The Next Two Months

Gigs

Before I get all up in the personal space, I have a few gigs that are #1 priority in my book for you guys to know about!

Thursday, March 26 – 95Hyde interview with DJ Victoria at Boston University’s Radio Station WTBU from 8-10pm. We’ll be doing a live acoustic set too! Listen here.

Sunday, March 29 – I’M BEING A CELEBRITY JUDGE in Vermont Has Talent this Sunday at the Barre Opera House, 3:00PM. My Vermont friends, I miss your faces. Come have lunch with me before the event!

Friday, April 10 – Healing Tones for Hasbro with 95Hyde, Cat Has Claws, Sic Vita, and the Dust Ruffles. The benefit is for Hasbro Children’s Hospital and hosted at University of Rhode Island’s Ballroom Dance Club. The event starts at 7:00PM. $5 with Student ID/$7 to the public.

Friday, April 17 – 95Hyde at PA’s Lounge in Somerville, MA with We Are Ambushed, Lure of the Animal, and Big Time Kill. Bostonians come get a drink with us! Doors at 8:30PM. Video link soon!

Back In the Saddle Again

I’m so stoked to be gigging again after this brutal winter. You’d think I’m getting complacent or something. If I didn’t have that itch to be on stage killing my inner demons with music, I’d be a sad, sad person.

This Tuesday Cam, Jon and I are going to get a practice going for our interview/acoustic show on WTBU. The DJ, Victoria, is so passionate about music. She’s talented, too. She not only DJs, she writes for HOWL magazine. I met her over a phone interview last summer in addition to a gig we had in Lowell and she’s the sweetest person. I’m wicked jelly, she’s just getting back from SXSW now! I better be careful, half this interview might be me salivating over SXSW stories. Her writing about 95Hyde can be found here.

Another thing I love to do besides performing music is helping young entertainers. I’m honored to be a judge for Vermont Has Talent this Sunday. They’re a nonprofit that helps young performers in Vermont area gain recognition for their talent. In addition, the proceeds from this event go to support the Miss Vermont Organization's Scholarship Fund. My friend Susan got in contact with me to help them out and I couldn’t be happier to do so! She’s a talented singer/songwriter herself. (Check out her music!) The grand prize for this event is $500. I’ll be posting on instagram/tweeting/social media’ing the HECK out of this thing, but if you can be there in person to support these young adults it’d be even better.

April 10 for the Hasbro Children’s Hospital is another event for everyone. Proceeds go towards helping children. I don’t know of any other cause more worthy. Our friends The Dust Ruffles are performing with us again and I can’t wait to see them! This’ll be 95Hyde’s debut at URI as well.

Dave Crespo, the man of the Boston Music Industry and co-DJ with Carmelita on WAAF’s Bay State Rock sent me a message last month about a show at PA’s on April 17 and I had to jump on the opportunity. (Did I mention he’s the man?) We’ll be performing with some fantastic bands, too. 95Hyde’s making a video right now for the event that I’ll post as soon as it’s done. The show is on a Friday, which means you have no excuse but to come out and party with us in Somerville. I’ll sing you something you’ll know.

Life. What’s the meaning of it?

That’s about it in my life right now. Nope, no wait. I take that back. There’s a ton going on, haha. If you didn’t catch it on my social media posts, I wrote an article on the 2015 Winter NAMM Show that got published in Berklee’s Music Business Journal this past month. I’d mean a lot to me if you gave it a read. :]

I’m also a co-director of Berklee’s Heavy Rotation Records this semester. We had our record release show this past February and had 500 people attend. (BAM!) Having my own band is great, but helping other bands really rounds out the musician/marketing experience. All of our artists have members that attend Berklee, and there’s literally a genre for everyone in our music. Check out our roster here.

All of this being said, I’M GRADUATING IN MAY. WHERE THE HELL DID TIME GO? I’ll have a BM in two months (with some sort of music business major thrown in there).

The big question my peers and I are asking ourselves: where do we go from here?

My band is my love. Music’s my life. Gaming is my escape. If I can find a way to encompass all of those things into a service or product and monetize it, I’d be the happiest person on earth. That’s the goal, friends.

Speaking of gaming, I’m streaming World of Warcraft now! I spent so many hours last week making my Twitch channel pretty and professional. Still not done yet, but I’m getting there! My game time has been divided into brainstorming ways to have engaging streams and analyzing discipline priest logs. My apologies if that last sentence was a foreign language to you. To my nerd friends who get it, I’m buying you coffee.

I’d immensely appreciate it if you tuned in Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 9:30EST-12:30EST. I love talking and I especially love talking on the Internet. Sometimes I even whip out a guitar and serenade my viewers. I take requests. I’ll be streaming TONIGHT! To those who watch gaming streams from time to time: what experiences keep you watching a streamer’s channel? What do you want to see in a gaming stream?

I think that’s it for now. Keep on keepin’ on.