Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 74

Sunspot in the van and "Eat Out My Heart" live from the Hexagon Bar in Minneapolis, MN 12-15-07.

Direct download at http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_74.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 73

Sunspot stuck in the ditch before practice!

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On the way to Wausau and terrified!

Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_72.m4a

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 71

It's an educational episode as we teach you how to change your oil at home as we change the oil in the Sunspot Van using Amsoil. Plus the usual lovable ridiculousness...

Direct Download Link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_71.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 70

Day 4 and the final leg of the journey of Mike and Wendy visiting the Taxi Road Rally in LA.

What an awesome experience, we can't wait to come back next year!

Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_70.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 69

Day 3 of Mike and Wendy visiting the Taxi Road Rally in LA, slightly less debauchery than the night before, but more informative!

Sorry this one's up a little late but we just got back from the convention and boy are our arms tired!

Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_69.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 68

Day 2 of the TAXI Road Rally at the Westin in Los Angeles.

Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_68.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 67

Mike and Wendy in LA for the Taxi Road Rally, Thursday November 8th, 2007!

Direct Download Link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_67.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 66

Sunspot taking press photos on State Street plus some of our favorites from the shoot! Special thanks to Devious for taking the pics!

Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_66.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 65

Hanging out after practice and October updates from the band!



Direct download link:
http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_65.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 64

Hanging out and rocking at the Southern Comfort Music Experience in Madison, WI on September 8th, 2007 and after JB's Speakeasy in La Crosse, WI on September 9th, 2007.

Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_64.m4v

EDIT: I didn't realize that I copied that clip to the beginning until after I uploaded it, I almost wet myself. Sometimes you get happy accidents...

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 63

Rocking fucking socks off at the Reptile Palace on 8/24.

http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_63.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 62

Looks like I got the number of the Road Mania incorrect on the actual video again. Next time I probably won't work on it after a couple of cocktails in the middle of the night...



Direct download link for a higher quality version: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_62.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 61

More general ridiculousness from us trying some Gmail contest at the Madison Music Foundry and then hanging out at practice.

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 60

Action from Memory Lanes and hanging out in the van on the way to our show at Hoowies in Edgerton today.

Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_60.m4v

Thanks to Cary Aria for hooking us up with the show!

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 59

Hanging out in Madison and Rockford the weekend of 7/19 - 7/21.

Direct download link for the high quality version:
http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_59.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 58

This episode of Road Mania includes a montage of a lot of the bands we played with over the weekend. You get to see what a wide variety of acts we work with, from the metal massacre at The Reptile Palace to the ska-splosion at Barn Bash!

Unfortunately, I didn't have footage of all the bands. But at Barn Bash, in addition to the bands shown, Warriorette and The Buskers rocked!

Special thanks to all our "camera crew" (Andy in Oshkosh and Ricky at Barn Bash) for taking some of the footage!

Watch it on YouTube below or Download the better quality version here!

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 57

Here is a quick recap of last weekend, including a live recording of us performing a BRAND NEW SONG at Radiate Hope (Capital Brewery in Middleton, WI)!

Direct download link:
http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_57.wmv

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 56

This one's more of a music video, here's some clips of Sunspot playing Racine Harborfest 6/23/07. Wendy and I filmed an intro yesterday, but my iMovie crashed and I lost it. And it was really a fucking awesome intro too, you guys would have loved it. I mean, it was really something. But now it's gone forever and no data recovery services can do anything to salvage that greatness. Thanks to Kevin Z. for sneaking the camera by the vigilant security guards and enjoy the songs! Can you let me know if I'm looking plump in this one? It's always so hard to tell on video.

Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_56.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 55

While Wendy's away, the boys will play. Mike and Ben relaxing in the luxurious Sunspot offices and talking about this weekend's rocking and shows coming up like:

Racine Harborfest
Barn Bash 2007

Direct Download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_55.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 54

Hanging outside the van on a gorgeous Sunday after practice.
Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_54.mp4

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 53

Madison's own, Bratfest!

Direct download link:
http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_53.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 52

Just getting a little excited about Bratfest in Madison this weekend!

Don't forget to check out the Not Dogs!

Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_52.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 51

A little bit of talking after band practice, Mike does a dance, Ben makes a seminary joke, and Wendy and Mike get a non-starter podcast going at the MAMAs, where in a place with 500 video cameras, the Sunspot cam wasn't allowed!

http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_51.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 50

Mike and Ben hanging out at the WAMI Awards in Milwaukee, Monday, April 30th, 2007.

Direct Download Link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_50.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 49

Partying and playing at The Mad Planet in Milwaukee with The Buskers and The Lounge lizards From Hell!

Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_49.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 48

After band practice and I forgot my camera so we're using the iSight to talk about this weekend's show in Milwaukee at Mad Planet.

Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_48.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 47

Hanging out in Chicago traffic on our way to Dirty Jack's in Cincinnati.

Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_47.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 46

Relaxing at rehearsal during the worst April snowstorm in Wisconsin for a long, long time.

Direct link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_46.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 45

A little bit of us talking in the van on the way back from Cincinnati and also Wendy mowing down at White Castle in the middle of the night last night

Chicks Rockfest
Patient Zero

http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_45.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 44

Hanging out in the van on the way to Cincinnati for Chicks Rockfest!

http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_44.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 43

Here's our video podcast from the van coming back from South by Southwest 2007. It was supposed to be up a week ago, but my laptop broke on the way back and I couldn't post it. So, here's us talking about our thoughts from the festival.

http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_43.m4v

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 42

We're still in the van on and on our way to Austin, but how is the vehicle holding up for our heroes?

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 41

Hanging out in the van on the first part of the long night's journey into day to Austin, TX for SXSW 2007.

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 40

Talking at the end of the night on the drive back from Whitewater while desperately fighting off the urge to wet our pants...

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 39

Talk about the release party and our upcoming Whitewater show.

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 38

Here's another one from the van as we're driving through Ohio on our way back from the Millennium Music Conference in Harrisburg, PA. The drive was a little terrifying this morning because there was a snowstorm rolling in as we were leaving, but otherwise it's been somewhat pleasant and it was a wicked party, especially Friday, but with $5 pitchers at Zembie's and working up the liquid courage to talk and hand out CDs to every person we met that night, memories are fuzzy...

Anyway, here's the links to the people we talk about in this podcast.

Millennium Music Conference
Future of Music Coalition
WXPN Radio from Philidephia
Eugene Foley and Artist Development
Lebanon Valley College Radio

We also put "Mr. Foff" from our new CD, Neanderthal, that we're releasing on Friday at Madison Avenue!

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 37

We're on our way to Millenium Music Conference in Harrisburg, PA. We recorded this in the van while driving through the snowy mountains of Pennsylvania!

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 36

Video podcast from when we were working at Aquamunkee Studios for the rough drafts of what eventually became the album.

This is the first video podcast I edited together in iMovie and I have to say it's a great program. Next time, I'll be more ruthless with the editing, but there's a bunch of good moments in this one.

Podshow PDN {podshow-9131bc967680a6e950e6193a8be69586}

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep.35

Here's just us talking about our show on Saturday as well as discussing the details of our CD Release Party at Madison Avenue here in Madison on 2/23!

Here's the MySpace of the band we were talking about in the podcast.
http://www.myspace.com/garpiketheband

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 34

Yeah, I know in the podcast we say that it's episode 33, but it's really episode 34. We're talking about our show at Bobby Rockets on Saturday and our upcoming CD Sneak Preview at Mad Planet in Milwaukee this Saturday, January 20th!

Byah!

This is also the first podcast we did on my brand new MacBook using GarageBand. Yeah, right we're only two years behind the times. I hope you can hear everything okay!

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 33 Part 2

Part two of two. Still sounds like space, unfortunately. I don't know about the MP3 converter on the Palm, it looks like the quality isn't there yet. But there's still some fun moments on the drive to Grand Junction.

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 33 Part 1

Part one of two. Still sounds like space, unfortunately. I don't know about the MP3 converter on the Palm, it looks like the quality isn't there yet. But there's still some fun moments on the drive to Grand Junction.

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 30 Part 2

I had to split these to podcasts into two, this is part two. I tried uploading it the other day and it didn't work, so I tried again before I fell asleep last night and it did. I just checked it out on Wendy's laptop and the files are cooked as fuck. It looks like doing podcasts from the Treo might be a little bit too far on the low quality end, might work in a pinch, but this isn't what we're looking for.

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 30 Part 1

I had to split these to podcasts into two, this is part one. I tried uploading it the other day and it didn't work, so I tried again before I fell asleep last night and it did. I just checked it out on Wendy's laptop and the files are cooked as fuck. It looks like doing podcasts from the Treo might be a little bit too far on the low quality end, might work in a pinch, but this isn't what we're looking for.

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 32

Recorded from the Sao Paolo Cafe at the Rio in Las Vegas at 5 o'clock this morning. I was already on Bloody Marys by that point and I don't quite remember anything we said, I just uploaded it.

When we were recording this, we forgot the name of the band we were hanging out, but they're called The F-Ups and their new recording is a monster.

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 31

We did this one from the van yesterday and the upload worked, so here's us talking about the LA shows.

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 29

Got clipped at the end when we hit a traffic jam, but it's us talking about New Year's.

We're at Hollywood Alley right now in Mesa, AZ and it's a really cool place. We were going to do an acoustic show but it looks like an electric room. so I think we're gonna go with that.

We're playing in an hour!