Monday, September 19, 2011

Artist's For Andy's Pet Shop Event

Unfortunately the only pet store downtown is in trouble and it's up to help keep them around and servicing local pet owners. They'll be doing a benefit show at O'Flaherty's this Thursday, full details below:



Andy's Pet Shop and Adoption Center needs our help or they will not be able to keep their doors open to the community nor to the local animal rescue centers they partner with.

To help raise awareness of their situation, a benefit show will be held at O'Flaherty's Irish Pub.

You're invited to O'Flaherty's Irish Pub on Thursday 9/22 at 9:00 p.m. for a special evening of music, comedy and art to benefit Andy's Pet Shop and Adoption Center. 100% Rescued Animals since 2007 and featured on A&E program "Hoarders".

There's a great line up of very talented artists including NY jam fusion electric guitarist John Ford Winter from the Woodstock Guitar Festival making his West Coast debut in downtown San Jose. Also performing are comedians Dan St. Paul and Mike Meehan. Portraits of animals and a custom painting of the famous building sign will be created by artist Crystal Wade.

A percentage of the bar sales will be generously donated by O'Flaherty's Irish Pub.

Show your support for the animals, the arts, and for downtown businesses!

For more information, please visit the Facebook event page here.

4th Annual Luna Park Chalk Art Festival

I have never attended this event before, but it looks like a blast. Tons of chalk art, vendor booths, music, and dancing. Best of all the proceeds will go to art education to local schools, something desperately needed as budget cuts are killing our art programs. More info below:


DRUM! Magazine Founders Roll Out Industry-Specific Enter Music Network With Leading Percussive Partner Sites


San Jose, Calif., -- Over the last 20 years, Phil Hood and Andy Doerschuk, the founders of Enter Music Publishing have published one of the most well-respected innovative music magazines in the industry, DRUM!. Now, the duo, demonstrating their creativity once again, has launched The Enter Music Network (EMN)www.entermusicnetwork.com, an industry specific ad network comprised of the top sites for drummers and percussionists.
 
EMN’s Reach
The EMN is a group of nine web sites that together offer advertisers the ability to reach the widest market of musicians. It's an ideal venue for advertising drum equipment, recording gear and other music products, as well as musician lifestyle products including shoes, beverages, movies, cars and clothing. The network, additionally allows advertisers to market to more than 100 countries across the world. Overall the EMN reaches more than half a million drummers and more than six million ad impressions monthly.
 

EMN’s Percussive Partner Sites.
The key to The EMN is the group of percussive partner sites. The network includes the top drumming sites in the world, such as drumchannel, drummercafe, drummerconnection, drummerworld, onlinedrummer, musicplayers, sickdrummermagazine, drumlink, and of course drummagazine.
 
The key benefit of the network is its ability to target the drum and percussion industry. Other larger networks exist, such as Doubleclick, but they aren’t niche specific like the EMN. And larger networks offer access to an audience but nothing in terms of services.
"I find there is a real need for targeted networks, and services that go beyond what the big guys offer" says co-founder Phil Hood. "Advertisers need input on campaigns, creative, and how to integrate what they do online with their print and other marketing,"
 
Another key benefit is convenience. Rather than dealing with a variety of sites, an advertiser deals with just one integrated network. And the EMN can also offer benefits such as the creation of ads and marketing counsel.
'Managing a large web campaign is difficult," says Hood, "and we take some of the complexity out of it. We can help if you want to reach a lot of musicians quickly, or if you want a longer-term campaign."

Nate Brown, president of onlinedrummer and a partner site in the EMN believes that the network’s wide reach through all of the participating sites will make it quickly successful. “It’s quite simple. The EMN is the most powerful network of its kind on the planet,” he said. That’s why we joined since this type of network is the future of advertising.
 
More than Web Banners
In addition to web banner campaigns the Enter Music Network also offers email marketing opportunities and video ad insertion on some sites. Interested parties can call Phil Hood(408-971-9794 ext 203) for details. Or they can visit,www.entermusicnetwork.com.
About Enter Music Publishing

Founded in San Jose, CA in 1992, Enter Music Publishing, Inc. is a leading publisher of hip, drum/percussion magazines, with distribution in 20 countries. DRUM! is the flagship publication of Enter Music Publishing, Inc. and continues to set the industry standard for editorial quality and innovation. Enter Music Publishing, Inc. also publishes great content on its website,drummagazine.com. Over the company’s history, Enter Music Publishing has pressed other well-respected publications, such as How To Play Drums, and TRAPS magazine. The company’s mission is to be the best source of drumming news and info on this planet and others as they become populated. The company’s founders, Phil Hood and Andy Doerschuk, are well-respected drum industry veterans with more than 50 years of experience in the field.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

The Weekend Map: San Jose

Here's a pretty cool site that I just found out about called "the weekend map."  It let's you see things that are going on in San Jose over the weekend spanning concerts, sports, volunteer events, conventions, etc. The interface is really slick and lets you quickly filter to only see what's relevant to you.

Check it out right over here.




Saturday, September 17, 2011

SJMADE with SJEATS @ San Pedro Square Market


If you're reading this right now, you need to step away from the computer, grab the family, and get to this event below. Come see Downtown San Jose's future!

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SJMADE with SJEATS
San Jose, California
September 17 & 18, 2011
San Pedro Square Market

PRESS RELEASE

San Jose Made (SJMADE) found its roots in San Jose, CA, where brother and sister, Mike and Marie Millares of The Usuals, ran small trunk shows featuring products from local brands. The small trunk shows have, since, grown into larger-scale vendor shows for locals who are building independent brands, creating collections, or designing goods in the San Francisco South Bay Area. SJMADE events house vendor and artist booths alongside live music performances by local acts. In response to the growing demand for local goods, SJMADE partnered with SJEATS hoping to continue this unique homegrown shopping and food experience in San Jose, CA.

Some of the Bay Area’s best food trucks are coming to San Pedro Square Market for SJMADE with SJEATS, a vendor and food truck festival based in San Jose, CA. Cuisines spanning the globe will be represented, from Filipino street food to chrome karaoke ice cream trucks. SJEATS was founded by husband and wife team, Ryan and Christine Sebastian. The couple operates Moveable Feast, a traveling food truck and live music event. Thousands of people have attended Moveable Feast events to sample local fare from gourmet food trucks with a helping of live music.

SJMADE with SJEATS is scheduled to run 11:00a to 7:00p on Saturday and Sunday, September 17th and 18th at San Pedro Square Market in downtown San Jose. Admission is free. The growing schedule of vendors and food trucks is available online at: http://www.sanjosemade.com.


Friday, September 16, 2011

New Art Show @ Empire Seven Studios

The launch party is tomorrow! 525 N. 7th Street, 7pm - midnight.

SJMADE Pre-Party


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Friday, September 16 · 8:30pm - 11:30pm

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Join us Friday September 16th 2011 for The Official SJ Made Pre-Party!

San Jose Made (SJMADE) is a vendor fair where local San Jose makers, labels, brands, and artists showcase and sell current projects and goods. The Fall event will be at San Pedro Square Market on 9/17-9/18. For more info:www.sanjosemade.com

On Friday September 16th we will open the doors of South First Billiards @ 8:30 & celebrate the Fall edition of SJ Made with LIVE performances from some heavy producers & spitters & all around fresh makers!

+++ On the beat tip we got...

JOOB
http://joobkicksnare.bandcamp.com/
http://soundcloud.com/joobkicksnare

B.LEWIS & INSIGHTFUL
http://eight.bandcamp.com/
http://Blewis.bandcamp.com/
http://insightful.bandcamp.com/

DRANAL
http://soundcloud.com/dranal
http://dranal.bandcamp.com/

W1SH ONE
http://soundcloud.com/w1sh
http://w1shone.com/

MARK PLSTK
http://mark.plstk.com/
http://www.blindiforthekids.com/2009/12/mark-plstk-influ3nz-mixtape-confessional/

+++ On the spit tip we got...

OPSKI CHAN & ODMD
http://opskichan.bandcamp.com/album/super-duty-tough-work

SEAN BLAK
http://www.seanblak.com/

ONESELF DAVINCI
http://soundcloud.com/oneself-davinci

SOLIS CIN
http://soundcloud.com/soliscinmusic

ANYA & VIDA KILLZ
http://vidakillz.com/
http://ladyanya.com/

PERSIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZojLCS2UM

+++ On the 1's & 2's we got...

SHEA
http://soundcloud.com/djshea

MERLIN
http://soundcloud.com/djmerlin

+++Live painting by...

MRLOPEZART
http://mrlopezart.blogspot.com/

+++ Hosted by...

Rowbot & Noahdeeakili...

This event is FREE.99!! With a 99 cent discount!

Doors open @ 8:30PM & the party ends @ regular city limit party ending time.

MORE Details (as well as the online flyer) to be posted
soon.

SEE YOU ALL THERE!!!


& DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT SJ MADE:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150255428389872

Saturday, September 17th :: 11a-7p
Sunday, September 18th :: 11a-7p

For the Fall 2011 installation of SJMADE, we will be at San Pedro Square Market (www.sanpedrosquaremarket.com) in Downtown San Jose. For two days, September 17th and 18th, our SJMADE vendors will be showcasing goods alongside various San Pedro Square Market merchants.

SJEATS (Moveable Feast, www.mvbl.org) will be there serving lunch (11:00a-3:00p) with their arsenal of delicious gourmet food trucks.

Live music in the market courtyard.

Stay tuned for a list of vendors, food trucks, and live music!

Admission is FREE.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

The Usuals is Coming to The San Pedro Square Market!

From The Usuals Newsletter:

Showroom San Jose @ San Pedro Square Market
Did you hear we are opening a new location?

It's true. The Usuals is expanding! We are soft opening this weekend, 9/17-9/18, at San Pedro Square Market during the SJMADE X SJEATS event.
Please welcome Showroom San Jose to the list of merchants at this exciting new downtown San Jose project. Because of the growing number of graphic t-shirt enthusiasts who shop at The Usuals, the Showroom is a t-shirt bar that showcases a larger selection of tees, accessories, art, and more! This weekend we're testing-out our spot before our grand opening in October. It's exciting times, friends. Thanks to all of you for the support! Come-by and say hello.

Special thanks to Fernando 'FORCE 129' for designing and installing our new Showroom sign! Check him out at: www.force129.com.

  

 SJMADE X SJEATS, Fall 2011
SJMADE X SJEATS 

Saturday, September 17th :: 11a-7p
Sunday, September 18th :: 11a-7p

San Pedro Square Market
87 N. San Pedro Street
Downtown San Jose

San Jose Made (SJMADE) is a vendor fair where local San Jose makers, labels, brands, and artists showcase and sell current projects and goods.


For the Fall 2011 installation of SJMADE, we will be at San Pedro Square Marketin Downtown San Jose. For two days, September 17th and 18th, our SJMADE vendors will be showcasing goods alongside various San Pedro Square Market merchants.


  

SJEATS  
SJEATS is serving lunch (11:00a-3:00p) with their arsenal of delicious gourmet food trucks. See the list of food trucks!

SATURDAY, 9/17 (11a to 3p)
An the Go
Eat on Monday
MoBowl
MoGo BBQ
O Mi Ninja
Sanguchon
Soulnese
Treatbot

SUNDAY, 9/18 (11a to 3p)
BBQ Kalbi
House of Siam
Le Bon
Louisiana Territory
Iz It
Sam's Chowdermobile
Soulnese


LIVE MUSIC IN THE MARKET COUTYARD

Saturday, 9/17
11:30a-12:30p :: Graywolf
1:00p-2:00p :: Jahirus, Backyard Rastafari Chants
2:30p-3:30p :: Never Right Now
4:00p-5:00p :: Sub Ren
5:30p-7:00p :: Vida Killz, Anya

Sunday, 9/18
2:30p-3:30p :: Pat Parra
4:00p-5:00p :: Never Right Now


LIVE PAINTING
Park Bench Collective
Kori Thompson


Admission is completely FREE!!!!

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Thanks, and see you guys there!
THE USUALS