Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Essay Contest!! (No, really!)
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RS&RB is now accepting essays for its “I Can Be An Awesome MC at
the Sandy Amphitheater CD Release Concert” competition. In 500 words
or less, please convince us you deserve free tickets to the concert,
and that you can effectively manipulate a crowd of thousands into a
music-loving frenzy. Please include any special or rare talents you
might incorporate, describe the eye-catching outfit you would don, and
approximate the verbiage you might employ on stage to aptly introduce
the band.
Thank you. All submissions due by May 25th. Email entries to comments@shupe.net.
Friday, April 18, 2008
The Return With Awesome Tour
Last night the band played two shows at Country Thunder in Florence, Arizona. This is the first show of the year to kick off what the band has called the "Return With Awesome" tour.
Monday, March 24, 2008
You like? iLike!!
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Hey all, click the iLike button below to be our friend on iLike, and with the magical iTunes sidebar available for download from iLike.com, you can stay updated, informed, and hear new music right from your iTunes! Brilliant!
Monday, March 10, 2008
2008 tour
As we're getting ready to tour this year, we just want to thank all of you who have been using our Eventful button on our myspace page- it says "Demand It" and if you click on it, you can do just that. Demand our show in your city and we will probably come play there! : If you haven't seen our myspace page yet it is:
We can't wait to see everybody out on the road!
Monday, February 25, 2008
New record label, new album, new sound!
Attention Shupe Fans- the new album is almost done! It looks like it will be released in late May. The band is very excited about the new album and their new Record Label. The band signed with an exciting independent record label called Montage Records a few months ago. Together with Montage, the band has started planning the release of the new album this Spring.
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
New album
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Happy New Year everybody! Just thought you'd want to know we are going into the studio on January 7th to start recording our new album. We are excited to get our new songs out to you as soon as possible so we will be putting in long hours- every day until it is finished. This will be our best album yet, so be looking for it around springtime!
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Christmas Tour
"The Gift" Christmas Tour is going extremely well. The band has loved the first three performances of the tour in Logan, Orem, and Sandy. The audiences have had such great energy and the band has been feeding off of it to put on show stopping performances. The tour looks like it may very well become an annual event!
Monday, November 19, 2007
The Gift Tour - Announced!
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The band has co-founded an incredible Christmas tour called "The Gift" that will kick off Nov. 30th with performances at 5 Wasatch front venues. They will be joined by Peter Breinholt and Sam Payne for a night unlike any other, filled with the joy of the season and a unique opportunity to join the band in giving back to the community through charity and celebrate the spirit of giving. Go to www.thegifttour.org to purchase tickets and to see more about the tour.
Read on for more details!
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Arizona
The band will be playing 3 shows by popular demand in Arizona this month (on Nov. 10, 14, and 15). They decided to keep these shows nice and intimate to make these events memorable and fun for fans. The boys look forward to meeting everybody at the shows and can't wait to be back for some good times in the warm Arizona sun.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
sound stretching, unicorns, etc
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More and more rehearsals for the new album- the band is in rare form. A long list of songs is coming together and everybody is excited to get in the studio soon. Ryan and the band have been inspired lately and the songs are expanding to embrace a broad spectrum of subjects and musical styles, in characteristic RubberBand fashion, there are no limits and no boxes to fit into, just music that mixes everything and anything together to stretch your mind. It will be the best album to date!
As a reference to the kind of sonic explorations you can expect please refer to this excellent guide that the band has found very useful.
Go here immediately:
http://www.oneletterwords.com/unicorn/green/
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
East Coast Tour highlights
The east coast has been very good to the band. They returned yesterday from their tour from the Nation's Capital all the way down to Music City. The shows ranged from intimate clubs like the Iota in Arlington, VA to sold out 4,000+ crowds like the Asheville Brewgrass festival and a packed house in Chapel Hill, NC opening up for the great Amos Lee. All along the way the band was amazed at the incredible reception they received as they toured through the hills of Appalachia with its rich acoustic music heritage.
Friday, August 17, 2007
The winged buffalo takes flight
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The summer is winding down, but the music is heating up! The band has been in the wood shed pounding out new material and getting ready for some big upcoming shows. Roger says the next couple of shows are going to be "sick". And we all have to agree- after a long summer of shows, the band is most definitely in rare form these days. So if you haven't seen them yet this summer, or even if you have, there is no better way to wrap up the summer than joining the party with all the Shupe fans out there! Read on for a special treat...
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Creaky halls and raging fiddles in Colorado
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The band recently played at the famous Hotel Colorado to a packed room with 100-year-old dimly twinkling chandeliers to a wild intimate crowd in the hotel where Doc Holliday used to live.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
New Website additions! Rebirth of the Shupe Group!
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The band decided, after feeling lonesome on those long highway stretches across the country this summer, that they want to be in better touch with their fans. You'll see some brand new additions to the site--most importantly the Shupe Group in the menu at the top. This is the band's street team- a group of like-minded fans who have a fever, and the only prescription is promoting the band's shows wherever they may be. Shupe Groupers will find a button to click to sign up as part of this exclusive team and will get free stuff from the band like tickets to shows etc. for their efforts to promote shows. Go there now and sign up!
Monday, July 09, 2007
RS&RB has a field day in Logan
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The band played to a 20,000+ crowd in the Utah State Stadium in Logan on Wednesday. The stands were packed, but the band was surrounded by vast fields of green astro turf. The audience was held back from watching the band front and center on the astro turf because there was potential for damage. So the band took full advantage of their opportunity to run around like headless chickens all over the vast fields of fake grass to their heart's content.
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Monday, June 18, 2007
Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand take over Seattle on Thursday
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Tune into 94.1 KMPS in Seattle June 21, THIS THURSDAY in the morning.
(Or go to KMPS.com to hear the boys live on the internet). Ryan Shupe
& the RubberBand will be the co-hosts for the whole morning show on
this popular station on Thursday from 7 am to 10 am. You should call in
at (206) 421-KMPS and harass them, they would enjoy that.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Ryan's pet monkey just had a baby!
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News flash! Ryan's pet monkey has had a baby! It is already learning to climb the small tree in his front yard. It is very cute. We all like to watch it through the window while we blast through new frontiers of sound at rehearsal.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Sandy Amphitheater tickets selling fast!
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The tickets for the Sandy Amphitheater show (on June 8) went on sale
Friday and Sandy city has reported that it was the craziest day they
have ever had. It looks like the tickets will be sold out soon. So if
you want to be at probably the best show of the year, get your tickets
now!
The band is in intense practice sessions working on their new album and
working up their stage show for this summer. They will debut new
never-before-heard songs from their upcoming album at the Sandy
Amphitheater show, so don't miss it!
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
The band gears up for big shows this weekend
If you are anywhere near Boise, ID or Spokane, WA this weekend, you don't want to miss the shows at the Big Easy. The band has been practicing hard lately to get pumped up for these shows. The Spokane show will be "kind of a big deal" as Bart puts it, because he will be returning to his hometown.
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Friday, May 04, 2007
New Album in the works!
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Sorry for the long delay on the latest news about the band. They have been slammed for the past few weeks in intense practice sessions to jam on songs for their upcoming new album! Yesterday Ryan unveiled some never-before-heard songs that are going to cause paint to spontaneously peel from the walls and men and women, boys and girls, will run wild in the streets and clap their hands in the air with joy! Yes. It is that good. No. You should not operate heavy machinery while listening to it.
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