Our friends, MeTalkPretty, are being featured on MTV2.com (check out the Ourstage section.) You can listen to 2 tracks from their soon-to-be-released debut album, We Are Strangers, on Eight o Five / Universal Music. Details are currently being worked out for a MeTalkPretty/megaphone week-long Florida tour this summer.

The website Rockbandaid.com, your source for all things Rock Band, posted a feature interview with us on April 5th. These guys are ultra cool and totally have their fingers on the pules of the video game craze that is Rock Band. To have these guys feature us is really an honor. It’s a great interview and they really ask some great questions.

“Continuing their trend of good fortune into 2010, megaphone is releasing tracks on the RBN, and currently has three songs available in the Rock Band Network: “Not Your Enemy,” “Gravitate,” and “My Favorite New Disaster.”  I got a chance to talk to the band about themselves, their music, and the Rock Band Network.”

Check it out!

G4 TV did a segment about the PAX East conference, a video game conference in Boston. As they were talking with Harmonix about the new Rock Band Network, they showed clips of someone scrolling through the store menu alphabetically and Not Your Enemy and Disaster are right next to each other. It was really quick but we noticed it. Later, they showed another clip of someone scrolling through artists and it showed “megaphone” with all three songs underneath.

Every once in a while in the Rock Band blog, the Harmonix developers pick their favorite RBN songs. One of them picked Gravitate. Here’s what they said: megaphone - “Gravitate” - I really like the chorus on “Gravitate”. There’s a cool guitar riff that kicks it off each time, and the melody is just fun to sing.

Check out their blog here!

“Not Your Enemy” has just been added and is now available to download and play on Rock Band 2 for the Xbox 360 through the new Rock Band Network! Check it out!

“Gravitate” has just been added and is now available to download and play on Rock Band 2 through the new Rock Band Network! This one is a little more challenging than “My Favorite New Disaster” Check it out! “Not Your Enemy” from our first release For Cryin’ Out Loud, should be available later this week!

I really don’t like focusing on negative things, but this really cracked me up. It’s been bugging me that some person went onto the iTunes page for our new album and left a crappy review because he/she didn’t like us at the AC/DC show. On the bright side, the review clearly states that we OPENED FOR AC/DC so that’s pretty sweet. But the negative review still bugged me. And then I saw this.. Read »

Now this is some funny shit!  In case you didn’t know, when I’m not rockin’ out with megaphone, I pay bills as a freelance lighting director.  In that line of work, there’s really no better way to make the big bucks than to work in the corporate market, lighting everything from dinner parties to big corporate general sessions.  So here I am working a show for Lockheed Martin, with a production company that I’ve never worked for before, next to a sound engineer that I just met.  In our conversation, of course I mention that I play guitar in an unsigned band (I’m not afraid of some shameless self promotion!) called megaphone.  He says, “If you’re a guitar player, you might find this funny” and opens up his laptop to show me this picture. Read »

For the past two weeks or so, I’ve been hard at work turning megaphone rock songs into video game awesomeness. You’ve heard of the game Rock Band…right? Oh you actually do live under a rock? Weird… Read »

No, this isn’t a post about relationships. My girlfriend probably wouldn’t appreciate that much. As you can probably tell from the picture, it’s about a weird contraption that you step on, otherwise known as a “kick pedal.” “What’s that,” you ask. “No I didn’t ask that,” you say, “get on with it.” Sorry but not everyone is as brilliant as you.

The kick pedal is what a drummer uses to hit the kick, or bass, drum. The one in the picture is the same kind that I use. In fact, I’ve used the same one for about 8 years. So what’s the deal with “being single?” Let me show you what some people use. Read »