer/songwriter to name your debut album I Trust You to Kill Me (Ironworks), chances are you’re not going to be shy in interviews — and so it is with Rocco DeLuca, a 30-year-old modern blues act who’s more Robert Johnson than Robert Cray.
“The music I was raised on had heat. Energy. That feeling of aggression,” he declares. “The music of today seems so washed out and generic. To get ’em back, we needed to stick the real soul, that punk element back into it.”
Whether on the soul-baring “Speak to Me,” the richly textural “Bus Ride” or the plainspoken drug tale “Dope,” DeLuca, his Dobro steel guitar and his band The Burden deliver a searingly mesmerizing sound that’s hard to shake.
No surprise, then, to find that the cliché about music “being in his blood” is more truthful than usual: His father was a touring guitarist for such notable blues acts as Bo Diddley. “I remember he and my uncles would have these late-night jam sessions and I would hang out with them and then end up crawling into Uncle Joe’s bass drum and falling asleep to the drone,” he grins.
DeLuca himself eventually became a local opener throughout his native southern California for Taj Mahal and John Lee Hooker before graduating to a two-year residency at L.A.’s Gypsy Lounge..
A demo caught the ears of Jude Cole and 24 star Kiefer Sutherland, who signed DeLuca to their Ironworks label in 2005; Cole produced the album, while Sutherland shepherded DeLuca and his band on their first international press tour — a sometimes chaotic affair — as recorded in a 2006 documentary also titled I Trust You to Kill Me.
Slowly, steadily, DeLuca is making a name for himself. “You’ve gotta die a few times and be fierce enough to fall,” he asserts. “I’ve fallen on my face many times. But it’s those times and battle scars that make my music what it is today.”
Great Pics!
on Aug4 2007
Great RDB Photos
on Aug4 2007
Rocco DeLuca and the Burden Review
on Aug4 2007Great blog entry by Lunatic Fringe - Check it out! GREAT PICS!
RDB Review
on Aug4 2007Confessions of a Former Bookworm writes:
We went to the House Of Blues in Hollywood last night to see Mat Kearney perform. I hadn’t been to a performance at the HOB in years and forgot how tiresome it is being on your feet for four hours. I don’t know how the women wearing heels survived the entire show. There were two bands that opened for him– The Feeling and Rocco DeLuca. The Feeling was okay. Their last songs were decent but some of the other ones were a little cheesy. The lead singer looks a little psycho to me. But then most bands have at least one member that looks a little psycho. Rocco DeLuca was good. I actually liked their sound more than their singing. Earlier, I had seen one of the guitarists at the restaurant portion of the club and I was excited when I saw him on stage. We were walk ins but at the top of the list until he came in sporting a blue wrist band. We wound up eating at the bar anyway so it didn’t matter. I’ve always been a star struck type person but I don’t ask for autographs–I just like seeing stars. Although this band hasn’t really hit it big time yet I feel like I can call him a star.
When the band was introduced by some woman from Star 98.7, she mentioned that Kiefer Sutherland and a bunny was in the crowd to watch Rocco. I didn’t see Kiefer but I did see the bunny. The bunny was absolutely fascinating. He was dancing and grooving. It was kind of psychadelic and scary (Good thing I was stone cold sober otherwise I might have freaked out and got paranoid). I’m thinking he had to be someone famous (perhaps Kiefer?–BTW I looked up Kiefer’s itunes list and Rocco is on his list several times) otherwise security would never have let him in. Here’s some film of said bunny although it’s dark and my cell phone blows when it comes to video. Bunny
Click on the link to Confessions of a Former Bookworm to read more!
Thanks Joetta for the video!
on Aug4 2007 In Cincinnati, the guys passed along a message to all of the wonderful STM board members. Enjoy!
New Video Page
on Aug1 2007Makes it easier to view all the videos I’ve collected… I will be adding more and more as the days go on :) click on the pic below!
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