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Read Bulletin From: The Alex Skuby Band Date: Jun 4, 2007 06:55 AM Subject Press Release for Boston show @ Paradise Lounge!!! Body: BOSTON – Less than two months after packing a pair of clubs in the same weekend for their Boston debut, THE ALEX SKUBY BAND, led by CBS King of Queens star Alex Skuby, returns to host a children’s benefit with Rykodisc roots Americana recording artist ROBERT HAZARD (writer of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”).The Benifund 4 Kids charity concert, to benefit the Floating Hospital for Children and Toys for Tots, will be held Wednesday, June 20 at the Paradise Lounge, 969 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA. Show time is 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $12. For more info, call 617.562.8820 or go to www.benifund.org or www.thedise.comThe ALEX SKUBY BAND creates “pop-rock with an edge,” a reflection of Skuby’s wide-ranging influences, from Billy Joel to Metallica, and his current fixation with Dave Matthews and Ben Harper. The Quincy Patriot Ledger called them “a versatile pop-rock unit that skews everywhere from jammy, Phish-style expansion to Metallica-metal power chords and Billy Joel/Elton John style melodies.” It’s music that’s deeply introspective with delicate melodies, whether propelled by driving rhythms or gently colored by deliberate percussive flourishes. The band formed earlier this year and already has performed live on several TV shows this spring, including Backstage with Barry Nolan (CN8/Comcast Network), Fox Morning News (Boston), 10! Show (NBC10/Philadelphia) and Your Morning (CN8).It’s mere coincidence that Skuby is funneling his creative efforts into making music just as King of Queens has finally left the airwaves. His tenure as attorney Doug Pruzan, boss to Leah Remini’s Carrie Heffernan, ended two years ago. Though he continued to maintain a highly visible acting career which has included roles on Strip Mall, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and ER and other TV guest appearances on 24, House, Chicago Hope, Becker and CSI, Skuby also began taking his lifelong passion for music more seriously. He’s been writing songs and playing guitar for over a decade, but only this year decided to make music his first priority.THE ALEX SKUBY BAND – Skuby on lead vocals, co-writer Steve Peretiatko ..boards, Jim Adams on lead guitar, Noah Richardson on rhythm guitar, Joe Dickerson on bass, and Quinn Crossen on drums - has just released Live at the Legendary Stone Pony, a limited edition souvenir album available only at live shows and through www.myspace.com/thealexskubyband. Recorded in May during the Wave Gathering Festival at the Asbury Park, NJ club where Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi come home to jam, Live at the Legendary Stone Pony is being made available for a limited time while THE ALEX SKUBY BAND is recording its upcoming debut studio album, due in late summer.ROBERT HAZARD, a Boston favorite when the Paradise was home base during his modern rock phase, makes his long-awaited return to unleash the storyteller inside as he anticipates the fall release of his much-anticipated Rykodisc debut, Troubadour. Hazard’s love of folk, blues and other American roots styles shines through on Troubadour, the album that will reintroduce him to a national audience.Compared by critics to the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, John Mellencamp John Hiatt and Tom Petty, Hazard has been praised recently by Sing Out!, Paste, Philadelphia Inquirer, Newark Star-Ledger and Baltimore Sun for his recordings and his engagingly relaxed, appealingly intense live shows.For Troubadour, Hazard sought out producer Pete Heitzman (Greg Brown) to help fulfill his vision of an acoustic album with an in-your-face presence. The album also will feature drummer Steve Holly (McCartney’s Wings, Joe Cocker, Dar Williams, Elton John) and multi-instrumentalist T-Bone Wolk (Carly Simon, SNL Band, Hall & Oates, etc.) The songs were cut in an intense two week period at Heitzman’s home studio in upstate New York and Sound Design in Brattleboro VT. That creative frenzy gives every track an urgent presence - music that’s contemporary while honoring its roots, possessing an aura that’s both timely and timeless. More on ROBERT HAZARD at www.roberthazard.com and www.myspace.com/roberthazard.Benifund For Kids, Inc. is a non profit 501 (C) 3 recognized public charity dedicated to providing annual physical exams to the 10 million children in the U.S. who are uninsured and receive no federal, sate or local assistance to obtain health and wellness care. Through corporate sponsorships, special events, private donations and organized partnerships, Benifund For Kids, Inc. raises money to assist with funding to local children's organizations throughout the country that participate in child wellness programs.www.benifund.orgwww.randexpr.com Jeff Beck
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