Rock Pink for the Cure second annual benefit show was announced live on Real Radio’s monsters in the morning show! megaphone, winners of 2008 Rock Pink battle of the bands, will open for Lita Ford at Club Firestone on Saturday May 30th. Tickets go on sale this Friday March 13th through ticketmaster and rockpink.com.

Around 5 pm Monday March 9th the results finally were posted and unfortunately megaphone did not make the top 4 in WJRR’s central florida’s best band contests. Even so, all of us in the band are proud to have made it to the top 8. We were excited and humbled to see so many friends and fans not only voting but also campaigning on our behalf for votes. There are a lot of great bands here and a lot of motivated bands so for us to have made it as far as we did is a pretty big deal. Thank you all who voted, we really do appreciate your support.

There are no words to express our thanx for your support in this contest. You are the reason we have made it this far.
This week is round 3 and will determine the TOP 4. Don’t stop now! Please VOTE AGAIN for megaphone in this 3rd round!
Each week from this point on is a new round and to keep us in the running we need your votes every week until the #1 band is selected! So please, VOTE AGAIN!

megaphone will perform an 80 min show at Daytona International Speedway for the Daytona Supercross by Honda event this Saturday March 7th at 5:15 pm! Supercross is professional dirt bike motorcycle racing at it’s best! This event is part of Daytona bike week. We’ll be performing between the qualifying session and the first heat. Click here or more information and tickets!

It’s time to do it again. The top 16 bands have been selected and now WE NEED YOU TO VOTE AGAIN and push megaphone on to the next round. We made it this far, you made this happen, so don’t stop now! The bands we are up against this time are all killer so we need all the help we can get. You’re already on line so go ahead and vote now! Then when you’re done tell your friends. Twitter a tweet, put it on your facebook, your mypsace and email your friends. Let the world know. Here is the link: http://wjrr.com/pages/bestbandvoting.html

Your votes have taken us to the next round in WJRR’s Central Florida’s best band contest. 3 other bands, Fall of Envy, In Violent Times and Irrational have also made it through from this 2nd group. There are still 2 more groups of bands that each have a week to grab votes. Once voting for all 4 groups has completed we’ll be given information on round 2. So hang tight we’ll let you know what is next. We want to make sure you know how much we appreciate your votes. You guys responded in record numbers and we can’t thank you enough.

What’s up? hey it’s Matt. I just left a quick blog post about the experience I had at Back Booth last weekend. Check it out and leave a comment about your experience that night too!

VOTE NOW! megaphone has been entered in WJRR’s new central Florida’s best band contest! The winning band will receive over $10,000 in prizes and a spot at WJRR’s Earth Day Birthday 16 show! It’s easy to vote and takes almost no time at all. Simply follow this link, scroll down to find megaphone and place your vote. Continue to scroll to the bottom of the form to enter your email address. You will then be sent an email confirmation. Your vote won’t count till you click the link in the confirmation email so please don’t forget that important step.
You only have 1 week to vote for megaphone (2/2/09 - 2/8/09) so please,
VOTE NOW!

First headlining show of 2009 for megaphone announced today! Check out the shows page for more information!

To get your first taste of the new CD tune in to Orlando’s Real Rock WJRR 101.1 FM this Sunday night (1/25/09) at 11pm. megaphone’s “Gravitate” will kick off this weeks Native Noise show at the top of the hour. Cori Yarckin will be in the studio promoting our Jan 31st show at back booth. You’ll hear songs from all three bands (megaphone, Cori Yarckin and Transmit now) that are on the bill that night. Tune in and check it out!