We Expected Something

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Hey, tonight’s the night of the New Times Music Awards Show!  They did this write up about the event and I get a little shoutout, check it out!

  http://www.newtimesslo.com/art/6785/last-years-models-make-way-/

Pretty cool to be in the papers from time to time.  Thanks a ton everyone for your help and support with the New Times Music Awards thing, I appreciate it!  So I’m not playing tonight (which *spoilers* means I don’t win first place), but I’ll be there to receive my 2nd or 3rd place award and the other acts should be amazing!  See ya there,

-loren

Gather Wine Bar!

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Hey guys,

I hope you’re doing well.

I’ve got a concert coming up at the Gather Wine Bar in the old village of Arroyo Grande.  You’ve probably heard of it, this place is great, and they have live music aaaall the time.  I’ve played there a few times before in fact.  It’s a great place to hang out and I am so excited to have a show in a proper venue again after such a long stretch of outdoor Farmer’s Market shows (which are fun, don’t get me wrong, but there’s something special about being in a good room with a receptive crowd).

I’ll have free download cards to hand out of my new song Never Let Me Go (maybe you’ve heard it?) and I’ll be playing a lot of brand new songs for the first time, including one no one’s ever heard called Walk You Home that just placed in the New Times Music Awards!  I don’t find out exactly what place I got until the Awards event on October 13th, but it’s really exciting to just be included.  Anyway if you wanna hear the winning song, come to the show!  It is 21 and over, and there’s no cover charge for paying customers.

Hope you can make it, tell your friends,

-loren

Never Let Me Go

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Hey!

I’ve released the first single from my upcoming album and it’s a new-ish song called Never Let Me Go!

So I wrote this song sometime last year, finally recorded it over the last few months with my Dad producing and running the studio.  This features yours truly on the guitar, bass and vocals, with Max Triplett on the drums.  My brother Ryan Radis provided the artwork, isn’t it neato??

Well, you can listen to this song all you want for free RIGHT NOW by going to the music section, you can even share it to your facebook page or twitter or whatever the cool new thing is nowadays.  I haven’t made it available for purchase yet but if you were one of the lucky ones who saw me play at Farmer’s last night then you probably went away with a free download card, lucky you!

Thanks everyone, hope you like it, there’s plenty more to come!  Including news about my official entry to the 2011 New Times Music Awards!  Talk to you soon!

-loren

New Single – FREE DOWNLOAD!

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Hey!

I’ve been doing a lot of recording, as you may know, for my upcoming album and for the New Times Music Awards (Deadline is the 5th, I’m nearly ready!). I’ve got an awesome version of my new-ish song called “Never Let Me Go” recorded and I’m releasing it as a single!

You can listen to it right now at music.lorenradis.com if you like, but the only way to get a download of it is to come to my Farmer’s Show tomorrow night (Thursday the 1st) and buy a little something, I’m giving away free downloads with every purchase!

Hope to see you there, I’m on Chorro Street in SLO from 6:30 to 8:30 on Thursday September 1st!

-loren

-loren

Last Minute Show Tonight!

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Hey, if you’re reading this anytime on Thursday the 11th, then I’ve got a show tonight at Fin’s in Grover Beach from 5:30 to 8:30!  I got invited by the talented Natalie Haskins to share the three hour slot with her and a few other local acts, it should be a good time!  Anywho, it’s at the end of Grand Avenue in Grover Beach : 25 West Grand Avenue
Grover Beach, CA 93433-1934 , Hope to see you there!

Of course, if you’re reading this after Friday then… I had a show last night at Fin’s and it was awesome!  Sorry you couldn’t be there :\

Thanks!

-loren

New Times Music Awards 2011!!!

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Hey everybody, They’re having the New Times Music Awards again this year.  I have a history of winning places other than 1st (I got 3rd in 2009 and 2nd and 3rd in two categories in 2010) and I think this is a tradition I’d like to continue, so I’ll be entering again this year, Two Thousand and Eleven!

I need to pick some songs to enter, so I’m putting up a list of the ones I’m considering as well as links to where you can hear them all.

You let me know which one/ones you like, and feel free to ask about songs that aren’t included in this list that you think I should consider too!

Thanks a lot, I don’t even know where to start here so your input is much appreciated.  Talk to you later!

NTMA 2011 Demos by loren radis

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

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The website’s changing!

I added a CDBaby store widget to the store page, you can listen to my music on any page of the site now with the sidebar bandcamp player (it’s over there to your right!),  the music page is a lot cooler (it’s my bandcamp page integrated into the website, fancy huh?), and the whole look is well… plainer than before!  The plain look is due to the fact that my artistic ability is mostly centered around music, when it comes to visual arts the things that I try to do are usually not incredible.  So if anyone out there wants to make me an awesome looking website, well, I wouldn’t object to that.

What else what else… Oh right!  I’m recording!  Every spare minute has been spent writing, recording, arranging, working on album name and art ideas, and playing Settlers of Catan… I can’t lie, I love that game.  But I’ve written two new songs recently and I’m getting some REALLY good work done in the studio with 100% new material, so those of you who’ve been coming to all my shows asking whether I have a new CD out or not, well, the answer’s still no but… we’re Closer Now Than Ever Before!  Thanks for sticking with me, I’ve got a few ideas to start making it more worth your while to check out the site and read the e-mails I send, like free downloads of new covers and fun stuff like that.  So stay tuned, thanks again, talk to you later!

-loren

p.s. If I were to re-record a newer and awesomer version of an older song for the new CD, which one(s) do you think didn’t get a fair shake the first time around?  Or which one(s) would you like to hear re-imagined?  Leave a comment or e-mail me at lorenradismusic@gmail.com to let me know!  Thanks guys.

Life Water International

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I don’t do this super often but I wanna talk about someone other than me for a change, ha.




Life Water International is an international aid organization based here in San Luis Obispo that brings clean drinking water to communities world-wide that otherwise would go without. Here’s an excerpt from their mission statement on their website (http://www.lifewater.org).

“Together with in-country partners and the local communities themselves, Lifewater pursues these three overarching goals:

  • Community well-being improved through water, sanitation, and hygiene education (WASH).
  • Empowered communities. Community members manage their own sustainable water systems and sanitation facilities.
  • Spiritual transformation. Communities experience restored relationships between people, with God, and with their natural environment. “

Anyway, they’re up for a grant from Giving Of Life (.com) that would be such an incredible gift if they won it. You can help by going to this link and voting for the Lifewater project. They don’t ask you to sign up for their newsletter or surrender any personal information, you don’t even need an account to vote. If this project speaks to you, go vote for it and let your friends know about it so they can do the same, and thanks!



http://givingoflife.com/browse/lifewater_international/

One More Time, With Feeling!

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I’m playing at Farmer’s Market again! This Thursday, the 7th, on Chorro Street! I haven’t had two in a row like this in a long time, should be fun! Last week was totally awesome, thanks a ton to everyone who stopped by to listen, dance, chat, buy a CD, all that good stuff!

Anyway, I’ll be there from 6:30 to 8:30, hope to see you!

-loren