Inner Sanctum

During last night’s music news, we threw out a little teaser about a new low dough concert series from Radio 92.3 featuring up and coming national bands paired with opening slots featuring Cleveland’s hottest local bands.

The cat’s out of the bag now, and we can share the full details on the Radio 92.3 “Cheap Date” concert series, happening at the House of Blues in the Cambridge Room!

The first show is set for Saturday, April 25th with Cage The Elephant. Opening the show, will be our good friends in The Doctor Teeeth!

Admission is a mere 5 bones (that’s 5 dollars for ya’ll that don’t speak the lingo…) and we MIGHT have some additional good news to share about The Doctor Teeeth in the weeks yet to come, so stay tuned!

The Docs are IN!

Here are the show details for Cage The Elephant/The Doctor Teeeth! Tickets go on sale this Friday, and you can get more information right here!!

In the Cambridge Room
Radio 92.3 “Cheap Date” featuring
Cage the Elephant
with Doctor Teeeth
Saturday, April 25 * doors at 9:00 PM
Tickets: $5 in advance
Ages: All
On Sale: Friday, March 27 @ 10 AM

Matt Shultz (vocals), his brother Brad (guitar) and their friends Daniel Titchenor (bass), Lincoln Parish (guitar) and Jared Champion (drums) have spent the last year tearing back and forth across Britain and America, leaving a trail of hedonistic chaos in their wake. Their debut album (recorded in just ten days with producer Jay Joyce), dropped in June 2008, and has been the basis for sellout tours in the UK as the five kids from Kentucky show the children of Great Britain how it’s done.

“Our name kind of stands for the whole of society”, Matt explains, “the people we all are by nature. Sometimes it feels like there’s a campaign to lock up all the good in the world. You turn on the news and hear ‘Today 26 people got gunned down, and one guy got his head chopped off, and here’s a picture of it’. It’s like there’s no hope. And it’s not just the government or the media who are responsible for that, it’s everywhere. But we want to show that’s not right – you can’t cage the elephant”.

Artist website: www.cagetheelephant.com

I was jazzed to see the news about former Michael Stanley Band singer-songwriter Jonah Koslen who recently announced an April 18th date at The Winchester where he will recreate the classic MSB live album Stagepass with his creatively titled band Stage Pass Now.

Michael Stanley Band - Stagepass

From the Winchester website:

In October of 1976, Cleveland Rock-n-Roll history was made at the original Agora Theatre. Cleveland’s own Michael Stanley Band recorded the classic, gold, double-live album “Stagepass”.

Jonah Koslen and Stage Pass Now re-create the classic album, “Stagepass”, live and in concert, turned up loud and rocking out exactly the way you remember it.

Re-live it, or Experience it for the first time: “Strike Up the Band,” “Rosewood Bitters,” “Nothing’s Going to Change My Mind,” “Show on the Road,” “Waste a Little Time on Me,” “Midwest Midnight,” and the rest of the hit songs from the acclaimed, live album. Jonah Koslen and Stage Pass Now will be live and in concert at The Winchester. Tickets are $15.00. 9pm.

Michael Stanley will be at the show, but not in the way that you might expect. Stanley shares the following quote:

“I’m as excited as everyone else is to hear Jonah and his band perform the Stagepass album live and in concert. I can’t wait to sit in the audience and have the experience of hearing our classic MSB album in all its rocking glory, this time as his friend and a fan.”

Grab your tickets now for this intimate evening with Koslen and crew, which will very likely be a sellout. Visit The Winchester website for ticket details.

PS – a little birdie told me that this will be a warmup show for a larger show later this year. You don’t want to miss this one!

While we’re on the Koslen tip, check out this cool video of Koslen’s post-MSB project Breathless performing at the Cleveland Agora circa-1979!

Here’s a cool story that we shared tonight on the show about The Jellybricks and their music video for “Ruin Us.”  The band created the clip using Rock Band 2, and internet buzz for the video has escalated to a nod from Rolling Stone magazine, who called it “the first truly clever viral music video of 2009.”

Bassist/singer Garrick Chow gave Rolling Stone the lowdown behind the clip:

“As a band, after rehearsals, we sometimes get together and play Rock Band, and I was just noticing the camera angles and the shots that are used, that we can make characters that kind of look like us. There’s these great sets in the game, it just looked really cool.” “Instead of taking cameras out into the Pennsylvania winter trying to figure out a video, we basically spent a week playing the game, capturing it in my computer and trying to edit it all together to make it look like we’re actually playing the song.”

Read the complete story here

If you haven’t seen it, check out the clip for “Ruin You” below….

Well the new site is up and I am in the process of uploading all of our old playlists, pictures and live performances. We have some new contact information. If you would like to send us music you can still snail mail it: Inner Sanctum Cleveland, OH 44115

You can now send us mp3’s and virtual press kits to: music@innersanctumcleveland.com

You can send band news and mailinglist info to: news@innersanctumcleveland.com

For concert calendar consideration: calendar@innersanctumcleveland.com

Check back often as we continue to work on our new site!

Pat