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Steve and the band quiets down a bit for an acoustic set We'll be playing Vortex Park's Underneath listening room on Thursday, August 14. This is an intimate room holding about 30 folks. Tickets are on sale now for $17.50 each. That gets you in the show and covers your beer and wine needs for the evening. We'll be playing more new stuff from the upcoming album and hope to have a few special guests sitting in with us. We'll kick off the show around 8:30. Tickets for the show must be purchased in advance and can be found at this link: http://www.vortexpark.net/storehttp://www.vortexpark.net/store
Steve and the band invited to play Atlantis Music Conference in September Very exciting news to learn that Steve and the band have been invited to showcase the new music at the 2008 Atlantis Music Conference in Atlanta. We'll post details as soon as we have them. However, the conference will be in town September 17-20 with gigs in Little Five Points and at the CW Music Complex (The Loft, Vinyl, Center Stage).
Fun Time at Vinyl. Thanks to everyone who made it out to Vinyl. It was fun to crank up the amps again.
We played about half of the songs from the upcoming Steve Baskin album, which got great response. We expect to be in the studio in August to begin recording.
Steve Baskin and the Band to play Vinyl on Thursday, July 17 Come out and see us at Vinyl on Thursday, July 17. If you're not familiar with Vinyl, it's part of the Center Stage Theater complex -- used to be Earthlink Live. Starlete and Why the Fly are also on the bill. Everything kicks off at 9P. If you're 18, you can get in with a valid ID -- you know who you are. We'll be playing some of the new tunes from the upcoming album. Be the first on your block to hear them! See you there! 1374 W. Peachtree Street, NW 404.249.6400
Steve Baskin and the band working on the new album Steve and the band are at work now on the follow-up to Steve's debut album, I Sometimes Think. While Steve played and sang all of the tracks on the first record, he's got the help of an amazing band on this latest effort. They're already performing a handful of the tunes live, including Please Don't Leave and Something Smells Fishy. While the new record will continue with Steve's guitar-driven, southern styles, there will definitely be some new twists and turns with the music. The songs are venturing a bit beyond the first record's love songs with jaunty thoughts about marriage, divorce, addiction, prostitution, disillusionment and (of course) sappy love songs. We're hoping to be finished with recording by Summer 2008. And we'll put some tunes out here once they begin to take shape.
New gigs on the way We'll have new gigs posted in the next couple of weeks including great clubs, intimate acoustic outings and a couple of private soirees.
Steve Baskin and the band playing Green Day Festival at Underground Atlanta Underground Atlanta and Enviro Expo USA will host Atlanta’s First Annual Green Day Fest celebration on April 27, 2008. From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Green Day Fest will celebrate eco-friendly lifestyles through an assortment of “green” product vendors, arts and crafts, and live music and entertainment.
Steve and the band go on at 12:30P on the Alabama Street stage. This is one of those rare family-friendly gigs. Beyond the rock and the roll, there will be entertainment for folks of all ages. And it's free!
Take a look at the new video for Where You Are. Click here to go to Steve's myspace page. Amber Tyree of Flyer Films produced the new video for the song, Where You Are, from Steve's debut album. The video was shot in November at Artisan Studios in Atlanta. It was a great experience for the band and a fun day of shooting that began with make-up and a wee little bit of hip-loosening tequila. Note that Amber also appears as a three year-old child in the video while Zoot performs on a three year-old child's piano. (No dolphins or killer whales were harmed in the making of the video.) Sister Hazel show at the Tabernacle has been cancelled. Due to the damage suffered by the Tabernacle as a result of the tornado that tore through downtown Atlanta on Friday, March 14, the Sister Hazel/ Steve Baskin show scheduled Friday, March 28, at 8:00pm, has been canceled. If you ordered tickest through TicketMaster, you should receive and email from TicketMaster with details for your refund. Credit cards should automatically be credited the ticket price and convenience charges, and should post to your account within 7 to 10 business days upon receiving the email. Please note, that the order processing fee and any ticketFast or UPS delivery charges are non-refundable. If you have tickets to other shows at the Tabernacle, know that the venue is not expected to reopen until May. Homage to the Allmans We started filing into Crossover Studios in Atlanta for a tune-up rehearsal for the Sister Hazel gig at the Tabernacle. Brian Hudson and I were walking in and there was a hell-of-a cool racket coming from Studio A (next to ours). Great slide guits, a jazzed up bass and a really strong beat. Good band, we thought. The playing got more and more outrageous.Then I heard them kick into the ballad "Please Come Home" by the Allman Brothers Band, which the Cindy Wilson Band covered. It turns out that it was the Brothers (sans Gregg that night) were getting ready for an upcoming tour that kicks off at the Wanee Festival in April. Very very cool. We could hear Warren and Derek trading licks back and forth. Just unbelievable players. Flashback: In one of the more odd line-ups I’ve been a part of, the Hippycrickets (with pop songs as short as 1:40) opened for Derek Trucks (with solos as long as 8 minutes) at Smith’s Olde Bar. I didn’t appreciate being the lead guitar player on the same bill as Derek, but we all do our own thing. Derek was probably around 15 years old and was nothing short of phenomenal. Also, one of the nicest people you’ll meet. Thanks to the good folks at Crossover and to the folks that dropped in.
Steve Baskin and the band to play the Tabernacle in Atlanta Steve and the band will open for Sister Hazel at the Tabernacle in March. The show will be a part of the ING Georgia Marathon weekend in Atlanta. "It'll be great fun to play the show with all of my workmates from ING in the room". When he's not making records and playing with the band, Steve is the Head of Sponsorships at the financial services giant. The show will raise money for the ING Run for Something Better -- the charitable arm of ING's national running program that Steve had a big hand in inventing. For tickets, go to INGGeorgiaMarathon.com. Don't forget the RUN262 code. I Sometimes Think to benefit kids running in Atlanta When tickets go on sale for the Sister Hazel show at the Tabernacle, you will be able to buy a copy of Steve's CD, I Sometimes Think, and benefit kids running in Atlanta. All profit generated from the inggeorgiamarathon.com link will be donated to the ING Run for Something Better program. Proceeds will help build running programs for middle schoolers in the Atlanta Public School system and is designed to build healthy habits that may help prevent childhood obesity. Go to www.orangelaces.com to learn more and donate. Steve and the band are finishing up production for the video of Where You Are Working at Artisan studios in November, Steve and the band are finishing filming for the video. The video is being produced by Amber Tyree and is the first project for Flyer Films. Steve invited to play Atlantis Music Conference & Festival The 10th annual Atlantis Music Conference and Festival will be in Atlanta from September 19 through 22. Steve and the band will play an acoustic set in the the 10:30PM slot at Smith's Olde Bar's Atlanta Room on Saturday night (9/22). If you can't be there in person, Synchronicitylive.com will broadcast the show live. Just click on the url at 10:30P on Saturday night. Nice words in this month's Southern Fried Magazine Steve Baskin hails from Valdosta, Georgia (ok, now he's from Atlanta). He is a singer-songwriter and usually, we picture coffee shops and tip cups with those terms, don’t we? But Baskin has a raspy, dark voice that gives everything an edge. “How I Feel” is very Southern Rock. “Where You Are” has a modern rock sound, in a very good way. Baskin calls himself “Adult Contemporary”, but if I were his manager, I’d come up with something else – he’s got a great rockin’ sound. Col. Tamar Alexia Fleishman New Bass Player We've got some new bottom end in the band. Joe Randolph, the original bass player for Collective Soul (and that band's predecessor, Marching Two Step) has been rehearsing with the band and will be playing at our upcoming gigs in August and September. Joe and Steve met forever ago when Joe was the engineer at Real to Reel Studio in Stockbridge, GA where Steve did tons of demo work early on. A fun night at Smith's Olde Bar in the Atlanta Room The June 2 gig was great fun in the Atlanta Room at Smith's Olde Bar. What a cool little room to play. By the time we got up there to play, the room was full and for the first time, folks knew the words to some of the songs. A former Epic records exec had nice things to say about the energy of the show and how tight my awesome band is!! Not Lame Bruce Brodeen from Not Lame Recording Company emailed a few weeks back. He said that he wasn't sure how my music wound up on his ipod, but "it was awesome". The Colorado-based power pop label is now featuring "I Sometimes Think" on its promotional site. With comparisons to Soul Asylum, John Mayer, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Duncan Sheik and others, Not Lame describes the new record as "very highly recommended".
Steve featured in hometown paper The Valdosta Daily Times BY DEAN POLING dean.poling@gaflnews.com Get a copy of Paste Magazine in November Every issue of Paste Magazine, which is read by roughly a million folks, includes a CD sampler with tunes from the best Indie artists in the US and around the world. The November sampler will include How I Feel from Steve's new album. Steve was featured in a nice article in the Atlanta edition of Creative Loafing in November. The article described how unusual it is to have an artist like Steve working as an executive for a huge corporation like ING. Power-pop aficionados looking for some new stuff from the deep underground, try out Atlanta-based singer-songwriter Baskin's new effort. All the touchstones are in place: grabby tunes, stacked (but not heavy) guitars, shiny vocal harmonies. --ES Steve was proud to get to include songs that he co-wrote with best buddy and musical cohort, Trey Hollingsworth (Cindy Wilson Band, Hippycrickets). Not to mention long-time friend and Austin's very own Mary Dean. And Tracy Fagan who, at last sighting was raising a family with a Navy Seal in Charlotte, NC.
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Steve and Brian Hudson at the damp Green Day Festival at Underground Atlanta. Photo by Greg Tyree. 
