On January 18th, the Rock and Roll Report will go dark for the day in protest of SOPA and PIPA and encourage you, if you are American, to contact your member of Congress and have your voice heard.

In just 7 days, the Senate will vote on forever altering the free and open internet by instituting a new regime of extra-judicial, corporate-led website takedowns. This is a fundamental fight about who has power in society — the people with the means to communicate freely or the governments and corporations that feel threatened.

For the full state of play on the censorship bills, take a look at this infographic we’ve put together. Click here. The clock is ticking, and we’re still 35 senators short of the number we need to kill the bill.

If you’re on Facebook or Twitter, please use these links to spread the word about the protest:

 

Thanks!

Mark

Leah Cevoli

Rock and Roll Report TV’s Leah Cevoli is in the running to host Revolver Magazine’s Mayhem festival. She is taking part in a special online contest and she is currently in second place trailing by about 600 votes. I know you agree with me in saying that Leah is the perfect host for this gig so show her some love by voting for her now!

All you have to do is go to http://gotvnetworks.com/revolvertv/ and vote now!

Thanks!

Mark

We will continue to publish throughout the holidays and we have a great end of the year Podcast for you so try and stop in once in awhile in between drunken egg nog Christmas carolling and fighting with the inlaws over whose turkey is bigger. We gurantee you a smile and some happy ears.

All the best and thank you for reading and making our little rock and roll website what it is today!

Mark and the whole Rock and Roll Report Team!

What do you think of the list? And what the hell is Indie Rock?

Top rock n roll blogs

That’s right! We have been told that we are a Top 100 Rock n Roll Blog over at The Daily Reviewer and we couldn’t be happier. What took you guys so long?

Hoobastank, 3 Doors Down, and Dinosaur Jr. are first in the line-up of rock and pop musicians joining Uncovered presented by Southern Comfort, the new monthly series where artists perform exclusive covers around what they are calling “the nation’s most legendary venues.”

Dinosaur Jr. is first, with his cover of The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven.” Being added to the website soon is 3 Doors Down performing Jon Bon Jovi’s “Dead or Alive” and Nina Persson of the Cardigan’s new outfit A Camp performing “Psycho” by Leon Payne.

JET, The Dears, Black Lips, and more will be added in later months. New episodes of Uncovered by Southern Comfort will premiere on the second Monday of each month. A list with the complete line-up will be available on Playboy.com beginning August 1st.

As Playboy continues to morph their online presence to more of a lifestyle destination for men, expect more of things like this in the future, which is fine with me because that whole “Girls Next Door” thing holds zero interest for me. Now when I tell people I go to Playboy.Com I can tell them “It’s for the music…”

Silent Treatment has been featured in an interview in All Access Magazine, band of the week in the Rock N’ Roll Report, LA Cityzine and Cal State Fullerton’s daily newspaper The Daily Titan.

“Our goal for this album was to really appeal to people who love music –regardless of the genre or style- we poured our collective souls and passions into these songs and know our fans will love our ever evolving sound.”

The new album, New American Dream was co-produced by Kevin Churko who produced acclaimed albums like Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Rain and numerous Shania Twain hits and Mark Renk who has worked extensively with CBS Records and artists such as Daughtry, P.O.D and Linkin Park. Silent Treatment is releasing New American Dream as an independent album.

New American Dream features the singles “You and I”, “New American Dream”, “Some Other Way” and “Fear”. It also includes their rendition of the Doors single “Love Me Two Times”.

The new album will be available digitally on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic. Selected stores will be carrying the CD as well as www.SilentTreatment.net starting August 3, 2009. For more information about Silent Treatment and their upcoming Summer/Fall U.S. Tour please go to www.SilentTreatment.net. You can also follow the band at Twitter and Facebook.

SILENT TREATMENT

Album Release Show – July 31st, 2009

Live @Knitting Factory (Main Stage)
7021 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
ALL AGES

Please have patience. Your rock and roll fix will be available shortly…

Thanks!

Mark

The move gave the gang here at the Report a chance to rest but now that things are back to normal we are revving up our rock and roll engines and resuming our normal publication schedule. By Monday you will have your regular daily fix of what we think is some great music that is just too damn good to be ignored.

We hope you enjoy it!

Mark Boudreau
Editor – Publisher – General Fixer Upper