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Street Drum Corps will be signing each day on Projekt Revolution from 1:30pm-2:00pm at the Music For Relief tent in the Revolution Village. SDC will also perform a special street set at the signing. Be sure to get SDC’s “WE ARE MACHINES” CD and have it signed. SDC’s merch will be available in the Main Stage Merch Booths. SDC opens the Main Stage at 5pm each date and then performs with Linkin Park during their set.
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Street Drum Corps Brings the Noise This Summer on Projekt Revolution Tour
Special Drumline Contest and Mainstage Set Precedes New Album Due Out on Interscope ‘09
From John Bonham to Clyde Stubblefield to ?uestlove, the drum has always been the backbone of any successful group. Hell, go further back in time, when drums were at the center of any tribal ritual. It’s carnal. Primeval. A good song hits you in the head. A good beat nails you in the stomach. So in an era of squeaky-clean, technologically-enhanced and polished production, Los Angeles’ Street Drum Corps (SDC) are more important than ever.
Kevin Lyman, founder of the Vans Warped Tour, summed SDC up perfectly when he called them a “punk rockStomp.” Trash cans. Barrels. Buckets. It’s all fair game for brothers Bobby & Adam Alt and Frank Zummo, who furnish their live sets completely with used and found instruments.
Having honed and evolved their rock-band-meets-performance-art set for more than four years, playing shows at countless festivals in countless countries, the trio is currently prepping both a new studio album on Interscope Records (their follow-up to 2006’sWe Are Machines) and summer shows on Linkin Park’s highly successful Projekt Revolution tour starting July 16 at Mansfield, MA’s Tweeter Center.
If you’ve seen them live before, you already know SDC’s shows are a primordial, stomping blast of energy, theatricality and passion. There’s a reason why members of No Doubt, Bad Religion, and Revolution tourmates Atreyu all want to play with them. Why Conan O’Brien invited them to perform on his show. And why The Used’s Bert McCracken has practically adopted them as his pet band.
SDC’s diverse and vast tourmates—which include everyone from Matisyahu to The Deftones to 30 Seconds to Mars—are direct proof that the trio can survive and thrive in virtually any crowd. Unlike so many bands whose music automatically pigeonholes them to certain festivals, SDC have proven that words like “demographic” and “target audience” don’t apply to them. To Street Drum Corps, the only target audience is anyone who appreciates unique performances and raucous, energetic music. SDC are more concerned with rhythm than genre. In their performances, one hears tribal, rock, punk, dance and industrial, all somehow blending together in a chaotic, beautiful mess.
Now, after conquering Warped Tour, Coachella, A Taste of Chaos, and any other tour that’s gotten in their way, the trio is set to perform on the Main Stage at Projekt Revolution alongside Chris Cornell, Busta Rhymes, The Bravery and Linkin Park. In addition to introducing Linkin Park (in their own inimitable way), the group has been personally invited to perform select songs with the headliners.
Hearkening back to the past when shaman fed off the energy of the tribe’s participants, the group will also be introducing a special contest where one winner per show will get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead a drumline with SDC from the second stage direct to the main stage. Stay tuned for more details.
Formed in 2004, Bobby and Adam Alt originally started Experiment, a drum troupe that performed mostly to elementary schools. After hooking up with Zummo, the three decided to take breaks from their respective drumming gigs and became Street Drum Corps, playing their debut gig at Magic Mountain. After near-constant touring, the group hooked up with House of Pain’s DJ Lethal, who produced their 2006 self-titled debut CD/DVD (Warcon Enterprises) featuring “Achilles” with Stomp’s John Sawicki. Since then, their music has appeared on such shows as “Inked,” “The Real World” and “Love Monkey,” and the group recently recorded a cover of John Lennon’s “Happy Christmas (War is Over)” with The Used’s Bert McCracken.
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Projekt Revolution Tour Dates
7/16- Mansfield, MA- Tweeter Center
7/18- Burgettstown, PA- Post Gazette Center
7/19- Camden, NJ- Susquehanna Bank Center
7/20- Hartford, CT- New England Dodge Music Center
7/22- Wantagh, NY- Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
7/23- Holmdel, NJ- PNC Bank Arts Center
7/25- Raleigh, NC- Time Warner Cable Amphitheatre
7/26- Virginia Beach, VA- Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
7/27- Bristow, VA- Nissan Pavilion at Stone Ridge
7/30- Charlotte, NC- Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
8/1- West Palm Beach, FL- Cruzan Amphitheatre
8/2- Tampa, FL- Ford Amphitheatre
8/3- Atlanta, GA- Lakewood Amphitheatre
8/7- Phoenix, AZ- Cricket Wireless Pavilion
8/9- Mountain View, CA- Shoreline Amphitheatre
8/10- Irvine, CA- Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
8/12- Greenwood Village, CO- Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
8/15- Cincinnati, OH- Riverband Music Center
8/16- East Troy, WI- Alpine Valley Music Theatre
8/17- Noblesville, IN- Verizon Wireless Music Center
8/19- Cuyahoga Falls, OH- Blossom Music Center
8/21- Maryland Heights, MO- Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
8/23- Dallas, TX-Superpages.com Center
8/24- The Woodlands, TX- The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Street Drum Corps just got promoted to open the main stage at Projekt Revolution. They will open the main stage around 5pm each date. SDC will also be part of Linkin Parks intro and will perform a few songs with them. Be sure to not miss a special pied piper marching piece on Projekt Revolution from SDC with special guests. The Pied Piper piece will begin at the Revolution Stage as Atreyu ends.
See ya on the road!
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Get FOUR lawn tickets for Projekt Revolution for $44.44! Price INCLUDES PARKING!
This deal will be offered for all Projekt Revolution tour dates EXCEPT: Irvine, SF, Houston, Cincy, Jones Beach.
When purchasing your tickets through www.LiveNation.com, just choose the $44.44 four-pack button to buy tickets. The password is “REVOLUTION”.
Offer for this 4-pack deal begins Thursday, July 3rd at 9am and ends Monday, July 7th at 11:59pm.
Revolutionize Your MySpace Contest – BANNER
Fans are encouraged to design Proj Rev myspace skins, and to enter them for a FLYAWAY to Projekt Rev in Philly! Contest ends July 7th. Check it out here: http://linkinpark.com/myspace-contest.
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MTV2 Wants You To Rock The Revolution!
Calling all bands and artists! MTV2 is giving you the chance of a lifetime to perform at Linkin Park’s Projekt Revolution and get featured on MTV2 in select markets! Three top bands from Atlanta, Philadelphia, Denver, St. Louis, San Francisco Bay Area, and Ohio will open the Revolution Stage on their hometown’s date! Create your artist profile and enter now using the links below! MTV2 will review the top 12 artists in each city who receive the most online votes and then select three to represent on the Revolution Stage. Be sure to pass this information along to anyone you know that’s in a band! Follow the links below to your local registration page:
Artist Entry Period: June 16th – June 25th
Fan Voting Period: June 26th – July 9th
Use the links below for your shot to Rock The Revolution
Atlanta: http://atlanta.mtv2.com
Philadelphia: http://philly.mtv2.com
Denver: http://denver.mtv2.com
St. Louis: http://stlouis.mtv2.com
San Francisco Bay Area: http://bayarea.mtv2.com
Ohio: http://ohio.mtv2.com
Contest subject to official rules.
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SDC has a live cam in the studio where they are currently writing their debut Interscope Record.
Street Drum Corps would like to announce that they have signed a major record deal with Interscope Records. The band is currently in the studio working on their Interscope debut.
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Be sure to catch SDC on Projekt Revolution Tour with Linkin Park all summer!
SDC would like to welcome Jagermeister to there sponsor family…
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