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Highway Magic

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About Me

From the ashes of Left Turn Only comes a whole (mostly) new animal!!! For a rip-roarin' good time, look to none other than Highway Magic! A fun kinda poppy 3-piece punk band that hopes to make your hips slip and your feet move.

Our first cd, From Naptown to Neptune, is finally out! Check out our blog or click the image below for more info on the cd and how to get it.

Highway Magic was recently featured in Nuvo's Barfly. Click the image below to see more of Wayne Bertsch's excellent comics.

The bands we've played with in the past include Flatfoot 56 , The Dollyrots , Mercury Radio Theater , Peelander-Z , The Leftovers , Bomb the Music Industry , The Remnants , Harley Poe , Corrupted Youth , Rude Buddha , Quarterlife Crisis , The Unlovables , and In the Face of War .

Reach us by email at highwaymagic(at)gmail.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/29/2005
Band Website: piradicalproductions.com/forum
Band Members: Philip Zumbrun: Vocals and Guitar
Benjamin Wolma: Bass and Vocals
Mitch Vice: Drums and Vocals
Influences: Bands that make us want to play music may vary by member but include: THE HUNTINGTONS, THE GOO GOO DOLLS, The Suicide Machines, The Ramones, Bolth, Mercury Radio Theater, Groovie Ghoulies, Van Halen, Sam Eakin, Darlington, Squirtgun, The Monkees, Away with Vega, U2, Side Walk Slam, Rude Buddha, In the Face of War, The Lawrence Arms, Joy Division, Zebrahead, Joy Electric, The Malcontents, Five Iron Frenzy, Blaster the Rocketman, and a whole bunch of others.

The desire to have fun is also a pretty big influence.
Sounds Like: Gnat's mom
Record Label: Piradical Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Tour Blog 5  Friday January 4th/Saturday January 5th (Moline, IL)

We arrived in East Moline, IL around 6:00AM. We didn't have a place to stay so we slept in the van. We all got about 4 hours of very uncomfortable sleep and started the day off sluggish. We ate at s...
Posted by Highway Magic on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:15:00 PST

Tour Blog 4 - Thursday January 4th (Decatur, IL)

With not much keeping us in Mason City, we headed straight to Decatur, IL to stay with Honz from Wake the Dead. He lives in the basement of the Wake the Dead building with his pet duck Howard. It was ...
Posted by Highway Magic on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:03:00 PST

Tour Blog 3 - Wednesday January 2nd (Mason City, IL)

Today was quite an adventure. The show was supposed to start at 6:00PM, so we left Indianapolis fairy early and made it to the Cell in Mason City, IL by about 6:10PM. We walked in were pretty pumped ...
Posted by Highway Magic on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:38:00 PST

Tour Blog 2 - Monday December 31st/Tuesday January 1st (Mattoon, IL)

We awoke and gathered at the Highway Magic Inc World Headquarters (aka the Piradical House [aka where Ben and Mitch live]) to prepare for our travels. We headed out mid-afternoon towards Mattoon, IL (...
Posted by Highway Magic on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:35:00 PST

Tour Blog 1 - Sunday December 30th (Indianapolis, IN)

The first day of our tour took us to the distant town of Broad Ripple, IN. We started things off right with a show at one of our favorite basements: the Halloween House. I don't kid when I say we star...
Posted by Highway Magic on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:31:00 PST

Tour Blog 6 - Saturday August 11th

Alright, so I need to start this blog with last night. We decided to go ahead and drive to NC after the show in VA because we couldn't find a place to stay. While we were on the road we got a voice ma...
Posted by Highway Magic on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:54:00 PST

Tour Blog 5 - Friday August 10th

Once upon a time there were three sweaty guys with no shirts driving a truck full of band gear through North Carolina& but that's not where our story starts. We woke up at Jeff's house in the afte...
Posted by Highway Magic on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:28:00 PST

Tour Blog 4 - Thursday August 9th

I would write a blog for Thursday, but it would be a little depressing... so I'm not going to. I'll just say this (in chronological order): venue burnt down, arson, show cancelled, no synth sale, bad ...
Posted by Highway Magic on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:26:00 PST

Tour Blog 3 - Sun-Wed August 5th-8th

Well we didn't have any shows scheduled for the last few days, so we've been camping out. On Sunday we drove to Virginia Beach and got to swim (skinny dip) in the ocean. We slept on the beach and had ...
Posted by Highway Magic on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:30:00 PST

Tour Blog 2 - Saturday August 4th (stealing WiFi)

We left Lakewood/Cleveland right after the show and arrived in City Island (Bronx, New York) at about 10:30AM. City Island is a nice little spot and looked more like a retirement community than a sec...
Posted by Highway Magic on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:52:00 PST