Bamboozle is an annual music festival held at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. Rolling Stone named 100 Monkeys one of the top five bands to watch at the festival. Check out their live performance.
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100 Monkeys Named A Band to Watch by Rolling Stone
May 3, 2010
Of the many acts at this years Bamboozle festival, Rolling Stone picked five bands that stood out, and 100 Monkeys made the cut.
“100 Monkeys: This eccentric Cali act have a built-in buzz magnet — bandmember Jackson Rathbone, also known as one of Twilight‘s famous vampires. Their spazzy, energetic Saturday set blended tribal sounds with vocals recalling Jim Morrison’s baritone croon. The “can-this-be-real?” factor ran high thanks to song titles like “The Monkey Song,” lyrics like “free, free, free the beast” and five guys in bandanas jumping around and playing hand drums, trumpet and flute. The band’s latest release, Grape, is out now.”
Congrats to Jackson Rathbone and the entire band!
Jackson Rathbone Directs Music Video
March 21, 2010
Jackson Rathbone directed the video which features the music, lyrics, and is sung by the late Spencer Bell ( a talented musician and friend of Jackson Rathbone who died of adrenal cancer). Jackson’s band, 100 Monkeys, will be playing at a variety of events that help fund adrenal cancer research. You can get more information at the Spencer Bell website or the 100 Monkeys website. Their next concert to help the fund is in Dallas in April.
TY to Deborah for sending this over.
100 Monkeys Supporting Adrenal Cancer Awareness
March 3, 2010
As many of you know Jackson Rathbone and the members of his band, The 100 Monkeys, lost a very dear friends of theirs, Spencer Bell, to adrenal cancer a number of years ago. Their current cross-nation tour has several stops where they are trying to raise money for research on this disease and to support the Spencer B
ell Foundation. So below are the details on where you can see the group and support a great cause.
Mad Hatter Contest
A new Spencer Bell CD and a new Spencer Bell Legacy t-shirt will be available at the Dallas concert(see poster to the left). The CD will also be available at Bamboozle, a music festival held on May 1 and 2 at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in NJ.
100Monkeys will perform there on May 1.
Exciting news for 100Monkeys fans!! They will be playing at Poor David’s Pub in Dallas on Friday night before the SBL concert.
Show is on April 23rd. Doors open at 8, show at 9pm. Tickets are $14 and
are on sale now. Frontgate tickets is the site to purchase tickets.
In addition to the concert, Kelly Garrett Rathbone will be at the Deep Ellum Arts Festival on April 2-4, 2010 in Dallas, TX. She is creating a collection specifically for this festival and has generously agreed to
donate part of her profits to adrenal cancer research.
http://www.asccnow.com/events.html
There is also a college radio station (wsinradio.org) playing Spencer
Bell and 100Monkeys music at 9-10 Wednesdays eastern standard time and
it streams worldwide (the dj posted this information at 100Monkeys official music site.
100 Monkey’s 100 City Tour in Full Swing
December 28, 2009
Jackson Rathbone’s band, 100 Monkeys, is in the middle of their 100 city tour. Tonight they are playing in San Diego before hitting Arizona where their gigs take them through the new year. If you want to sample their latest, Keep Awake is available for download.
DECEMBER 28, 2009 7:30P
Soma Sidestage
All Ages
3350 Sports Arena Blvd
San Diego, CA 92110
$13 advance
$15 door
EVENT TICKET INFO
DECEMBER 29, 2009 3P
Zia Records
FREE SIGNING & SHOW
1940 W Chandler Blvd
Chandler, AZ 85224
FREE
DECEMBER 29, 2009 7P
Martini Ranch
All Ages
7295 East Stetson
Scottsdale, AZ 85281
$15
EVENT TICKET INFO
DECEMBER 30, 2009 3P
Zia Records
FREE SIGNING & SHOW
3370 E Speedway, AZ
Tucson, AZ 85716
FREE
DECEMBER 30, 2009 7P
The Rock
All Ages
136 S Park Ave
Tucson, AZ 85719
$16 advance
$20 door
EVENT TICKET INFO
They also recently played LA’s famous Viper Room where manager Marty brought back the banana suit and warmed up the crowd.
100 Monkeys Jam at NewCon
November 7, 2009
Newcon is definitely a new kind of convention. The gathering is small by design and fans can experience an intimate setting with actors and Monkeys alike. Today the acting/ modeling panel which had Jackson Rathbone, Kimbra Hicky, and Jose Zuniga, was a great oppurtunity for fans to ask questions and gain inside knowledge from three very different perspectives. Fan response has been very positve.
Here is a sample of the 100 Monkeys Jam session that happened earlier today.
Oh and here is a riddle for all the Monkey Junkies out there What do you get when you mix 100 Monkeys and and the Viper Room?? Answer to come later in the week!!
100 Monkeys: The Photographer’s View
November 3, 2009
The Jackson Rathbone oriented site, I Felt Hope, has secured an interview (not to mention some amazing pictures where we are respecting the request not to cross post) with Phoenix Taylor. He is a rising star in the photography world. He has covered numerous subjects including Jackson and the band as well as Jackson’s sister, and fellow visual artist, Kelly.
“You spent some time with 100 Monkey’s recently during Twicon. Describe what that experience was like especially from a photographer’s point of view.
In one paragraph of an interview? Yeah right! I will have to say, I spent almost 8 days with the 100 Monkeys and I would relive those days everyday again and again, like Groundhogs Day, for the rest of my life.
Well… maybe that is too much. But, you get the idea. There was not a moment with them, living with them, working with them, seeing them with their fans, cooking with Uncle Larry (barely) and just chilling with them that was not an amazing experience. I can not stress enough the amount of character the band has, let alone Jackson Rathbone! And, I know that is who people want to know about. The man was born for great things… from his music, to his acting and to his character as a human being. I don’t think I have met a man that could have more of a chip on his shoulder and yet there is absolutely NONE to be found! And, that alone speaks volumes about these guys!”
I was welcomed in as one of them, asked my opinions, heard and then released to seek out my vision for the band and they did everything they could to be what I needed them to be… which ironically, was just themselves!
100 Monkeys on the Eclipse Soundtrack?
October 19, 2009
MTV caught up with Jackson Rathbone on the set of the indie film, The Girlfriend, and asked him about playing on the Eclipse soundtrack:
“It’s been talked about, but it’s one of those things,” Rathbone said when asked if he had been approached to have songs on the previous soundtracks. “We’re going to be kind of giving some of our songs off of our upcoming album for them to see if they want to put on ‘Eclipse.’ ”
It would be a pretty big deal for Jackson and the band if they made it onto the soundtrack. 100 Monkeys members are heavily involved in the Girfriend soundtrack, not to mention individual film projects like Jackson’s The Last Airbender.
Check out the full story on MTV.
How would you feel about 100 Monkeys on the soundtrack? Any of their songs have an Eclipse vibe to you?
Get the 100 Monkeys to Come to You!
September 30, 2009
This just announced by 100 Monkeys:
“We’re letting fans choose 20 cities in the US that we are going to play at on our tour.
They need to send their name, city, state and age all in the subject line
to [email protected]
The info should have a comma between each item. name, city, state, age
The winning cities will be announced October 28th. This is for US cities only. The Canadian contest will start November 1st.
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