Last night, (Friday, 6/24) was the final night of the Viper Room residency for LA powerhouse: Boy Hits Car. The night had a great overall turnout & all of the bands put their heart into the show. July 1st weekend is fast approaching and I am still looking for bands interested in playing at Viper on an unlimited free guest list. Email me (Michael@viperroom.com) if you’d like to play. I recently left my marketing position at the designer headphone company, V-MODA. I plan on pursuing talent buying and rock promoting full time and I am excited for the opportunities to throw great parties and create amazing nights for bands. My team is currently scouting new venues. My own band’s show at the Viper Room this past April was a major success. While my old singer was here for the show, he transferred four tracks of our long-overdue album to me. I recently got my new rig running and should be able to produce rough mixes of the tracks by mid-July. We are in the process of auditioning new singers and our next live date will be posted directly following our decision. Local rock band, The Binges, recently broke up. Fortunately Mayuko and Tsuzumi Okai have no intention of stepping down from the stage and they plan on forming another band in the near future. For more details you can visit the band’s facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/thebinges). I am accepting more students for guitar lessons- all ages, all styles, all abilities. I have been playing for over 20 years and teaching for over 7. I am also accepting session and touring jobs. Send me an email at info@mikekindel.com if you are interested! Expect huge updates in the coming months. My team has some tricks up our sleeves and we’re about to take this game to the next level. Song of the Day: Scenes from an Italian Restaurant – Billy Joel
Happy New year! Hope you had a wonderful holiday! I'm looking for a ROCK N ROLL singer with a solid voice & image! Similar to Guns, Audioslave, Buckcherry, etc.. My concert review of Richie Kotzen's latest Viper Room show has been posted on Guitar Messenger. Be sure to check out the rest of the site. Ivan and his team have been up to some pretty awesome stuff lately!
V-Moda: They are a fashion-forward; Hollywood based headphone company with some products worth checking out! Their flagship model, the Crossfade LP, is a luxury consumer product inspired by the European DJ scene. The company is also in the process of unveiling its fashion line and from what I’ve seen I’m impressed! Halloween at the House of Blues was killer! We had amazing bands, DJs, tarot card readers, face painters and even girls dancing on the bar!! The costumes were so awesome that we may have to have a Halloween show every month! The House of Blues calendar is nearly completely booked for the rest of the year. Email me and we’ll see if we can find a spot in January. Soul Satisfaction in the Foundation Room is THE place to be. The Viper Room is gearing up for the holiday season and the New Year. We have some awesome acts coming through so keep checking the calendar and come out for some loud, gritty rock and roll. Bands: keep sending me your links!!! We want to get you on the best stage in Hollywood before the year is out. We are almost completely booked so if you’re looking for a final show of the year you gotta hurry!! I’m playing the Viper Room on November 15th with fellow Berklee grads, Meg Todd and her band. This will be my first time performing on the stage, myself. I’m stoked so come out and show your love!! Mike Calling all LA based Rock Bands!! I am on the lookout for true rock bands in the area with a desire to rock the roof of the world-famous Viper Room on the Sunset Strip! I have teamed up with Can of Jam Productions (Chris Ford and Kelly McGarry) to continue the tradition of bringing in great local and national talent 7 nights a week. Send me a link (info@mikekindel.com) for consideration! We have amazing music ahead so please check the calendar. Alongside booking for the Viper Room, we are also hosting various nights at the House of Blues and Busby’s in West Hollywood. Both are great places for live music so come out and say hi! Just as a reminder, I am still teaching guitar lessons and accepting session and live work. Drop me a message if you would like to schedule an appointment or discuss rates. As always, you can find samples of my playing under the media tab! Rock N’ Roll Soul is in another temporary hold. More updates on this will come as soon as I know more details. We appreciate your patience and we promise it will be well worth the wait! Cheers!
Mike
Update 6/22/10: New audio clips posted. New site under construction. Now available for guitar session work, teaching and live shows! Email me at info@mikekindel.com for rates and booking! Here's a short teaser from the upcoming release "Rock N' Roll Soul" The tune is called I Wanna Know. This is a very basic rough mix and there are no edits or effects applied. It's not even comped so the takes are not necessarily the ones being used in the final mix. Listen to this purely as a rough idea of what's to come. Let me know what you think!
Update 5/2/10: Rock N’ Roll Soul! The album finally has a name!! Agustin and I decided to name the project after the song we feel most accurately represents us. The lyrics reflect our tumultuous feelings towards the current state of the music biz and its lack of Rock N’ Roll Soul. The song is packed with an excessive “don’t give a f**k” attitude and we can’t wait to unveil it to you all! My good friend, Ivan Chopik came in and put down his solo for our tune, Fire. Vocals are almost finished, which will mark the end of tracking. Then we move on to comping and editing takes. Slowly, but surely, it’s starting to sound like a rock album! As soon as some of the correct takes are picked and we can bounce a basic mix I’ll be sure to throw up a short teaser! In the meantime, if you haven’t, check out Slash’s self-titled solo album. The work features many different musicians from Ozzy to Fergie and I feel that he did an excellent job with it. He is currently out touring the project with Myles Kennedy (singer of Alter Bridge) –Check out Back From Cali- the song kicks butt! I am in the video for Slash’s single, By The Sword, featuring Andrew Stockdale of Wolfmother. It was a great experience and director, Vance Burberry, is incredible to watch in action! I took a week off to go back to the east coast
to graduate Berklee and spend some time with family and friends- and play an
open mic night with my dentist!! It was nice and relaxing, but it’s good to be
back in Los Angeles. The internships are over and now I’m off trying to do my
thing! -Mike
Check out Tyrone Wells!! Update 2/19/10:
Update 12/19/09: For those about to ROCK. We Salute You!! Update 10/15/09: I’m Back!
Update 5/21/09: Hola, Update 3/30/09: Big things on the Horizon!!! The Pink Floyd Cover Band is HEADLINING Harpers Ferry tonight! Doors at 8 so please check it out!!! My rock band, Friday Crimes is still awaiting tracks for the Gun N Roses soundalike project, but we are very excited for it. Many, many shows coming up. After tonight痴 gig, I am playing April 7th at 7.30 in Berklee痴 921 building. April 10th The Pink Floyd group is playing Cask N Flagon, and April 18th we are playing at Boston College! Friday Crimes is playing April 30th at Cask N Flagon, May 11th at All Asia and May 30th at Felt Club in Boston. Stay tuned for more shows! I am feeling the crunch of the end of the semester and very soon I pick classes for what I intend to be my last two semesters on the east coast. I知 shooting for the LA internship in the spring of next year coupled with the last core credit classes. I will let you know as time gets closer!! Outside of that and with the help of my friends, I designed and built myself a kickass pedalboard over spring break! Pictures will be posted shortly! Much love
Mike
Site Launched!!! Update 12/19/08: Fall Semester ends! Big projects underway: Friday Crimes (see the links page) is writing and booking shows and is fresh off the first photoshoot. Nadam's Apple is recording an E.P. in the spring. I am still looking for a bass player for the Trio. If you are interested, please shoot me an email- we are currently writing and would like to start rehearsing ASAP. No gigs are scheduled at this time however the band is practicing and plans are being made for the fall. Site Construction begins. The Summer teaching job and the internship at the radio station continnue. This Thursday I am playing a gig for my drummer's recital prep class. We're playing "Who Knows" off Band of Gypsys. Should be awesome! Getting ready for midterms. Reauditioning for ratings. Editing the Show footage for youtube. Practicing. Studying. Rehearsing with my bands. Crazy busy! The Pink Floyd Cafe Show was a huge success. Music Business students from the area got in touch with me after the show about playing a few gigs at other local colleges in the near future. On top of that the audio and video tracks are slowly coming back to me so that I can edit them for the portfolio/ make a music video and possibly press kit out of it. I just joined a Power Metal band that plans to have a Cafe Show towards the end of the semester. This will be good for my chops and keep me stylistically diverse. Next week's episode of 'Last Call' on the BIRN will explore my favorite movies and the music that went into the film-scoring behind them. This Sunday, I am Jamming over blues and jazz with a brand new bassist and drummer. My Blues/Rock band is still looking for Bar gigs. |