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The summer of 2008 was a good one for Iridesense...for the most part...
At the end of August 2008, the band played a great show at the Harry Chapin Theater at Eisenhower Park in support of our troops at the Playgroundz.net / USO "Long Island Rocks for Freedom" event. This was a dream gig for Tara & Rick, because growing up in nearby Merrick, they used to frequent the park’s grounds and always wanted to play this historic stage. The band played with fill in musician extraordinaire, Sean Llewellyn on bass, because Tara had broken her elbow in a tragic bike accident in early August. She is healing nicely, but will require a few weeks of physical therapy to get back in playing shape.
The band was featured on the cover of the Aural Fix July 2008 issue, which was widely distributed at the second annual Great South Bay Music Festival held at Shorefront Park in the highly artistic town of Patchogue.
In June 2008, the new CD entitled, "A Trip Called Life" is officially released!!! The record, on the Paradiddle Records label, contains songs that the band had been in the studio recording for the past several months. The band submitted this new batch of songs again to Nickelodeon, who licensed the music to appear in upcoming episodes of iCarly and Drake & Josh.
The band also set up a rehearsal room at Rick’s Ronkonkoma home, where they’ve been jamming & putting together pieces of new music written by the individual members.
In 2007, Iridesense was a semi finalist in the Shift 2 Nissan Battle of the Bands, their music can be heard on the Nickelodeon shows Zoe 101 (featuring Jaime Lynn Spears - sister to Britney) and Drake & Josh and was featured on a roster of MTV shows such as Pimp My Ride, Room Raiders, NEXT and more! They also recently signed licensing deals with the Pump Audio and Song and Film agencies, and will be hitting the small and big screen much more in 2007.
The year 2006 was a busy one for the band with regular dates in NYC, and all over Long Island including their monthly songwriter series at The Conklin Barn and headlining shows at the outdoor Chapin Rainbow Theatre in Huntington, Long Island. They also played a performance for the nationwide Verizon FiOS Festival (which had a corresponding web video contest online for the song "Gasoline"). The band was a featured performer for Fleet Week at Central Park Summerstage in NYC, and their most recent history has brought them several TV and radio appearances in support of their Summer-Fall (2006) east coast tour including a taping of an episode of the MTV show "Boiling Points." They were also chosen as a sponsored band by Sam Ash Music Stores.
In 2004-2005, they played for 13,000 sports fans as between period entertainment at a New York Islanders NHL game, then played a sold out engagement with Something Corporate and another with Gin Blossoms. They were also semi finalists (top 20 out of 1000’s of entries nationwide) in the National "Be A Radio Star" Competition where they received airplay in rotation at Z100 radio in NY in addition to a nationally broadcast radio interview with Elvis Duran from the Z Morning Zoo and actress Amanda Bynes. They were prominently displayed on Newsday.com’s Impulse nightlife section as the subject of a skit with the comedy series The Slack Pack, and finished a LIVE DVD EPK concert video at Streamring Networks of their soon to be hit song "Gasoline."
2003 saw the release of "Iridesense" on LLJ Records, which was preceded by the 1997 release "Cool Dream Tomorrow" on Rock Diva records.
Here is a brief history of what came before:
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RECENT MUSIC CONFERENCES/SHOWCASES:
CMJ - NYC
IntelFest - NYC
National Musicians Showcase - NYC, NY
EAT’M Conference - Las Vegas, NV
Canadian Music Week - Toronto, Canada
Route 1 South Music Conference - Richmond, VA
Played at NY Islanders Game @ Nassau Coliseum, LI, NY
Cutting Edge Music Conference - New Orleans, LA
Played with Women in Rock Showcase @ Cutting Room, NYC
Played with City Canyons Showcase @ Village Underground, NYC
Played the BMI Showcase @ Living Room and Hotel Galvez, NYC
Played the USA Songwriting @ Red Lion, NYC
Philadelphia Music Conference - Philadelphia, PA
Rock N’ Mania Benefit - Knitting Factory, NYC
RECENT TV/FILM/RADIO APPEARANCES:
Tracks licensed to MTV Networks 07 slate
Tracks licensed to Song and Film agency
Tracks licensed to Pump Audio
Tracks licensed to Nickelodeon
FOX 5 Good Day NY Spotlight NYC, NY
NEWS 12 Interview LI, NY
Tracks licensed to Oxygen Media
Tracks licensed to MTV Real World/Road Rules
one of the NY Winners and National Semifinalist for Z100 radio in the Radio Star Contest
Newsday.com Impulse Section feature with The Slack Pack
WLIR Interview with Harlan Friedman "Tristate Sound"
WLIR Interview with Bob, Taryn and Joe "Munchaba LIVE"
WLIR Interview with Brian Mannix "Tristate Sound"
WBAB Features on "Homegrown"
Q104 Feature with Jonathan Clarke, "Out Of The Box"
Radio play on over 50 College stations including: WUSB, WCWP, WRHU
Featured on "The Joe Show", Queens, NY
Featured on "Spotlight NY", LI, NY
Featured on "Streamring Networks", LI, NY
Featured on "LT1", LI, NY
Featured on "LT1: The Jill Morrison Show", LI, NY
Big Sympathy Video (director Nils Nissen)
Dangerous Video (director Nils Nissen)
RECENT TOUR DATES:
Boston (MA), Washington (DC), Kentucky, St. Louis (MO), Los Angeles (CA), San Francisco (CA), Denver (CO), Chicago (IL), Cornell (NY), Ithaca (NY), Syracuse (NY), Albany (NY), UMASS (MA), Oneonta (NY), New Jersey, Rhode Island, Philadelphia (PA), Toronto (Canada), Richmond (VA), New Orleans (LA) & more
NATIONAL ACT SUPPORT APPEARANCES:NATIONAL ACT SUPPORT APPEARANCES:
Played with Spin Doctors @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with Blue Oyster Cult @ Brookhaven Ampitheatre, LI, NY
Played with Eddie Money @ Brookhaven Ampitheatre, LI, NY
Played with Edwin McCain @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with Gin Blossoms @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with Something Corporate @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with Tiffany @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with Tonic @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with Sugar Ray @ Stony Brook University, LI, NY
Played with Fountains Of Wayne @ The Vanderbilt, LI, NY
Played with Lucinda Williams in LA, CA
Played with Fefe Dobson @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with Brian VanderArk of The Verve Pipe @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with Men At Work @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with Duncan Sheik @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with Matt Nathanson @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with Ours @ Mulcahys, LI
Played with Sev @ The Vanderbilt, LI, NY
Played with Nine Days @ Shine, Battery Park and Nitengales NYC, Mulcahys, The Downtown and The Spot, LI, NY
Played with Antigone Rising @ The Downtown, LI, NY and The Bitter End NYC
Played with Stage @ Mercury Lounge, NYC and Mulcahys, LI
Played with The Tea Party @ The Westbeth Theatre, NYC
Played with Royston Langdon of Spacehog @ Arlene Grocery, NYC
Played with Corey Glover of Living Colour @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with Ronnie Spector @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with Bootleg Beatles @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with The Fab Faux @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with Randy Jackson of Zebra @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with Berlin @ The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with The Fixx @ Bridgeview, LI, NY
Played with The Alarm @ The Vanderbilt, LI, NY & The Downtown, LI, NY
Played with Modern English @ NCI, LI, NY
Played with The Bogmen @ Bogies, Albany, NY
Played with Tower of Power @ Stephen Talkhouse, LI, NY
Played with Yellowman @ Stephen Talkhouse, LI, NY
Introduced by Joan Jett @ Big Easy, LI, NY
RELEASES/COMPILATIONS:
"Cool Dream Tomorrow" (Rock Diva Records)
"Iridesense" (LLJ Records)
"Gasoline" (PopCore Recordings)
Featured in the Paradiddle Records Dylan compilation "Uncovered
Featured in the Raven Records Beatles compilation "Beatlejuice"
Featured in the Indie Talent Services Compilation "2002"
Featured in the Gold Records Music compilation "Unleashed"
Featured in the On Top Management compilation ".1"
Featured in the Music Search Compilation "1997"
Featured in the Music Search Compilation "1998"
Featured in the L.I.M.C compilation ".1"
Featured in the L.I.M.C compilation "911-2"
Featured in the L.I. Voice compilation "Jilted"
Featured in the Rodell Records compilation "Diamonds in the Rough"
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