Tag: Hockey
It’s Never “Too Fake” with Hockey
by Joy on Nov.16, 2009, under Events, Magazines, VTech, Video
Here it is. The third and final video from the Portland, OR. band, Hockey from their recent appearance at SPIN’s Manhattan office rooftop for a special SPINHouse Live event sponsored by VTech during CMJ this year. “Too Fake” is from their album, Mind Chaos and now on the Sounds of VTech for you to enjoy.
Enter The VTech/Hockey Giveaway!
by Joy on Nov.03, 2009, under Magazines, Other, VTech
Hockey (photo by Emilia Costa)
We’ve teamed up with our friends over at SPIN Magazine to give one lucky SPIN.com reader the chance to win a poster signed by the band Hockey, plus a vinyl copy of their new album Mind Chaos! and an amazing VTech IS9181WiFi Internet Radio. And all you have to do is enter.
Spotlight guests of SPIN’s SPINHouse Live’s CMJ 2009, Hockey, the dance-rock band from Portland, Oregon, wowed guests and staffers a like with their infectious performance on the roof. If you missed their performance, here’s a chance to win a few prizes and tell your friends, “It was like I was there..”
And with the VTech IS9181 WiFi Internet Radio, you can rock out to Hockey as often as you’d like. Not only is this a state of the art stereo system that lets you tune into over 11,000 internet stations from around the globe, with preset functions, access to your local weather with five day forecast, and more. It also hooks up to your MP3 player or CD player and can be used in the home, on the beach (it runs on batteries), and anywhere with WiFi!! So sit back and enjoy the two 3W Hi-Fidelity stereo speakers, a 10W subwoofer and class D amplifiers and let the Sounds of VTech take you away with the IS9181.
Click HERE for your chance to win!!
Check out how super producer Exile gets along with his VTech IS9181 WiFi Radio…
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On the SPIN Rooftop at CMJ With HOCKEY
by Joy on Oct.26, 2009, under Concerts & Tours, Events, Festivals, Magazines, Photo, VTech
All the way from Portland, Oregon, HOCKEY took the stage at the latest edition of SPINhouse Live series on Thursday night, presented by VTech and rocked the crowd with their music and charm. This dance-rock band entertained an intimate crowd of 200 on the rooftop of SPIN’s downtown Manhattan office as part of last week’s CMJ Music Festival.
With a setlist with songs like “Work,” “3am Spanish,” “Learn to Lose,” “Song Away,” “Too Fake,” and “Put the Game Down,” Hockey’s set was as tight as their pants. Their six-song show pulled from the group’s recently released debut, Mind Chaos, combined retro dance-punk with synth-heavy New Wave. A mix of genres leading to a most contagious hodge-podge of song.
“Work” had bassist Jeremy “Jerm” Reynolds showing off his prodigious 4-string skills amid countless flashing iPhones, while “Put the Game Down” alternated between a club-ready dance groove, courtesy of keyboardist Ryan Dolliver and drummer Anthony Stassi, and balls-out arena-rock, courtesy of Brian White’s schizoid guitar solo.
Grubin’s voice is a big, scraggly, soulful thing equally at home spittin’ pseudo-rhymes (as he did on “3am Spanish”) and belting the blues (as he did on “Learn to Lose”).
And Grubin is also a humble hipster. “We actually played on a roof once in San Francisco. It took us like two hours to move our stuff up there and there were like four people,” Grubin grinned. “This is much better.”
*photos by Emilia Costa and Ian Witlen
On Thursday, SPIN + VTech = A Night With HOCKEY
by Joy on Oct.21, 2009, under Events, Magazines, Other, VTech
This Thursday, October 22nd, spend the evening with SPIN Magazine’s September Issue’s “Breaking Out” group, HOCKEY. SPINHouse Live, a launching point of some of today’s biggest musical acts such as Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, and Silversun Pickups, brings you Hockey during CMJ 2009 with its groundbreaking quarterly series. With their sound compared to bands such as The Strokes and LCD Soundsystem, members Benjamin Grubin, Brian White, Jeremy Reynolds, and Anthony Stassi have made their way to the John Peel Stage at Glastonbury earlier this year to international music festival spanning the globe.
VTech is proud to pair up with SPIN for these private acoustic sets for an invite-only audience, where you’ll experience first hand, what all the buzz is really about.
RSVP: SPINHOUSELIVE@SPIN.COM
This Week VTech Heads to CMJ, Come Along
by Joy on Oct.19, 2009, under Events, Festivals, Magazines, Other, VTech
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This year, VTech heads to CMJ in New York City where we’ll join forces with Bilal, Spinna, J. Rocc, Exile, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Thundercat, the Beat Junkies, Hockey and more, bringing you the best in music.
We hope to see you all there.
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