Centrevol Covers:

Centrevol Originals:

 Centrevol w/ Travis Ross and Matt Shockley

@ Que Sera, 1923 East 7th Street
Long Beach, CA 90813-5104

Friday July 16th, 9 pm. 21+

$10 (includes free weel or domestic drink).

Just wanted to give a huge shout out and thank you to all who were at our “Help Haiti” benefit concert. You guys helped support a great cause and helped us get some amazing footage that we will be sending to colleges across the nation to book our next tour! PLEASE send the link to the youtube video above to all your friends and show them what a good time a Centrevol show is.

Speaking of the good cause, right after the show I saw an article published May 24, 2010 in the latest  TIME magazine which had an article on what’s happening in Haiti. The need is still great and you guys helped a great cause. Check out the article here:

We will remember that moment during “Shine a Light” for a long time to come. Thank you all for your loyalty and support. See you at the next show!

Alright guys, the math is simple: If you have been wanting to get involved in social justice in Haiti and have been trying to figure out a way to give, we have the best deal for you: $33 bucks goes to help someone in Haiti get clean water for 20 (twenty) years! And, it’s a win win because you get a designer tshirt AND a free performance by yours truly, the boys from Centrevol. I guess it’s a win win win because we get to play for a full house of crazy Centrevol fans all wearing the same tshirt! Please check the promo video we shot giving you more details on the event.

Show details:

Thursday, May 13th, 9pm, Que Sera, 1923 7th St, LBC.

FREE ADMISSION with purchase of “help haiti” tshirt. Here is what the tshirt would look you if you were some dude who has never eaten a carb in your life:

Please order your tshirt by FRIDAY MAY 7TH AT 2PM PACIFIC TIME to get it in time for the show. If you are reading this after that day, a print out of your receipt will earn you free admission, or, you can purchase the tshirt online at the show… but we’d highly prefer it if you guys all showed up wearing your support for this worthy cause.

Here are all the links you need: Faith & Fortune, purveyors of socially relevent fashion. charity:water, the “in the trenches” org bringing safe water to the people of Haiti.

Thanks you guys, see you at the show!!!

Finally, the epic clash between man and machine has begun. The struggle between the will of humans and the might of computers and microphones ensues in California. Soon, there will be only one victor, and it must be us, the shining warriors of Centrevol!!!

As many of you have heard, we have crawled into the hibernatory state of album-recording this week. We began tracking our much anticipated album at Infrasonic Studios, a tracking, mix, and mastering studio in East LA that has hosted artists such as Beck and The Mars Volta. We have had many many months of preparation and writing in anticipation of this studio time, and we are pushing for this album as if it will be the one to give us the national attention that we so desire. Interestingly, when I was interning at Universal I worked on promoting The Mars Volta’s first major label release “De-Loused in the Comatorium,” 2003. Now I’ve come full circle and am working on (hopefully) my first major label release.

The cover to their album "De-loused"

We have the honor of having a large budget and working on this album with producer Eric Palmquist. Also on board with us is Dan the Drum Tech and Ian the engineer. The studio is quite impressive, with tons of character. I’ll start with the best part: a custom Neve board with the pre-amp God’s signature all over the dam thing. In addition, there is a huge selection of vintage drums, basses, keyboards, and amps:

The security

We began tracking “basics” which means focusing mainly on the rhythm section (specifically drums and bass). We set up so that we could all be in the main room with Nate, Pete’s amp was in the iso-booth/hallway, Jon’s in the bass closet of doom, and mine in the kitchen. We tracked basics for 4 of your 7 soon to be favorite songs: “Don’t Hear Me Wrong”, “On a Roll”, “Save Yourself”, and “Walk the Line” (by Johnny Cash). Things are going smoothly and we are ahead of schedule! Check back soon for some vids of our antics in studio!

Please click here to hear their tunes!

The video and the flyer says it all. I’ve included a video of Brady, an honorary nephew to the band who is adorabliciously dancing to one of our songs. Cuteness exploitation in the name of getting people to come to our show? Two words: Eff and Yeah. Please come out, cover is only $5 and the drinks are cheap. We are SERIOUS about starting at 8:30 because we have got to get people home to bed, some of us have to work in the morning!!!

Centrevol, Secret 6, One High Five

Que Sera, 7th and Cherry in Long Beach, CA

8:30 SHARP, $5/21+

Once again we have some talented bands sharing the stage with us; please visit them online at by clicking on the band names below:

Tiger Tank Euphoria

Entice

Last time we had a little flub with the time at which the door was to open, that is, we had to turn some people away before 9pm because the bar wasn’t open… well no more!!! The doors will be open at 8pm and we will have music starting at 8:30 SHARP!! That is, 8:29, no music, 8:30 music. You there at 8:29=happy, you not there at 8:30=sad. $5 at the door means cheapy door for lots of music, but if you miss either of these bands, your life will end incomplete (and who wants that?). Please stay in touch with us and post if you have any questions need rides etc. See you thursday!!!

That's Amanda on your right, don't worry I'm drunk on pure holy spirit:)

What’s up Centrevol Universe. Just a quick little bit of fun from my online social network. Amanda, a friend and fan from Eastern University near Philly stirred up ye old chat on Facebook… the convo got a little funny so I decided to post it!!! You may NOT forget about our local show Thursday night at Que Sera in Long Beach, if you promise to not forget, you may read this post.

Amanda

How are you, friend?!

6:11pmKai-Ping

chillin what you doing?

6:14pmAmanda

oh im just getting back into the swing of school

whats centrevol been up to>

6:15pmKai-Ping

We are working on our next album + promoting a huge local show coming up Thurs

Oh how I miss eastern

6:16pmAmanda

that’s awesome

oh please. you’re just saying that!

6:16pmKai-Ping

WHAT!?!? Why would I just be saying that??@!!

I’d freaking give up my left toe pinky to get out there again!

6:18pmAmanda

oh!! I would give my left fourth toe for you guys to come back

6:18pmKai-Ping

Oh, shoot, are we in a body part bidding war?

6:19pmAmanda

im glad to hear that the eastern-centrevol relationship is mutual

no no. just trying to be honest

6:19pmKai-Ping

Yeah, I’d like to up the ante, but since I’m a guitarist I can’t give up fingers, and there aren’t any other appendages I’m willing to give up.

6:21pmAmanda

ah, that’s okay. i still feel the dedication

It’s our first local show of the new year! We have been blessed blessed blessed (that’s 3) with a residency gig at “Que Sera” a cool vibey bar in Long Beach. We’re pulling out the big guns for you this time, guys. Not only is the place awesome, the drinks cheap, the location magnificent, the parking fantasmic, but the line up is also bullet proof. Ann Lynn is a band that we’ve played with before that makes for some moody intense rock; Shaimus is a band we met on the road that is the heir to ben folds and some skilled hardworking mofos. Plus the door is cheap, $5 on a Thursday night, let’s do this!

After a brief break for us to be with our families, we are back in the war room working on our new album! Above you can see Petey managing our recording apparatus (aka, operating the missile launcher), our producer Eric on the right is trying to look cool playing the bass and Jonny G is on security. We’ve been hard at work spending hours in this little room trying to make some delicious tunes to sweeten your earbuds. I’m going to do my best to post some rough demos of new songs as they come up to get your opinion on them. So far we have 9 songs to choose from and we only get to choose 6, so your input is appreciated.

Until I can post some new songs, here is a fun fact about the rehearsal space:

“Nate’s drumstick graveyard”: Nate shaves through a pair of drumsticks per rehearsal. If you look closely at this pic, you can see that his hi hat foot pedal rises up from a graveyard of vanquished shavings. Large pieces of wood commonly fly at band member’s faces mid-song.