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Free Socratic Show

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Socratic will be performing a free show on April 14th in Hollywood. You can find the information below.

SOCRATIC Free show (21+ FREE/Under 21 $3)
April 14
7pm
The Troubadour
9081 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood CA

Socratic on tour with You, Me & Everyone We Know

4/22 Hell’s Kitchen Tacoma WA
4/24 El Corazon Seattle WA
4/26 Avalon Salt Lake City UT
4/27 The Falcon Englewood CO
4/29 Eagles Club Vermillion SD
5/01 Beat Kitchen Chicago IL

Cobra Starship Appologies For Conan Performance

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Cobra Starship has apologized for their recent performance on Conan O’Brian for being a bit lackluster. Check out a message from Gabe below.

 i dont always suck at singing

…only when i’m on national TV.

i felt much better about myself after watching this vid from when we dropped by the purevolume studios earlier this year.

but seriously, conan was a blast. nerve-wrackin, but a blast.
my dad was in the audience and kept calling me that day to tell me how amazing it was.
then he called me the next day after watching tv and said (insert thick Uruguayan accent), “you know, gabriel, i not know what eet ees–maybe is beecause dee sound does not come right thru thee television, but the show deed no do justice to how grait it reely was meng. ”

i told my dad that it’s cool because every band sounds like shit on conan. but the truth is that i was nervous as shit. and ryland’s amp broke right at the end of soundcheck. they got us a new amp during taping, and told us we could have a few minutes to check it during commerical. but then, we got on stage and they’re like “you’re on in 5, 4, 3, – GO!” As if we weren’t nervous enough! what fucked me the most is that Ryland usually gives me the first chord before the song starts so i can hear the pitch. but we didn’t get to do that and i came in blind and went sharp. on top of that , playing conan isnt like playing Kimmel, where you have a real audience standing just a few feet from you. here the cameras were all in front of us and there were people sitting in the studio like 200 hundred feet away. just sitting. not moving. so surreal. felt like we were in a fish tank. … if it sounded like i was screaming a lot, its because i was. that just happens sometimes i’m nervous. some people poop their pants; i get really loud.

i could go on, but these are all things that i’ve thought of after the fact, and really just to make myself feel better about doing a shitty job singing.

the truth is, i was just so psyched to finally play on conan and to just be there that i didn’t give a shit about anything but rockin out. which is why we looked so damn good… which at the end of the day is WAYYY more important than singing 😉

thanks to anyone who got our backs on the boards. every band is allowed to blow it from time to time. at least when we blow it, we still look sweet.

speaking of looking sweet, i gotta get some beauty rest–i got prom tomorrow!
xoxox
gabe

Life In Your Way Say Goodbye

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Life In Your Way have decided to call it a day. A message posted on the bands website can be read below.

It has become apparent to us that ending now on a good note would be the best way to go out for Life In Your Way. Of course there are specific reasons why it is a good time to end the over 9 years of music, touring, band member changes, hundreds of different merchandise designs, passions and frustrations of being in a band for that long. There is no reason to get into each one; they are just the obvious if you know the life of musicians in this kind of scene.

We’ve loved every minute of it! Some or our biggest joys in life has come from being in this group. Meeting people all around the country and world, getting to know some of our favorite bands and building relationships that outlast a band or a genre. This has been the biggest blessing. The music we’ve been able to write, producers we’ve been amazed with and record labels that have believed in us has been a dream come true. We hope our music will live on for people, having a strong grasp on fans and new fans to come. Without music the world would be entirely boring and even more self-destructive. All in all, LIYW has in no way been a waste of time for any of its members!

We are still looking and waiting for where each one of us may go off to. There has been talk about doing another band with most of the members. It is a definite that we will all be involved in music for the rest of our lives. You can be on the look out for where each one of us might put our time into musically.

We’d like to thank the following people and groups for their support, only more recent ones because the list would go on for ever from the past 9 years: Chad and Solid State/Tooth & Nail, Jay and Seth @ Buzzgrinder, Jay @ Daybreak Media, James and Faveur Fashion, Adam and Charlie @ ThreeBears, Rob and Dan @ Guitar Center Manchester, James and PrintIndie, Joshua @ Merchspin, Jesse and Joshua @ The Anchor in Nashville/Anchor Stage, Ryan Rado, Tara Ruttle @ Back Bay Booking, Scott @ Kobra Klutch, Greg @ Silver Bullet Studios, Orange Amps, Truth Drums, Ernie Ball and most importantly our families, friends, all the great bands we know, The local kids from Connecticut and anyone who has bought a CD of ours.

The band is not over this moment. LIYW is coming up on a full US tour w/ Burden of a Day, Means, For Today and In Fear & Faith. This tour will definitely be the last for most of the country. It will be doing a small tour to Cornerstone in IL. Either way, the last will be local, in Connecticut. We will have some of our favorite bands play (our best friends in music). We’d ask for all to come out, young and old. We will be pulling out old material, songs from all 3 records. This grand finale will happen in late June to July.

Come and catch the last show near you.

Thanks. Joshua and Life In Your Way