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Last Chance for Tickets (Before Hiatus) // Rock n Soul Sendoff Thursday 8pm!

2012-01-18T12:11:00.000-08:00

Achem.

Danny Ross Rock n Soul Sendoff !!
@ Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2, 196 Allen St at Houston, NYC
Thursday January 19, 8pm Sharp
**ADVANCED TICKETS ONLY. BUY NOW! (Ahh)**

We're taking hiatus to record 20 new rock n' soul songs for our indie label debut, catch us for the last time in a long time. And I can't thank you enough for the social media love, you're seriously killing it. But seriously, you're wanted for murder. If you haven't done so yet, please take 30 seconds to join the rest of society in 1) Reposting the FB event and tagging me, Danny Ross (::blush::) 2) Liking the FB Official Danny Ross Page 3)Twittering me @dannyrossmusic

Hugs and smoochies America,
Danny Ross (+ Max the cat)

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Last show before Hiatus Rock n Soul Sendoff Jan 19 @ Rockwood 2

2012-01-12T12:03:00.000-08:00

Well, I don't want to give too much away (yet), but this Spring we'll be signing with an independent record label and tracking 20 new songs for our first nationally distributed album. So if you haven't seen us in the last 6 months, you should know that 1) we've crafted a completely new live show with a booming Rock n Soul sound; and 2) next Thursday will be the very last time to catch the band & horns for a very long time. Headlining Rockwood Stage 2 is a huge break in the music scene and I sincerely need your help to sell this baby out and send me off in style...

Danny Ross Rock n Soul Sendoff !!
@ Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2, 196 Allen St at Houston, NYC
Thursday January 19, 8pm Sharp
**ADVANCED TICKETS ONLY. BUY NOW! (Ahh)**

The handsome, newly-formed DR Street Team -- you know who you are-- asks that you take 30 seconds to: 1) Repost the FB event and tag me, Danny Ross (wink!) 2) Like the FB Official Danny Ross Page 3)Twitter-love me @dannyrossmusic 4) Invite a few semi-attractive friends, seriously. A sincere thanks folks for letting me ride on your shoulders from NYC to Boston, Philly and DC. Here's to the next step and a new year.

All the best,
D

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"Ross employs a horn section to deliver a blast of good-time, R. & B.-tinged rock and roll." - The New Yorker

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NBC // 20 New Songs Live Thurs Jan 19 @ Rockwood // Tickets On Sale Now

2012-01-05T14:37:00.000-08:00

Hey folks,

How are you? Ah, the refreshing thought of a new year. It feels good. Let's just vibe in that for a minute...

So let me explain exactly what's going on here in case we haven't shared an Old Fashioned lately. I've been nestled up in my brownstone apartment over the last six months crafting exactly 20 new hip-shakin songs for our indie label debut on Ammal Records (Details to come on how you can personally play recorder on the album). But before we track these 60s soul & rock n roll jams live in the studio next month with the full band and horns, we need your input to road-test these suckas. Catch "the best emerging live act in NYC" two weeks from today for an exclusive preview of our anticipated new record:

Danny Ross and the Millenials present... 20 New Songs Live*
@ Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2, 196 Allen St at Houston
Thursday January 19, 8pm Sharp
Share the Facebook Page (do it!) // *This show will sell out, please get Advanced Tickets now

As featured in NBC Nonstop Sound, many of you were unfortunately shut out at the door for last month's sold-out Mercury Lounge gig. Sounds like my love life in high school. BOOM. If you're even musing about the big night, you'll need to please buy tickets now.

Happy new year friends and all the best,
D

Danny Ross

"Danny Ross employs a horn section to deliver a blast of good-time, R. & B.-tinged rock and roll." - The New Yorker

"One Way showcases ambitious arrangements, eclectic songwriting and overall technical mastery" - American Songwriter

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The New Yorker // Saturday 8pm @ Mercury Lounge

2011-12-05T11:18:00.000-08:00

Hey folks,

How are you? Hope you weren't maliciously trampled on Black Friday... though I'll proudly admit to owning a Tickle Me Elmo. SO FUN!

Whenever we get a mention in the New Yorker, it's a big deal so today's a happy day (unlike Yom Kippur). I know how busy things get in the holiday season, so I really appreciate you coming out to see the huge rock n roll show Saturday night at Mercury Lounge with the full band and horns. It's an important gig for us and it personally means a lot to have you there and spreading the word to a few friends by forwarding this email or sharing the FB event. And please let me know if you want to help our Street Team prep for the show. We'll have a Santacon Afterparty, an onstage life-size Nativity Scene, and beats dropping like Pokeman references at a Herman Cain speech. BOOM.

#Dannyrossandhorns Occupy The Holidays, Live at Mercury Lounge
Saturday December 10, 8pm Sharp (Followed by The Shake)
@ Mercury Lounge, 217 E Houston St at Essex St - NYC
Facebook Event Page // *This show will sell out, please get advanced tickets

Hm what else... Surprisingly loved the movie Hugo though itching to get some Muppets action, caught docs on Frank Lloyd Wright and Lewis & Clark, vibing on "Reckoner" & "Bells of Rhymney". And later on this month we'll be playing a Holiday Jamboree to benefit NY CARES. Hope you're doing well friends and stay warm this holiday season.

All the best,
D

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#Press // Harrison Ford // Saturday Dec 10, 8pm @ Mercury Lounge

2011-11-22T11:45:00.000-08:00

Hey folks,

As I roll out of bed at noon, plop on the couch next to Maxwell Silver Hammer and bury my arm in an old box of Cheddar Chex Mix watching season two of Arrested Development, I can't help but contemplate the beauty and terror of complete freedom. I also wonder if there's any spicy hummus left in the fridge.

You should know I've been working soundly, composing new Beatlesque ditties for our indie label debut this Spring. And of course looking for new work since getting sacked by the US House of Representatives after five years. But I think in different ways we're all feeling sacked by the establishment we're inheriting. As Bobby Dylan says "Oh ev’ry foe that ever I faced/ The cause was there before we came/ And ev’ry cause that ever I fought/ I fought it full without regret or shame." The good news is that we're the most educated, innovative, optimistic, peaceful generation to ever emerge on the planet (watch some TED talks), and we sincerely understand humanistic moral values and its role in the marketplace, even if we're too obsessed with 80s culture.

I believe this issue is resonating so deeply because it's utterly non-partisan, and we see how quickly things can actually change - Mubarak in Egypt was overthrown in 18 days. So there's good reason to ignore the nonsense in Washington and the tabloid media, artificially creating divisions within us to increase readership and campaign contributions. None of it is real, but we are. So I marched across the Brooklyn Bridge (check out Image 4), and we had a hugely successful Laid Off Tour across the northeast. Now as a capstone to 2011, I invite you to join the full band and horns for a wild night of solidarity and 60s-influenced R&B, folk and old-school rock n roll...

#Dannyrossandhorns Occupy The Holidays, Live at Mercury Lounge
Saturday December 10, 8pm Sharp (Followed by The Shake)
@ Mercury Lounge, 217 E Houston St at Essex St
Facebook Event Page

*This show will sell out, please get advanced tickets

Happy Thanksgiving everybody, I <3 pecan pie. Take it easy, but take it.

All the best,
D

Danny Ross
"One Way showcases ambitious arrangements, eclectic songwriting and overall technical mastery" - American Songwriter
Have you heard One Way? Stream the entire album free at http://www.dannyrossmusic.com

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The Laid Off Tour Finale: Tonight in Washington

2011-11-04T06:28:00.000-07:00

Hey folks,

Over the past three weeks, from New York to Boston and now on my way to our nation's capital, I've been listening to people's stories, singing songs like this, and sharing my opinions with Washington's TBD, ASCAP Playback Magazine, Harvard Chronicle, DC Rocks, Cloture Club and more to come.

As it turns out, participating in a dialogue with you about losing my job and our broken system has opened a thousand doors that started with a closed one. And after we wrap up the Laid Off Tour tonight, there's nothing to do but find a new job (I'm not a bum) and keep on keepin on. After five years in the workplace, I understood the struggle to find meaning and humanity in the daily grind, subway rides and long days. To see light in the future while trying to pay rent and live up to the education we're all still paying for. To zoom out and take the long perspective about our short time on this place and what really matters through today's 24-hour culture.

The good news is that every day we can choose to inch our way toward the idealistic vision of ourselves and the world we walk in. We can choose to live without succumbing to an industrial complex that maximizes profit at the cost of our humanity by stressing self-reflection and communal understanding. That's the message I'll be pounding home in Washington tonight with our nine-piece band and horns, and I encourage everyone to do the same moving forward in our own unique way. If you got a sec, would love your help forwarding or posting the show today to friends in Washington...

#Dannyrossandhorns Occupy DC: The Laid Off Tour Finale
Friday November 4, 9pm Sharp
@ IOTA, 2832 Wilson Boulevard - Arlington VA
Orange Line to Clarendon // With BFF Justin Trawick
Facebook Event Page

I've also been nerding out to Ken Burns' Civil War series, hanging at Conan's gay wedding, and stuck in a snowstorm at Salem, MA for Halloween. Thanks again folks for all your support through this ordeal, and as Pete Seeger says, "Take it easy, but take it."

All the best,
D

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NY Daily News / #occupyCMJ Sat 7:30pm @The Living Room

2011-10-21T09:15:00.000-07:00

Hey folks,

I honestly wasn't expecting this much free beer, and I kindly accept. You should know that your overwhelming response to my recent job loss for a US Congressman led to these features in the NY Daily News (whose Elizabeth Olsen?), Forbes Magazine and an exclusive interview at Mp3.com. So a sincere thanks to you, and please continue the dialogue.

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I got into a great conversation with a friend last night. I can understand and respect a conservative, individualistic position - I worked for my dime, and I'm gonna keep it. I think what's being missed here is that people aren't successful on their own, whether we know it or not. We're nurtured by an infrastructure to rise up the economic ladder - our schools, our community, our government protections. Now, for the first time in our history, those who have benefited at the very, very top refuse to buy back into our collective system and it's cost us our middle class. One great point you've brought up is that even young people in the finance industry aren't immune from the one percent bubble. I'm not for equal distribution, I believe in self-responsibility. Yet what the "American Dream" really means is equal opportunity, and that's what's at stake. We could all use a little perspective.

I believe our faith in government has been lost because we're stripping paltry resources from the disenfranchised and those who need it most while millionaires enjoy tax breaks, deregulation and massive corporate profit on our own backs. Now that's "wasteful spending." You could argue that Obama's actually done very well within the existing framework having passed the most legislation since LBJ, but we gave him a mandate to transform the system itself. Now we'll have to revert to these Great Depression-era baby names.

I agree it doesn't help anyone that Zucatti Park looks like Shakedown Street at a Phish concert. But great movements don't start by focusing on legislative prescriptions. They start by individuals speaking up; policy comes later. So let's speak up loudly about the lack of equal opportunity, affecting us through student loans or starting a business. Let's speak loudly how the walls of access are too high. And let's show vigor through a renewed sense of idealism - our generation at least deserves a crack at it. I try to do so through playing the kid's rock n roll music with their complicated shoes, and I invite you to join us Saturday night at the CMJ Music Festival. And no matter where you stand, please continue the conversation on our FB page.

The DannyRoss Fall 2011 Laid Off Tour

OPENINGNIGHT: #Dannyrossandhorns Occupy CMJ (Official Showcase)
Saturday Oct 22 - 7:30pm Sharp
@ The Living Room, 154 Ludlow St at Stanton - NYC
FREE! // Facebook Event Page

#Dannyrossandhorns Occupy Boston
Sunday October 30, 8pm Sharp
@ TT The Bears, 10 Brookline St at Mass Ave - Cambridge, MA
With Sommerville Symphony Orkestar and Dave Crespo's After Party
Facebook Event Page

#Dannyrossandhorns Occupy DC
Friday November 4, 9pm Sharp
@ IOTA, 2832 Wilson Boulevard - Arlington VA
With BFF Justin Trawick to follow
Facebook Event Page

But seriously, there's another Olsen twin?

All the Best,
D

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How I Got Laid Off

2011-10-13T13:06:00.000-07:00

Hey folks,

Last week I was reluctantly let go from my position at a NYC Congressman's office after five years of service -- a position I held alongside the pursuit of music and ultimately lost from severe budget cuts. Now don't worry about me, I'm doing just fine, if only trying to wrap my head around how the men touting job creation just literally took mine away. In either case, at the age of twenty-seven, I find myself out of work. I now have no income stream, no savings, no benefits and loads of college debt. I'll have to figure how to pay rent, afford Hulu Plus to see the latest Parks and Rec, and provide generally for my Brooklyn household (girlfriend + cat). From the statistics alone I know almost every one of us on this 3,500+ list suffer from some version of this mess.

It's made worse in that I was given the built-in advantages for the modern global economy - a white male raised in a comfortable suburb with a world-class education. But something much broader is happening here. My friends who are passionate about law and medicine are spending years and small fortunes on graduate programs with little assurance of economic stability. My friends working as teachers, non-profit workers, public servants and social workers are lucky to survive while trying to do a very basic good. Entrepreneurs and small business owners are stonewalled by the mere financial barriers of entry. The price of access is too high to even begin. As my musician friends can attest, the costs to record and market an album, hire a band and play shows out of town are incomprehensible. I potentially have a very big opportunity to make a record with a label this winter, but it could bankrupt me. Unless, of course, Pitchfork decides I'm the harbinger of cool.

We're not class warriors, I too would like to be filthy rich. But it seems that unless we either work in financial services or have a tremendous amount of start-up capital and access, the walls of access right now to the American Dream are too high. I'm not here to make the substantial statistical case for unique economic inequality in our time. But I shouldn't have to spend the rest of my life paying for an education that won't guarantee any future stability. I shouldn't be forced to work in the finance sector in order to feel merely financially secure. I shouldn't have to wish I was born on the right side of the street in order to access the simplest form of equal opportunity that our parents did. Rags-to-riches stories have gone the way of the cassette tape.

Together, we have to remember that it's vocalizing our demands as a generation on Facebook and on the street that leads to political action, and not the other way around. Civil rights marchers couldn't wait around for JFK, and young people today can't wait around for Obama. So go post this clip with something snarky, it works all the time at Knicks games. Or do something else - buy an ice cream cake! I express my voice through our rock n roll band and horns, and ask you to join me. Let's Occupy the CMJ Festival for FREE next week in NYC, then Boston and Washington.

Announcing the DannyRoss 2011 Laid Off Tour

#Dannyrossandhorns Occupy CMJ (Official Showcase)
Saturday Oct 22 - 7:30pm Sharp
@ The Living Room, 154 Ludlow St at Stanton - NYC
FREE! // Facebook Event Page

#Dannyrossandhorns Occupy DC
Friday November 4, 9pm Sharp
@ IOTA, 2832 Wilson Boulevard - Arlington VA
With BFF Justin Trawick to follow
Facebook Event Page

Let's continue this conversation, please post your hilarious and articulate comments on my FB page. I'm unemployed and I literally have nothing else to do. I also have my CV prepared for interviews at your earliest convenience.

All the best,
D

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Gasp, Summer Finale?! Tues 9pm @ Living Room // Sat with Dave Mason

2011-07-21T09:24:00.000-07:00

Hey folks,

How are you? I'm schvitzing like a schvitz out here. It's so hot Lady Gaga left home the meat suit. It's so hot today I saw an Amish guy buying an air conditioner. Or as they say down south, it's hotter than a pair of sweat pants full of barbecue.

I have some bittersweet news friends, the band is wrapping up the summer. I know! But we have to decompress in Mantauk just like everyone else. So don't miss our Living Room Residency Finale on Tuesday night as we round out epically with some favorite artist friends. And before that, we open for rock god Dave Mason Saturday night at City Winery. This guy's a monster from the 60s and 70s, check his wiki page.

Danny Ross & the Deathly Hallows Living Room Residency Finale
Tuesday July 26, 9pm Sharp
@ The Living Room, 158 Ludlow St at Stanton, NYC
With Amy Regan 8pm, Sami Akbari 10pm, Ryan Tennis & Casey Alvarez 11pm
FREE! // Facebook Event Page

Danny Ross with Rock Legend Dave Mason
Saturday July 23, 8pm Sharp
@ City Winery, 155 Varick St at Vandam, NYC
Check us on the front page of http://www.citywinery.com

Special shout-out to DCers for showing up big last week. Thanks folks and see you at the soup kitchen!

- D

Got Homies in DC? // Tuesday 9pm NYC Living Room Residency

2011-07-14T12:25:00.000-07:00

Hey Folks,

How are you? I won't waste your time today with any Harry Potter nerdiness or uproarious cat videos. I respect you too much.

Friends, the full band and horns are playing our first-ever DC show at Iota this Sunday evening, and in order to headline Saturday nights there and big venues like Black Cat, I need your help to sell out the joint. Please help to spread the word to your District friends by forwarding this email or reposting/inviting folks to the All-American Facebook Event Page
And don't forget the 2nd night of our highly-prized NYC Living Room July Residency featuring high wire acts and sword swallowers. It's completely free and we've been asked to curate the shows with some of our favorite artists. Thanks again and see you on the Quidditch course.

Danny Ross and Band Patriotic DC Debut with Horns!
Sunday July 17, 8pm Sharp
@ Iota, 2832 Wilson Boulevard - Arlington VA // Orange Line to Clarendon
Facebook Event Page

Tyler Perry Presents The Danny Ross NYC Living Room Residency: Night 2
Tuesday July 19, 9pm Sharp
@ The Living Room, 158 Ludlow St at Stanton
With besties The Lesser Ghost 8pm, Sami Akbari 10pm and Katie Costello 11pm
FREE! // Facebook Event Page

- D

Tuesday 9pm - Living Room July Residency! // NBC & Huffington Post

2011-07-06T12:33:00.000-07:00

Hey Folks,

How are you? You'll be happy to hear I'm no longer the pastiest of white Brooklynites in this beautiful weather. Happy birthday America, and happy birthday to me! Yes I'm afraid I've reached the ripe age of 27 years, better known as the death knell of rock n roll.

So before I reach my tragic demise (how's that for incentive?) please join the band for a gig at our highly-prized Living Room July Residency. The three shows on Tuesdays 9pm sharp (July 12, 19 and 26) are completely free and each night will have Q&A and a unique theme. And we've been asked to curate the nights with some of our favorite artists, you can RSVP now at the Facebook Event Page.

The Danny Ross Living Room Residency - Opening Night!
This Week's Theme: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Alive
Tuesday July 12, 9pm Sharp
@ The Living Room, 158 Ludlow St at Stanton / F Train to 2nd Ave NYC
With besties Sami Akbari 10pm and Reuben Chess 11pm
FREE!

Check out our clip in this week's episode of NBC NY Nonstop's Jimmy Lloyd Songwriters Showcase. And someone must be drinking the Kool Aid cause they called us "virtuosic and Beatlesque" in our absurdest interview for the Huffington Post. Thanks much and please friends...pray for me.

- D

Danny Ross
"Gorgeous...Immaculately arranged...I hope this album becomes a breakaway hit" - CMJ

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Snap! Saturday 11pm @ Mercury Lounge with Horns // Press

2011-06-09T09:39:00.000-07:00

Hey Folks,

This is your official reminder that A) I literally don't know how to send pictures on Twitter -- btw I work for a different NY Congressman, and B) The 9-piece band and horns are back for our monster show of the summer. We only do this big rock gig every few months so dust off the platinum suits and keyboard ties, round up your entourage by Reposting the Facebook Event Page, bedazzle your pretty girlfriends and get ready to daance Saturday night. Our video feature in Daily Brink! and all the new press is after the jump (I always wanted to say that).

Danny Ross & the Saturday Night Band Headline Mercury Lounge
Saturday June 11, 11pm Sharp (w/ besties Mercury Landing at 12)
@ Mercury Lounge, 217 E Houston St at Essex
**If we sell out, we play Bowery Ballroom so please get tix now on our Ticketmaster Page!

"The 60s are making a comeback, and singer/songwriter Danny Ross' unique voice and style would have made John Lennon proud. A New York-based musician with a sound proportionate to his city’s size. What strikes us most about Ross is not that his songs have been featured on various television shows, but that his lighthearted sense of humor and kind determination are drawing as much attention as his talent." - The Daily Br!nk (With exclusive acoustic video of "Faultlines")

"Melding lyrical nakedness with ambitious arrangements and pure imagination, Danny Ross builds a sound that’s completely his own – and yet awfully familiar." - Best New Bands
"We asked our fellow young creative Brooklynites to spill the beans about how they're trying to make their dreams come true and where they think their lives will lead." - Overflow Magazine

Oh and our original musical staged last week was a big hit on Broadway, at least according to my parents. As always, your work as a footsoldier in the Ross Revolution does not go unnoticed. Atten-hut!

- D

Summer Spectacular -Sat June 11 @ Mercury Lounge // My B'way Musical

2011-05-31T12:58:00.000-07:00

Hey folks,

Now that we've plunged head-first into "Schvitz Summer" (Trademarked), I see you finally agree with my series of academic lectures that the government controls the weather. Very good. And of course Bin Laden's death was a hoax and we all died savagely on May 21st. It's a fact people.

More the reason to join me, Danny Ross of stage and screen, for an explosive live show with the 9-piece Saturday Night Band and Horns, brand new songs and an array of wild circus animals. Oh, and I composed a musical debuting on Broadway this Thursday night! It spans the entire range of human emotion in 10 minutes, but don't call me Sondheim. Seriously it's pronounced DAN-NY.

Danny Ross & the Saturday Night Band Headline Mercury Lounge
Saturday June 11, 11pm Sharp
@ Mercury Lounge, 217 E Houston St at Essex
*Hook a brother up and Re-Post the Facebook Event Page
*If we show big, we play Bowery Ballroom so please Get advanced tickets meow!

Danny Ross Wrote a Musical!
Thursday June 2, 6:30pm
@ Snapple Theater (Home of "The Fantasticks"), 1627 Broadway at 50th Street
Co-authored with playwright Anthony Hogrebe (Tony-Nominated for "Unicorns Unite!")
Info and Tickets

Thanks and make sure to hydrate, not carbonate. That may kill you.
- D

Video Premiere! // Boston Saturday & Philly Sunday! // Kittens!

2011-04-26T11:41:00.000-07:00

Hey folks,

How are you? I'm so good thanks. Recently when Donald Trump questioned my birth certificate, acclaimed Director Stu Weinstock shot gorgeous footage of the sunrise over NYC's Central Park, and I'm there too sporting dramatic facial expressions. Without further ado, here is your Music Video Premiere for Always On My Way.

And I hate to ask for your help but I'm only human folks, flesh and blood. Which reminds me, Happy Easter! The Danny Ross Mini-Tour Choo Choo is leaving the station for a triumphant Saturday return to Boston and our debut in sunny Philadelphia. If you could PRETTY PLEASE WITH CHERRIES 1) Invite your Boston and Philly friends to the FB events below and 2) 'Share' on your wall. World domination is only possible with your willingness to comply and follow blindly.

Live from Boston it's Saturday Night with Danny Ross and the MIT Horns
Saturday April 30, 9pm Sharp
@ Middle East, 480 Massachusetts Ave at Brookline St - Cambridge, MA
Facebook Event Page // Get tickets meow

Danny Ross Philly Debut @ Tin Angel!
Sunday May 1 - 7pm Doors, 8pm Hit
@ Tin Angel, 20 South 2nd St at Market St - Philadelphia, PA
ALL AGES // With besties Shwa, Casey Alvarez, Attia Taylor
Facebook Event Page // Get tickets meow

Thanks again, I literally heart you.
- D

VH1 Storytellers: Saturday 11 @ The Living Room // Motown Philly

2011-04-12T11:13:00.000-07:00

Hey folks,

What's the deal with this weather? First it's hot, then it's not so hot with the rain and the grey and the wet. Like a mushy Schimmel's knish. I am right or am I right.... But seriously, is I'm right? Not sure when I turned into a borscht-belt shoemaker but we can all agree, at least I'm not this guy. Speaking of drunk-dialing, come see my show!

Danny Ross: Storytellers
Saturday April 16, 11pm Sharp, FREE!
@ The Living Room, 154 Ludlow St at Stanton, NYC
* With besties The Lesser Ghost at 8pm
FB Event Page

As a respite from our usual break-your-neck rock n roll extravaganza, I'll be joined Saturday by strings, pedal-steel and guest singers for a VH1 Storytellers format evening of folk, complete with explanations of bad songs that need no explanation. I mentioned it's free.

And good news! Thanks to the huge support in beantown, we've graduated to a Saturday night slot @ Boston's Middle East April 30th 9pm. And the next night we're playing our Philly Debut @ The Tin Angel, Sunday May 1st 8pm. I call it the Danny Ross Mini-Tour Express: Choo Choo. I guess you could call it a little east coast fling.

A sheynem dank!
- D

MTV // Opening for Paula Cole? I Don't Wanna Wait...Tues 8pm @ City Winery

2011-03-21T14:32:00.000-07:00

Hey folks,

I must be having a Lilith Fair moment because not only did I chill with Lisa Loeb yesterday, but I'm opening for Dawson's Creek phenom Paula Cole Tuesday night with a solo set at the beautiful City Winery. Do Do Dooo Do Do Do. Seriously though, where did all the cowboys actually go? I'll ask backstage.

Save as Draft

Danny Ross Opening for Paula Cole at City Winery

Tuesday March 22, 8pm Sharp
@ City Winery, 155 Varick St at Vandam St - Soho NYC
1 to Houston St // ACE to Spring St

Tickets Here

Thanks gang and here's some new press!

Our song "Forgive Me Love" was featured on MTV's 16 and Pregnant (about 19:00) and Teen Mom, I guess that's my demographic, what the hell? Along with other tunes on the History Channel's American Pickers and E! News Live.
"Ross inherits a clear Beatles influence that runs through the tracks accompanied by touches of alt-country artists such as Ryan Adams and Wilco as well as ‘60s soul that coalesce into dynamic, lush piano-pop... One Way, with its eclectic nature, may just be his White Album, a pleasing presentation of a wide range of fine songwriting." -- Deli Magazine NYC Feature "Danny Ross: Pop Chameleon"
"It was clear that the crowd got into the music quickly and stayed with him from the opening number to the last song. Ross was interested in creating his own sound… He stayed true to his word, putting on quite a show and enjoying the hell out of it. Those who were there got to see what a delight it is to watch Ross, a hungry and talented artist, play his heart out on stage." Tufts Daily "Danny Ross Interview and Boston Concert Review"

- D

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"Gorgeous...Immaculately arranged...I Hope this album becomes a breakaway hit" - CMJ

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Saturday 11pm - Headlining Mercury Lounge for Live Album Recording [in 3D]

2011-02-22T10:48:00.001-08:00

Hey folks,

I'm gonna be perfectly honest with you here. I'm a little sleepy. You're right, I celebrated National Pancake Week with a little too much gusto this year, and it didn't help that I was simultaneously engineering the Carmelo Anthony trade. But what I'm truly exhausted from is preparing the most stimulating night of sight and sound since Rick Moranis wowed America with "Suddenly Seymour."

That's right, we're recording a live album Saturday night at NYC's legendary Mercury Lounge with the nine-piece band and horns! Look for Steven Segal on bass. And I'm asking the audience to record the music video on your cell phones and Flip Cams. Hear yourself "Woooo" in real time audio...

Danny Ross and the Saturday Night Band Live Album Recording @ Mercury Lounge!

Saturday February 26, 11pm Sharp// Followed by high school bandmates Mercury Landing~

@ Mercury Lounge, 217 Houston St at Essex NYC
* This show will likely sell out, please get Advanced Tickets Here.

We want this record to be on par with 1986's ABBA Live. So, as I've been telling friends, I hate to ask for the help but it's a huge show (and album) for me and it would mean the world if you could help pack the place by bringing a few close BFFs. You can click "Select Guests to Invite" on the left or 'Share' on top of our Shmancy FB Event Page. Thanks again guys, see you at the spot.

- D

PS - And thanks Boston for packing the Middle East last week, snarky videos to come. Because of you we'll be headlining a Saturday night in the very near future. DC and Philly, you're next. MUHAHAHA

Do You uhh Have Friends in uhh Boston? // Live Album Show Sat Feb 26 at Mercury Lounge!

2011-02-09T10:09:00.000-08:00

Hey folks,

How's stuff and things? First off, we're playing our Boston debut this Sunday night 8pm at the famous Middle East. To prepare, I'm dusting off my copy of With Honors and priceless footage of Boston Terriers. I should also hide my "Patriots and Red Sox are Inferior Teams" coffee mug. Yikes.

Do you have a few close friends in beantown? It's our first out-of-town show ever at a major venue and I only know a handful of folks out there. I hate to ask for your help and want to thank you in advance, but would you mind quickly forwarding this email or inviting them via our FB Event Page?

And secondly, we're capping off the winter with our BIGGEST NYC SHOW EVER. In fact, it's so big we're recording it for a live album to be released this summer, and I want you to bring your mobile devices and Flip Cams to shoot the video for us. The full band and horns, new songs, all the hits and the Rockettes? This show will sell out so please get Advanced Tickets Here.

Danny Ross and the Saturday Night Band Live Album Show @ Mercury Lounge!

Saturday February 26, 11pm Sharp
@ Mercury Lounge, 217 Houston St at Essex // Followed by old friends Mercury Landing

Thanks, and hit me back with a good opening line for the Boston crowd. Winner gets my hancock on a printer read-out of the Declaration of Independence (and a free shirt). All the best.

- D

Danny Ross
"A virtuoso artist... One Way is a tour de force." - Racket Magazine

Have you heard One Way? Stream the entire album free at http://www.dannyrossmusic.com
Danny Ross iTunes Store

Saturday 8pm @ Rockwood Stage 2 // Duet with David Bowie

2011-01-20T10:50:00.000-08:00

Hey folks,

What the hell. Why is everyone getting sick this time of year. And by everyone I mean me. I know what you're thinking: "But Danny, you're like Superman, or more like that nerdy jewish guy in the Green Hornet. You should be healthy as a clam." Now folks, I don't claim to know the immune systems of most shell fish - only Rocky Mountain Oysters (props midwesterners!). But I do know three things: 1) How to write three bitchin new songs for the Saturday Night Band and 2) How to put on a rock n roll show to make you drop out of law school and wish you never heard of tort reform. Just don't join the mob.

Danny Ross and Band Wreck Rockwood Stage 2
Saturday January 22, 8pm Sharp
@ Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2, 196 Allen St at Houston St - LES
Rsvp now at FB Event Page
FREE!

Thankfully I'm back to full health so we'll be back back in Cali Cali. See you for our debut gig at this beautiful new masterpiece venue the Rockwood folks put together. And what's that? The third thing I know? Karate. I have a white belt in karate.

- D

PS - I know Rex is keeping his mouth shut for those reverent classy Steelers, but I have no such hesitation. Those yellow towels really are terrible, hardly absorb anything. Try Bounty, the quilted quicker picker-upper... Nailed em, go Jets!

2011 Heaven // Saturday Jan 22nd 8pm, Rockwood Stage 2

2011-01-12T13:26:00.001-08:00

Hey folks,

Happy new year old friends and fellow foot-soldiers of the Ross Revolution. Since we last spoke in December, I played backgammon with Mike Bloomberg as Brooklyn was irrevocably destroyed by blizzard, directed a foot fetish video with Rex Ryan's wife, and wept with John Boehner as he took this oversized mallet. (Insert "Compensating much?" joke here)

Oh, and you scrappy mothers raised an army of 800 unique voters to name us Deli Magazine's Artist of the Month and be on their year-end list of top NYC bands. Thank you guys and dolls, you'll see below we'll need you even more in 2011 to achieve Pinky and The Brain-style world domination. In the meantime, our famous Saturday night Band opens the year with a huge debut gig at everyone's favorite new venue featuring world premiere songs. And it's free homie gee!

Danny Ross and Band Wreck Rockwood Stage 2
Saturday January 22, 8pm Sharp
@ Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2
196 Allen St at Houston St
FREE! Rsvp now at FB Event Page

What will 2011 bring? To start, our first gigs in Boston (Save the Date! Middle East 2/13), Philly and DC, the SXSW Music Festival, a new album and more TV in the pike, and Producing/ Arranging for my favorite NYC artists. And if you like The Beatles (Hi, I'm Earth) and you like ukulele, come see me open for Ben Kweller and Nellie McKay @ Brooklyn Bowl this Saturday night 1/15 8pm. Here's a cut we made of "Baby's in Black" a few months back. Catch ya later, crocodile.

- D

Danny Ross
"Gorgeous...Immaculately arranged...I hope this album becomes a breakaway hit." - CMJ

Have you heard One Way? Stream the entire album free at http://www.dannyrossmusic.com
Danny Ross iTunes Store

To contact or unsubscribe please email danny@dannyrossmusic.com

A Reasoned Case for Arriving Late at Your Holiday Party to See Saturday's Big Show

2010-12-03T09:31:00.000-08:00

1. Show's at 9. You can probably still get there at 10:30, which is a pretty standard arrival time for a party in New York. They'll still have latkes, though applesauce is questionable.

2. This one''s gonna be really really good. This ain't no disco. 9 piece Rock n roll band and horn section. We only only do it once in a blue moon and playing brand new songs for you regulars. And we even rehearsed!

3. All thanks to you, we just won NYC Deli Magazine Artist of the Month. Check it: http://nyc.thedelimagazine.com/node/3754

4. Mercury Lounge Saturday Night Headline is always a very big deal. We don't want to go back to playing strip clubs in Jersey.

Holiday Explosion with the Danny Ross Orchestra
Saturday December 4, 9pm Sharp
@ Mercury Lounge, 217 Houston at Essex St./ F Train to 2nd Ave
Tickets: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0000455694EC52DD?artistid=1496148&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1

I was never on the Debate Team, but I have to admit that these points would destroy in the Contemporaneous category. Thanks again folks and Happy Holidays.
D

Saturday 9pm @ Mercury Lounge // Last Day of Deli Vote (And it's Tight!)

2010-11-30T10:57:00.000-08:00

Hey folks,

How are you? Okay, here's the scoop. Last week I told you we were nominated for Deli Magazine's NYC Artist of the Month. You came forward with a record 600 votes, and made a certain someone feel very thankful for the holidays (Mainly this guy). However, with the vote ending at midnight tonight, I discovered our greatest competitor is a Danish Major Label pop star and has her Scandinavian cohorts fighting to the bloody death D2: Mighty Ducks style. If my name isn't Gordon Bombay, for one day only please...

Vote Danny Ross at home/ on your phone/ share on FB: http://nyc.thedelimagazine.com/snacks

And then to celebrate our impending gazillion point victory, the full band and horns will be headlining our biggest show yet, debuting brand new songs Saturday night 9pm at NYC's legendary Mercury Lounge. Nice and early too, so you can still hit your boss's Holiday Party and pretend to have a good time. Thanks again gang, shoot me an email when you vote and catch me up on the haps. And find all the details on our FB Event Page

Danny Ross and Band Headlining Mercury Lounge
Saturday December 4, 9pm Sharp
@ Mercury Lounge, 217 Houston at Essex St. (F Train to 2nd Ave.)
*This show will likely sell out. Please be safe and buy tickets now at our Shmancy Ticketmaster Page

- D

30 Seconds to Hook a Brother Up Before Turkey Day

2010-11-24T09:56:00.000-08:00

Hey folks,

Wrapping up your work-week already? Thanksgiving is freaking nice. Hate to email so close in succession, but we're nominated for Deli Magazine's Artist of the Month. It's a pretty big deal so please take 30 seconds and...

Vote for Danny Ross at http://nyc.thedelimagazine.com/snacks

We're in 2nd place right now. We're gonna win this damn thing, so please spread it around and help out. You can't vote more than once on an IP address, but you can vote from your phone if it's giving you trouble. Let's do this, uhhh! And while we're here, you might want to snag tickets to...

Holiday Explosion with the Danny Ross Orchestra!
Saturday December 4, 9pm Sharp / Facebook Event Page
@ Mercury Lounge, 217 Houston at Essex St. (F Train to 2nd Ave.)

...our huge headlining Mercury show before they sell out next Saturday night with the 9-piece band and horns. Thanks as always gang. Have a light, healthy weekend filled with vegetables and quiche.

- D

Ah, Holiday Explosion!! - Mercury Lounge Saturday Dec 4, 9pm

2010-11-18T12:38:00.000-08:00

Hey folks,

How are you? It's been about a month since our last encounter. Since then, Team Coco triumphantly returned, the Dems lost the House to former cast members of the Real World, and I lost my only chance at becoming a princess. Damn it William, that ring was made for my delicate fingers.

But as we approach pie-eating season (pecan / pumpkin lovers holler at me), we all know it's time for the 1st Annual Holiday Explosion with the Danny Ross Orchestra! Live from Mercury Lounge, expect live reindeer, film and television's Bob Newhart with the meaning of Christmas spirit, the world-famous human dreidel, and a Kwanzaa spiritual sung by Lady Black Mambazo. Thanks folks, it's a huge show for us headlining Mercury once again and we need you more than ever to support these absurd rock n roll pipe dreams. Despite some technical difficulty, here's the official Facebook Event Page.

Holiday Explosion with the Danny Ross Orchestra - Live at Mercury Lounge!
Saturday December 4, 9pm Sharp
@ Mercury Lounge, 217 Houston at Essex St. (F Train to 2nd Ave.)
*This show will likely sell out. Please be safe and buy tickets now

And now for your entertainment, Bristol Palin and The Situation discuss abstinence.

- D

CMJ = Charismatic. Masculine. Jewish. // Thursday 7pm @ Rockwood (and Friday!)

2010-10-21T11:23:00.000-07:00

Hey folks,

"Rent is too damn high" - so here's a friendly reminder that the band will be playing our first shows ever at the prestigious CMJ Music Marathon, and they free! Thursday is the big official party with the full band, but if you can't make it try our acoustic showcase on Friday. Here are all the deets, and please take a millisecond to click "Share" at the top of our Nifty Facebook Event Page.

Danny Ross CMJ Showcase Official Party (Full Band)
Thursday October 21, 7pm sharp
@ Rockwood Music Hall (Stage 1), 196 Allen St at Houston
FREE!

Danny Ross CMJ Showcase (Acoustic)
Friday October 22, 9:30pm sharp
@ The Living Room (upstairs) - 158 Ludlow St at Stanton
FREE!

Thanks gang, and here's a cat eating a banana.

- D

MTV // Live at The CMJ Music Festival - 10/21 Rockwood (Party!), 10/22 Living Room

2010-10-14T12:15:00.001-07:00

Hey folks,

How are you? Well, I suppose things are going pretty well if you're a Jets fan (it's only been 40 years) and/or a Chilean miner, probably not so hot if you're a Democrat and/or Mark Zuckerberg. At least he can buy happiness, and maybe finally get himself a girlfriend.

Good news here! We've been selected to play the 2010 CMJ Music Marathon. Thursday is the big gig at Rockwood, but if you can't swing it try our acoustic showcase on Friday, both free. Much like the SXSW Festival we played in Austin, CMJ features the best upcoming bands from around the world taking over Lower East Side venues as industry bloodsuckers salivate in their footsteps (Just kidding industry friends, but seriously, get us a sneaker endorsement).

Danny Ross and Band Official CMJ Showcase Party
Thursday October 21, 7pm sharp
@ Rockwood Music Hall (Stage 1), 196 Allen St at Houston
FREE!

Danny Ross Acoustic CMJ Showcase
Friday October 22, 9:30pm sharp
@ The Living Room (upstairs) - 158 Ludlow St at Stanton
FREE!

Oh, and "Forgive Me Love" was featured on this week's MTV"s Teen Mom (Click to 22:49). I always said this was baby-making music. And check out our radio debut today on WNYU's Jingle Jangle Morning Show (Click halfway through for full interview). Later gang!

- D

Danny Ross
"Gorgeous...Immaculately arranged...I hope this album becomes a breakaway hit." - CMJ

Have you heard One Way? Stream the entire album now and pay what you want at http://www.dannyrossmusic.com or at the Danny Ross iTunes Store

Info for Saturday @ Mercury Lounge; New Press!

2010-09-24T09:54:00.000-07:00

Hey folks,

How are you? If you still haven't made up your mind about coming out to Saturday's big show with our famous 9-piece band and horn section, perhaps Katy Perry's 'bust' on Seasame Street or these UN Protesters will steer you clear of the city night and lead you to the warm shelter of friends, booze and rock n roll. Ah, New York...

If you bought tickets online, please don't forget to shout "DANNY ROSS!" at the door - the elderly woman is hard of hearing, poor thing. And today is the last chance to buy tickets online, I can't make any guarantees about getting in tomorrow so be safe and head now to our shmancy page at Ticketmaster.

Danny Ross and Band Headlining Mercury Lounge

Saturday September 25th - 11pm Sharp (on the dot!)

With alt-country stars The Ramblers at 12
@ 217 East Houston Street at Essex
Facebook Event Page

And, as many of you know, we just started a Gangsta Street Team, let me know if you want in. For example, I could use some help collecting emails at the show tomorrow from some attractive co-eds. (By my lawyers request, that was not innuendo. This an Equal Opportunity position) Thanks and here's some new press!

"Ross' ambitious masterstroke One Way is a collection of gorgeous compositions…and set Ross on a path that led him from the St. Mark’s Church to the Living Room to SXSW to Rockwood Music Hall to Pianos, where he was granted a residency… And on Saturday night, he headlines a show at NYC’s prestigious Mercury Lounge, by a long shot the biggest one. Ross is now fully drenched in music accolades ..." - Read Kurt Orzeck's Feature now at The Bad Penny.
"After listening to the complexities of One Way, the vibrant imagery, the grand story arc...Ross has an impressive encyclopedic knowledge and appreciation fueling his writing. Perhaps that is the reason he was able to successfully take on such a monumental project on his first attempt." - Read Allen Foster's Feature now (p18) in Songwriter's Monthly

- D

Aww Yeah. Headlining NYC's Mercury Lounge Sat 9/25, 11pm

2010-09-14T11:24:00.000-07:00

Hey folks,

Well, it's the one we've all been waiting for (and I'm not talking about the Jets season apparently, or Lady Gaga's meat dress): It's a headlining Saturday night slot at NYC's legendary Mercury Lounge! Joined by a 9-piece Band and Horn Section with brand new songs, it's by far the biggest show we've ever played. I mean, damn.

If you remember it took 9 long months to get a lousy Tuesday slot there, but in a miraculous call to action you sold out the dang place. Now, once again, like a bad Eminem song, we've got one shot to prove we're headliners. You've trudged through 100 gigs (and cat tv gameshow) over the last few years to lead us here. Ladies and Gents, once again I'm asking for your help. Let's show em that Bowery Ballroom is next and ratchet up 100 rsvps on the handsome facebook page, or it's back to bar mitzvahs on Staten Island.

Danny Ross and Band Literally Destroying The Mercury Lounge:
Saturday September 25th - 11:00pm Sharp
With our besties, alt-country stars The Ramblers at 12
@ 217 East Houston Street at Essex

** This show will likely sell out, please be safe and buy tickets now at the, gulp, Official Danny Ross Ticketmaster Page**

And tell you what, bring 3 friends I'll buy you a whiskey - that's the kind of guy I am. And check out this new review of us in American Songwriter Magazine in newsstands now: "Ross’ sophomore effort One Way, with its particular mix of horn-driven rave-ups sprinkled with steel-driven country ballads showcases ambitious arrangements, eclectic songwriting and overall technical mastery." Adios muchachos!

- D

Me and Max on Animal Planet, 7pm Saturday

2010-08-26T12:06:00.001-07:00

Hey folks,

Soo if I didn't tell you about this already, my cat Max is a rockstar, but now he and I will be bonafide celebrities as we make our cable TV debut on the series premiere of Pet-O-Rama, a new game-show by the creators of Pop-Up Video. Check out the trailer here, and see the episode live this Saturday 8/28 7pm on Animal Planet as me and my best friend Maxwell Silver Hammer compete against some vicious kitten-mittens. Set those DVRs...

Oh and I also have this music thing happening too. Some things to look out for in the fall:

Headlining Mercury Lounge Saturday September 25, 11pm with our friends The Ramblers. Our biggest show probably ever, you know you made it big when you're on ticketmaster
Playing NYC's legendary CMJ Music Festival for the first time in October
Booking a Northeast Fall Tour in Boston, DC and Philly. Never done this before(!) so hit me up if you live there

And lots of other crap -- summering in Tel Aviv, my brosef Jared getting engaged -- but we'll catch up after Labor Day over lobster rolls. Enjoy the summer before global warming decides to go on hiatus again (make up your damn mind!) and catch you later gator.

- D

It's Boss Time. "Jersey Shore" Tuesday 9pm @ Pianos - Summer Finale

2010-07-26T10:44:00.001-07:00

Hey folks,

Oh hell. It's the moment we've all been waiting for. The senate passed a climate change bill? Well, no. Figured out exactly what went down in Inception? Yeah me neither. Ace of Base reunion tour? You're thinking of that Lady Gaga song, but you knock on wood right now for those Swedish godsends to return.

What time is it? It's Boss Time, son. Featured in Deli Mag NYC, the Danny Ross Pianos Residency makes its last stop Tuesday night on E Street for a Jersey Shore themed night full of hot abs, saltwater taffy and a whole lot of Bruce, along with our original rock n roll repertoire. It's the band's last gig of the summer so don't miss a second of it you beautiful man. Dressing up is encouraged, cause I'll be looking like this.

Danny Ross and Band Pianos Residency Finale: Jersey Shore

Tuesday July 27 - 9pm sharp
@ Pianos, 158 Ludlow St at Stanton/ F Train to 2nd Ave
With friends Sasha Papernik at 7pm and Luke Wesley at 8pm
Facebook Event Page

Note the time change to 9pm - we start Brucing 9 on the dot so don't be a late Snookie. And remember, bring 3 friends and I'll buy you a whiskey. Further jokes about garbage dumps, the New York Giants and decrepit casino-towns to be expected. See ya at the situation...

- D

A Residency You Reckon? "Nashville Skyline" - Tues 8pm @ Pianos

2010-07-19T09:46:00.000-07:00

Why howdy folks,

Sure is nice to share another post with y'all. I reckon you weren't too heated by this putrid humidity. Then again, you liberal yanks are used to a bunch of hot air. Zing! Featured in Deli Mag NYC, our 5-piece combo is swinging by the big city to provide you with the highest quality entertainment this Tuesday night at 8pm for our Pianos Residency. With a "Nashville Skyline" theme, covers of Bob Dylan and Steve Earle, and my newest set of chaps, why, it's sure to be better than a monkey at the rodeo.

Danny Ross and Band July Residency Night 2 @ Pianos
Tuesday July 20 - 8pm sharp
@ Pianos, 158 Ludlow St at Stanton/ F Train to 2nd Ave
With our friends The Lesser Ghost at 7pm
Facebook Event Page

And remember....
1) Bring 3 friends and I'll buy you a whiskey 2) Come to all 3 shows and you'll get the official DR Groupie Package with a free Bar Mitzvah Shirt, the new album One Way and a personalized love note 3) Our big finale next Tuesday July 27 is "Jersey Shore" with covers of Bruce, so tan up and start hitting the gym bro. See ya at the hootenanny.

- D

6/15 Tuesday Musings - Born in the USA, Marissa Tomei, Israel Sendoff at Rockwood, Crazy Heart, Hoo-ha!

2010-06-14T14:55:00.001-07:00

Umbrellas work better than ponchos...

Hey folks, here are a few thoughts this week:

- I saw "Memphis" won best musical, which I thought was a major bummer because the second act was as good as....well, it was bad. Very, very bad. Any mass commercial statement about rock n roll is bound to not be very rock n roll. That's the problem when the establishment embraces a rebellious movement. Didn't say "Fela!" yet, but I'm sure it's badass.

- Playing with famed cellist Ward Ward Williams for a special piano-string set Wednesday night for the monthly series "Songwriter's Beat" with Val Ghent. It's great to revisit those One Way string arrangements I wrote over 2 years ago, which I rarely get to do. 8:30 Wed @ Cornelia Street Cafe. Facebook Event Page

- Upstairs in an unsuspecting building in Alphabet City, I discovered through my buddy Steve Alleyne a state-of-the-art recording studio called Flux Studios (check out their client list), which was hosting a live recorded concert series featuring some friends last Tuesday, Casey Shea and Wes Hutchinson. Their rooftop was hella cool.

- Friday night at Bar 4 in Park Slope, home to the singer-songwriters collective Local Correspondents, we all covered each other. We did this maneuver back when I hosted the series "A Case of the Mondays with Danny Ross" in 2009. But this time around I covered Debbie Miller's "Tippy Toe," which was a dead serious folk interpretation to contrast Debbie's witty and humorous commentary on pursuing a relationship. (I need to start filming these things)

- Finally got around to seeing "Crazy Heart," which I thought was crazy good. I assumed Jeff Bridges' performance would be great, but that the movie, helmed by a first-time actor turned director, wouldn't be memorable. I was wrong. For a movie about music, it had a very quiet undertone that allowed you to pick up on the character's subtle flaws. After 2 hours, you can't help but want to spend more time with this guy and hear more of his songs, which were all great btw (Damn you T Bone Burnett!). Nice job Collin Farrell playing a country superstar btw.

- My neck hurts from staring at the screen all day, and then wearing a backpack everywhere else. I need more ergonomic-friendly devices in my life.

- Still in the grips of my 700 page Bruce Springsteen biography. Something I'm remembering from studying him is to sing every song, play every show, live every moment like your life depends on it. Of course that's hard to do when you have a comfortable dayjob, come from a comfortable background, and you're life literally doesn't depend on it. Finding that urgency is hard with a safety net, but I'm determined to do it.

- I had been avoiding "Born in the USA," because it was the point where Bruce went from young, hip rockstar with romantic visions of America and rock n roll (ie "Born to Run") to the world's favorite working class hero gone synth-crazy in the Reagan era. I think my fears were justified by this video or this video. However, whether addressing hometown nostalgia or the average American joe, the songs are just so damn good. Absolutely lovin it.

- Also loving the song "Guitar Town" by Steve Earle. The lyrics are a grand slam. Check it out.

- Went with Dani to the premiere of the new movie "Cyrus" at BAM. With Marissa Tomei (lookin goooood), John C Reilly and the directors the Duplass brothers. I hadn't seen any of their "mumblecore"movies, "The Puffy Chair" and "Baghead," but I fell in love with this one. Again a quiet, realistic, hilarious vision of a relationship between a man, a woman, and her son. The acting was great, go see it.

- I spent Saturday afternoon in Propect Heights with my British friend Ste watching the World Cup game. They closed down Vanderbilt Street and had a street fair with a giant inflatable television. Great game, and hilarious hearing people making discriminatory remarks about King George. Way to bring back some good old fashioned American Revolution humor.

- Hoo-ha. Was also fortunate enough to attend Shakespeare in the Park premiere Saturday night, featuring Al Pacino in "The Merchant of Venice." The show was insanely good and the acting was instense. The characters were obviously anti-semetic, but we had a large discussion on whether or not Shakespeare and the play itself is anti-semetic. I argued no and point to this article. Anyone know more about this? Also Chevy Chase was there, being hammy and hilarious, like he is in the way underrated show "Community." I would like to read more Shakespeare, but it's so hard to pursue these intellectual extra-curricular activities when you're pushing a career.

- Here's a great show I'm going to Sunday night after Father's Day celebrations hosted by Jimmy Lloyd, famous for his television show on songwriters. Come join me at the Highline.

- I'm preparing for my Birthright trip to Israel next week. I'll be blogging the whole thing, but help me celebrate for a big farewell show Friday night 11 at Rockwood. My friend Mira Stroika will strike up the mood by joining the band with her beautiful singing and accordian playing. Facebook Event Page

6/7 Weekend Roundup

2010-06-07T11:40:00.000-07:00

Here are a few thoughts from the weekend:

- Watched "West Side Story" for the first time. Thought everything about it was amazing - I expected the music and dancing to be great but was surprised how killing the directing and cinematography was. However I don't buy how quickly Maria forgives Tony for killing her brother - I mean what the hell? She didn't care at all. She's a terrible sister.

- Thanks to everyone for selling out our first show at Mercury Lounge! There were 100 people there. Hopefully this leads to bigger and better shows. Playing Rockwood next Friday 6/18 11pm.

- Caught friends Dan Hodapp and Ben Mauk as part of the group Reverse 5 give a hilarious improv show Saturday night. Then ran to see "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" at the Public Theatre. It was a retelling of Andrew Jackson's life through shitty emo music. Hilarious, go see it before it closes.

- Mexican brunch, how do you do it?

- Caught a performance of Twelfth Night and forced myself to pay close attention through the 2 hours. It made me realize how hard it is for me normally to sit still. Can I blame the digital age? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html?th&emc=th

- Got heavy into Paul Simon this week - "Ryhthm of the Saints" and "Paul Simon." That guy manages to be poetic, earnest, musical and unique in everything he does. I'm jealous. Really enjoyed the first Antony and the Johnsons album. His vibrato voice stands out so much, but I was finally able to appreciate the songwriting and production. Also listened to more live Bruce albums, trying to study his stage techniques. The guy's rediculous.

- Music nerds: Having trouble understanding the need for species counterpoint exercises. So many rules, can't I just write harmonies by ear?

- We saw a lifesize Winnie the Pooh costume at a yardsale. I truly regret not getting it.

- Aziz Ansari is the man. Matt Damon is cooler than he's given credit for.

- My friend John took me to a Catholic Mass at St. Paul's Cathedral on the Upper West Side. Beautiful place and beautiful service.

- I'm heading to Israel for Birthright in 2 weeks. In case you were wondering, I am indeed a member of the ancient Cohenim tribe, aka direct decsendent of Moses brother, Aaron and perhaps... Jesus? Booya. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/israel/familycohanim.html

5/27 Thursday Thespian

2010-05-27T07:44:00.000-07:00

Here's a weekly roundup and some arbitrary thoughts:

- Rehearsed for the big show at Mercury on Tuesday June 1st with the guys. So psyched to whip out the electric on an unsuspecting crowd. I suppose now you're suspecting.

- Played a Cornell Music Showcase @ The Living Room Tuesday night with cellist Ward Williams and guitarist Carl Basler. So nice to hear those string arrangements written over 2 years ago. The other wonderful Cornellian musicians included: Jennie Grauer, Cheryl Engelhardt, The Crooners. Followed by delicious burritos at San Loco (Didn't end up well for some in our party).

- Updated my One-Page with a short bio and quotes

- Enjoyed shows this week by Shwa @ Mercury Lounge, Casey Shea @ Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 (which is awesome), Wakey Wakey @ Bowery Ballroom, Misty Boyce, Chris Cubeta & The Liars Club @The Living Room, Sarah Renfro & Maz @ Spike Hill

- Saw the movie "The Invention of Lying" with Ricky Gervais. Thought the concept was creative and could have been a really moving, thought-provoking piece, but ended up saccharine crap. Had real potential though.

- If you're in the Park Slope area, we had an amazing culinary evening at the new Thistle Hill on 7th/16th preceded by ridiculous drinks at Beer Table next door. Go to those places.

- In my continuing quest to listen to my ipod alphabetical by album, absorbed the Magnetic Fields "I" and Yo La Tengo's "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass." I really enjoy the Fields' use of pop melodies with classical instrumentation and Stephen Merit's witty lyrics and deep baritone voice. Though at times the effect can be too much. Can't say enough good things about Yo La Tengo, also don't know how to describe them at all. Pretty amazing record.

- What the hell oil spill. I feel like Obama's not doing enough somehow.

- I guess nobody cares who won American Idol this year.

- Does Bret Michaels really deserve all this new attention? And the SATC movie looks God awful. Why ladies are you buying advanced tix to this with your girlfriends?

- Speaking of not caring, I find myself indifferent about these Facebook privacy issues. Is that really naive?

- News commentators: Just because NYC got the Super Bowl doesn't mean the Jets will be in it. Newsflash, it's been 40 years. Ouch, that stings. Oh and this: "Yeah Bon Jovi is playing like 18 shows at the new Giants Stadium. It's like christening something with a Coors Light" - Carl

5/19 Wednesday Whispers

2010-05-19T08:13:00.000-07:00

Here are a few thoughts this week...

- Was reading Beck's lyrics for Modern Guilt from the album insert, and they're beautifully dark and poetic. But played up against the electronic feel of the music, I feel some of that abstract darkness is lost to his musical eccentricities. Funny thing putting words and music together...

- Also spent time listening to Dylan's "Bringing It All Back Home" and Radiohead's "In Rainbows" and random find, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's "Howl' And in my quest to listen to all my music alphabetical by album, I listened to U2's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" which I found surprisingly musically engaging but often lyrically hackneyed.

- If anyone caught Andy Samberg's musical-number video on last week's SNL, it was priceless. Otherwise I thought Tom Petty was disappointing and the episode was generally lousy. I also (apparently alone on this) thought that Bowersox' version of "Maybe I'm Amazed" last night was crappy. Am I a curmudgeon?

- I don't watch Lost, heard it was great but that it all leads to nothing. Is it true??

- Arlen Spector is 80. Was it really worth all the trouble of switching parties to run again and then lose anyway? Move to Florida.

- My thoughts on today's political climate: "Ain't no party like my nanna's tea party." - Flight of the Conchords

- This is really interesting.

- Is BP purposefully trying to look terrible?

- Thanks to those who came out to Bar4 last week, fun show. After 9 months of trying, hello Mercury Lounge!! - June 1st ....And fun hanging for Arthur's birthday at Mission Delores, heading back Saturday to say goodbye to Kailin. By the way, Minneapolis is really cold.

- Gig Report: Thursday night checking Casey Shea @ Rockwood at 8, Shwa @ Mecury at 9, Wakey Wakey @ Bowery Ballroom at 10. Friday night Quintus @ Rockwood at midnight.

- Note to self: Keep better track of where I am in Prospect Park so I don't get lost all the time.

5/12/10 Wedenesday Wistfulness

2010-05-12T08:52:00.000-07:00

Couple of thoughts pop in my head this week:

- Why does May feel like March? I'm cold.

- What the hell Oil Spill? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/opinion/03krugman.html?th&emc=th

- Parliamentary elections are confusing.

- Judge Kagan seems like a safe bet. But is this a generation of living too cautiously to get ahead? Maybe I should stop writing a blog then. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/opinion/11brooks.html

- For some reason late 60s/ early 70s classic guitar rock is only now making its way into my life. Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy," The Who's "Who's Next," Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon." Maybe its because I know what it take to make a record now, or maybe because I can call myself a guitar player for the first time, but this is genius stuff.

- TV Shows I'm currently addicted to: 30 Rock, Community (most underrated), Parks & Recreation (2nd most underrated), Modern Family, Classic Albums (VH1 Classic), American Experience (PBS), Always Sunny In Phillly repeats, Betty White SNL, the last 2 episodes of Family Guy

- Finished a bio on Duke Ellington. Interesting how you can be engrossed in reading about someone's music without really hearing any of it. Starting a Springsteen bio now, I have his whole discography.

- Music Nerds: Learning species counterpoint is hard. So are Bach's piano inventions.

- Caught excellent shows by two very good friends at The Living Room this week. Amy Regan and Debbie Miller. Also congrats Matt Robbins on an awesome concert to conclude your piano master at Manhattan School of Music.

- * Danny's Final Thought*

I finally got around to seeing the Coen Brothers movie "A Serious Man." I heard there was some controversy in the Jewish community about its depiction of Jews. There were even some arguments in my own extended family. I tended to stay away from the movie initially because they have a reputation of not being very respectful of their own Jewish upbringing - I of course don't know them personally, and I don't exactly go to synagogue as often as one should, so I found no reason to judge, and I saw it. And I thought it was great.

I felt the heart of the movie was not about Judaism at all, but rather about the lockstep precision, the rut, we can fall into as a daily routine develops. How easy it is to become soulless without even knowing it as we try to reach our daily goals, and time perpetually moves forward. This is what Dark Side of The Moon addresses directly and some of the themes of my new material. The idea of doing nothing, of staying stagnant, is the worst offense there is.

I've been finding lately that the way to stay most in the moment, to really feel things, is to get out of my own head, my predispositions and routines, and be keenly aware of my surroundings. To accept that I'm not in control, and accept the contrasts and consonances around me as beautiful, using my environment to shape me and move me forward. Of course, this is the hardest work, but the most fulfilling. This is what, in my opinion, makes a person serious.

How that relates to the Jewish people is another question entirely, and perhaps this is what the Coen brothers were trying to address (And perhaps why many Jews were up in arms) Either way, these were good questions and it's a good movie.

On that note, stay out of trouble and catch you next week - D

Tuesday Musings...

2010-04-27T10:10:00.000-07:00

- Saw This Is It last night and it blew me away. Realized I had forgotten just how wonderful MJ was in his prime and how much I loved him when I was a kid. Though I don't blame myself for thinking of him as a weirdo since 1993...

- Learned that the millions of sounds around us enter into our bodies through the ear as one compressed sound WAV, and are then reconstructed through the brain as individual sounds. Awesome.

- Read this weirdly fascinating interview about Stephen Hawking and aliens: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Space/stephen-hawking-alien-contact-risky/story?id=10478157

- Going to a Daily Show taping today..but have to wait for 3 hours in line, sucky. What should I ask Jon? Something about Judaism...

- Then catching Gogol Bordello's Eastern European slavic punk at Brooklyn Bowl. Afraid the sound might be too boomy there again, but willing to give it another shot, esp cause their Blue Ribbon food is off the hook. http://www.myspace.com/gogolbordello

- Also what is this nonsense?? http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/26/malcolmx.killer/?hpt=C1 Loved Malcolm X's autobiography if you've ever read it.

- And check this out politcos... "When read the statement that "if blacks would only try harder, they could be just as well off as whites," 73 percent of the movement's supporters agreed, while only 33 percent of people who disapproved of the Tea Party agreed. Asked if blacks should work their way up "without special favors," as the Irish, Italians, and other groups did, 88 percent of supporters agreed, compared to 56 percent of opponents. The study revealed that Tea Party enthusiasts were also more likely to have negative opinions of Latinos and immigrants."

The Quick Weekend Roundup 4/26 - Elvis Costello, Living Room Gig, Hey Brooklyn, Weird Plane Incidents, Transformational Life Events

2010-04-26T13:27:00.001-07:00

- Friday Night caught the incomparable Elvis Costello with his Bluegrass Band The Sugar Canes playing tracks from his new record with T Bone Burnett. Was amazed at how carefully they arranged some of the older tunes for the bluegrass sound, especially "Everyday I Write The Book." Catch clips from that show at http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/elvis-costello-and-the-sugarcanes/2010/united-palace-theatre-new-york-ny-63d4f6df.html Was my first time at United Palace Theatre uptown and it was gorgeous

- Went to that show with my friend Tony, who had a brilliant idea. He and some friends that took the train to the very top and walked the island of Manhattan down Broadway all the way to Battery City Park over 8 hours, watching the neighborhoods change. And then celebrated by drinking beers on the Staten Island Ferry. Pretty awesome.

- Made some big developments on a music video this weekend. Everything is hush hush for now, but something potentially huge in the works. And dropped my record One Way off at indie store Other Music, where it's now for sale. Oh and I'm featured in the podcast Hey Brooklyn! http://heybrooklyn.com/462/danny-ross/

- Played a great show at The Living Room Saturday night at 9 with the 6-piece band after our friends Quintus. In fact, they joined us for a cover of The Beatles "And Your Bird Can Sing" Not sure how it happened, but I channeled a Baptist minister at one point. Thanks everyone for being a killin audience! We wrapped up the night at our friend Adam's dance party - it's been awhile since I danced to hip-hop like that. Let's just say I spilled many people's drinks, including my own.

- Some Transformational Life Events occurred: My brother got a new job, Dani's mother got a new job and is moving to California, Dani's brother Ross visited and will likely move to NYC for business school.

- Some Weird Plane Incidents occured: A friend's plane was literally struck by lightning, and my brother's plane had an emergency landing because the stewardess smelled smoke. Something in the air this weekend I guess...

Upcoming this week: Gogol Bordello at Brooklyn Bowl, Daily Show taping, Housewarming Party.

Damn, it's busy! What did YOU do this weekend of note, and what's up this week? I'll try to join you. Let us know!

- D

Danny by Danny Ross (DXDR) Part 4 of 5: Twenty-Eight Bands Later

2010-04-21T07:50:00.000-07:00

Hey folks, this is my 5 part recollection of our trip to the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX from March 16-21. Part 4 deals exclusively with the rad bands I caught while I was down there.

I made a list below of the artists I caught at the festival along with their MySpace links and a brief description of their show if I can remember. With the exception of one or two, all these artists are still very much on the downlow. I was so busy seeing bands that I had some connection with (mostly from NYC) over the 5 days, I never had a chance to see some of the bigger or even medium-sized acts. After all, something like 3,000 bands were playing. Plus those lines were too long anyway.

Here's your chance to hear 'em before they're huge...

o Shwa http://www.myspace.com/shwamusic

A great vocalist and songwriter with good humor (NYC Scenester Friend)

o Midddle Distance Runner http://www.myspace.com/middledistancerunner

o Wakey! Wakey! http://www.myspace.com/wakeywakey

You probably know them from "One Tree Hill" by now, a lyrically engaging piano-led indie act with a great live show. (NYC Scenester Friend)

o Casey Shea http://www.myspace.com/caseyshea

Combines loose-limbed classic rock sound using a dozen guys onstage with unque brand of songwriting. (NYC Scenester Friend)

o Shayna Zaid & The Catch http://www.myspace.com/shaynazaid

Really dynamic and engaging singer with interesting instrumentation.

o Christina Courtin http://www.myspace.com/christinacourtin

Caught her with a string quartet at a church. Amazing vocalist and beautiful music. Her guitarist/ boyfriend Ryan Scott also played in my Austin group.

o Baby Monster http://www.myspace.com/babymnstr

Electronic Indie Pop based in LA. Danny Sternbaum was the guitar player in my high school band, Broken Sound. We hung for the first time in eight years, I watched him trade in his axe for synths. Great sound.

o Jennings http://www.myspace.com/jenningsmusic

Mary Jennings is a R&B Tinged Piano pop. (NYC Scenester Friend)

o Emanuel and The Fear http://www.myspace.com/emanuelandthefear

Eccentric and engaging singer with a large band full of interesting orchestral arrangements.Caught him acoustic for this set.

o The Shake http://www.myspace.com/theshakeband

o Deadbeat Darling http://www.myspace.com/deadbeatdarlingmusic

o Black Taxi http://www.myspace.com/blacktaximusic

Think hard rock with hints of pop and eccentric instrumentation. I'll call it Bushwick Rock. Awesome theatrical frontman and live show. They literally blew the fuse of the venue.

o The Defibulators http://www.myspace.com/thedefibulators

Old school country, bluegrass music with an updated sound. Catchy tunes, charasmatic singer, gotta love it. Featuring Freddy Epps on drums and Mike Riddleberger on drums, who also played in our Austin band.

o Shotgun Party http://www.myspace.com/shotgunfiesta

Three person bluegrass group with excellent singing and great, funny lyrics. Check out this video:

o The Woes http://www.myspace.com/thewoes

A huge group with a huge country/ bluegrass/ sometime klezmer sound. Awesome.

o Whqles http://www.myspace.com/whqles

Caught these guys in someone's backyard shed. A freak duo on synths and drums, really fun.

o T Bird & The Breaks http://www.myspace.com/tbirdandthebreaks

Loved these guys - mixed old school hip hop with Stax soul in a new way. Tight as hell, and real catchy. Austin based, they're already pretty huge, I'm assuming they'll blow up further.

o Dinosaur Feathers http://www.myspace.com/dinosaurfeathers

o Pearl & The Beard http://www.myspace.com/pearlandthebeard

Brooklyn-based trio with catchy tunes, interesting lyrics and instrumentation.

o Warren Charles http://www.myspace.com/warrencharles

o Spring Standards http://www.myspace.com/thespringstandards

Great 3 piece pop group with virtuousic players and engaging live show. Heather Robb sang "Forgive Me Love" with me in Austin.

o Jukebox the Ghost http://www.myspace.com/jukeboxtheghost

A breaking Philly/ DC act, we had a chance to open for them in Austin. Excellent piano-oriented pop.

o Speak http://www.myspace.com/octopusluck

o Doublethink http://www.myspace.com/doublethinkrocks

Great hard-rock. They smashed their instruments on stage Who style. Well done.

o Hightide Blues http://www.myspace.com/hightideblues

Southern fried rock.

o Natalie Gelman http://www.myspace.com/nataliegelman

Great singer/songwriter, always touring so look out.

o Ionia http://www.myspace.com/ionia

Hard hard rock. Featuring Freddy again on bass.

o Pretty Good Dance Moves http://www.myspace.com/prettygooddancemoves

Electronic Indie Pop - already blowing up, don't miss em. (NYC Scenester Friend)

Danny by Danny Ross (DXDR) Part 3 of 5: Three Gigs, a Couch Drum Kit and Beatles Ukulele

2010-04-13T13:54:00.000-07:00

Hey folks, this is my 5 part recollection of our trip to the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX from March 16-21. Part 3 deals exclusively with our performances and the events that led up to them...

In the video posted in Part 2 last week you got to see some live footage. To quickly explain what went down, after the 3 gigs were booked down in Austin (many thanks to Richard Zack from the Wink Winks for that, and also for taking down my equipment!), I decided to make it official and book the flight. Soon I got in touch with my boy Sandeep and boom, had a sweet place to crash and access to an SUV.

But how would I also fly down and house 4 band members? Couldn't afford it, not this year. The solution was to hire NYC musicians already heading to SXSW with other bands. Meet Mike Riddleberger on Drums..
And here's Freddy Epps on bass (left) and Ryan Scott on guitar.
Mike's an amazing drummer and singer for bands like the pop-infused Quintus and the country swinging Defibulators. Freddy also kicks it with the defibs, and then crushes it with hard-rock outfit Ionia. In fact, Freddy and I met over 6 years ago, interning together at jazz label Verve Records. Ryan has also played with Quintus but has a great gig with an amazing singer on Nonesuch Records, Christina Courtin, who happens to also be his girlfriend.

The first day in Austin, amongst the thousands of shows going on, my friends and I stumbled upon a Beatles Tribute band, The Eggmen, along with Roger Greenawalt, the famous Beatles Ukulele player based here in Brooklyn, doing Beatles songs with singer/songwriters including Ben Kweller. I told them who I was, and naturally they asked me to sing a few tunes. Next thing I know I've sung 5. Nice.

That night I played an acoustic show with Ryan at The Belmont. And I made a little fan!

At these festivals, all of our time is carefully plotted out because there's so much going on. So I was lucky to find a 3 hour slot in Austin when the whole band could rehearse. (We had rehearsed once before in NYC) I had called a studio down there a week before to reserve the space. We all managed to shlep out to this place on Thursday afternoon in the middle of nowhere to an old industrial yard. Knock on the door, no answer. Call the guy's cell, no answer. Knock next door and find out his home number, no answer. After 30 calls, I realized we were screwed.

Stranded in East Austin, we came up with the idea to rehearse at Sandeep's apt. We had amps for piano, guitar and bass -- and Mike would have to mime drums on the couch. Sadly, I don't have a picture of this.

But one thing that made an impression on me. At the end of the rehearsal, I asked "Which song at this point are you most afraid of screwing up?" To which Ryan responded, "Afraid? There's nothing to be afraid of." Oh yeah, this is rock n roll -- nice to have some perspective.

Next we played the Sneak Attack/ Playing In Traffic Records Showcase at Clive Bar. We were lucky enough to have Heather Robb from the awesome band, The Spring Standards join us to sing "Forgive me Love."

And lastly, that night at 11 we played to a packed outdoor stage at Shakespeare's Pub. The monitor on stage was totally effed, so I decided to just be a maniac- tossing my keyboard offstage in the process. I felt like Pete Townshend for just a minute. Crazy, crazy, sweaty show.

Overall, I learned a lot about performance while I was down there. Particularly, that you don't need an audience hanging onto your every word in order to feel like you're succeeding. It's enough to just be there, play well, and be real.

And that's all for now folks. Stay tuned next week for all the rad bands I saw. Lata!

Danny by Danny Ross (DXDR) Part 2 of 5: The Official Movie

2010-04-06T14:23:00.000-07:00

Hey folks, this is my 5 part recollection of our trip to the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival in Austin, TX from March 16-21. I'll talk about the shows I played, the dozens of bands I saw perform (and can recommend while it's still early), and the hilarious people I met in Austin.

Part 2 features a film shot and edited by my good friend Sandeep Ayyappan. It's an interesting collage of live show performances with the band, an acoustic show, a rehearsal and an impromptu visit to a Beatles Ukulele concert (they wouldn't let me leave!). Altogether, it's an excellent summation of the types of shows a singer/songwriter can play, and hopefully gives some insight into the process. Hope you dig folks - and please do comment below with your thoughts, and maybe your favorite Beatles song.

Danny Ross Does SXSW: Part 1

Danny Ross Does SXSW: Part 2:

Danny by Danny Ross (DXDR) Part 1 of 5: Yummy Tacos

2010-03-25T08:11:00.000-07:00

Hey folks, this is my 5 part recollection of our trip to the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX from March 16-21. I'll talk about the shows I played, the dozens of bands I saw perform and can recommend to you to check out while it's still early, and the hilarious people I met in Austin. But part 1 deals exclusively with food...

So the week before I left I read this amazing article in the NY Times about breakfast tacos in Austin. This gave me a list of taco places that were essential to visit. And at the top of that list was Torchy's.

Now as I don't eat red meat or pork, this presented somewhat of a problem for me. Being this is Texas and all. Not knowing what to expect, I ordered the following 2 items at $4 each:

- Baja Shrimp
"Hand battered shrimp fried with cooked cabbage slaw, topped with pickled onions & jalapenos, queso fresco, cilantro and a lime wedge. Served on tortilla of choice and our creamy chipotle sauce."

- Brushfire
"Jamaican jerk chicken, grilled jalapenos, mango, Sour cream, and cilantro served on a flour tortilla with our Diablo sauce."

It was awesome! Especially the Brushfire. I gulped it down with a famous Jarrito's Mandarin soda. Oh and here's my friend Sandeep.

Funny enough, Sandeep checked out my apartment in NYC on Craigs List about 2 years ago and we've been friends since (though he didn't take the apartment). He moved down to Austin soon after that doing finance, but just quit his job to travel the country and write a book on energy. Straight out of Yale, he's a pretty brilliant dude and definitely hilarious when you get to know him. And he was nice (or stupid?) enough to let me crash with him at his place on South Congress. More on that in a post to come. Oh, and here's Janessa.

What an awesome name! Janessa lives down the hall from Sandeep and they've developed a Jerry and Kramer pop-in type vibe. She's a sweetheart from Utah, working to help people with eating disorders. Janessa was also nice enough to let me crash with her for 2 nights. Also more on that to come.

But in the meantime, I woke up the next morning to the much-discussed breakfast taco! From a place called Taco Deli (also on my hit list), here's what I had:

Migas Royale
Eggs topped with queso, monterrey, jack cheese, avocado and pico de gallo, Mexican mashed potatoes and refried black beans.

Now a thing in Austin (which I really don't understand) is trailers. There are food trailers parked all over the city serving all kinds of food. The best one I ate at was Izzo's. I had a grilled talapia taco with all kinds of crap on it. This time with a Jarrito's Tamarind soda. It was amazing...

And lastly, just before one of my concerts I decided I needed to have a little something. Nothing too heavy, obviously. But soon I discovered that Austin's famous Iron Works BBQ was just next door and I couldn't resist. There were signed pics of all kinds of celebrities - Obama, George W, etc - and a line out the door. However before long I was eating a delcious BBQ Chicken Platter with potato salad and baked beans. Needless to say, I felt a bit bloated on stage. But worth it!

There were other places I ate, like a Korean BBQ Taco trailer, but above were the ones really worth mentioning. Hope this gets you hungry, and see you in Part 2!

- Danny

SXSW and New Press... Plus this weekend's Haiti / Madonna Tributes

2010-02-18T08:54:00.000-08:00

Hey Folks,

What's crackin? Back from a few weeks in hiding, I feel Tiger Woods at an apology press conference. Ladies and Gentleman, say hello to Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra!

So you must be asking - what do Madonna and the Haiti earthquake tragedy have in common? Turns out Danny Ross will be performing in tribute concerts for both causes! First on Friday come to Bar 4 in Park Slope Brooklyn (7th Ave/ 15th St) at 8pm and check me singing this Madge classic along with other amazing interpretations. And unless you're watching 60 Minutes with my grandparents you won't be doing anything Sunday evening, you might as well enjoy great music and help the people of Haiti. That's...

Danny Ross at Haiti Benefit - Sunday February 21, 7:30PM sharp
Upstairs @ The Living Room (Googie's Lounge)
154 Ludlow St at Stanton, F Train to 2nd Ave

And good news: We're going to our first South by Southwest Festival in Austin, TX next month! For show details check out dannyrossmusic.com Thanks and catch you on the flip-side scenesters.

D-Ross in the Press
"Danny Ross Goes it Alone" - Gabrielle Sierra, Rumbum
"Danny Ross is not your typical Brooklyn musician. Drawing inspiration from bands like the Beatles and Wilco, musicians like Bob Dylan, and albums like The Who’s Tommy, Ross’ sound is worlds away from the run of the mill indie hipster music scene. And Ross likes it that way." Check out the full interview HERE.

"Danny Ross: One Way Review" - Mike Farley, Bullz-Eye
"(Three and Half Stars) It’s one thing to say you sound different than everyone else. It’s another thing entirely to do it without trying...One Way is an exuberant batch of songs. You’re going to love Danny Ross’ music." Check out the full review HERE.

Sat Jan 30, 8pm @ Living Room - Lookin Like A Foo With Yo Pants On The Ground

2010-01-20T09:06:00.001-08:00

Hello friends,

Happy 2010. Hope you're doing better than the San Diego Chargers this week (J-E-T-S!). Although personally I'm rooting for Team CoCo.

The band and I got a king-size FREE show coming up in about 10 days at NYC's famous Living Room and we think you should come. Not only to hear our six-piece, first-class stab at rock n roll and the world premiere of a new song, but of course to partake in our first-ever Bitchin Pics & Vids Contest where you'll snap smokin hot pictures and videos on your iphones, digital cameras and such and post them on your Facebook (tagging me), and I'll shoot a Top Secret Prize your way ($100,000). Check it...

Danny Ross and Band @ The Living Room
Saturday January 30, 8:00PM
@ 154 Ludlow Street, F Train to 2nd Ave
FREE!

And a special thanks to the folks at Local Correspondents and Bar4 for raising a whole bunch of money for Haiti last night in a Benefit Concert they let me be a part of. Rock on Raggae Woman, catch you on the flip!

- D

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“Danny Ross is a classicist to the core…Gorgeous…Immaculately arranged… I hope "One Way" becomes a breakaway hit. Like Ryan Adams, Ross realizes that there's no point in recreating the past note-for-note when it's more fun to smash pieces of the past together in a collage.” - CMJ

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Danny Ross Returns Bonus in Holiday Spirit, Keeps Custody of Tiger Kids

2009-12-23T07:24:00.000-08:00

Hey Folks,

The first thing I will absolutely not do is show you an adorable animal video clip to win your favor... Now that I have your attention, I want to wish you a wicked sick holiday. And I hope that you haven't had to reschedule your winter trip like me due to a "Once in a quarter-century, life threatening storm" hitting the midwest Christmas Eve. What the hell.

And I know you've been meaning to, but while you're busy buying things, please take this moment to play the new album "One Way" absolutely FREE. CMJ says "I hope this album becomes a breakaway hit." So go ahead, take a minute, do it now and Pay What You Want For It at http://dannyrossmusic.com/records.php

It's been a wild ride of a year releasing "One Way" four years in the making, playing the St. Mark's Church with an orchestra, and getting written up in The New Yorker. We've already got new catchy rock n roll songs, a music video and big touring plans ready for next year. So thanks for helping us kick serious ass good friends, have the warmest happy holidays and catch you in 2010.

Sincerely,

Danny "The Wildcat" Ross

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CMJ Review : Danny Ross - One Way

2009-12-02T08:06:00.000-08:00

Nov 20, 2009
By Michael Tedder

In case the black-and-white album cover isn't enough of a clue, one listen to the immaculately arranged opener, "Sleepy Dream," makes it immediately clear that New York songwriter Danny Ross is a classicist to the core. But what makes his debut album One Way more than just retro pastiche is that he's several kinds of classicists at once. Sure, there's plenty of gorgeous, tears-in-your-martini-glass ballads (a touch too many, honestly), but Ross also throws in some early Randy Newman barroom stompers ("Forgive Me Love") and a Broadway-ready, army-of-horns dance number ("And The Trumpets Sing...") that can only accurately be described as snappy. I hope this album becomes a breakaway hit, because the home made YouTube dance videos for these songs have the potential to be amazing. In fact, if Ross ever gets tired of a life of constant touring and middling album sales, he'd probably kill on the Great White Way.

"Always On My Way," isn't just a lovely country-ballad, but it also feels like a Rosetta Stone that decodes the album's success. It feels like a tip of the hat to Ryan Adams, the great pop’s great classicist of our times—when he's bringing his A game, anyway. Like Adams, Ross realizes that there's no point in recreating the past note-for-note when it's more fun to smash pieces of the past together in a collage. This probably explains why so much of the album seems to have a Led Zeppelin/art-rock jones. It's there in the slow build of "Waiting On The Wheel," and the violin-soaked crescendos of "Go," and it explodes on the album's best song "This Ancient Bridge," which even has a name that sounds Zep-ish, not to mention an incendiary drum run, some Jeff Buckley-esque moans and enough guitar shredding to make you double-check that you're still listening to the same album. Luckily, even a dedicated student of music like Ross knows that fidelity to the past doesn't mean you can't have fun with your influences.

Track Listing For One Way:
01. Sleepy Dream
02. Country Wind
03. Oh, Christine
04. Forgive Me Love
05. Woman
06. Stay Here With Me
07. This Ancient Bridge
08. Always On My Way
09. And The Trumpets Sing...
10. This Is Just A Test
11. Waiting On The Wheel
12. Go
13. One Way

http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=157548144

Bonus Track! "A New Beginning"- 'One Way' Album Preview

2009-11-10T14:31:00.001-08:00

One Way is available now -Hear the album free and Pay What You Want at http://dannyrossmusic.com/records.php Or get it on iTunes!

NOTES
"A New Beginning" is one of 2 songs I've written by starting with the lyrics first. At the time, I was introduced to Elvis Costello's "My Aim Is True" and found myself singing with rhythmical, percussive and hard-edged words with lots of consonants that cut deep. (I've since become a monstrous fan of Elvis' work) I love that style which combines the wordiness with old school rock n roll. So we got a fun horn part together, I banged on the keys in a high register, and had a Motown-ish guitar line happening. The vocal effect even sounds like something out of "My Aim Is True." Lyrically, the story is a cartoonish account of a man trying to win back his woman. This is a fun one.

FACTS
Music and Lyrics, Horn Arrangements by Danny Ross
Written in London, Spring 2005 (Age 20)
Inspired by: Elvis Costello, The Clash, 50s Rock
Produced by Rob Guariglia and Danny Ross
Recorded Spring 2008 at Galuminum Foil Productions;
Engineered by Jeff Berner
Except Piano Recorded at Metrosonic Studios
Engineered by Harley Fine

Instrumentation:
Danny Ross – Vocal, Piano
Carl Basler – Guitars
Fred Kennedy - Drums
Matt Wigton - Bass
Paul Nedzela - Bari Sax
Mike Maher - Trumpet
Evan Smith - Tenor Sax

LYRICS

Mama wake up the neighbors

Go on and wake up your dog

Daddy’s back from vacation

I know that you’ve unlocked the doors

Yes, I’ve been unkind

Oh, but I’ve seen the light

For a new beginning

A square of tissue paper followed me through the bedroom

Beneath a warm club soda I’ve been waiting to throw in my face

I put the radio on, cause they were playing our song

And all the voodoo dolls in the closet were singing along

I’ve been losing my keys

Now I’m back in this old town

How come when some girl rejects me

I’m down in this backseat
Retracing the way to your house

Baby

Fire up the candles

That delicious scent

Our grip will lose handle

Making love in the closet again

Yes I’ve been unkind

No, I’m not losing my mind

It’s a new beginning

I’ve never stopped singing for you

When I left for that other brunette

You threw that spare set to the ground

And you stomped on the nickel

At last blowing the whistle

But baby, the locksmith’s in town

Cause I’m a sucker for happy endings

And with you it’s never stopped

You once gave me protection

Now I pray that your door isn’t locked

Yes I’ve been unkind

Oh but I’ve seen the light

Yes, I’ve been so unkind

And what if I lost my mind?

It’s still a new beginning

I’ve never stopped singing for you

I’ll never stop singing for you

Track 13 "One Way" - 'One Way' Album Preview

2009-11-04T15:45:00.000-08:00

One Way is available now -Hear the album free and Pay What You Want at http://dannyrossmusic.com/records.php Or get it on iTunes!

NOTES
I've heard Bruce Springsteen say that he was aiming to write the biggest rock song of all time when he wrote "Born to Run." That certainly wasn't my ambition with "One Way," but I knew when I discovered that piano riff that it would be a Big song. Big chords, big arrangements, important lyrics. It may be my best set of lyrics - capturing the attitude of the whole album (which is why it also became the album title). I love the vastness of it. I actually listened to Born To Run quite a bit when I came to mixing it, borrowed a couple of ideas. Kudos to Evan Smith for killing that sax solo. "One Way" is also the closer at our live gigs, and it fits as a great conclusion to the journey.

FACTS
Music and Lyrics, String/ Horn Arrangements by Danny Ross
Written in Long Island 2001 (age 17)/ Ithaca, Fall 2005 (Age 21)
Inspired by: Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles
Produced by Rob Guariglia and Danny Ross
Recorded Spring 2008 at Galuminum Foil Productions;
Engineered by Jeff Berner
Except Piano Recorded at Bunker Studios
Engineered by Aaron Nevezie, John Davis

Instrumentation:
Danny Ross – Vocal, Piano
Carl Basler – Electric and Acoustic Guitars
Fred Kennedy - Drums
Matt Wigton - Bass
Dave Melton - Organ
Leo Adamov - Violin
Rachel Golub - Violin
Corrina Albright -Viola
Jody Redhage - Cello
Paul Nedzela - Bari Sax
Mike Maher - Trumpet
Evan Smith - Tenor Sax

LYRICS

Well I’ve seen changes

Turning pages

All this writing on the wall

And perfect pictures

Holy scriptures

Still I’m bound to slip and fall

But all this faith

Has led me to your open gate

I’m always new

As long as I’ve got you

See I’ve left highways

Climbed from low ways

Tried to be a better man

And I’ve sailed oceans

Endless motion

Never knowing where I am

You’ve got to breath

Nobody tells you what you need

But I can choose

As long as I’ve got you

And I want to thank you in the crowd

Now I can’t forget what I have found

Got my feet back on the ground

And I am swinging back around

And I’m just beginning to get loud

Got my feet back on the ground

And all that’s steady

Always ready

All my family and friends

Where I came from

All I ran from

I see now that’s where I’ll end

Cause you can’t see

Heading one way down that street

There’s only truth

As long as I’ve got you

And down that street

We can live how we believe

I’m living proof

As long as I’ve got you

Going one way

Track 12 "Go" - 'One Way' Album Preview

2009-10-29T08:00:00.000-07:00

One Way is available now -Hear the album free and Pay What You Want at http://dannyrossmusic.com/records.php Or get it on iTunes!

NOTES
I think"Go" is the hidden gem on the record. It's certainly the most creative use of strings - I found myself listening and studying "Eleanor Rigby" "God Only Knows" and Sufjan Stevens "Jacksonville" among others. I love the Radiohead "No Surprises" guitar sound and Matt Wigton's creative bass line in the last minute of the song. I also love how it transitions into the last song "One Way." Musically, I believe this is my most mature work. Lyrically, I was trying to evoke that overwhelming feeling when facing the enormity and beauty of nature, and the struggle to surrender to the big picture and live each day with such clarity. In fact, a few years later when my grandfather past away I found this song to be helpful, and think of him now when singing it live. Funny how meanings of a song can change as we get older...

FACTS
Music and Lyrics, String/ Horn Arrangements by Danny Ross
Written in Ithaca, Fall 2005 (Age 21)
Inspired by: Radiohead, Nick Drake
Produced by Rob Guariglia and Danny Ross
Recorded Spring 2008 at Galuminum Foil Productions;
Engineered by Jeff Berner
Except Piano Recorded at Bunker Studios
Engineered by Aaron Nevezie, John Davis

Instrumentation:
Danny Ross – Vocal, Piano
Carl Basler – Electric and Acoustic Guitars
Fred Kennedy - Drums
Matt Wigton - Bass
Dave Melton - Rhodes
Leo Adamov - Violin
Rachel Golub - Violin
Corrina Albright -Viola
Jody Redhage - Cello
Paul Nedzela - Bari Sax
Mike Maher - Trumpet
Evan Smith - Tenor Sax

LYRICS

Lost in thought

The sinking sun extends its glow

Let me go

Holy wind

And oceans singing violins

Will you forgive my sins?

And let me in

Take these words and go

Go home

Make a choice

And hear the timbre of my voice

And oh my God I feel so much

Let me trust

Take these words and go

"One Way" Released Today on iTunes, Pay What You Want??

2009-10-28T10:25:00.000-07:00

Hey Folks,

And a dreary autumn day to you too. You may have seen me recently with my eccentric family on television puking after a wild balloon ride in Colorado. You may have also seen a rehearsal film of my last performance of "Thriller" before my untimely death. But you haven't seen this...

Pay What You Want! --Yes, Radiohead did this too... -- It's very important to me that my friends, fans and even awkward acquaintances own the debut LP Danny Ross Presents One Way as 4 years of sweat and soul went into it. So I'm letting you head to the following site, play the whole album for free and Name Your Own Price (Free shirts, EPs, Mix Tapes and Love Notes are also involved): http://dannyrossmusic.com/records.php

And also... One Way is released today on iTunes!

So you have 2 viable options 1) Name Your Own Price for the physical album and other free stuff or 2) Download One Way from Steve Jobs directly. It's a better deal than a Denny's Grand Slam Breakfast (if that's even possible). Thanks and fill in the gcal -- we're playing next Sat Nov 14 @ Rockwood Music Hall. Catch you on the flip!

- Danny?

"What Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Danny Ross strives for is truly awe-inspiring...One Way is a compelling, confident and creative masterwork from one of New York City's most promising young talents." -- Greg Robson, Absolute Punk

Track 11 "Waiting On The Wheel" - 'One Way' Album Preview

2009-10-21T07:24:00.000-07:00

One Way is available now on iTunes. Play "Waiting On The Wheel” and the whole album free at http://www.dannyrossmusic.com

NOTES
I was hoping to articulate some of the unintended consequences of growing up in this song. A lot of my songs are about individual relationships or insights into a personal philosophy, but this one concerns a relationship with people in the outside world and certain expectations. It's one of the truest lyrics I've written. Also check out the guitar solo, it sounds that way thanks to our killer ax-man Carl and our drummer Fred, who is constantly forcing us to think outside the box even when it's not his instrument.

FACTS
Music and Lyrics, String Arrangements by Danny Ross
Written in NYC 2005 (Age 21)
Inspired by: Muse, Coldplay
Produced by Rob Guariglia and Danny Ross
Recorded Spring 2008 at Galuminum Foil Productions;
Engineered by Jeff Berner

Instrumentation:
Danny Ross – Vocal, Piano
Carl Basler – Electric and Acoustic Guitars
Fred Kennedy - Drums
Matt Wigton - Bass
Dave Melton - Rhodes
Leo Adamov - Violin
Rachel Golub - Violin
Corrina Albright -Viola
Jody Redhage - Cello

LYRICS

Waiting on the wheel

Floating in the harbor

The sun is rising high

Though summer’s wasting away

Feeling like a stone

Drinking on a Sunday

I’m filling up my mind with nothing

I found this broken home

Along the open water

My banner waving high

Through all the weather I survived

And I returned in no parade

A sinking anchor, broken chain

Now I’m washed up

In the shore of my own weight

The more that you know

The more that it’s nothing

And where can I find that feeling of home?

Well isn’t it the same?

Yes, I received your postcards

But I cannot relate

Though I can’t throw them away

Cause I don’t know what to say

The wind carried me the right way

I’m right but I am wrong in some way

Cause the more that you know

The more that it’s nothing

The more that you wind up being alone

And all that I’ve shown

Must lead to something

But where can I find that feeling of home?

Waiting on the wheel

Drinking into Monday

This ship will find the current someday

But all that I know

And all that I’ve suffered

Has only arrived at being alone

In all that I’ve shown

I’ve believed in something

But where can I find that feeling of home?

Track 10 "This Is Just A Test" - 'One Way' Album Preview

2009-10-07T08:34:00.000-07:00

One Way is available now on iTunes. Play "This Is Just A Test” and the whole album free at http://www.dannyrossmusic.com

NOTES
The idea here was to create something that rocked as hard as a Rolling Stones song, with big guitar chords, but on piano. I think "Gimme Shelter" was a big influence at the time, and certainly you can hear "Sympathy for the Devil" in the intro. But this is the oldest song idea of mine to make it on the record, and the intention was to make it a big fat jam - Freebird style. Not surprisingly it's become our hardest rocking song live. And lyrically, this song is the most different on the record -- it's not about introspection and growth -- it's about wanting a girl, pure and simple.

FACTS
Music and Lyrics, Horn Arrangements by Danny Ross
Written in Long Island, NY 2002 (Age 17)
Inspired by: Rolling Stones
Produced by Rob Guariglia and Danny Ross
Recorded Spring 2008 at Galuminum Foil Productions;
Engineered by Jeff Berner

Instrumentation:
Danny Ross – Vocal, Piano
Carl Basler – Electric Guitars
Fred Kennedy - Drums, Percussion
Matt Wigton - Bass
Mike Maher - Trumpet
Evan Smith- Tenor Sax
Paul Nedzela - Bari Sax
Dave Melton - Organ

LYRICS

This is just a test

Damn I’m failin’ it

You’ve got my head in a mess

Feel like bailin’ this

And when I’m sitting to rest

You wink and blow me a kiss

This is just a waste

Still I’ve got to say

I’m obsessin’ on the dress you’re in

When you walk away

I want to be in your head

At the end of the day

I’m losing my nerve for you

Cause I’ve been chokin’ from the smoke

That you wear like perfume

And now the dance floor’s shakin’

But I’m not playing the fool

Ready get set and go

You wanted a show

You’ve got me sweatin’ and stoned

Now I’m out of control

And I won’t take no

Take my hand tonight

I’m takin’ you home

Give me what I crave

In your wicked tricks

You got a hold a’ me like a hypnotist

And it’s got me pissed

Just how much you know it

So I suck in for air

I run and duck from your tease

But you seeped in my system

Like some kind of disease

Papa never taught me

These kinds of birds and bees

Danny Blogstein!

Last Chance for Tickets (Before Hiatus) // Rock n Soul Sendoff Thursday 8pm!

***Last show before Hiatus*** Rock n Soul Sendoff Jan 19 @ Rockwood 2

NBC // *20 New Songs Live* Thurs Jan 19 @ Rockwood // Tickets On Sale Now

The New Yorker // Saturday 8pm @ Mercury Lounge

#Press // Harrison Ford // Saturday Dec 10, 8pm @ Mercury Lounge

The Laid Off Tour Finale: Tonight in Washington

NY Daily News / #occupyCMJ Sat 7:30pm @The Living Room

How I Got Laid Off

Gasp, Summer Finale?! Tues 9pm @ Living Room // Sat with Dave Mason

Got Homies in DC? // Tuesday 9pm NYC Living Room Residency

Tuesday 9pm - Living Room July Residency! // NBC & Huffington Post

Snap! Saturday 11pm @ Mercury Lounge with Horns // Press

Summer Spectacular -Sat June 11 @ Mercury Lounge // My B'way Musical

Video Premiere! // Boston Saturday & Philly Sunday! // Kittens!

VH1 Storytellers: Saturday 11 @ The Living Room // Motown Philly

MTV // Opening for Paula Cole? I Don't Wanna Wait...Tues 8pm @ City Winery

Saturday 11pm - Headlining Mercury Lounge for Live Album Recording [in 3D]

Do You uhh Have Friends in uhh Boston? // Live Album Show Sat Feb 26 at Mercury Lounge!

Saturday 8pm @ Rockwood Stage 2 // Duet with David Bowie

2011 Heaven // Saturday Jan 22nd 8pm, Rockwood Stage 2

A Reasoned Case for Arriving Late at Your Holiday Party to See Saturday's Big Show

Saturday 9pm @ Mercury Lounge // Last Day of Deli Vote (And it's Tight!)

30 Seconds to Hook a Brother Up Before Turkey Day

Ah, Holiday Explosion!! - Mercury Lounge Saturday Dec 4, 9pm

CMJ = Charismatic. Masculine. Jewish. // Thursday 7pm @ Rockwood (and Friday!)

MTV // Live at The CMJ Music Festival - 10/21 Rockwood (Party!), 10/22 Living Room

Info for Saturday @ Mercury Lounge; New Press!

Aww Yeah. Headlining NYC's Mercury Lounge Sat 9/25, 11pm

Me and Max on Animal Planet, 7pm Saturday

It's Boss Time. "Jersey Shore" Tuesday 9pm @ Pianos - Summer Finale

A Residency You Reckon? "Nashville Skyline" - Tues 8pm @ Pianos

6/15 Tuesday Musings - Born in the USA, Marissa Tomei, Israel Sendoff at Rockwood, Crazy Heart, Hoo-ha!

6/7 Weekend Roundup

5/27 Thursday Thespian

5/19 Wednesday Whispers

5/12/10 Wedenesday Wistfulness

Tuesday Musings...

The Quick Weekend Roundup 4/26 - Elvis Costello, Living Room Gig, Hey Brooklyn, Weird Plane Incidents, Transformational Life Events

Danny by Danny Ross (DXDR) Part 4 of 5: Twenty-Eight Bands Later

Danny by Danny Ross (DXDR) Part 3 of 5: Three Gigs, a Couch Drum Kit and Beatles Ukulele

Danny by Danny Ross (DXDR) Part 2 of 5: The Official Movie

Danny by Danny Ross (DXDR) Part 1 of 5: Yummy Tacos

SXSW and New Press... Plus this weekend's Haiti / Madonna Tributes

Sat Jan 30, 8pm @ Living Room - Lookin Like A Foo With Yo Pants On The Ground

Danny Ross Returns Bonus in Holiday Spirit, Keeps Custody of Tiger Kids

CMJ Review : Danny Ross - One Way

Bonus Track! "A New Beginning"- 'One Way' Album Preview

Track 13 "One Way" - 'One Way' Album Preview

Track 12 "Go" - 'One Way' Album Preview

"One Way" Released Today on iTunes, Pay What You Want??

Track 11 "Waiting On The Wheel" - 'One Way' Album Preview

Track 10 "This Is Just A Test" - 'One Way' Album Preview

Last show before Hiatus Rock n Soul Sendoff Jan 19 @ Rockwood 2

NBC // 20 New Songs Live Thurs Jan 19 @ Rockwood // Tickets On Sale Now