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The Ice is Gonna Break! Shows Feb 29 and Mar 1st

About Me


Upcoming Shows:
Friday 2/29/08 @ Andrew Hall (39 Main Street, Lunenburg, MA
Mass Recovery Fest (The Ice is Gonna Break Compilation Release) Day 1 w/

Heartsfield Landing
My Place in the Cosmos
Hollywood Lies
Highfire Skyline
Mike DeBenedictis
Sans Heroic
Tonybear
the Bell County Silence (NY)
Sight for Sore Eyes
Saturday 3/1/08 @ Andrew Hall (39 Main Street, Lunenburg, MA)
Mass Recovery Fest (The Ice is Gonna Break Compilation Release) Day 2 w/

An October Country
Math the Band
Beautiful Lies
Tom Cadrin (VT)
Postmark Twain (NJ)
Quixote
By Surprise (NJ)
Royal Flip .
The songs in the player are songs from the upcoming compilation, The Ice is Gonna Break!, on Mass Recovery Records. It is the first official release on Mass Recovery due out in February 29th.
In the player:
Math the Band - Lice
Pull a Star Trip - You're the Reason I Came to Hate Chile
Tonybear -Sneakers
The Bitter Life Typecast - Burning Hearts Have Been Burned Out Tonight
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." -- Hunter S. Thompson
In the vast money trenches of the music industry, agents, lawyers, labels, and promoters are living well off of the work of musicians they represent. Musicians create art where the sole concerns of these other groups is to market, exploit, and profit off of this art.
Mass Recovery Promotions is an endeavor to aide indepedant musicians with shows and promotion without reaching in their wallets and taking a cut. We'll do our best to help you out in hopes that you can help us out in the future.
-Shawn and the rest of the Mass Recovery Staff
PS- Let's trade shows
Contact Information:
Shawn Massak-
mrpbooking[at]yahoo.com
AIM- Sorethroatsung
We Support:
Pull a Star Trip from Germany. The only band to survive two Mass Recovery tours of the US.

Beautiful Lies. I still owe them money.
BYOFL. An amazing resource for touring bands.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/18/2005
Band Website: massrecoveryrecords.tk
Band Members: Staff
Shawn Massak :: Booking, Promotion, Management, Website.
Mike DeBenedictis :: Logo/Flyer Design
Kevin Durrance :: Promotion
Jon Benson :: Recording
Influences: Pull a Star Trip US Tour 2006
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Sounds Like: 2/29/08:
The Ice is Gonna Break! A Mass Recovery Promotions Compilation (MR001-Free)
1. Christopher Walken – The Ice is Gonna Break!
2. Pull a Star Trip – You’re The Reason I Came To Hate Chile
3. Tom Cadrin – Made Again
4. Tonybear – Sneakers
5. The Bitter Life Typecast – Burning Hearts Have Burnt Out Tonight
6. Camp Keep the Quiet – Coughed Up A Locust
7. My Place in the Cosmos – Untitled
8. Math the Band – Lice
9. Heartsfield Landing – Honestly, I Would Have Named You Kingsly
10. By Surprise – If You Don’t Mind Me Asking
11. The Bell County Silence - The Worst Of It
12. Highfire Skyline - What Lies In Rain Gets Wet
13. Beautiful Lies – Untitled
14. An October Country – Happy Oblivion
15. Mike DeBenedictis – Manifesto
16. James Eric – War Is The New Sex
17. Hollywood Lies – This Must Be Love
18. Sans Heroic – Snake Wires
19. Charlie- The Storm
20. Postmark Twain- Running in Circles

Record Label: Mass Recovery Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Compilation! Open Submission! Free!

Everyone who knows anything about Mass Recovery Promotions knows that I am constantly planning on releasing a free compilation, featuring the many bands that have been a part of the Mass Recovery comm...
Posted by Mass Recovery Promotions on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:06:00 PST

Pull a Star Trip/Beautiful Lies US Tour Diary. Parts 1-5

Pull a Star Trip "10 States in 16 Days" ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />  Thursday, August 16th: El Aeropuerto y nos estamos cambiando los pantalones. &nb...
Posted by Mass Recovery Promotions on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:46:00 PST

Fly Upright Kite "Every Breathing Moment" CD Review

This is a CD review I wrote for Fly Upright Kite's EP Every Breathing Moment for the UMass Lowell Paper The Connector. I also included a song from the album on the MRP Myspace that you should check ou...
Posted by Mass Recovery Promotions on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:00:00 PST

Letter to Andrew Hall

This is a letter adressed to Andrew Hall, who recently stopped renting out the hall for local shows. Included is a brief history, why the shows at Andrew Hall are so important, and a&nb...
Posted by Mass Recovery Promotions on Thu, 04 May 2006 03:56:00 PST

Pull a Star Trip Tour- Days 5-9

Sunday, January 8th- Day 4   Today was spent packing up all of the stuff and getting ready to leave New York. Stef, Bart, and Olle took the Staten Island ferry to see the Statue of Liberty while ...
Posted by Mass Recovery Promotions on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:36:00 PST

Tours, New Songs, New Shows

Hey Everyone, I'm in the process of uploading some new songs on to the MRP Myspace. The 4 songs will look something like this-Pull A Star Trip+- Kill a Corpse in its InfancyAutomatic Tommy- Friendship...
Posted by Mass Recovery Promotions on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:37:00 PST

Update.

Hey Guys, I suppose it has been quite awhile since I have updated. Yes, I am still running Mass Recovery just not in Lunenburg anymore. I moved to Lowell and am working on setting shows up here at the...
Posted by Mass Recovery Promotions on Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:55:00 PST

This past week. The best week of my summer.

Hey guys, I just wanted to thank everyone who made the past week amazing. The show on Monday was an overwhelming sucess. 100+ people came out to support local unsigned bands on a Monday Night, the sam...
Posted by Mass Recovery Promotions on Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:49:00 PST

My Place in the Cosmos CD Release!

Hey kids, My Place in the Cosmos has released their first EP, "Catatonic", on Mass Recovery Records which is, ironically enough, our first release ever. You will be able to purchase Catatonic on the A...
Posted by Mass Recovery Promotions on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Thank You.

Hey guys, I just wanted to say thank you to anyone who showed up to the Andrew Hall show last night. A special thanks to anyone who bought Merch and Monostereo, who set up the show and donated the pro...
Posted by Mass Recovery Promotions on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST