Not Drinking Alone and the Black and White Album by Mark Stone and the Dirty Country Band is available on all platforms via your streaming service of choice
Sunday On LaGrungeMusic I cover Dream On by Aerosmith 2/21/21 https://youtu.be/cnp3FVo6XB4 unless of course you get our emailer. Just a leave us an email via our contact pg or via comment section below and we'll send updates to your inbox.
February 25th Minnesota HomeBrew airs from 6-7pm cst Thursdays at: www.RadioNorthland.org
I'll cover Conway Twitty Hello Darlin for LaGrungeMusic before side stepping to http://mybobcountry.com for the HomeGrownShow 2/28/21 5pm
The FunStones are back March 7th with
and the 14th will be the Video Debut of ULTRA-MEGA's Battling Resistance Presave on Spotify is available via https://bit.ly/BattlingResistance
that's a lot but we got #moremusicin2021 coming your way
Todays video Girl From Ipanema, Vengeance Is Mine by ULTRA-MEGA and You Can Do Magic by America covered by the FunStone are all on the video playlist above starting out our #moremusicin2021 campaign with a ton of cool new music and even more coming soon but first.
There will be a zoom listening party Wednesday if you wanna check out the quirky collaboration I did with Nicolas Raiman for the Sync Cafe listening session happening with @Mark Frieser of Sync Summit at 12pm CST Wednesday January 27 syncsummit.com/synccafesignup Cover Challenge of The Girl From Ipanema
I have no idea what we are doing Feb.21st something cool you won't wanna miss I'm sure but Host Brandon Backstrom and I will be Talking about the Black and White album and Not Drinking Alone Sunday Feb.28th at 5pm CST on the HomeGrown Show on BOB FM
Coming to YouTube 1/17/21 Vengeance Is Mine by ULTRA-MEGA we'll post a link right on the LaGrunge Music Current Events/Home Page when it becomes available to the public or if you like a bit more access sooner we suggest subscribing to our YouTube Channel it's FREE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpuoljnWDH_uwnT_x9MG0tA?sub_confirmation=1
Looking back on 2020 is what everyone is doing right now. I'm looking ahead honestly. This year due to covid the Sync Summit will be virtual which means I get to go and I'm pretty excited about making some new connections and collaborations that will make #moremusicin2021 . There's a listening party for The Girl From Ipanema Wednesday January 17th 12pm CST syncsummit.com/synccafesignup that's only 2 weeks away that's not done. I also did a couple of quick guitar tracks to start a cover conversation I mentioned earlier and sent out frame work for Not Drinkin Alone a new Mark Stone and the Dirty Country Band song that will complete the Black and White album coming in February. I also sent frame work for a new ULTRA-MEGA song Battling Resistance coming in February.
Sync Keepers will be virtual too so it will be cool to reconnect and mix it up with 6FS Alumni and see what happens there. I'm excited to make more music in sonic conversations we can all have together. Soo many possibilities. https://www.catchthemoonmusic.com/synckeepers
Lastly before I get back to mixing You Can Do Magic with Rhonda FunStone on vocals coming to YouTube next Sunday Jan 10th
I want to recommend http://songtown.com In my opinion if you want to improve your songwriting skills just being able to submit a track per month and getting a pros feedback and insight is invaluable besides all the community and opportunity to collaborate with the organization that wrote the book on Co-writing.
From the FunStones, LaGrunge Music, Mark Stone and the Dirty Country Band and ULTRA-MEGA
Most of ALL Merry Christmas to all of our friends and families for all the collaboration and support this year we'd like to do the same thing but more of it in 2021 which brings us back to our Next release Vengeance Is Mine https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ultramega/vengeance-is-mine out on all platforms 1/21/21
But mostly we wanted to make sure you knew you could add and or save Little Drummer Boy because that all happened like a whirlwind but more on the next years blog see you in the New Year or you can always write me@lagrungemusic.com
Seasons Greetings to all our friends and family. We know its been a difficult year for everyone but I hope you were able to squeeze the joy out of this year and I wish for all of us a better 2021 and the best of things to come.
At 1 point I actually felt ahead of schedule and then the Flu (NOT COVID)took me out for a week. For the 1st time in awhile Subscribers will not be getting music far in advance of the public. I apologize. I have taken precautionary measures to insure this situation will not happen again. There are now 6 back up videos to avoid this. Without Further delay here is Sunday's Video
We also realized as we close 2020 we wrote enough country songs this year to release an album in February so keep your eyes peeled for new country Music from us in February. No rest for the wicked and its a long way to the top if you wanna rock n roll and all that. That's what we got coming in 2021 as we prepare to deliver #moremusicin2021 than we put out in 2020. I mean the zombie apocalypse couldn't stop us so we feel pretty good about that. We are also feeling pretty good about our 1st Sync in a Film called Georgia Rocks. Not sure where and when it will be available for the public but we got a clip we're gonna leave you with.
Be Good to Each Other and Be Safe Out there Merry Christmas From All of Us To All of You
Mark Stone
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We have a preview of ULTRA-MEGA's Survive 2020 out on Youtube right now. Remember to subscribe and fully ring the bell for all notifications so you are notified as soon as we make a video public.
If you'd like to know more or you just wanna have a few laughs with us and hang out we will be having a Zoom Release Party for ULTRA-MEGA Survive 2020
Friday November 27th at 7pm cst that's 8pm est and 5pm pst there will be giveaways and prizes for those who show up and participate and we will be revealing 2 brand new ULTRA-MEGA creations that are as of yet unreleased. Join us.
ULTRA-MEGA Survive 2020 Release Party Produced By: LaGrunge Music & Empty Page Studios
JuggernautMN those who remember the band may not even know they started out as Love Kit but after the Exit of drummer Marc Retish to Nova Mob Grant Hart of Husker Du's post band. Love Kit acquired Dan Haney and shortly after the band changed it's name to Juggernaut. The band would get the opportunity to record at Paisley Park via a battle of the bands contest held at the Mirage. The Black Pagoda album they recorded at Paisley Park also saw the band nominated for Best New Metal Album by the MN Music Awards in 1994.Can you guess which one I am?? It's actually harder than I thought my own mudder guessed wrong. lol
I've tried a few times to get us back together and I'll probably keep trying until something happens even if it never does. Danny middle left with his arms folded played some bass for me in the Dirty Country Band. We had some great luck in Juggernaut and some crushing lows as a band. Erik Fratzke and I put together Big Cellar and let that loose in to the wild a couple of years ago. Essentially a double album of Black Pagoda and the second Album our then label Noise Records wasn't interested in and when that shelving had reached its preservation. If you ask Erik the 2nd album is titled 1,000 names of God which considering its Doomy contents maybe I should've went with that but since we put the 2 together I figure Big Cellar which sounds a lot like Big Seller unless you're reading it from where I'm sitting but it wasn't about that at all.
We would grow apart and chase our musical differences and come together once a year for the longest time Like that time Fratzke called me up to do a MN tribute to the late great Ronnie James Dio and of course I said yes please https://song.space/2kr8m8 .
So we are waxing all nostalgic and Partying Like its 1994 up in here because next Sunday ULTRA-MEGA is doing a cover of Semisonic's Closing Time so we'll be partying like it's 1999.
I'll update the pic and attach the video when it's available.
So the last single from ULTRA-MEGA's Survive 2020 EP Just Can't Lose Drops November 27th and you should be able to then stream it in its entirety from your platform of choice and or If you're a Spotify User you can presave it now https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ultramega/survive-2020 and or
No matter the outcome of the elections we all have to figure out a way to work together to make some changes and I hope we're all on board for that because it's the crazy people who think that they can change things that often do.
I've been head down, nose to the grindstone, pretty much all month. I didn't even blog about my birthday. WAH?? Normally I get all dramatic and recap highlights and lowlights. We have just a day over a week until we rush right through my favorite month of the year and Mother nature decided it's winter in MN so let's do this.
#moremusicin2020 is now officially how I will look back at my productivity which all started with #moremusicin2019. As a friend or listener you can expect this to incrementally change each year until I cease to exist. Stay tuned for #moremusicin2021 or if you're a subscriber you've seen whats coming up next. What I have realized is that I tend to throw myself into the creative process in times like these for as far back as I can remember.
It's like therapy. Maybe it was because I was an only kid or because we moved around so much when I was young but music always spoke to me. Sometimes it was the only language that could. You can feel the music and working through it has a healing property I can't explain. If you get it you know what I'm saying.
Spotify users can still presave https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ultramega/self-destruct-2 you can always download it directly from us and as your friends we encourage this as we don't want you without music during the zombie apocalypse and or it will be out on all platforms Thursday October 29th. PreOrder for ULTRA-MEGA's Survive 2020 is over but you can still grab a copy of the CD while supplies last and or Download the EP Directly from us become a Friend of ULTRA-MEGA
COUNTRY MUSIC FANS if you're a Spotify user you can PreSave our last country song of the year
So lots of ways to celebrate Jeremy's Birthday today and or mine coming up it'll last longer than a card and all downloads are eligible for charting via ISRC reporting so if you guys wanna get all crazy and put us in the charts I think we both would agree that would be a pretty cool Birthday present from you guys.
and the 14th will be the Video Debut of ULTRA-MEGA's Battling Resistance Presave on Spotify is available via https://bit.ly/BattlingResistance
that's a lot but we got #moremusicin2021 coming your way 
Can you guess which one I am?? It's actually harder than I thought my own mudder guessed wrong. lol
I'll update the pic and attach the video when it's available.
Spotify users can still presave 
