I know, I know - haven't used this journal much since the advent of the thing known as Myspace...I promise to try and change my evil ways!:

...aaand we close the final chapter of recording the new album with some ass-kicking guest appearances by our good pals Spider from Powerman 5000, Mike Miller from Godhead, Wes Borland from Black Light Burns and Mandy Carpenter from Cursed Lullaby...funny thing about having guest vocals and guitars on your record - they become your absolute favorite moments after hearing your own carrying on for months...beautiful respites from your own personal storm of familiarity you might say... no i don't hate my own voice...ha

Survival Plan is now on schedule to hit shelves in Japan on Jan. 31st as a double release with "...For Amnesia" after we relinquished the masters last week. It's been an amazing ride - we are proud parents of our dysfunctional brain child yes we are. The American version (I'm referring to the entire continent of course..clarro) in the first months of 2009 as well with some slightly different art and track list. Over 60 minutes of music and 15 songs ...detailing pretty much every significant (and insignificant?) thought I have had in the past year to a back drop of death-alt-rock meets enya meets santa's little helper meets Jessie's brain...or however you might choose to pigeon-hole it. Favorite song title: 2:30 & Anxious...that's actually the coodinates of where I hung my hat at a place called Burning Man...however the song contains no hallucinations.. Favorite song: Worst Case Scenario obviously! In homage to the album title, I had no choice but to utilize an air raid siren sample at some point on the album, you will however, be relieved to learn that I tuned it to the key of the song "Wars Between Us" and used it as an instrument while I recite instructions on how to survive UFO abductions...no gratuitis sample dropping here dammit.

As many of you know, Gustavo, Gordon and I are also double agents in the robot army of Powerman 5000 and will hit the road to visit you all in the land of U, S and A in January and February interrupted briefly by a quick visit to our home planet of Panama for a Gi-normous Cage9 show/ festival. Where ever you may be...come, allow us to rock you:-). 2009 will be nothing but a great big better-than-the-end-of-the-world rock festival as far as we're concerned so grab your SURVIVAL PLANS and start livin' Mable!

Ev

PS - Also check out the new track "Super Villian" that we recorded with Spider and Dave at http://www.myspace.com/powerman5000.

I finally proved my theory: even if you don't religiously practice
your rippin' scales, it is still possible to get into Guitar World:-)
Check me out in September and October's Guitar World Magazine!:

http://www.cage9.com/images/Evan_GuitarWorld.jpg

Greetings comrades, If I can draw your attention away from Olympic gold, Russian invasions and Barack Obama for a minute - check out Part One of our new "in the studio" YouTube clip highlighting a couple new tracks for our new album tentatively titled "Survival Plan:" http://www.youtube.com/v/TjD_P8KG3iY&hl=en&fs=1 VMA WARM-UP---> Cage9 will be performing acoustically at an exclusive pre-Video Music Award party at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood on Sept. 5th in the Gibson Lounge. Invitees include everyone from Paris Hilton to Rob Zombie...woohoo. TWITTER---> Follow Cage9 updates on TWITTER at http://www.twitter.com/cage9 NEW ACOUSTIC VIDEO---> We just finished shooting a video for the acoustic version of "Ice to Eskimoz" in our downtown LA rehearsal space and surrounding industrial area. Look out for its premiere and much delayed yet anticipated CD Release Party soon:-). Hello 'ello 'ello! evan

Surprise! Our acoustic album "

Hey party people - the acoustic album's done so look out for it's glorious release on iTunes in the coming months and then in physical form soon after. Yeah, it gives me goosebumps...I think that's a good thing...or I'm getting sick. As far as the new electric album goes - we're pretty emo about the new tracks we've got so far...yeah, I said emo...no, it doesn't sound emo. It sounds rockin' baby. We seem to agree that at the moment our favorite is a little song tentatively titled "Comatose." We're gonna' put together some video of our sessions to deliver to you soon.

Also, everyone's always asking where they can buy our last album "El motivo" (yeah, our last record label sucked...surprise!) well, it's now available again at cdbaby.com. Go to http://cdbaby.com/cd/cage94 to pick up a copy!! The Spanish version's there too.

cheeeeers,

Ev

So check it out, we've been nominated for ALBUM and SONG of the YEAR at this year's PANAMAROCK Awards! Click on the following link for English instructions on how to vote:
http://www.cage9.com/PanamarockVoting2007.htm

If ya' missed it, I just posted some pics from our performance and interview with Dave Navarro on his new talk show. We had a blast...I wish EVERY day could be like a day when you just have to be interviewed by Dave Navarro and jam I mean c'mon. You should be able to watch it again here:
http://www.maniatv.com/shows/spread-entertainment

We're also just finishing up the new acoustic CD. I am SO excited about this. We'll have it available for purchase and download in early '08 but if you're nice to me, maaaaybe I'll let you hear some of the stuff in the next few weeks. It's not just an acoustic record...it's a whole new monster really. Well, okay, you'll see.

We've been sussing out a bunch of new songs for our NEW album. I can honestly say I'm freaking stoked. Everything we're demo-ing is pretty fast, stomping, punk, heavy, prog-?, squawk...I dunno. A little early to give it a name but I was letting my buddy Spider from Powerman 5000 have a preview and he was stoked so I feel good deep down inside. You too will hear the chaos in '08 and ye shall be rocked. I promise.

Also don't miss our upcoming CA and AZ shows with Wes Boreland's new band BLACK LIGHT BURNS!:
NOV. 16 in PHOENIX, AZ @ THE SETS
NOV. 17 in LOS ANGELES, CA @ THE ROXY

And in Latin America:
DEC. 2 in PANAMA CITY, PANAMA @ TEATRO BALBOA
DEC. 5 in PANAMA CITY, PANAMA @ BUZZ
DEC. 6 in SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA @ TBA (acoustic performance)
DEC. 7 in SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA @ CLUB CAPONE

YEEEEES, we're FINALLY going home to PANAMA to rock and then to relax for a week or two before returning to the city of angels...can't wait. Picture me on a beach. There. Now leave me alone. haha.

Happy Belated Halloween!
Evan

Konichiwa. I'm wishing I had learned to say "Japan f**king rocks" because it f**king does people! Our tour of Japan could NOT have gone any better! We arrived after 15 hours of travel in a dream and apparently we never woke up from the best dream ever until we left. We were treated like kings by the most awesome record label in the world BM3/Triple Vision and played possibly the best shows of our career so far! ALL the shows were INSANE. In Tokyo, we packed the house with a crowd of around 500 screaming fans of "el motivo" that knew every song and went nuts for the entire hour long set. I heard we had over 10K in record sales in Japan but to see the actual reaction of the fans we had never met and see what an amazing job the label had done promoting Cage9 was an absolutely unreal RUSH. Being a band that's been thru alot of bullshit, to see something like the love we got in Japan was pretty much bordering a religious experience...crazy. We also got to play with some very talented bands including our new friends from Denmark PINBOYS that flew out to play with us and our japanese friends FC Five and Pay Money to our Pain who were all amazing. Our records were prominently on display in every major record store and we even got to do a big signing at TOWER Records on our last day to a big line of fans. We want to thank Mana, Shoichi, Kenji, Masa and everyone at BM.3/Triple Vision for being SO overwhelmingly kind to us, making our stay fun as hell, believing in Cage9's music and making us wish we didn't have to leave!!! AREGATOOO...thankyouthankyouthankyou! We love you all!! Next on our To-Do List is finish a new album to get our asses back to Japan land...we're addicted.

I'm writing this sitting in the front lounge of the Powerman 5000 tour bus at 3 am finishing up the last few days on the tour in Texas and then meeting up with Cage9 in Mexico City for the Mtv Latino Music Awards where we were invited to hang out after our video has seen full rotation over the last 3 or 4 months. The Cure, Avril Lavigne, Cafe Tacuba and more perform...can't wait! evin

I just got back from 3 weeks in America with Powerman 5000! Freaking great time...we had a bus. A sweet freaking, big-ass, tour bus. With Satellite TV, Internet and gulp, bunks. This was my first tour in which I wasn't a zombie every day after driving all night in a van. Coast to coast - we rocked the house...got to meet lotsa awesome people and kick-ass bands. We also got a great new 2nd guitar player too by the name of Dave Pino who you might know from such bands as Seemless (ex-singer fom Killswitch). He's filling in for me solo right now since I had to cut out early on that tour to go to Japan. You rock Dave! Anyhoo, we've got a few days to practice up with Cage9 and prepare for our 20 hour journey across the Pacific. Konichi-wa bitches!!! Ev

Okayokayokay, I know what you're thinking. You were expecting to read something like "hey, everybody; we've got yet another new drummer...etc.etc.etc." NO! NO! NO! It's WAY more exciting than that. After a year or so of playing shows and tours with friends and acquaintences backing us up on drums, we've finally found the right human being for the job and have committed to a new band member. Wow. We've auditioned over 30 drummers and played shows with literally 8 different people over the last year and a half. A little unsettling to say the least and it's made it hard to write and record new music with people coming and going. Poof. That's over. Say hello to my little friend Gordon Heckaman. Jesse and Gordon were actually both original members of another cool and now defunct LA band called Agrokulcher until Gordon left to play with Depswa a few years ago so it's kinda' an interesting full-circle for them to be in the same band again. In fact, guess where they are right now? Somewhere in L.A. FLYERING, promoting a show we have coming up...deja vu! We're all huge fans of Depswa so when Gordon decided to quit, we were a little bummed but obviously at the same time, stoked to be lucky enough to have him come rock with us. Yes, yes, yes, we will miss our comrade Decker dearly with whom we had a great time over the past few months performing with on our big U.S. tour...he is a golden, golden god. But Gordon was the guy that felt correct-o. And there you have it. Cheers!!!

We're scheduled to record a new album (eye on the radio sky) AND an acoustic CD starting in August...so don't blink...blinky.

The data is in, the experts agree: WE'RE GOING TO JAPAN!!! From October 4th thru the 10th we've been offered a tour that will include a couple of cities which we will announce soon. We've never been to the land of the rising sun - we can't freaking wait to go make loud rock music for the good people so, so very far away. We're also releasing a B-Sides compilation CD over there that we're calling "Chaos Morning." It will include songs from "The Onyx Inch," our never released "Fearful Orbits" album, a song from "Human Feedback" and a song or two that nobody on the planet's ever heard from us as well. Here's the album art I put together utilizing artwork from the great Phil Hale and Second Rate Citizen's Mike Spring. Enjoy!

http://www.cage9.com/Cage9_ChaosMorning_Simple_SM.jpg

Powerman 5000 tour ends with bang, noone gets hurt

Ah yes, the end of the tour...such sweet, sweet sorrow. We just played our last show with Powerman 5000 last night and it couldn't have been a better, more intense fucking show! The place was packed and Portland, Maine was going OFF! In age old touring tradition, there goes an unspoken ritual in which it is the duty of the headliner to prank the shit out of the opener's set on the last date...hence, the burden was upon the PM5K crew to make our last performance under their watch a living hell - and they did so with much flair! Our good buddies Andy, Justin and Flemming spent our entire set shooting us from side-stage with air-powered foam discs, playing horse-shoe with my mic-stand, lassoing Jesse's guitar and slowly pulling him offstage, taping off Gustavo's footswitch mid-song, playing badminton over the drum set...etc. It all began about half way through our second song when they jumped up onstage with a home-made bed-sheet banner spray painted with "ka-ge9" and little stick people representing each of us...classy! Finally, they took the drum set apart piece by piece until we ended Four Leaf Clover with just the Kick drum and Snare. It was actually kick ass. The crowd ate it up. Probably thought it was part of our show. Easily one of the best crowds on the whole tour...despite the onslaught we rocked our asses off and the place was chanting our name when it was all over...THANK YOU PM5K!! Specifically I'd like to give props to Adrian of PM5K for bringing me on as guitarist on the tour and hooking up Cage9 with the opening slot...much respect bruthu. Also much luv to my new big brother Spider and my new favorite Norwegian pimp daddy Siggy. hoho. Looks like this won't be the last time we do this so expect another Pm5K/Cage9 tour in late summer! Hell Yes.

Wow. Playing guitar with Powerman has been a trip. After being the front-guy/guitarist every night, it's fun to come back up and be just the guitarist and maybe interject a little backup "whoa" here and there. On top of that, PM5K fans are NUTS so playing your ass off is just that much easier. Best of all - I got a strapping young lad named Flemming handing me my guitar every night. Damn right, I have a guitar tech...I'm living the freaking dream. No, I will not carry my cabinet. Flems, you are my god.

I had some great Jesse-isms that I was going to include here however, he got all bitter about it as he likes to say and I will respectfully save them for a more appropriate venue, such as the next Cage9 BBQ in South Bay.

We're on our way to Pennsyvlania from Maine right now. Gonna' swing through Boston since we didn't get a chance to play there on this trip. I'm catching a flight back to LA to do one last Powerman show before finishing off the Cage9 leg of our tour back West. My only worry right now is that we can shed our new found New England accents before we get home!

We have met some rad people and bands, rocked some AMAZING venues, visited some great cities on this trip and we can't wait to do it again in a few months. Oh shit, we're in Boston...gotta' go start a Tea Riot. AAAAA, as I sit here typing this, the van door fricking slid open cuz someone didn't close it right at 70 mph...what the heeelll...haha.

Hello party people. How do you do? We do very well. I'm typing from The Starland Ballroom in New Jersey after soundcheck. We've been on tour for almost 2 weeks now with our amigos Powerman 5000 and I must say I feel like we are having our cake and eating it too!!! We haven't slept more than like 4 or 5 hours straight since we left but cat naps are KING when you're in the van so it is all good in the hood. The shows have been fucking amazing! We've played all over from Michigan, to Kentucky to Missouri to Pennsylvania and it's been super positivo. BIG PROPS to everyone who's hung out with us after the shows and bought merch and/or picked up a poster and sticker...we've unloaded TONS of Cage9 STUFF so it feels good to feel like we're spreading our trademark "I SKULL Cage9" across the Northeast. I had a pretty fun moment the other night in Pittsburgh when the theatre we played at was across the street from an American Idol guys show so there was a huge line of people before the show - so Decker n' I busted our "I SKULL Cage9" billboard and walked around like we were protesting a war or something...trippy. Down with the idol. Anyhoo, it's been killer playing with PM5K also...I kind switch up the outfit so people get confused and go into convulsions. America - you are the rockingest!

evan

PS - I can't feel my goddamn toes!

Hello party people. How do you do? We do very well. I'm typing from The Starland Ballroom in New Jersey after soundcheck. We've been on tour for almost 2 weeks now with our amigos Powerman 5000 and I must say I feel like we are having our cake and eating it too!!! We haven't slept more than like 4 or 5 hours straight since we left but cat naps are KING when you're in the van so it is all good in the hood. The shows have been fucking amazing! We've played all over from Michigan, to Kentucky to Missouri to Pennsylvania and it's been super positivo. BIG PROPS to everyone who's hung out with us after the shows and bought merch and/or picked up a poster and sticker...we've unloaded TONS of Cage9 STUFF so it feels good to feel like we're spreading our trademark "I SKULL Cage9" across the Northeast. I had a pretty fun moment the other night in Pittsburgh when the theatre we played at was across the street from an American Idol guys show so there was a huge line of people before the show - so Decker n' I busted our "I SKULL Cage9" billboard and walked around like we were protesting a war or something...trippy. Down with the idol. Anyhoo, it's been killer playing with PM5K also...I kind switch up the outfit so people get confused and go into convulsions. America - you are the rockingest!

evan

PS - I can't feel my goddamn toes!

Night one - somewhere between L.A. and Albuquerque I awoke to a rukus. Jesse was driving, and the way our van works, you have to pull over to switch the tanks from Natural Gas to Normal Gas when one runs out. As Jesse pulled over to perform this duty on the side of the freeway, the road side grooves woke up Decker who assumed, I guess, that Jesse had fallen asleep at the wheel and in his zombified state, Decker reached over to grab the wheel and save the day...he was also probably screaming like a girl which promptly awoke Eva who, being a girl, also started screaching, who awoke myself in the next bench back, who started screaming obscenities at Jesse (which amounted something like 'what the hell jesse, what the fuck, what the fuuuck!', which of course woke up Gustavo in the last bench who sensed impending death on the freeway, started praying loudly to Santo Nino de Atocha for a quick, painless end. Anyway, it was a great beginning to what almost certainly will be, a sweet tour. WE lucked out when Mikey of Four Star Youth/Day Break Ends donated some dark black movie set material that shuts out all traces of sunlight for us to hang in our windows like the Day Break boys do...it rooooocks. The van is now a cave on wheels. Jesse also built a bunk/bench in the back that is suuuper cumfy. I'm currently writing to you, dear reader, from the front seat as I await my shift at the helm of our 15 passenger sailing ship. yeah, thank you Tmobile, normally I hate you but damn this internet is cheeap. We just left Albuquerque an hour ago where we happened upon a line of peeps waiting to go see Anberlin so we rolled up, jumped out of the sliding door drive-by stylee and flyered the shit out of 'em...they never saw us coming...haha. Thanks to everybuddy who writes to us from home...we luv ya'..we promise to rock america with every last drop of courage we can muster. We just learned we're playing with a kick-ass band called FLAW's homecoming show in Louisville...niiice. Life is good in the van. Okay, I'm gonna' go back to watching Lords of Dogtown... Jesse forgot the actual movie and brought the documentary by accident...still, me likey.
Evan
PS - We get to hang out with FILTER tomorrow in Chicago...sweeeet.

We have been SOOOOO busy - and here's why--->

TOUR---> As you might have seen, we're on TOUR in MARCH with our
broz POWERMAN 5000 on the EAST COAST starting in Michigan and ending in Maine. We're also filling show dates everywhere in between L.A. and the EAST COAST, so if you know anywhere you'd like to see us play in your town, HIT US UP!!! eva@cage9.com

P.S...I also have the good fortune to get to sit in on guitar with Powerman during the whole tour so yeah, I'll be performing TWICE every night...nutz. I'm trying to convince PM5K to do the space suit thing so I can be all incognito the second time around...haha.

VIDEO---> We just spent 3 days in a dark musem boiler
room in Riverside, CA filming our new concept video for "My
Doppelganger" in both English and Spanish. Let me just promise
right now that it is going to trip you out... Prosthetics, fake
blood, and yes, one of us is going to die. Take a guess who. I've gotta' give maaaaad props to our director Jesse Schroeder as well as Tom, Kevin and Collin for making the whole expience run so freaking smoothe. There were times when we thought we wouldn't nail the 100 shots or so we'd budgeted during the three days but we totally did, if not by the skin of our teeth. During the last HOUR that we had left on the 3rd day, there was a scene that Gustavo had to destroy a working PC (one take!!!) and it blew the breaker in the room, making for a great scene but also tripping a circuit and making the remaining shots tricky...check out some behind the scenes photos on our website! Decker became our freaky looking alter ego via a prosthetic face that took like 4 hours to put on...each one of us assumes our own identity through him throughout the video and go out to commit strange acts of mischeif...you'll see. We're hoping it'll be done before we split on tour in March!

GODHEAD @ the ROXY---> We got to finally play a big show with our friends Godhead and we were fortunate enough to convince their guitarist Mike to come up onstage to play Hearts and Stars with us leaving me free to be a singer-guy-thing for once. Fucking awesome. Thanks to everybody that came out and made it so fun...pretty packed house! Afterwards we went upstairs and performed acoustic versions of all our songs at ON THE ROX and what a great vibe it was...we'd never really done that before and I think we'll def be doing it again...

RAWWWWK! evan

Our label asked me to quote what this band represents to me...here's what I came up with...thought you might likey:

"To me, Cage9 is my Hollywood Car Crash. An accidental locking of metal and plastic. Blood and soul on display to anyone who cares to gawk. Untamed spontaneous combustion meeting the unweilding laws of sound and gravity...a subtle distraction turned furious but then fades to black.

I like to emphasize the word "dynamic" when describing our sound. We've got a sharp edge but we don't flail it gratuitously. We feed 100% on the way the songs feel and we always steer towards the emotion of the moment. I think we're very vocal and melody driven, but we're nothing without our guitar lines and percussive, low-end road maps.

Sometimes, it's healthy to take your hand off the wheel, close your eyes
and see where the music takes you. It might end ugly, but at least you
don't always go the obvious route and get bored.

Heavy alt-dyna-rawk?

We're a band that somehow can play on the same bill as hard-core, punk and aggro metal bands and get as much respect as when playing with "safe" rock bands. We play for the kids. We play for the parents. But we play what we want."

E

"Somebody go flip the switch in the laundry room!"...yeah, I had to scream that over the mic a few times as we blew every fuse from here to Afghanistan...not to mention the cops that would show up an hour or two later confiding that every neighbor within a square mile complained of the loud rock band terrifying the hood...the CD Release Party was the most fun a band and their fans can collectively have with their clothes on! We somehow managed to squeeze a red carpet, fire pit, stage, a FREE keg, an actual shopping cart full of 100 FREE Cage9 T-shirts and wad of stickers (courtesy of Long Live Crime Records:-) and like a hundred people into the garage of our little apartment building!

We could have just thrown a CD Release Party at a club like most bands do, but NOOOOO, we didn't want to go out like that. We didn't think our fans and friends should have to PAY to see us at a so-called PARTY that most of all, is for people that SUPPORT US. So we busted out the free stuff, threw down in our own apartment building and played a little rock and roll. How about that?!

We want to THANK EVERYONE who came out, including Marcus Couch of SIRIUS RADIO's "The Scene Zine" who introduced us, Long Live Crime Record's Susan and Alison for the nationwide distro and luv, Leo and film crew for filming (look out for it on YouTube and MySpace!), all our neighbors that were so cool, Moke of Puddle of Mudd for dropping the first donation in our tour fund box by the door, EVERYONE who threw a buck or two in our tour fund box by the door, Ron at S.I.R. for the ass-kicking drum riser, the lady that gave us the mannequins, VONS for the shopping cart, the cops for not arresting us and Echo Park for letting us rock for just a little while!

Our album is OUT!!! This is just the tip of the tip of the ice-berg...time to go play. If you're wondering where to buy our album in your area:
click here!!!

Amid all the excitement of our upcoming release, the greek theatre and our signing, we have some really sad news. Our labrador mix Luna passed away last week. Many of you have come to know him since he travels in our van wherever we go and is pretty much the band mascot. He's been with us since the beginning and although it was his time, we're really down and will miss him terribly.

Luna we love you!!!

That's right, you read correctly: The Greek f**king Theatre! We have pissed ourselves numerous times already upon receiving this delightful news. This is probably the most kick ass venue in L.A. and we're on the mainstage September 16th around 5 o'clock so if you're coming out, get there early! We're opening for some of the most kick ass Spanish rock bands on the planet so it's an honor. Double whammy.

So if you haven't gotten the memo, it'll be printing out shortly. We just signed a record deal with a VERY cool independent label called LONG LIVE CRIME RECORDS here in LA. The new version of our album "El Motivo" will be in stores across the country on OCTOBER 17th, 2006! Dream come true if you're a band...and we'll be backing this up with some major touring so to all of you whom we've promised we'd come crash in your living rooms around the country, see ya' soon.

The doppelganger to all of this is that we've finally finished the SPANISH language version of "El Motivo" which will also hit stores nationwide AND in MEXICO about a week after the english one. This is HUGE for us. We've been talking about doing this for years, and it'll be in our hands shortly. Happy happy joy joy. If you're reading this: we love you.
evan

Wow - we've put like 6,000 miles on our van in like the past couple weeks. Well I guess that's what it was made for. Wutup to Sick Boy Tattoo shop in Fresno for letting us jump on a last minute daytime opening that kicked ass. We met alot of killer bands and people plus we got to watch Turtle get his ass, armpits and nipples waxed...that was really, really, more than I needed to see. Thanks Christina & Koyote (of KRZR) for an excellent night in Crossroads. And Clouded Vision rulz for hooking us up at Starline. Props to Mike Osegueda at the Fresno Bee for giving us some kewl print... Fuck yeah, we opened for Ice T's body Count in Long Beach at Vault 350 - a kick ASS club. It was his first show in 10 years...not a bad gig at all. Laura rawks for setting us up with that! ...If you were wondering, yes Coco was there...we have pics to prove it. I must say Ice T's backstage was the backstage scene I've dreamed of...how have things gone so wrong in today's backstage scenes? Props to Hollywood TV for hanging with us and we look forward to seeing the piece...welcome to LA Jimmy Roc...you rule! Vegas - we have no money - so it didn't hurt at all - THANK YOU SLANT and Munir for setting us up with the show, letting us crash your hotel room and showing us around the strip until 7 am. Is that a picture of us getting into a limo? I don't seem to remember that. The Objex and The Day After were the coolest fucking bands ever. Can't wait to share stages agin. If you guys were wondering, Shane Unger from Philleee is the man behind the kit...he's been filling in for awhile and doing a great job. Guess what? We're taking over your town...tadadadah. dahdahdahdahdahdah-da-da-dah.

Dear diary, I write to you from a cumfy bench in the back of our new ass-kicking 15 passenger van, somewhere in the middle of the Arizona desert on our way back from Albuquerque, NM's Hyperactive Festival. I'm bummed we're going back to LA. We ran into our neighbors Big City Rock who just happened to be playing right next door to us and they're off to Florida. Why must we suffer so? The shows have been a blast and we can't wait to be out again over the next few weeks. We're hoping to plan a national tour before the end of the year...that is sooo gonna' fucking rock. We played in Lake Havasu where the daytime temp was like 120...guess what -didn't feel it cuz our van AC KILLz. Thanx Ryan and Melissa for letting us crash after the show...we had a blast at Frank from Voodoo Glow Skull's club The Underground, rocking with our new found friend's bands The Day After (from Vegas) and Incentive Red. Thanx to Sherry and Candy for hooking us up at Davis-Monthan AFB. Hope to see you for October Fest! The Hyperactive festival in Albuquerque was really, really cool. There were sooo many bands and stuff to do....kinda' like a scaled back yet equally hip SXSW. Props to Camille at the District bar for the killer bloody marys and to Cassie for the fireworks (check out the human-flame-thrower pic on our page). Thank you Munir and SLANT for the connection. We got to play at the El Rey Theatre usually reserved for national acts...freaking awesome! Our van runs on both gas and natural gas and this was the maiden voyage to see how that would pan out...it was harder to find stations than we thought but we still probably saved quite a few bux...and we saved some bunny-rabbits life in outer mongolia too.

Note to touring bands: Jesse tried to pay for lunch at a roadside casino by gambling...this is a bad idea.

Wutup party people! Been a few since I've commented here...soooo the latest: we kicked out Warren, our most recent drummer of 9 months, last week after our NorCal tour. He wouldn't wear the tight pants so he had to go. The most awesome Eric Toohey of ex-Flood the Sky fame is sitting in on drums for the time being while we search, so not only does the show go on, it goes on kicking major ass! We just rolled in from a weekend in Arizona and Inland Empire shows and they were the most fun we'd had in awhile. Brian and Audrey...thanx for the crash pad and the drinks..we heart you. THANK YOU Bill and Steph with Macayo's in AZ for letting us play a show that was OFF THE HOOK for Cinco de Mayo! The guys from CROMWELL and SHORT TERM EFFECT kicked ass and I don't think we've played for such a fun crowd in awhile (thnx Bombshell Productions)...we'll DEF be doing THAT again!

Rewinding a week, THANK YOU KEN LITTLE and family for letting us crash at their Fresno ranch when our Bakersfield show got cancelled. NEVER has a show being cancelled been such a lucky break! We had a f**king kick ass time on our day off...you'll see the pics...you'll laugh. Chris Souther, you RAWK! Thank you for hooking us up in Sacramento at Bruin Stadium...we all got good tans and the food was nummy + we got to rawk in a football stadium...we likey. BIG PrOPS to Art at Club Fred for hooking us up and also to Mercury Bullet for the back flip! El Presidente in Visalia was a freaking riot! We invited Opus Dei to come play with us and we got to hear our song on NEW ROCK 104.1 FM on the way up! THANK YOU HAMMER! Quin and family at El Presidente let us use their parking lot as a make-shift band/van motel afterwards so you'll see some funny-ass pictures of Opus Dei and Cage9 catching some post-rocking Z's in the parking lot before moving on to our respective tour dates. That's what it's all about folks!

This NorCal jaunt marks the last trip for our van...after 100,000 K of band miles (185 total) the transmission gave out on the old beast at about 6 am, about 5 miles from our house in L.A. Kinda' cool though cuz we've been looking for an excuse to take out a loan and get a bigger van!

On a sadder note, we were VERY sad to hear Sid, booker and owner of underground hot-spot JUGHEADS in Phoenix, AZ passed away recently. He was the kind of guy that let us jump on a last minute slot to close a night just because we had nothing else to do while passing through on tour...and then paying us afterwards. He was WAY too young. You rock bro...the AZ scene will miss you as will we.

"I just ate some small children..." and that's how our trip started. These were Warren's drunken words as he stood at our door @ 8 am, van and trailer ready to roll off to AZ. You'd think by reading these things we do nothing but play in Az...you're mistaken..I only end up writing about our AZ trips because they're the most fun to write about. To summarize: Midgets, Pornstars, vomitting on the side of Highway 10, Civet rules, Minus Blindfold lets us crash at their pad AGAIN (because THEY rule), Pinner, REDFIELD and Vistalance rule, Mark Dicarlo keeps us up 'til sunrise with plans of world domination and sadly, our return trip home. OH MY GAWD you should have seen the midgets stapling dollar bills to their foreheads and wrestling on tack-covered floors...AND of course our best adult-film-star friend/fan Terra Hart who was actually really nice and gave us a killer introduction on Saturday! YAY. So there. We'll post the pix asap...

ev pS: jesse made some killer burritos!

Soooooo would you believe this weekend rawked? In another dimension, things might not have turned out so right. On our way to our Flagstaff gig, the sky opened up and shit SNOW all over our show, cancelling our first night! But fear not, we sed screw it and drove to Phoenix anyway. The van even tried to break down half way out but NO, I fixed it with DUCT TAPE. We stuck our head in EVERY CLUB in town until we met the mighty SID, owner of Jug Heads who most graciously let us jump on the last slot of the night....it was the COOLEST F*ING SHOW! The place was rowdy as HELL and we even made some calls and got a bunch of peeps out...needless to say, no sleep till the sun came up. THANK YOU to NiCK and PARRIS of MINUS BLINDFOLD for letting us crash their most excellent CRIB and of course, rocking hard with them on Saturday at the Big FISH. DAVE helped us get a subsequent blown tire fixed for free and we found the BESTEST burritos at 5 in the morning in Pho-town...we got some FREE BURRITOS out of it even! WHy? Because we speak spanish and we give out lotsa' CDs that's why! Thank you Mark D for letting us make noize at the Fish and SLANT for driving out with us from LA! We'll see ya' in 3 weeks!!! Oh yeah, SMITTY, you're hired, you shalt always be there to INTRO US in AZ...preferrably 70% naked and with your sword in hand...I LITERALLY mean sword people...Smitty has a real fucking SWORD that he carrys around...

ev

If you happened to be viewing G4's "Attack of the Show" last Thursday, chances are EXCELLENT that you had the crap rocked RIGHT OUT OF YOU!...as the host put it... Yeah, yeah, yeeeeeah, MILLA JOVOVICH was on the show and NO we didn't get to hang out and part-ay and do designer drugs and burn hundred dollar bills. The producer was gonna' have her come take a picture with us but we took too long breaking down...(sniff). However, she was sitting like 10 feet away from the stage and I think Jesse's amp was pointed right at her head. (rock). JIM ROSE was a trip - we got to hang out with him for like hours before the show since we shared the same backstage and he got to tell us lotsa' road stories. The guy knows EVERYBODY so it was trippy - he was crashing at TRENT FUCKING REZNOR's house so yyyeah, we gave him a couple of CDs. TRIUMPH THE INSULT COMIC DOG tried to hump Gustavo's leg..and then pooped on us all.

If you didn't catch it, check out My Doppelganger at:
http://www.g4tv.com/mediaplayer/index.aspx?video_key=10660

We also played A Last Lullabye at the end of the show...we'll post that too first chance we get! evin

Arizona - we want to marry you! We had a rump-kickin' time out in AZ with a couple dates from Tucson and in Pho-town. We were VERY sad to be leaving even though it's always kewl to see your own bed again. First off - here's our THANK YOUS: Vince and Nick from Vistalance for putting on the most fucking awesome show ever - the now anual FIERCE ALLIANCE FEST. ALL the band's kicked such major ass and everything ran ON TIME for gawdsake! We got to play in front of a packed house at the Brickhouse and it's all your fault...ROCK! Roger, U the big man. The VISTA-house IS the place to be at 7 AM the next morning...we now have some raunchy-ass memories to laugh about for WEEKS...but that's...another story. Breakfast at Denny's @ 3 pm courtesy of Vince - we owe you bruthu. KK and everyone in Slow Burn made our first night in Tucson OWN at THE ROCK...u guys kick...Luno Martinez, CZ FOREVER man - THANK YOU for putting us up in your casa and for the late night munchies...unforgettable...haha. Dicarlo, Jeff and MADD giving us a last minute place to play on SAT at the Big FISH - woohoo! Warren was playing on a crippled leg after trying to wrestle GUSTAVO the night before but hey, that's rock n' roll right? Live & learn! ...aaaaand a special thanx to SMITTY (who may have been under the influence at the time) for donating/loaning his SG Model GUITAR to ME for an unspecified length of time...rest well SMITTY, she will rock hard in my hands...I should repeat that a couple times... We drove all night and now we're all groggy...and want to turn around and drive back. Cya' next month!

ON A REALLY SERIOUS NOTE - I would like to dedicate EVERYTHING I've done over the past 10 years or so with music and with Cage9 to the memory of Clark Bristol, my best friend from High School's DAD who passed away the day we left for AZ. He taught me how to play guitar, work on cars, act like a bad-ass and play like one too. When nobody wanted to sing for our band in Junior High School, he brought in a little shitty P.A. system, put up a microphone for me, SPRINKLED SALT ON IT AND SAID EAT IT!!!! I'm not kidding. The man was awesome. He managed our band until we kinda' just got out of hand but he was always there for us and he was the first guy to ever push us to be really better...back in the little old Panama Canal Zone. When we sucked, he let us know! He will always be the guy who I'd hoped to impress with this shit and I hope he's still watching. I'll never forget sleeping over as a kid and like EVERY NIGHT, he'd be in the corner blasting his head-phones, playing air guitar to CCR, Everly Brothers or who knows what. I hope he's on that stage right now. Rest in Peace amigo.

Evan

Well, it

BUY EL MOTIVO ON CDBABY.COM!!!! http://www.cdbaby.com/cage94

Wow, I can't believe El Motivo is done. We recorded so many songs for this album (41) it was hard to choose...but here's 74 minutes and 18 tracks in the order that we thought served a higher purpose. We've got ALOT of other songs we'd like you to hear - keep in touch and maybe we'll unload another B-Sides record or ONLINE extravaganza on those who are interested. Alot of this was recorded somewhat live in our jam-room & alot of spontaneous ideas ended up shaping the outcome which I think is killer. Lots of bleed - figuratively and literally. I want to thank people from the following bands for participating in hidden tracks, keyboards and readings of my stupid poem: Kairos, Dig Jelly, Big City Rock, Ankla, Your Horrible Smile... ENJOY.
Ev
P.S. I've discovered that this album sounds even more ass-kicking when you listen to it under the influence of controlled substances such as alcohol...but that's just me.

My wittle brother's band "Kairos" is opening for BON fucking JOVI at the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh....JOOOYYYYY! Check 'em out at http://www.myspace.com/kairos7 & http://www.kairosband.com - check out the drummer, he looks alot like me... ev

Okay, we said we were going to rock Arizona but in reality, Arizona rocked OUR ASSES! We got to play with our fav AZ bands Vistalance & 32 Leaves and LA transplants Voze who were all SICK. It was our AZ CD Release Party and Roger from the Brickhouse Theatre MADE our night! The man is our god. He had major stage lights sync'ed up to our songs, a huge special stage built and everything. Fucking off the hook. The night before we even had a listening party for our new album in the club with a full-house after our ZIA Records in-store show! Mark Dicarlo from MAD productions made it all a blast as usual and Vistalance were the shit promoting the even as well. You byatches are NUTS!!! Luv you all.

I'll post the incriminating photos in a minute. I'm gonna' crash though cuz we were driving ALL night long...oh yeah, our new TRAILER ROCKS! We're almost pro now...haha. ev

"El Motivo" is on it's way. Just approved all the final mixes, art and everything. Check out our friend Chris Lentz' artwork that we feature on our album cover: http://www.chrislentz.com - we're using his mannequin sequence. All taken in an abandoned building near where we practice in downtown LA.

Somewhere in a distant land, a big, nasty machine is thinking about crunching some round circular discs that will make me smile. Can't wait to get the first box. Mid-november probably. Patience...patience.

We're jamming our asses off trying become the best rock n' roll outfit we've ever been. We're getting there...but it hurts. But the beer makes it hurt less. Hey, it was my birthday yesterday! Met up with Porcelain, Udora, Moke (puddle of mudd) and a bunch of kewl peeps I call friends and got drunk...imagine!

Oh shit we survived our first show in 6 months!!! It was the coolest feeling though - brand new-car-smell so to speak. The idea behind this was just to do a warm up gig with our new guys Ryan and Warren and to test our new songs in a low-key setting but instead we ended up with a 200+ packed house at the Key Club with a line that went around the BLOCK!!!...we'd only been jamming for barely two weeks so it was nuts. Awesome though...kinda' a felt like a beautiful train wreck...haha. Warren and Ryan kicked ASS. Ty Watkins did the most sick light show we could've hoped for...killer playing with our friends Voze and Deepdown...Can't wait to put out the CD and hit the road...it's a great new beginning for us... ...thank you to everybody that came out and screamed their guts out...you all rawk!

"El Motivo" is done...just finalizing the artwork and the song order...hope to mail out the masters in the next few weeks!!!

ev

Hey, everyone, it's with a great deal of sadness that I've decided to step away from Cage9 and go back to Panama. These last 3 years have been some of the best of my life and I mostly have all of you fans to thank for that. My email is ivanpipocanton@yahoo.com if you want to keep in touch. Keep on rocking!

Pipo

OKayokayokay, I'm getting lotsa' emails about that Dukes of Hazzard cover we did for the trailer and although the evil powers that be will not allow me to show it to you in full, I just found a condensed version online at: http://www.hazzardretreat.com/sounds/cage9-dukesofhazzard.mp3

We did it live and I ripped into this mad solo on the full version...somedaysomeday. Believe it or not, this is the more rawk version...I did another vocal take where I spoofed a country twang whilst the guys fell over on the couch laughing.

New album title idea: Sometimes We Must Put the Cart Before the Horse. harhar...(superstar).
ev

Stop emo haircuts!!!! haha. Check out this video, cortesy of John Ferrel.... http://www.filecabi.net/host/file/1118219367/wmv

Hooooaaaaaaa!!! Yes yes yes, we're working on the CD and we've recorded like a million songs and it shall be done....but FIRST...I had a supa' killa' day at the Warped Tour and I just wanted to say...chhheck out fucking Bleed the Dream...they just rippped sooo hard. Avenged Sevenfold were metaaaaaaal awesome and my friends from Opiate for the Masses (whom snuck Eva n' I in on their guestlist...THANKS HOMEEEEEYZ) didn't play cuz singer Ron's got laryngitis...but hung out anyhoo cuz he's just that kind of man. Oh did I mention Billy Idol rawwwked the hizzy? Flash from the past maaaan, but the gentlemen still has great abdomen...haha. The Matches...don't forgit that name.

HAPPY 4th by the way!!! I got to spend it in most rawk fashion...my friend Jennifer's going out with legendary CULT guitarist Billy Duffy so we got to hang out with him all day and were able to coax many a cool war story out of him...like our own personal VH-1!!! Woohooooo...one of the perc's of living in Hellay. Fayuuuuuuuuuuuuu....

hugz,
ev

Holy crap!!! The album "Talk in Circles" by The Willowz that I MIXED in our li'l studio a few months ago just got a THREE POINT FIVE STAR REVIEW in this month's ROLLING STONE! They also gotta' hella cool article...three cheers for independent labels byatch! The singer, Ritchie wanted me to play harmonica on one song (that I busted out just to joke around) but I never did...DAMMMMNNN!!!! Check 'em out at http://www.thewilloz.com or http://www.myspace.com/thewillowz ...they rawk!

ALRIGHT, enough of that - wait 'till you hear the new cage9 shit!!!

evan

As Staind once put it oh-so eloquently...it's been awhile...since I've talked sh*t here. So without further a-dooo: Dukes of Hazzard...we did the cover song as a joke, and lo-and-behold, they sent us a check...haha. We covered the theme song, which is originally by Waylan Jennings and 100% country, and just tried to rock it up a bit for fun. Think White Stripes meets Foo Fighters meets...well, Waylan Jennings. We recorded it LIVE in our jam room, probably spent around 5-6 hours just monkeying around with it, mixed it down in my ProTools rig and viola! So what you hear in that movie trailer is just us, jammin' out on something you'd otherwise NEVER hear us playing...kinda' bizarre, but in a good way...haha. In fact, we probably had so much fun doing something silly like that that we realized we were being too uptight and weren't having as much fun with our OWN album that we've been working on for awhile soooooo, we're kinda' back to the drawing board...rewriting, rerecording, RETHINKing and RESHAPing as my favorite band KAIROS (http://www.kairosband.com) would put it:-)! There's ALOT of material in the mini-Panasonic tape recorder, in my notebook, and floating around the sub-sonic conscience of our jam room so we've got a good mountain of audio-mish-mosh to tackle!

On my own, I've also found a great way to procrastinate working on my own personal muse Cage9 by producing, recording and mixing some other really cool bands...which has in theory, opened my mind even more for our new album! Aside from Pennsylvania's Kairos' new album (who I just mentioned above), over the past few months I've being doing albums, e.p.s and demos with The Willowz, Aura, Ryan Sweeney, Heroes of the Federation, Tomorrow Comes Today, Robbie Lochner, Dig Jelly and Big City Rock to name a few...WHEWWW!! Gustavo and I also took part in Hillside Manor's album, a band made up of members of HedPe and Tommy Lee/The White Devil cohorts...SOOO we've been BIIIZZEEEE. Anyhoo, back to Cage9....so much to do, so little time! We might be opening for a couple "big" bands here in the South West over the next few months so stay posted...eventually we'll have a new shiny plastic disc to unleash on unsuspecting old ladies everywhere...the fact that we haven't put it out yet goes to show that we're not gonna' settle for something half-baked or anything less than TOTALLY kick-ass so I predict it will be pretty damn... UNpredictable...haha.

If you're still reading, we owe you a BIG KISS.
ev

PS - oh yeah, Eva n' I spent the last week or so 'wine testing' (checking for defects), camping on the beach and just generally getting wasted in the CA's beautiful Central Coast...they'll be a song or two comin' outta' that you can bet...

I HEART NEW YORK!!!! Jeez, did we really just go there???? We were in the big apple for like TWO DAYS and I can't believe it's over. Take me BACK! It was surgical strike for de' Cage9 mashine. We came, we saw, we 'oohed' and 'aaahed' at the sky skrapers like the monkeys that we are....and then we kicked ass! haha.

We got to hang out with MATT PINFIELD among other kool peeps....oh yeah, the guitarist for the Strokes was on our flight...so we TECHNICALLY were hanging out...in my book. We did about 4 sets at what was basically a bunch of private shows for 'industry-type' peeps - kinda' not the thing that musicians enjoy doing for the most part but we felt way relaxed about the whole thing and just kicked ass. Our homeyz BIG CITY ROCK were in town recording their new album for Atlantic Records (woohoo) so they all came to hang with us which was fun...bassist Tim and I even got up and gave a hearty rendition of our favorite BonJovi song....haha. You didn't read that here.

We stayed at this kool-ass hotel where like Courtney Love and the Sex Pistols hang and thereby picked up some good JUJU. We got in a fight with the airline people cuz they refused to allow our guitars ON the plane....ARRRRRGH. We visited the site of the WTC....maybe a little too much to even wrap our minds around. Stood in line for the Empire State Building, ate lots of seriously GOOD NYC Pizza at 2 am, got lost on the subway, hired a "car," dodged taxis, fed the bums, took a pee in Times Square, and finally fell asleep on the plane home listening to the RAY soundtrack...sweet. It couldn't have frickin' gone better.

Big Roxy show on Tuesday....can't wait!!!!
ev

PS - For those of you wondering what the HELL I was talking about in our last email...our rendition of "Good Ol'e Boyz" will be the main song in the new trailer for "THE DUKES OF HAZZARD!!!!" Will they let us now go to the premiere??? Not in your life Jessica, not in your life.

Just finished the vocals for a new song called "Where Love Cannot Grow." It sounds sweeeeeet. Half way through the day, I'm working on lyrics when some kind of explosion like ROCKs the building. I turn around, and out my window towards the downtown LA sky-line I see this HUGE fire-ball like 200 feet high billowing out of this lot less than a few blocks away across the LA river. For like a minute I'm thinking 'oh-shit-911-type-thoughts' when all of a sudden I notice huge spot lights surrounding the burn. It's a fucking movie set. D-OH!!!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
e

Duuuuuuuuuude, I've been in the studio for like 16 hours straight - barely ATE...hungry, hungry, hippo is the new album title fo shizzle.

Lyrical dynamite-o in progress-o...life, death, loss, love, war, eskimos, pussycats and Johnny B. Good gets decapitated...touche'!:

"'Cause it's all in vain tonight, and she's scribbling vicious circles in her eyes. But there's hope today on this empty page, that there's a way, a way, a way for her to write a last lullabye."

"Let's run away to the cold north pole, we'll get rich selling ice to the eskimos."

"There's a young man sitting on the side of the road, singing oh-ma-ma-ma-my.
Got a head full of trouble and mind full of dreams and a song upon his mouth..."

"But the further we go, where love cannot grow, the more we live in darkness, and the hate that we sow, where love cannot grow, will only feed the madness..."

"this is a burden that you never asked for, this is a secret but you'll keep it no more, 'cause on the cover it reads closed forever, open:never, this dead letter."

"noone likes a cat 'cause the way a cat works is sitting 'round all day just thinkin' bout the universe...and if he bites your tounge, that pussy's gonna' make it hurt so you betta' not fuck with that pussy's universe."

"deathless in the end, deathless in the end, the whole damn world's deathless in the end, deathless in the end, deathless in the end (in the end.)"

"He wants to stem the loss, he wants to count the cost, become a soldier boy, with all the soldier toys, but I will not raise my guns before my insides run..."

I should give up while I'm ahead... Hey go see my friends The Willows at Spaceland tonight- I've found time to MIX their new album too...not sure HOW.

the NAMM is over - we survived. Saturday was insanity. Got to hang with our homeys from NoCal Domeshots, Oregon's Northwest Royale, Moktezoom, Robbie and Joey from Digjelly, Jeremy from Depswa n' more. Best of all, after a long hard day, we ALMOST didn't make it into the House of Blues for Papa Roach's gig but behold, my bro Ad7 from Powerman 5000 snuck us in at the last minute! We missed our bros Inner Cell but got to hang with lotsa' bad-ass cats including the guys from Dope, POD, Drowning Pool and Aaron from PRONG n' I bonded over our luv for a little known and now-defunct Seattle band called Room 13 that we were friends with. Awesome! I'm still recovering from the Schecter Guitars sponsored FREE BEER that was flowing in the lobby too. As a cool end to a long and stimulis-overloaded weekend, I ran into Shaddick from Papa Roach on the out way at like 3 AM n' got to pass him a Cage9 demo after shooting the shit for a few minutes. Eva took a picture - I look sloshed - I don't think I'm going to post that....haha. Oh yeah, I took a picture and hung out with my childhood idol Phil Collin from DEF LEPPARD who's also sponsored by Everly Strings...joyyyyyyyy!!!!

Happy Voodoo Day!!!

On to '05, whoa, I just woke up from the nasty dream that was '04...haha. Eva n' I went to NAMM today to support our homeyz EVERLY MUSIC who are so kind as to sponsor my guitar strings...the best in the west...had a great time. Check 'em at http://www.everlymusic.com. Dude, I almost touched Dave Navarros muscles...but he moved and I tripped so oh well. We're givin' out some demos of what will soon be the new Cage9 CD and I'm especially randy about it cuz I found the most cool-some art that I want to use on the album...you can find it at :http://www.cyberium.net/imagine/samples/weird.htm ...it's called "suicide of a cover girl." I LUUUUUUUUUUUUV IT. I might have to change the album title to "she done cut her head off with scissors, the crazy bitch!" We'll see.

Tomorrow will be the bestest day of NAMM. It's like a big Star Trek Nerds Convention - except for people with tattoos and guitars with beer. I'm giddy!

ev

Last night was our last show for '04 opening for Metal Skool at the Roxy here in LA and shiiiit my neck is sore! I could totally feel the voltage hanging in the room! It was a packed house and I think we did our best to give it ALL. We played alot of the new stuff we've been working on but the unforgettable part was our last song. We've NEVER played a cover song since we've been here in the U.S. but that all changed after last week's shitty turn of events. We invited Russ, ex-singer for Hotwire and Leisure to lend his vocals, along with mine, to the vulgar display of Pantera's "I'm Broken" as a tribute to Dime. It was just SICK and I think the crowd went off but I'm note sure since I was in my own world of metal grandeur:-0. It was truly a magical moment to remember a guy that played a big role in making us the musicians we are.

Another big point in the night for me - the singer for Alien Ant Farm came up to me after the show to congratulate us...awesome!!! Also, I hear our bro Billy Duffy from The Cult was in attendance...that's HUGE!

We're spending today recording bass and drums for a rad new song we just wrote called "A Last Lullabye"...can't wait to roll it out in '05.

Happy f**kin' Holidayz amigoz!
evan

As our friends Northwest Royale put it, 12/9/04 is definitely the 9/11 of metal. I'm a little pissed about the mainstream press-coverage...Dimebag deserves alot more respect and props. He was an impossibly talented guitarist that influenced SO MANY including myself. His effect on "popular" culture is alot more important than Brittany's latest chihuaha. I for one, will never forget the first time I heard the opening riff for Cowboys from Hell as a little punk. Probably changed my outlook on playing guitar...nobody'd made that noise before...it was almost machine-like in it's agressiveness yet soo detailed and human! He will be FOREVER copied and NEVER duplicated!

R.I.P. Dimebag...

I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

I got this in some junk mail...what the hell is wrong with this person? haha.

"Never forget the facts are important but it's the opinion of the facts that causes
comment."

Check out this medley of the music we're working on for the next CD!

http://www.cage9.com/mp3/Cage9%20Medley.m3u

I think you hear pieces of Hollywood Car Crash, Ice to Eskimos, Hearts & Stars, Rainy Day Waiting, Breaking Me Down and No Gravity...

ANDALE! We recorded Planet Me in Spanish last night just for kicks....it sounded KICKIN'! So now, "Radio en Movimiento" will be possibly part of our next goal for early '05 besides releasing our new ENGLISH album...a SPANISH album to come out at the same time! Sweet. There's lotsa' songs that we've recorded in the past that never ended up coming out in their English versions that we're thinking of just rewriting lyrics for them in spanish - great music just got writer's bLOCK at the last minute...:-(. So, it should be an interesting variation to life as usual....news at ELEVEN...or... ' a las once'...

CIAO....ev

If ya' haven't already - chickity-check the PIX page for the new photos of our last Roxy show taken by Ty Watkins - our homey at SHPresents! Thanks man!

The Troubadour show was more funner than a barrell of monkeez! Thanks to everyone who came n' 'rawked out with us and skipped the GREEN DAY free show down the street at Jimmy Kimmel! Rose, we forgive you! haha! There was about 100 of you - not bad for a Monday night...much respex.

It was also killer to finally play with our broz in Domeshots all the way down from Oakland. It was the end of their 5 week tour so it was kinda' special...check 'em at http://www.domeshots.com. Also we got to rawk with our Sunset flyering buddies OPTYX who were off the hook as well as the as-always-kick-fuckin'-ass SHUVEL! It was a great bill and we hope to do a repeat soon. Troubadour is THA BEST in the west.

Man, what's with this COLD? I'm freezing...Is this LA or aLAska!?

On another note: Gustavo and I have been laying down guitar and bass tracks for our friends Moke (from HeadPE) and Mizzy (ya' might have seen him on tour with Tommy Lee)'s new project "White Devil." Just finished on Monday morning at like 6 AM...whew. Pretty slammin' stuff tho. It's being recorded by our bud Ryan who's worked on albums from the Foo Fighters to the Melvins so it's gonna' sound gooood. I'll letcha' know when it drops - as they say in the barrrrio.

HAPPY F**KIN' THANKSGIVING! Cage123456789

So it's been a mighty low-key month for us whilst we pluck-away in our awesome downtown L.A. practice space writing and recording lotsa' new material for what we hope will be our new CD! Oh yeah, my Bday just passed tooo...I had a good time receiving free drinks at the Roxy after our kool show with Aetrium...needless to say, I didn't feel that great for most of the day on my special day...haha. Jeff, from SHUVEL, is mostly to blame...:-0>!

A producer friend of ours asked us to write a song for a 'scary' movie that he was scoring - something in the vein of Disturbed, Marilyn Manson...etc. We spent about an hour kicking out the jams and ended up with a BAD-ASS song! We recorded it live in our room on ProTools, added some extra guitars and the next day I came back and touched up the lyrics, recorded the vocals and within 24 hours of making it up, we had "Hearts and STars" DONE and ready to be rawked. Funny how these things happen!

We played it last Thursday and Saturday at Westwood and the Roxy and it was a blast. It might even be one of the stand-out tracks on the new outting. Woohoo. By the way, those of you wondering what the 1st song is called that we've been opening shows with - it's called "Ice to Eskimos" and is also recorded already and rary to rawk the new CD....

Ev

OKay, if you have not witnessed this - prepare for off-lift!

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/supersonik.html

Dustin from Aetrium (http://www.aetriummusic.com) showed me this...haha. I've had the pleasure of mixing their latest album and let me be the first to say the've got some fucking AWESOME songs on this shizzle. We might play their release party next month so be sure you plan to pick yourself up a copy!

Ev

I just wanted to give a big SHOUT OUT to our bro & neighbor Tim, bassist for Big City Rock for putting together the cool Video Flash page that I just added to our main site.

Big City Rock just signed to ATLANTIC RECORDS so give 'em props on tour with Maroon 5! Their site is http://www.bigcityrock.net!

If you didn't see the FLASH page check it out at http://www.cage9.com/onyxinchplaya.html

Ev

Opening for Smile Empty Soul and Seether was just frickin' SIIIIICK! We couldnt'a asked for a cooler show to play on! We made soooo many new friends and fans - thanx to EVERYONE who hung out. AMY LEE from Evanescence came out to sing "broken" and it was totally the highlight of what was already a KILLER night of bands including a bad-ass performance by our friends Onus. We got to hang out with her and the rest of Seether n' SES afterwards and they were all cool as hell yo.

Big wutup to our friends Sick Trigger and Addiction Theory who came all the way down from Bakersfield to catch the gig!

If you were there and noticed that Cage9 sounded as good as, if not BETTER than Seether that's completely due to L.A.'s #1 soundguy and our homey Joey Brueckman...Joey RULZ.

Partee on Garth.

The 3rd Eye Gathering was a blast! We got to meet some of our all time favorite musicians (such as legendary bassist Tony Levin and King Crimson) and even open for 'em. Waaaay cool!

MAN it's been HOT the last couple dayz (no offense AZ!). But we've pushed on in our warm-yet-oh-so-cool jam room and managed to write n' record a couple more new traks. Bizy-bizy just trying to come up with cool shit. Very exciting. I PROMISE to post some stuff in the next month er two.

On another front, I've had the pleasure of producing, mixing and/or recording friends bands over the last week er two on my rare non-Cage9 spare time...including new albums for Arizona's favorite sons VISTALANCE and IE's AETRIUM!

Stay heavy.

evin

Ooooookay! We just flew in from Panama and boooy are my arms tired....but seriously folks..

Panama was sick, sick, sick! We played two back-to-back shows at a big club called Zoomba and both shows were just as intense as ever! Over 600 peeps goin' NUTS - stage divin' and bouncing around for both of our 1.5 hour sets. AFter both shows we were honored with a monster line of peeps wanting autographed posters n' stickers...AWESOME - we felt mega-special. We spent our first week before the shows visiting every radio station, TV program and newspaper in the country and got some awesome coverage that you can CLICK on here on the site. The video for "Sick of It!" got non-stop rotation on "+23" as well as a few other TV stations...that was cool to switch on the TV at the hotel and see your own video blastin' across the screen.

We also took advantage of local radio-station's open door policy to try-out a BRAND NEW SONG called "Rainy Day Waiting." It KILLED! Intense response - and the live, filmed performance of it at Zoomba is now in rotation on the video circuit too! Mind you, this is a song that did not EXIST a week before. We wrote, recorded and mixed it like a day or two before hoppin' on the plane....a fun experiment to say the least.

MIL GRACIAS A TODOS NUESTROS FANS Y AMIGOZ en panama que nos apoyaron en nuestra visita y desde el inicio de la banda! Ya los estamos extranando aca en los 'estates' y no podemos esperar a verlos de nuevo en Panama! Sigan pidiendo el video y musica pa' que los promotores se tiran a traernos de vuelta pronto!!! THANK YOU MIKE MORALES and RICKY MENDEZ (de http://www.los33.com), Arturo y familia at 40 PRINCIPALES (91.3 FM), Ecko Unlimited, Bacardi, Radisson, +23, Panamarock.com and everyone who made the trip a f**kin' monster-truck success! Un abrazo gigantesco departe de Cage9!!!

Check out some more great/interesting coverage of the trip at http://www.panamarock.net, http://www.paseotablado.com, http://www.dealante.com, http://www.elcuara.com and more...

I just read that due to popular request, they're RE-airing one of our hour-long interviews by Panamarock on Radio MIX (97.9 FM)...coool!

Much luv,
Evan

PS - we're working on a Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Puerto Rico tour over the next year - wouldn't that be FUN?

Nos vamos para Panamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

DAng, I haven't written in a week or two...lemme' summarize: Arizona was rock-a-licious for lack of a better word. Our show with our broz Vistalance, Stuckmode, Hall13 and Agrokulcher was PACKED and it was just killer to see so many people knowing the lyrics to our songs! MONSTER THANKS to our street teamers Mayra and Kerri for helping spread the word and we also had an awesome BBQ at their place earlier that day...woohoo! Nuttin' like a BBQ in 108 degree heat...haha. Mayra's friend Michaele has written some great new lyrics for a new Cage9 song to be called "I HATE TRUCKER HATS! (on girls with tutu-skirts and those big flip-flops)" Pure genius! Coming soon...

WE FINALLY played with our Aussie-brethren IN THE NAME OF... last Friday at THE GIG in LA. It was great. They were great. So was Drunken Acrobats, Ornj n' Shatter...look out for that very same bill sometime soon! HOWEVER, I wish to strangle the sound guy. WHY didn't we get Joey B to do our sound...WHYYYYYY???? For those of you unaware, Joey B is the shizzle. He's also let me borrow his amp for the last year...whaddaguy. DID I MENTION that the VIDEO PREMIERE was really great too? Our most benevolent director Brendan Murphy did a GREAT, and slightly twisted intro to the VIDEO (which everyone was totally cheering and eating up). THANKS homey. Also mega-props to everyone who took part in the video and came down to THE GIG...we love you guys!!!

SAN DIEGO at the HARD ROCK in La JOlla was O-N! We all agreed it was our most loosest, most phun show in awhile thanks to our homeyz DRIVEPIN and ENDRIS who just put out a KICK-ASS sounding EP. It was cool to bring the good rawk to the high-rollin' La JOlla strip...ECHO PARK representin'. Praka-praka. ...I'm not sure how I got home...free drink tickets baaaaaaad.

So we're back in our practice space recording some MORE new songs...they're sounding really cool. Especially cuz the drums just sound HUGE beneath the 12 foot ceilings. Lotsa' creativity breakin' loose...should have a couple finished hi-octane tracks over the next week or two.

AUGUST IS GOING TO RAWK!
evanski

I went to the Warped Tour in Ventura, CA. I spent so much time promoting and giving out flyers, stickers, posters n' CDs that I hardly saw the BANDS! I can't help it - I look at the masses and think, hmmm, maybe some of these good people will likey MY bandey. My technique is: I don't choose who to 'flyer' - they choose me! haha. I got like 50 new emails n' phone numbers from really cool peeple - I feel the luv. Maybe we'll actually BE on the Warped Tour next year (?). We're off to Arizona this weekend to play with some of our favorite bands in 100 degree heat. Nice. This should be a fun month. If you haven't seen the video yet....CHECK IT!
ev
PS - bands to see: My Chemical Romance, IMA Robot, Bleed the Dream, The MAtches...

Gustavo's back in Panama for a few weeks so we're takin' some relaks time...sorta'. We just moved into an AWESOME new practice space downtown L.A. with a big-bad-voodoo-daddy-window overlooking the sky-line. We're fixin' it up as I type and will soon have our whole Pro-Tools studio set-up in thar n' all so I'm gonna' finish up vocal tracks for the new "4:13" and "Rescue" over the next few days and maybe pop 'em online fo' da' peeple.

I've noticed everyone's downloading the LIVE video of "Sick of It!" thinking that's the ACTUAL video but I'm sorry to say that I haven't posted it online YET! That should happen in the next few days though.

Fuckyeah!
evan

The Roxy was a familee event. What a time we had! If you are reading this and you were there - THANKS for comin' down to partake in the meleeee. That'll be our last LA show for probably a good month so I can safely say we've gone out with b-bang! Bullets n' Octane were INSANEly kick ass. A pleasure to share the stage with...they're like what Velvet Revolver probably SHOULD be...haha. Also Oh No - Not Stereo were/was quite amazing...and with only two guys, one guitar and a drumset. Hopefully a line-up to be repeated again soon! For those of you wondering, the BRAND NEW song we played for the first time ever is tentatively called "4:13." We recorded it LIVE in our practice room/bedroom last week but we'll probably do it again a little more slick-like in our studio/bedroom next week...okay, it's the SAME room...but this time I'll add a couple more microphones and maybe even a CLICK TRACK...haha.

mucho amor,
evan

We'z back from San D! Rawked with our amigoz Dr. Chunk (www.drchunk.com) who kicked arse with their new singer and bassist, met our long-distance pals Drive Pin and also Murder My Love who was opening for Atticus...you'll be seeing us sporting MML T's at the next show! Also saw a really awesome band called Scarlet...insane live show.

Pipo took the next train to Panama to remove some wisdom teeth...i guess he doesn't trust US doctors...haha. He'll be back at the end of the week in time for some last minute gigs we might be jumpin' on.

We spent last week recording some live practices and ended up with some bad-ass sounding tracks! Did some random riffs over ad-libbed lyrics and outputted some beautiful mistakes...onto ProTools. The mind works in curious ways like that. Maybe I'll post the results. Our favorite is a track called "Who We Am." It's about traffic, gratuitis commercial radio jibberish and other modern scams. A few of the other jams I've tentatively titled "So American," "Pass It Around," (about flyering maybe?), "It's No Use," "Youth in Asia,"...etc.

News at e l e v e n sez evan.

1,317 MILES in the ASTRO-VAN rear-view and we're HOME! Six awesome shows in four days. Pipo signed a boob. Payed $1.92 for gas. Got VERY close to Texas. Learned to appreciate A/C. Listened to our broz Moksha's CD a million times. (http://www.mokshaband.com) Met some of our street-teamers & friends Mayra, Kerri, Julie and more! Sold lotsa' CDs and Cage9 rags and bestowed many a free poster and sticker upon unsuspecting fans. Also, we enjoyed delivering a healthy dose of the good rawk.

In Phoenix - VICTIM 26 (http://www.victim26.com) and Vistalance (http://vistalancekills.tripod.com) were the purveyors of our good time...PARTEE at JAYs!....Radford, Makeshift Family, Chrome Nine n' Playing God were the shizznit while Mark DiCarlo's Mad Industries was tha' MAN hooking us up with tha' good life. - In Tucson it was "EVERYBODY WITH YOUR GUNS IN THE AIR!!!!!" with Vinny and the Jets, Misery Likes Company, Assume the Worst and at the KCXX show in Redlands our homeyz Apathy rocked the hizzy...their CD is DOPE! John D from the X is the king. We bow down before Rene and Mark from the Zia Records Stores for lettin' us bring the noise for 30 minutes in both places....big LUV to everybudy that came out to support and make a purchase!!!

Whoa - just saw Slipknot on Jay Leno - BRUTALITEEEEE!

The BAD: 1.) I'm sooo tired right now! 2.) It's over 3.) I got yelled at like 3 times for flyering where I shouldn't be (High Schools, Malls, Car Washes...etc.)

The GOOD: 1.) we totally paid the trip off in sales n' stuff 2.) our mascot-mutt Luna survived the dessert heat and even became the main attraction in San Bernardino 3.) we made LOTSA' new friends and I even got to hang out with my cool rawker-cousings in PHX 4.) The performances were AWESOME 5.) it was FUN. 6.) Oh yeah, did I mention that Pipo signed a boob? HAHA!

Arizona RULZ!

ev

PS - Nothing like those wind-mills in Palm Springs to squish your nose against the glass for...http://www.palmsprings.com/services/wind.html - 'maaaan, those things are biiiiiiiiiiig.'

Our new poster'll be here next week! Rawk. Email if you'd like a few copies to pass around n' whatnot. We used the pic of us standing in the street in downtown L.A. (at like 7 AM on a Sunday)...sneaky basta'dz. Taken by Louisa Wu - check her stuff at http://www.louisawu.com. Bands - call her up! Make ya' look like a million bux..eh? Also, I'm gonna' post a 5 second sneak-preview of the video for "sick of it!" next week. It looks really sic. We'll have it done by the end of the month so stay tuned.

We're off to AZ next week! It'll be nice to get away from this L.A. heat in the furnaces of the AZ desert. Start placing your bets...will the van survive yet another AZ trip??? Will Pipo serenade us yet again with Christina Aguilera? Will Mark Dicarlo treat us to yet another shirtless "get the f*ck out!" session of unwanted partee bliss??? News at eleven.

mEEEE

Note-to-self: Must purchase Bad Religion's Empire Strikes First CD immediately. Greg Graffin is the Maynard of punk!

I just finished mixing "Dead Letter" and I've uploaded the Mp3...check it on the music page...I also added the lyrics for Dead Letter and Octopussy so scroll down so you can finally see what the hell I've been saying at the shows!

Hey the video's almost done!!! Can't wait...Brendan sez it rawks. I believe him.

ev

Soooo while watching Jay Leno

Our show last night at The Key Club was rawknroll celebrity central! Turns out it was Shavo, from System of a Down's birthday so he and all the S.o.a.D. guys, Static X and more were there to party with their bros in Abloom who played an amazing set after us... got to hang with 'em afterwards in the backstage lounge...ahhh, life was good. All the bands were monster cool including our homeyz Diminished. It was also Ewen's B-day from Porcelain who we met up with at the Rainbow at about 2 am...they're off to Australia for a few shows and won't be back for a few months...we'll miss 'em! Dude, I met the guys from FOBIA just now at Guitar Center...super pasiero! They're just in town for a few US shows and then they're off to tour Latin America...they remembered us from when we opened for them at the HOB in LA a year ago....gave 'em our CD n stuff...sweeeet. Ai'ght, we're off to San Bernardino for a cool gig at Lyrics... l888888r,

Eeeeee

"Risk everything or gain nothing"....sweeet quote...note to self... I just read "Timeline" by Michael Crichton...did Spielberg make a movie of that? I feel like I've seen it already. Been listening to this guy Damien Rice...rad - but sometimes I just want to reach through the speakers and bitch-slap 'im when he crosses the 'sap' line. hehe.

Hey check the flyer link on our gigs page for our show for the director's screening of "Rage: 20 yrs. of Punk Rock..." You can WIN a guitar from Guitar Center by paying the $20 to get in! NICE! Uh, I think I'M gonna' buy a ticket too. I'm not sure if Nick Oliveri actually SINGS in Cuddle (who plays that night too) or if he just sang ONE of their songs er what...I'll let you know if we solve this mystery of the universe. We're also stoked to announce that Michael Bishop, director of "Rage," has asked US to cover the song "Spit Up the Rage" which he co-wrote with Jack Grisham of TSOL, from the movie's soundtrack for this show...coool!

Just had a laid-back weekend in San Diego....writing some stuff. I've counted over 40 songs we're kinda' kicking around. WHEN will we tie 'em up??? Praise the gawds of writer's block - I do not know!

Okay, I'm finally beginning to GET Jet. My big sister turned me on to AC/DC when I was like in Jr. High. These guys are like the new "INTERSTATE to hell" except now people aren't raging down it in cool 70's muscle cars, rather in shiny-plastic Escalades that are too busy watching "Watching Nemo" on the DVD's to buy the one way ticket...whateva'.

I'm gonna' shutup and go make some Chili now.

evaniche

Flyers, flyers y mas flyers! 15,000 so far....
Tamara's OK.... Derepente habia demasiada gente alrededor y, por el calor, se desmayo... pero ya esta bien...
Recuerden, if you're going to a big show, saluden a los cage9'ers (and soon, streetteamers...)
Pipo

In-f**king-sane!! I'm talking about the Perfect Circle/Mars Volta show last night in Long Beach! Big wutup to everyone we made friends with IN LINE before the show where we passed out CDs, flyers n' stickers...we even met some homeys with a Panamanian MOM. Word. We're now family.

Mars Volta's live set was nothing but an inspiration to live sets everywhere...one hour - two songs - and I didn't BLINK. Ironically, this show, the first concert Cage9 has saved up enough bones to actually ATTEND was missed by Pipo when his girlfriend Tamara, (ya'll might have met her manning our merch at shows), PASSED OUT half way through M Volta and was rushed to the hospital. Rumor has it that is was Cedrics ULTRA tight trousers! No really - I think she's feeling better now but WHEW - we wuz worried!

I realize this is turning into "Evan's Journal"...lemme' go wake those guys up...hold on.

Maynard for Presidente

Heyyyya! Check back l8r today, I'm gonna' upload some pics by Louisa Wu who was along for the ride during some of our video shoot. Amazing stuff. You might notice a few of them now adorning the banners on our press and news pages. The Roxy show was part of what I'd like to call the "Sick of It Tour 2004." We were all SICK! Luckily, we managed to rawk REALLY hard and it was a blast - but when the curtain went down, I noticed Gustavo about keeled over on his amp...dang. Props to ya'll that came out and made it fun including Ty from SHP - n' guess what? He's gonna' learn Compromise and come play it on stage with us at an upcoming show TBA. yes. Also wutup to f**king Ashley who brought her mom n' hey, even invited us all out to luunch! woohoo! I don't know tho, we're pretty fond of our endorsement with Top Rahmen...mmmmmm.

Factoid: Cage9.com had close to 260,000 hits last month! What the hell are you people looking at?! haha.

E-rock

PS - much luv to our homeys at Skinnie Mag that included the great review in their recent issue as well nuestro compas' en Panamarock.com that submitted our CD for review in Rollingstone down south of the border! GRACIAS!!!

We just rolled in from 4 shows in 3 days in Arizona and we

the show last night at the Hard Rock rawked! ...Evan broke a brand new .42 A string (how does he do that?) and Gustavo played with a sprained hand... no more snowboarding for you, amigo. it's 10 a.m. and we're packing for a weekend of music in Arizona - 4 shows in 3 days... The Cage9 mascot, Luna, has to sit this trip out and he's not happy about it.
Eva - manager

dude, we got sponsored by Everly Strings! Gustavo and myself were lucky enough to visit the Everly String offices/factory yesterday...we got to watch them wrap a low B bass string. After showing it off to us, our rep Joe, threw it in the garbage for quality control purposes...this was very hard to watch. This same bass string could go on the black-market for 20, 30, maybe more...jeez. The humanity of it all. Anyway, these fine strings are the sh*t. Check 'em at www.everlymusic.com! VANS is sending more shoes - ARTUS is sending more shirts...it's Christmas time in Echo Park!!! E-rock

That's it! We finished the last shots for the video for the unedited version of "Sick of It!" on Sunday. It's SO gonna' rule. We slept probably about 4 hours the whole weekend since we'd crash late and wake up for like 4:30 AM calls but it was worth it. ....and the whole thing was "guerilla style" as Brendan, our producer/director liked to say. We filmed (with no permits) in aquaducts, on bridges, on top of automobiles, behind fences, in the tiny bedrooms (where we live & die), in busy downtown alleyways, and even on a pedestrian overpass (over the 1) on a COLD Santa Monica night where we had to "freeze" in one position with traffic in the background for like 30 minutes. That was especially tricky cuz Gustavo kept making these strange whining sounds cause his leg was falling asleep...yet, keep a straight face, I somehow did. Major props to BANG STUDIO (www.bangstudio.com), where we filmed the live shot and of course MUCH LUV to all our friends and fans who came out to be extras and hang tough for the 6 or so hours of filming at BANG. When playback started, the sweat started pouring and everbody started yelling and screaming...it was the real shizznit... Amazing fashion photographer Louisa Wu (www.louisawu.com) took some slammin' pics and Robert Smith (http://www.rhythm.com/~roberto/) hooked up the locale...R E S P E C T to everybuddy who made it happen!

evin

Bueno, ayer domingo acabamos con la filmacion del video de Sick of it! (version NO editada).

Pipo

The old man loves L.A..Some advice, when snowbording try not to break any part of your body, really hurts..
El Guapo

Hey, everyone... Pipo here. I love passing out flyers at big shows... people in line have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with their time but to hear me talk, talk, talk, talk (if you can even understand what I say - thick accent), and talk about the band. So, if you're going to a big show in the LA area, expect to see the cage9'ers working it.
Drummer.

PS> by the way, if anyone has an extra Rush ticket (my favorite band), just email me (pipo@cage9.com)

We weren't sure if we'd be continuing to shoot our video this weekend since the camera took a nasty-ass boot-to-the-head last week. Everybody blamed the dog. I'm not buying it. However, fate has smiled upon us and the guerrilla filming sessions shall continue. This time in some alley ways we're not supposed to be in and finally, in an undisclosed location where we want YOU to come rawk out with us for the last shot. Probably just looking for like 30 so ya' better jump if ya' feel so inclined. Much props to our CZ homey and director Ryan Sweeney, producer Brendan and the 8 or so other broz who are lending their time (who I will name in full when I wake up:-). Soooo I've been revamping the cover page on the site...I can't see straight at the moment. Hook me up if you've got any suggestions web designer people. ouuuut.

rodaneech

Runin around and around, the panamanian connection is in town...Get to buy food at last!
Da bassist

Well, last night flyering was fun! Went over to the Wiltern, where dropkick murphy was playing... but.....did we go in? Of course not! If only that one person with the extra ticket had a bigger heart....
See you tonight at The Avalon for the Switchfoot show...

Pipo

But seriously folks...a'ight, this the journal. This is where the grey-matter releases itself onto the internet in text form. I will not be held responsible for what the band may say here. Beware...there may be profanity, truth, lie, and even a few notes about music and the pursuit of the....whatever it is that musicians pursue. I'm supposed to be recording vocals but instead I'm doing this...that's focus for you. What a world. Okay, let me see if I can stop typing BS for two seconds and write some lyrics from some place where the dogs fear to tread. Enjoy...

E-rawk

Go see our friend's band from Belgium...Emo-core from hell...www.soonsite.be!

an insidious disease just took over my brain, I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to smell the roses again...well maybe by six.

I was wondering if that blasted piece of kee-rap would be able to list a website - so here you go: www.cage9.com - choke on that you wayward jog hound!

So one day I went out on a walk and ran into a disgusting old crow that jumped down from his nest to tell jhow down there street there was this horrid mutt who at one point had ccome along and sold him some vegetables...anyway, to make a long story short, the of them had planned to go out drinking on enight and blah, blah, blah, you know the rest of the story so why the hell are you looking at me that way?

Heyyyyyyyyy - Luna is not to blame!! Anonymous...

and then one day, the clouds parted, and I saw a part.

boy, did anyone get a chance to ******* that (*&^(?

why do I always have to be the one to carry the bass cabinet fucks!

I just wanna' party alllllllll night laaa-ong.

***Testing, testing, testing...sucka'