WHERE'S THE FIRE?!!!

In times of extreme complacency and apathy, one must question:
"WHERE'S DID THE FIRE GO?"

One session recently, we were freestylin' over a melody and a beat, and suddenly we started singing without thinking about it:

where's the fire?
we need the fire
bring the FIRE!!!

where's the fire?
we need the fire
bring the FIRE!!!!!

FIRE!!!!
FIRE!!!!
FIRE!!!!

***VIBRATION IS LIFE***

cymatics is the study of visible sound and vibration, check out this mind blowing video!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Io6lop3mk

NEW SET LIST!!

We are making some serious modifications to our set list right now!
Integrating new tunes and finding ways to navigate through the multiple worlds within the set.
Once it's ready, the next show is going to kill!!!

WAKE UP! SHARES A BILL WITH "WHITE TRASH", JULY 31, 2010

This Saturday night, July 31, 2010 we will rock harder than ever and share the bill with "White Trash", a band that has been around for over 15 years! Guaranteed be a blast from the present you all! The info for the gig is on this website: www.kjfarrells.com
PEACE!! for REALZZZ!!!

Applying for a grant

Many of us artists, dancers and writers rely on grants to fund our creativity. After years of research and study we've come up with the ultimate guide to help you in your grant applications.

A wonderful educational video will show you how easy this often painful experience can be.

WAKE UP! live in Williamsburg at New York Jazz Festival 6/23/10

WAKE UP! LIVE in Williamsburg-New York jazz festival 6/23/10

NEW YORK JAZZ FESTIVAL

Wednesday at 8:30pm WAKE UP! will play at Zebulon as part on the New York Jazz Festival which is something we've been looking forward to for about 5 months (since we got the gig).

WAKE UP! isn't just a group that mixes rock with jazz. We are playing sounds that we have a strong connection with: rock, improv, punk, jazz, hardcore, jewish music -- however you want to label it....in the end it's all music and it's where we come from. We've arrived at this point from different worlds and now we're mixing it all up and freeing ourselves to play what we feel, what we like and who we are. It's 2010 music, baby. And on top of that Zebulon is one of the best venues in NY. Come down and party.

Zebulon, 258 Wythe Ave @ Metropolitan, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

http://www.nycjazzfestival.com/index.php?Event=52

Itunes

WAKE UP! on Itunes!!!!

www.nycjazzfestival.com

www.nycjazzfestival.com/index.php?Event=52

Hoy hace calor!!!

WAKE UP! clandestinos
Peruano clandestino
Africano clandestino
Marijuana illegal

NEW CD REVIEW

CD REVIEW FROM ALL ABOUT JAZZ

Wake Up!


By Mark Corroto

If the solicitation from the members of this band is to indeed Wake Up!, then their plea recorded here will agitate, and, yes, maybe even activate some. This quartet of saxophonist Daniel Carter (Test, Other Dimensions in Music), trumpeter Demian Richardson, Italian drummer Federico Ughi, and bassist David Moss apply a vibe that is equal parts electric Miles Davis, Prime Time-era Ornette Coleman, and Sun Ra street jam band.

Ughi is also the label chief for 577 Records. His free jazz sessions always project an immense energy, and it's the same here for these 16 unkempt pieces. The band formed with the same purpose as Carter's street performance band Test, to bring music to the people. The disheveled nature of this outing attests to the band's authenticity. Ughi's drum kit is just as likely to pulse funk as jazz, or swing free over Richardson's wah-wah trumpet playing.

The untreated nature of this music is its triumph. Just as 1970s electric Miles indicated that jazz could rock, and the New York Downtown scene of the 1990s proved that jazz can also be hard-core music, Wake Up! targets undigested energy. Carter can zoom the spaceways or play with quiet passion, as he does on "The Courage to Be," where he dances the graceful pirouette with Richardson, twisting gentle lines. But mostly this disc is about an arousing energy, invigorating the soul, and shaking the blues of conformity. Thankfully, the music is not overproduced, just kept in its wild state.

ACTION FIGURES: DEMIAN

CHILLIN' LIKE BOB DYLAN IN BOHEMIA NEW YORK

THE CD RELEASE AFTER PARTY!!!!!! NYC GOING WILD

PHOTOS FROM THE CD RELEASE PARTY!!!!!!!!

tonite

shake your boody tonite babe

parkside lounge is where is at!!!

9:30pm on east houston and attorney st

cd release party

new songs by WAKE UP!

www.wakeupnyc.com

tomorrow night!!!!

CD RELEASE PARTY!
COME TO THE SHOW AND YELL "EVERYBODY HATES EVERYBODY ELSE"
FIRST 10 YELLERS GET A FREE WAKE UP! CD
Venue: PARKSIDE LOUNGE
Time: TUESDAY, MAY25th, 2010, 9:30, $5
Address: 317 East Houston Street New York, NY, Earth
www.myspace.com/parksidelounge

WAKE UP! ACTION FIGURES: FEDERICO

NEW VIDEO! THEY ARE RISING!!!!!!!!!!

WE made a new video... watch "they are rising"
and taste the madness

click here

FREE DOWNLOAD from The Wire magazine

*THE Wire magazine ALSO features exclusive WAKE UP! AUDIO
recorded live in williamsburg, NYC this winter
listen/download here

CD RELEASE PARTY!!! THIS TUESDAY!!!

from THE WIRE magazine

"With a debut self-titled album due out this year,
WAKE UP! are riding a wave of youthful enthusiasm every bit
as boisterous and impatient as their name."
...read more here ... http://www.wakeupnyc.com/images/10-05wire.gif

CD RELEASE PARTY! MAY 25TH NYC

CD RELEASE PARTY!

Come to this show, yell: "Everybody hates everybody else" and get a free WAKE UP! cd (first 10 yellers)


Venue: PARKSIDE LOUNGE
Time: TUESDAY, MAY25th, 2010, 9:30, $5
Address: 317 East Houston Street New York, NY, Earth
www.myspace.com/parksidelounge


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DIGITAL

THE CD IS NOW ALSO AVAILABLE DIGITALLY
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD