Now is a good time to get your Life Love Misery coaster ( of course after you burn the CD! ).

CDbaby is donating $1 to the Haitian Relief for every CD sold!

Very cool we got around 200 installs in December of the Life Love Misery iPhone app by @MobBase .
A good # from China! http://tra.kz/LLMapp

Looking to update app very soon with Version # 2. Anyone have any feedback?

How cool is that ? We have our own iPhone app.

Get it here:

http://tra.kz/LLMapp

Heading out to the Summit, should be some good schmoozin'. Talking to Management/ Production company about helping out the task of a string quartet making it to all upcoming gigs so we sound nice n phat, phat, phat.

www.sfmusictech.com

Other news? We are on Pandora Radio! Just have to fix the graphic links, got some peeps working on that! Pandora Rocks!

www.pandora.com .

Add us to your station!

Stay tuned for more good news!

LLM

Music Millennium, Portland, OR
Silver Platters, Seattle, WA (2 Stores)
Amoeba, San Francisco, CA
The Works, Eureka and Arcata, CA (2 Stores)
Independent Records, Colorado (7 Stores)
Dimple Records, Sacramento, CA (6 Stores)
Newbury Comics, MA, CT, NH, ME, and VT (28 Stores)

CDs are also available at select Best Buy, Boarders and Barnes and Noble locations and online

Also available on Amazon and CDbaby !!!!!!!!!

Go out and pick up a copy and/or tell a friend! Thanks so much for your support!

Life Live Misery: An Emotionally Poignant and Dynamic Musical Tour-de-Force from  
Bay Area Songwriter/Producer Todd Tate

September 30, 2009 - Marin, California –  Life Love Misery, the new ten-track debut CD from Bay Area singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and producer Todd Tate, is an emotionally poignant and dynamic musical tour-de-force.  Life Love Misery is “a lesson in extraordinary songwriting, arranging, and audio production perfection,” according to Steffen Franz, President of the Independent Distribution Collective.

Captivating and compelling lyrics reinforce the Life Love Misery’s riff-driven melodies, vocal harmonies and multilayered guitars.  Taking inspiration from numerous genres, from classic to modern to alternative rock, Tate’s songs are destined to hook listeners clamoring for a greater depth and intensity of musical heart and soul.  Whether it’s the throbbing opening number and single, “Sleeping Dogs” - the video for which was commissioned by Brian Zisk, founder of the SF MusicTech Summit, and produced by Oakland’s “Project Brainchild” - the whimsical love song, “Delightful,” the dark and slinky rocker, “Beautiful One,” to the fade out of the driving closing track, “Takes The Edge Off,” Life Love Misery delivers compelling substance, as well as style, from the opening note, through each-and-every diverse and eccentric lyrical hook and captivating melody.

A rock player with a jazz background, who studied Jazz Composition and Arranging and Audio Production at San Jose State University, Tate is a rare breed of artist of diverse music compositional and songwriting skills and a studio tactician with incomparable production chops.  Life Love Misery features Todd Tate on vocals, guitar, and keyboards, Kenny Stavropoulos, former ‘Starship’ drummer on all percussion, and Mario Previti on bass guitar and keyboards.  All are seasoned studio professionals, producers and engineers, and all were integral to the project’s production. 

The trio is joined by a gifted string section lead by orchestrator and violinist Graham Pellettieri, who refined Todd’s hand-scored calligraphy into the professionally etched string arrangements heard on eight of the disc’s ten tracks.  The string sections add dynamism and vitality to each of the tracks - musical production and compositional assets usually not found in contemporary recordings of recent memory.  The uniqueness of the string arrangements adds a shimmering contrast to Tate’s Peter Murphy-meets-David Bowie-meets-Marilyn Manson vocals and full-frontal guitar attitude.  Bassist Previti and drummer Stavropoulos are an unparalleled rhythm team that serves up each track as hot, thick, and tasty as a New York pizza fresh from the oven. 

Throughout the 1990’s and to the present day, Tate developed a keen ear for the song and eye for the live show having played with Bay Area favorites Truman Peyote, One Light Out, Resin, King Money Shot, The Deep Sounds of Bobby Peru, and his Dobro playing alter-ego Sayla Dobro.  No stranger to the limelight, Tate and his bandmates expect to perform locally throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, and Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Diego in the remaining months of 2009 and into 2010.

For more information about Life Love Misery, tour dates, or to purchase the CD or tracks, check out: http://www.lifelovemisery.com, on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelovemisery, MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/lifelovemisery , and on Twitter: @lifelovemisery.  Life Love Misery is also available at iTunes, Amazon.com, CD Baby, and leading music stores and chains near you.  

To receive a review copy of Life Love Misery or to request an interview with Todd Tate, please contact Christopher Buttner at PRThatRocks.com, at 415-233-7350 or email: chris@prthatrocks.com 

For Radio enquiries please contact Brian Gerhard at Rocket Shop Promotions at telephone: 303-258-6806 or via email at brian@rocketshoppromotions.com. 

For US distribution enquiries, please contact Steffen Franz or Ben Lang at Independent Distribution Collective, telephone: 415-292-7007 or via e-mail at sales@independentdistro.com 
 

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Rock on! LLM

So much good news!

• Accepted to Pandora Radio, we'll let ya know when you can add us to your station
• Shooting Video for song "Sleeping Dogs" in August with talented production team "Project Brainchild" at Oakland's Studio 880
• Reaching out to Music Supervisors, getting good feedback
• Debut Album arrives in iTunes! Available now!
• Production of Audio Stems in progress for performace and future fan remix contests
• Video game fans from all over the world enjoying playing Life Love Misery songs on on-line Rock Band-like video game "Jam Legend"
• Rehearsals under way!