Hey dudersons, our budz in Me Vs. Myself have a show coming up at Neumo's with Daphne Loves Derby.

This is going to be a verrrryyy fun and important show, and it would be awesome if everyone would come out to this one.

The show is on February 21st and tickets are $10. If you're interested, email me at jessie[at]raincityambience.com and you can come buy a ticket from me.

If you haven't been out to a show in a while, or are just completely over the music scene here, you should definitely go to this show. I…

After months of anticipation, our friends in Me Vs. Myself are streaming their complete EP Seasons on their Myspace page, check it out here! They've also gone live with a new Myspace layout courtesy of yours truly. Check out what people are saying on Absolute Punk!

And most importantly, today is also the release of their music video for Promising directed by our favorite Ryan Kam. Click on the image below to watch the video on Ryan's vimeo page, or go to the bands Myspace to watch it on their page.

This flyer is kind of huge and overbearing, but I would say that the cause is worth the space.

Definitely check out Carly Henley, a friend of ours who is playing at 8:30, and our new friends in Corner State, who are playing at 10:20.

The minimum donation for the show is only $5, and ALL proceeds go towards humanitarian efforts in Haiti. The event is being held at the Columbia City Center in Seattle.

Here's the full lineup:

8:30-9:00 Carly Henley
9:10-9:35 Zach Trandum
9:45-10:10 Jennifer Newberry
10:20-10:45 Corner State (Myspace.com/CornerState)…

The Ghost Inside and For The Fallen Dreams? This sounds like Christmas morning to me. Kelly, you want to come with me and take pictures?

As a teenager, my two favorite times of the year were around Warped Tour and Take Action, because I knew that with those tours came kickass compilation albums at a low, low price of $6. Every year. These albums never let me down, and I would always end up finding a band to support that I had never given a chance before. To be quite honest, not much has changed between then and now-- I still get stoked for Warped Tour, and Take Action still does a great job of raising money for those in need. I mean seriously, how…

Are you ready for the Hexxus CD release show? We definitely are!

Our pals in Man Without Wax have posted a new demo on their Myspace page. The song is titled I Don't Care, and is accompanied by two other demos. They can all be heard on Myspace.

And just because we LOVE end-of-the-year-oh-when-will-they-ever-end lists so much, here is Man Without Wax's lists of 2009!:

From absolutepunk.net...

Spencer Mertel - vocals and keys
Top Albums of 2009
1. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
2. Muse - The Resistance
3. Dethklok - Dethalbum II
4. Flight Of The Conchords - I Told You I Was…

Seattle natives New Heights have had a lot on their plate lately, and right now they are having a Christmas sale at their Big Cartel merch shop.



Order their recent EP, Starting Again, at their online merch store. The album is $7 alone, but you can purchase a CD package of both Starting Again and their older EP, Worlds, for $10. There is also a CD/t-shirt package for $20. So many options!

New Heights' next show is on February 5th at the Ethnic Cultural Theatre on the University of Washington Seattle…

I posted about this on our Facebook fan page (become a fan if you haven't already!), but I thought it needed a little more local coverage.



This Providence have just released a video for their song Keeping On Without You, which can be seen on PureVolume. The video is great, so be sure to check it out.

Northwest natives He is We have posted a live acoustic video of their song Happily Ever After on their PureVolume page.

Click the photo below to watch.

The first in a series of three blogs, here's an in depth look at my entire setup.

I literally spent hours and hours in high school studying articles like this, and dreaming up the rig I would want to have if I could travel the country playing music. Here was the drill: The only supplies needed for this fantastical game are a Musicians Friend magazine, a calculator, and a steno pad. Simply list the gear you want and add up the prices; back in the hay day it was something like a Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier, a Les Paul Custom…

It's so worth a second blog. This song is damn amazing. I can't handle how great Man Down Medic is!!!!

GAHHH. This isn't even long enough to be a blog but whatever dude, whatever.

Apparently Facebook is the new place for bands to hang out, because Man Down Medic has posted a new song on their profile. The track is titled Not Enough Trouble, and the music player is on the lower left-hand side of the page.

I don't know what makes this song so great; maybe it's the fact that before Sam showed it to me he was talking about how he had no drama to write about. Then he wrote a song about his lack of inspiration. And it's awesome.

Just listen.

From their Myspace:

"Vision and valor parts ways with Tony
After much thought and deliberation, Corey, Aaron and Ryan have decided that they can no longer continue down a musical path with Tony D'Angelo. The reasons for this are many, however we are not here to slander or defame anyone. Simply put, we have always prided ourselves on being friendly, respectful, honest, ethical, and men of a strong, sound moral code. Thus we can no longer affiliate ourselves with someone who does not share these traits.

Please allow us this opportunity to say what an absolute joy it…

I love these guys.

Director Ryan Kam just finished and posted their new video for "Run" on his Vimeo page.

You can check the video out here!

I'd have to say my weekend was definitely eventful.


Ryan Kam shot a music video for Me VS. Myself and it's going to be SICK.


I filmed some behind the scenes stuff with his iPhone so I'll be posting that within the week.

Here are a couple of photos taken by Ciera Walters from the shoot:

I must apologize for my lack of exciting blogging. Rather, for my lack of blogging in general. I've been working, helping with the editing of my video, creating a new Myspace layout for Me Vs. Myself, and trying to make time for my recently purchased guitar. (If you go back a few blog posts you can see my broken guitar and the sadness in my words for it's demise. So welcoming the arrival of this new love is a big deal!)

Any who... Nothing new in the land o' Jastinky. School starts in a week. Holy shit I just…

Day one was (apparently) a huge success. As usual, I have to work, so Bumbershoot will not be seeing me this year.

Check out the schedule online here, and feel free to submit any pictures or stories from Bumbershoot 2009! If we get enough submissions I will make a compilation of everything and post it on the site for everyone to read.

Send everything to kelly@raincityambience.com. I hope to hear from a lot of you!! And credit will be given where credit is due.

My favorite band of the day is: Danny the Champion Of The World.

With crazy Converge-esque guitar riffs and a hint of Mewithoutyou on the vocals (listen to God Oh God), this four piece is bound to turn heads. They have a video coming soon, it will be posted here on RCA when the time comes.

Go listen to them and show some love!

It has yet to be officially stated, but our (remaining) boys in On The Last Day have called it quits for the band as a whole. As you may or may not know, Carson Allen started a side project not too long ago, Me Vs. Myself. This new band is no longer a side project but a full time gig. Carson decided to leave OTLD and purse Me Vs. Myself.

However, that is not the end of the Johnson brothers musical careers. Justin (guitar) and Aaron (bass) have posted a blog on the OTLD Myspace in search…

We have a tragedy in our hands: The death of my trusty guitar. We've been in an on and off relationship for almost 2 years. Not that long, but not that short either. It was my longest relationship... (Haha...)



The story is simply that I treated it badly this last week. It's been tossed around during my video shoot (literally, in the air and down to the ground.) And today the lack of any tuning ability left in it aggravated me to the point of needing to throw it up in the air in my garage, allowing it…

Ryan Kam directed a video for "Honeybees" -- a Cavalier hit -- not too long ago. It's sick. Ryan is the man, and this song is so catchy. Click below to watch it.

First off, I added a bunch of shows to our calendar that you should go and stare at. I know I am missing some good shows, so if you think something should be posted just leave a comment and we will add it.

Our friends in Man Without Wax have posted two new demo songs on their Myspace page. MWW are taking the summer off from tour to start demoing for their next record, and have posted a blog on their Myspace as well (which I can't link to at the moment for undisclosed reasons). Ch-ch-ch-check it…

Finally done with summer quarter. Even though school hasn't really been holding me back on updating RCA or going to shows, think of how it's going to be now!

Last night, a friend of mine from Demon Hunter was in town to play a show for their mini-tour titled "Huntour." I've never seen the band live and rarely have listened to their music, but my mind was blown away last night and I've yet to find it. Seriously, if DH is ever in your city and you have the chance to go see them, I highly recommended it. The…

I took promos of Cavalier the other day. My computer crapped out midway through editing.
Mind you, I don't take band promos. They needed somebody to snap pictures on short notice.



Click for large version.

Most of them are from this park in Auburn, but it got dark and we needed some indoors ones. We got into the hospital their lead singer Stephen works at. We knew that taking pictures in hospitals is illegal, and I hope no government officials are reading this. But whatever. I don't like the coloring in this, but…

Like I said before, we are going to start covering more shows, and apparently Hexxus are our guinea pigs. Oink oink! Or maybe it's squee squee? BREEEEE.

Anywho, the show was awesome. It was the Sky Electric's first time playing in Seattle, and they killed it. Not to mention my favorite photo from the night was of their frontman, Cory. ;D Check the full blog and you can see for yourself.

We'll start the coverage off with a photo of Jessie, pointing. Oooh...


And the line..


Just a little…

The ever so popular Seattle Tattoo Expo is this weekend. August 7-9th at the Seattle Center. I've never been but I'd imagine it to be fun. Who doesn't want to go get tattooed by some of the best artists in the country?

Who wants to get matching tattoos? Omgz. Or how about RCA tattoos. Let's all go get RCA tattoos!

Or not. But anyway, tattoo expo, this weekend, fun stuff. If you've been thinking about going to get a tattoo, this is your chance. There's going to be a ton of bands playing, so that alone is worth checking out.

Hopefully we will be able to do this with more shows, because I had a lot of fun on Friday night and want to start covering concerts on a regular basis. It'll be like those cheesy nightclub pictures you always see on peoples' Myspace/Facebook pages, but they will be awesome because the music doesn't suck and everyone is cool. I didn't exactly have the gall to go up and ask people if I could take their photos for the site, but maybe I will figure out a way to avoid looking like a creepster in the future.

Also, I took…

My dear friend, sleep fiend, and RCA enthusiast/contributor Jessie Gracic is quite the musician (if you were previously unaware), and now she has some badass recordings that are up on her Myspace page.

There are five songs on the Hunters EP, which will be on iTunes within the next couple of weeks. Jessie has posted three of the tracks on her Myspace. It was all supposed to be released on August 1st, but I think she got too excited and posted them today instead.

Listen, listen, listen. She's also posted a blog with song…

I haven't been to a show in a while, so this should be fun. We will be taking photos and interviewing the band, so if you have any questions be sure to leave them in the comments.

Metal fans listen up! The Sky Electric is a brand new band out of Seattle, but it is comprised of many familiar faces. Previous members of From Aphony, Dance, and Ameretta have gotten together and are prepared to melt faces.

With the recent addition of vocalist, Cory, TSE are complete, and have posted a brand new song on their Myspace page for your listening pleasure. An EP is also in the works, but a release date is not yet clear.

The Sky Electric will be playing their first show at El Corazon on August 5th.

Long-time Seattle favorites, The Scene Aesthetic, are back in action with the release of their new EP, A Type & A Shadow, coming up on July 14th. The Destiny Worldwide duo have posted a new song, Come What May, on their Myspace page, along with a brand new layout to match the album art. Spiffy.

Pre-order the new album on SmartPunk today! There's even an autographed CD/DVD/t-shirt bundle that you can snag for 20 bones.

Also, remember that Destiny Worldwide are still looking for interns...

After driving about 13 straight hours from Modesto CA, TP is back home!
I haven't played a "home show" yet with the guys, so this should be cool. Seattle is like my second home. I've seen many shows at the (in)famous El Corazon, and am pretty stoked to finally play it!
This "Let's Make A Mess" tour has been amazing so far- great crowds with a lot of enthusiasm. It makes even mediocre nights of playing feel like a great show. So thanks to anyone who has come out so far, and I hope you Seatteleans can come this fine…

I've spent the last few days trying to figure out what I could say in my first blog since Kelly asked me to be involved with this project.

Verdict: I've got nothing.

But if Rain City Ambience is anything like all the college papers I wrote, then I can just BS my way to an A- or so. (In high school my English teacher called it "fluffing it up". I call it honest writing)

But the real reason for all of this is not to lecture you about how to go about your dissertations (if you have any. And if…

I have been wanting to write about this since the second I got back from listening to the new Man Down Medic tracks yesterday afternoon, but I haven't been able to come up with the right words to describe how incredible everything is sounding so far. I guess 'incredible' would be a good word, but maybe I'm a little biased.

In case you don't know, Man Down Medic is a Seattle band made up of three siblings- Sam, Jacob, and Larissa- along with a keyboardist named Phillip and a drummer named Harrison. I booked their first show at KTUB almost…

Destiny Worldwide is an independent record label and management company based in Seattle, WA. The company was formed in 2006 around their first album release, “Building Homes From What We’ve Known” by The Scene Aesthetic. Metcalf produced and engineered the record in the company’s recording studio, Destiny Studios, and has since produced material from many other bands. His recent projects include albums and songs by Daphne Loves Derby, Danger Radio, A Change of Pace, Anarbor, Artist Vs Poet, The Real You, Moneta, Shyforshy, and many more.

Job Description: Monroe, WA based indie record label Destiny Worldwide is looking for interns…

Jessie and I will be going out and taking promotional photographs (that sounds so official!) of Cavalier today, so keep an eye out for those!

Actually, it sounds like Jessie is going to be calling the shots on this one, but maybe I will take pictures of buildings or squirrels or something while she is doing her thing. All I know is that I have not gotten the chance to officially break in my new camera, and this sounds like a perfect opportunity.

On that note, if you need promos then shoot me an email... I need to…