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Rock Concert Bringing Christmas to Foster Children
A local concert featuring the rock band Lifehouse will help provide Christmas for needy foster children in Coffee and Houston counties.
The Dec. 19 concert will also feature The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Enterprise natives Colour Academy, who organized the concert. It’s actually the second year the members of Colour Academy, formerly known as The Skyline Drive, have organized the concert, called the Jingle Bell Rock Concert.
“We wanted to make sure the community here knew we support them as much as they have supported us,” said Cliff Sims, the lead singer of the five-member Colour Academy.
Sims and his bandmates have relocated to Atlanta but still consider the Wiregrass their home base. It was Sims’ connections within the music industry in Atlanta and touring that brought Red Jumpsuit Apparatus to Enterprise last year for a charitable concert after a tornado destroyed Enterprise High School and killed nine people, including eight students.
“Hanging by a Moment” became the most played song on the radio for 2001, according to Billboard.com.
The band’s fourth album, “Who We Are,” was released last year.
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If you go ...
What: Jingle Bell Rock Concert featuring Lifehouse, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Colour Academy
When: Friday, Dec. 19, at 7 p.m., doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Dothan Civic Center
Tickets: $32, on sale at the Dothan Civic Center box office, Dothan Chrysler Dodge, Enterprise Chevrolet and eTix.com
Info: Call 615-3170
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USC Music Video Program Gala - Los Angeles, CA 12/5/08
Check out some photos of the guys at USC's Music Video Program Gala on December 5th.
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Lifehouse VH1 News
Don't miss Lifehouse on <em><strong>Vh1's Top 40 Videos of 2008</strong></em>. It airs on December 19th. Be sure to check your local listings for times and re-runs.
Lifehouse's music video for "Broken" has jumped all the way from <em>#19 to #5</em> this week on the <em><strong>VH1 Top 20 Countdown</strong></em>! It's their highest peak for "Broken" as well. Let's keep this upward trend going. Spread the word about "Broken" on <strong><em>VH1's Top 20 Countdown</strong></em>, and <a href="http://www.vh1.com/shows/series/top_20_countdown/vote.jhtml" target="new">vote</a>!
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Rock and Roll 'Em
Rock and Roll 'Em
Heineken Funds SCA Music Videos
For the second consecutive year, Heineken has awarded two teams of SCA graduate students $40,000 each to create music videos. By providing the opportunity to work with sizable budgets and professional clients, the contest opens students’ eyes to a possible post-graduation career path. |
| Prepping a scene for the deSoL Sing It All Night music video shoot. |
The two teams were selected from more than 90 students who met with this year's bands, deSoL and Lifehouse, and submitted treatments, storyboards, rough budgets, reels, and bios. The bands, Goodman, Obrow, Heineken's Marketing Manager Pattie Falch, and Julie Mulholland from Heineken's entertainment marketing agency, Mulholland Drive Entertainment, selected the winners.
Director Michael Callahan and producer Anthony Bushman, both second-year production students, teamed up to create the video for Lifehouse’s song Make Me Over. Set in a cluttered warehouse, the narrative follows a one-armed, legless mannequin who comes to life, replaces his missing appendages, and tries to win the love of a lady in a red dress. Unfortunately, unlike him, she is completely inanimate.
"We had a great conversation with Jason Wade, the lead singer and songwriter, about the message of the song," said Bushman. "We took it to mean that someone is trying to make himself over, make himself better for someone else, but not seeing that he doesn't need to change because he's great as he is. And Mike and I both think that it's a very important message, because he and I were the outcasts in grade school and didn't have that many friends, and we both turned out pretty well. And we didn't try to fit into what was most socially acceptable at the time."
For deSoL’s song Sing It All Night, director Brent McHenry, a second-year production student, and the producing team of third-year production student Philip Hodges and second-year Stark student Nadia Munla crafted a video featuring the band's lead singer, Albie Monterrosa, mailing a postcard from a gas station in the desert to his sweetheart in New York. On the front of the postcard is a superimposed moving image of the band performing on a beach, and, as the missive filters through the mail system, the music affects the people who hear it.
"Their music is a fusion of Latino rhythms with more contemporary rock," said McHenry. "That fusion ties into this theme that they pride themselves on, which is their music's ability to unite a diverse group of people and to appeal to a wide variety of different music lovers. So this idea of unity is what inspired this postcard that can connect people across a wide distance."
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| From left to right, Rick Woolstenhulme (Lifehouse drummer), Anthony Bushman (video producer), Jason Wade (Lifehouse singer-songwriter), Michael Callahan (video director) and Bryce Soderberg (Lifehouse bassist). |
The music videos, which are scheduled to be completed by mid-November, will premiere at a gala event on December 5 at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills.
They will also be posted on Heineken's Web site at heinekenandfilm.com.
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Lifehouse in the Studio
Lifehouse is back in the studio throwing ideas and concepts around over next few weeks. Stay tuned!
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"Who we are" Certified Gold
Lifehouse's fourth album "Who we are" has sold over 500,000 copies in the United States certifying the album Gold. Thanks to all the fans for the support to make this happen!
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Lifehouse presents the "Broken" Nabbr Wiget! Share this widget with friends and embed it anywhere on the web! Check it out!
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Congratulations to Karin and Lisa for sending in the winning photos from our tour photo contest!
They’ll each win a Lifehouse custom tour prize package, and you can all check out their amazing photos right here:
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Thanks to everyone who sent in their photos!
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Teenage angst takes on a Life(house) of its own
LIFEHOUSE
WITH GAVIN ROSSDALE
8 p.m. Sunday
Los Angeles County Fair
Grandstand Stage
1101 W. McKinley Ave.
Pomona
$25-$125
(909) 865-4590; www.ticketmaster.com
Not that long ago, singer/songwriter Jason Wade was a typical teenager caught between his parents and their painful divorce. But instead of trying to ease his teenage angst with destructive behavior, he said he turned to something positive.
The lead vocalist and guitarist of the rock group Lifehouse found solace in music, which turned out to be a saving grace in ways that surprised even him.
"I started writing songs more out of desperation and to express the pain I was feeling," said Wade, who will perform with Lifehouse at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Los Angeles County Fair. "It was therapy. But people started responding to them and really connecting with the lyrics. Things kind of just fell into place."
Prior to discovering his talent for songwriting at the age of 15, Wade said he wasn't all that into music. His mother played the guitar and he mostly listened to her. It wasn't until he formed his own band that he discovered artists such as Pearl Jam, Nirvana, The Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel.
Drawing on those inspirations, Wade's songwriting ability blossomed. He signed his first recording contract with Dreamworks in 2000. He said the label wanted him to be a solo act but he insisted on being part of a band. "I wasn't comfortable with being on stage alone," said Wade, 28. "I've always liked playing and traveling with friends."
Record execs at Dreamworks agreed to give Wade what he wanted and started a search for musicians. After auditioning several, Wade and the label decided on drummer Rick Woolstenhulmer, 29. And after several lineup changes, bass player Bryce Soderberg, 28, joined the band in 2004.
Lifehouse released its first CD, "No Name Face," in 2000. It was a smash, selling nearly 2.6 million copies. The project produced the No. 1 alternative hit "Hanging By a Moment," which became the Top 40's most played song in 2000.
The group's early success led to opportunities to open for Matchbox 20, the Goo Goo Dolls and The Rolling Stones on tour.
"I was so nervous when we were opening for the Stones," said Wade, a native of Camarillo. "I didn't even get to enjoy it because I was overwhelmed and had a lot of fear. But now, I'm enjoying every aspect of it and all the touring is starting to pay off."
Lifehouse's second release, 2002's "Stanley Climbfall," didn't fare so well in sales. But the band's third CD, "Lifehouse," produced another hit, "You and Me." The song spent more than 60 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100 chart and sold more than 100,000 digital downloads.
Still, Wade said Lifehouse has only recently discovered its musical niche with its fourth CD, "Who We Are." The songs on "Who We Are" define the band's music as stripped down rock, driven by raw emotion.
Wade wrote or co-wrote all the tunes for the project and the entire band collaborated on the production. Among the tracks are: "Disarray," "Whatever It Takes," "The Joke," "Mesmerized" and "Storm."
"This time around it was not about having any preconceived notions," said Wade. "It was about letting the tape machine roll and getting the music down spontaneously.
"I'm at a place where it doesn't matter to me what other people think. I'm comfortable being myself and I'm writing from an honest place not thinking about who's going to hear it."
Lifehouse's newfound philosophy must be working. Since the release of "Who We Are" in June, the CD's third single "Broken" peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. The music video for the song was directed by actor Keifer Sutherland and debuted in September on VH1's top 20 countdown.
Despite Lifehouse's recent success, Wade says the most fulfilling part of the journey is that he and his bandmates finally have a chance to be what they wanted to be all along - a rock band aimed at touching the hearts of everyone they play for.
"We have really grown into a unit with its own personality and style," said Wade. "We established camaraderie on the road and jelled. This record defines who we are, which is why that's the title. The sound fits where we're at right now."
Gavin Rossdale, former lead singer and guitarist for the post-grunge band Bush, will open for Lifehouse. Rossdale, who is married to singer Gwen Stefani, will perform songs from his critically-acclaimed CD "Wanderlust.
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