AUTOMATA is fast approaching....the new album from Return To Earth is in post-production, expect an official release date in the coming weeks. In the meantime, sample some more free metal from the upcoming album - this
one's called 'Back of My Hand'
Meanwhile, RTE's debut CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY was just nominated for Best Hard Rock/Metal album in the
9th Annual Independent Music Awards. Vote for RTE here! Registering is easy and spam-free!
Bumblefoot is back on tour with Guns N' Roses! Click here for tour dates.
New artists, new albums, new merchandise, & a brand spankin' new website coming next month! Have a safe & freaky 2010!
11.7.09
Return
To Earth has a brand new song up for free download on their website / myspace!
The song is titled "You Will Be Replaced", and is from their
forthcoming album AUTOMATA, due out in 2010. More music coming soon, so
stay tuned...
To read the press release about
the new songs and new album, click here!
RTE are this month's featured indie artists on GOOM Radio's new rock
channel, The Machine. Ron & Chris are interviewed on
The Machine - Thursday, November 19 at 9pm EST!
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Bald
Freak Music has expanded! We're happy to announce that we have
taken on three new employees- John
Bryan (our new web and graphics maestro), Barry Adkins (promotions wizard),
and DJ Scully (office
managerial
warrior). Each of these men have a ton of skill and expereince, and
will all be helping take Bald Freak Music into the new decade! We can't
wait.
For more information on all
Bald Freak Employees, visit the freaks
page.
Download an a-Q-stic version of
Q*Ball's "Second Chance"
now at iLike!
Q*Ball's "Get On The Bus" & "Hope Your Happy Now" were recently
featured on Bugcast! Q*Ball's "Get On The Bus" & "Candle Wax" were recently
featured on Threeway Podcast! Q*Ball's "Second Chance"
was featured on a recent episode of Nefarious Bovine Radio!
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Swashbuckle was recently
profiled in Kerrang!-
check out the article here!
Swashbuckle embarks on their
headlining Splash N' Thrash tour, November 4 - December 19! Check
out tour dates here!
8.24.09
Q*Ball will be performing with
Bumblefoot at the Just
Plain Folks Music Awards,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 at the Wild Horse Saloon in Nashville, TN!
Q*Ball's This Is Serious Business has been nominated
for 3 independent music awards, including Best Electronica Album!
Q*Ball's video for John Hughes was also nominated for Best Video.
A new review of Q*Ball's This Is Serious Business is
online at the i heart guitar blog.
Q*Ball's Hey DJ was recently spun on DALECAST and
Pinguinix Music.
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Mixing for Return To Earth's Automata continues -
about 4 songs are completed,
with the rest expected done over the next couple of months. Stay tuned!
Swashbuckle follows up the European leg of Paganfest with some late
December dates
on the Darkness Over Xmas Tour with Heaven Shall Burn, Dark
Tranquility, & Deadlock!
Check out tour dates here!
7.7.09
Q*Ball's This Is
Serious Business has been nominated for an independent music
award by Just Plain Folks
in the Best Electronica Album category! His Name Is Goliath & Pez Dispenser
have both been nominated for Best Electronica
Song, as well. The awards show will take
place on August 28 in Nashville, TN.
A new review of Q*Ball's This Is Serious Business is
online at Nightwaves.
Episode III of Return To Earth's 'The Making of Automata'
is up on YouTube!
Tracking for the new album has been completed and the songs will be
mixed by Bumblefoot
with hopes of a late Fall 09 release!
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Swashbuckle hits the road once again at the WACKEN OPEN
AIR FESTIVAL (with Motorhead, In Flames,
Coheed and Cambria, and many more), July 30 & August 1, followed by
the European leg of PAGANFEST
beginning in mid-September!
Swashbuckle's new album, Back To The Noose, will be
available JULY 24 in Europe,
and AUGUST 11 in the North America, from Nuclear Blast!
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Bumblefoot is currently touring as guest guitarist with Lita Ford!
Check out tour dates here.
5.11.09
Q*Ball's video for John
Hughes will be featured on LMM Entertainment
on NY Channel 115,
Saturday, May 16th and again on Saturday, May 30th at 10pm EST.
If you're in the NY area, tune in and watch!
More Bumblefoot and Return To Earth on the upcoming Red Bull X-Fighters
DVD!
BBF's 'Thank You' + 'Turn Around', and RTE's 'A New Sound' + 'Get Your
Knife'
are all on the soundtrack!
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Black Pig's 'Dip To The Bottom' + 'Black Pig' were recently featured on
DALECAST.
3.3.09
SWASHBUCKLE SIGNS WITH NUCLEAR
BLAST!
Our little pirates are growing up.
It is with mixed emotions that we watch our favorite pirate metal band
Swashbuckle set sail to
well-renowned extreme metal label Nuclear Blast.
We signed Swashbuckle in 2006 after Bumblefoot
saw them perform at a party in New Jersey some months earlier. Since
then,
the pirate thrashers have evolved from a one-note goofy metal act into
a vital force
in the metal community, with rave reviews in CMJ, major airplay on
college
metal radio, a memorable performance opening for Shadows Fall, Alice
Cooper,
and Queensryche at Loco Fest 07, and a classic on-air appearance at the
legendary WSOU.
We will continue to promote and sell Swashbuckle's debut release, Crewed By The Damned,
here, and at Amazon, CD Baby, and all your
digital retail outlets.
In the meantime, don't forget to check Swashbuckle out at
PAGANFEST 2009!
Tour dates available at www.myspace.com/swashbuckle
We at Bald Freak wish all the best to
Admiral Nobeard, Captain Crashride, and Commodore Redrum!
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New reviews of Return To Earth's "You Built The Fire, I Brought The
Match"
are up at The C0nsensus
Bumblefoot's 'Thank You' & 'Dominated', and Return To Earth's 'Get
Your Knife'
will be featured on the upcoming Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour DVD!
1.17.09
Return To Earth
continues work on AUTOMATA - Chris has tracked drums for the
new album, and guitar tracking begins later this month. Look for a new
making-of
webisode on MySpace and the RTE website
soon.
Q*Ball's new
video for "John Hughes" is almost in the editing stages.
Check out more photos and info about the new video here!
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Bumblefoot's new acoustic EP, BAREFOOT, Is now available in the STORE *PLUS* - new ABNORMAL guitar straps and 1" buttons!
Bumblefoot is featured in this month's edition of Total Guitar
Magazine!
12.3.08
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
FROM BALD FREAK MUSIC!
Like the rest of this fandangled music industry, we'll be slowing
things down
over the next month or so as our acts continue to work on new material
for 2009!
Return To Earth's new album, AUTOMATA, will be released MARCH 2009.
Chris, Ron, and Brett are hard at work in the studio - check out the
first of a few
'making-of' webisodes on RTE's MySpace
page!
Meanwhile, Chris from RTE was featured in December's Modern Drummer
magazine,
and contributed a column to the premiere edition of Sickdrummer
Magazine online.
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Q*Ball's 'Goodbye Piano' was recently featured on DALECAST,
and 'Get On The Bus' and 'Q*Ball In Space' were spun on The
Ross Paltzelt Show.
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Swashbuckle is
now endorsed by Spectraflex Cables!
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Bumblefoot
performs on the long-awaited CHINESE DEMOCRACY from Guns N' Roses,
which - not surprisingly - is gaining worldwide notoriety.
Ron will be doing an in-store meet and greet at FNAC Paris later this
month,
with some other European stops TBD along the way.
Check out a short interview with Ron about the album at CMJ and a
new
interview at The Horse Chronicles.
Bumblefoot's 'Turn Around' was voted a Future Classic on Scotland's
96.3 Rock Radio!
11.11.08
Join the
Bald Freak Music group on FACEBOOK!
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Swashbuckle's sophomore release, BACK TO THE NOOSE, will drop on
FEBRUARY 3, 2009.
The pirates are in the studio polishing up another round of heavy
pirate metal,
with some cool shows and promo to follow.
Check out the cover art for the new album!
The new animated video for "Drink Up" is complete!
Thanks to our friends at Stickman Studios for putting this together!
The band - and the video - will appear in the upcoming PC game, Buccaneer - The Pursuit of Infamy, out later this
month!
Catch the video on our home page and on Vimeo!
Captain Crashride is now endorsed by Darkhorse Percussion!
Pick up shiny new 'Drink Up' guitar picks in the STORE!
