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Tribes of Babel is Released

evadowd — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:33:39 +0000

Motherjane’s 1st song since the release of Maktub was released on March 1st. The song Tribes of Babel was written for Amnesty International’s PEACE and is streaming on the our main site, the download was delayed to April12th by the PEACE organizers , see our press release for details.

I encourage you to check Suraj’s lyrics and comments on the song and in the blog below watch him discuss Tribes of Babel in the Rosebowl Interview. We love reading the feedback we are receiving on all the sites, if you haven’t left a comment on the song yet please post a scrap .

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Recently announced Motherjane will be performing at Jadavpur University Kolkata on March 12th, please help spread the word.

Baiju’s Birthday is this Sunday March 7th would love you to stop by and Sign the Birthday Card. There is also now an Official Baiju Official Fan Page on facebook managed by Abhijit the band’s tour manager and former student of Baiju’s.

Thank you to all the Janiacs that support us facebook, we soon will be at 6,000 members , loving the power of Janaics united in sharing the band with their friends!

Motherjane is Mobile .

That is all for moment

Love All…Rock All…

Eva

Motherjane Shows Thru Feb. 2010 Updated

evadowd — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:11:39 +0000

The Updated Live Show Reel 2.1 , If you haven’t seen Motherjane lately just a taste of what you’ve been missing !

Greeting Janiacs ,

Been a lil while since I had shows to Annouce, but now I have not 1 but 5 and even more pending

See Links for Full Event Details on Facebook.

Jan 29th Cochin
Jan 31st Vellore

Feb 7th Pune
Feb 8th Delhi
Feb 20th Hyderabad
Feb 27th Mangalore

See all the incredible Reviews from the fans that attend shows already past in Feb. on our Facebook and Main Site.

A major thank you to fans who have bought the Facebook Music page to over 5,000 to thank you we are giving free Mindstreet and Chasing the Sun Ringtones on our Reverbnation site.

Love All…Rock All…

Eva

Motherjane Live in Pune Dec. 12th at Neev09

evadowd — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:23:49 +0000

Greetings all the band returns to Pune for the 1st time in seven years ! You really don’t want to miss the show, we have been advised tickets are limited and should be purchased in advance please see poster and event page .

Please make sure to follow motherjane on facebook where I will be soon doing the year in review for this incredible year !

Going to go play in the 1st snow of the season here, till next time …

Lots of Love and Laughter ,

Eva

Rolling Stone India giving away Motherjane CDs and more…

evadowd — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:52:57 +0000

“Rolling Stone Magazine Announcement ! We are giving away five CDs of Motherjane’s album, Maktub, personally autographed by all the band members. What you need to do to win is send in a review (maximum 100 words please) of any Motherjane song. (All their songs are up for listening on motherjane.in.) Mail in your reviews to bobin@rollingstone-india.com, by August 15.”

So Janiacs we would love to know the magazine was flooded with reviews and will try to get copes of them all from the magazine. Just a reminder Motherjane was the featured artist for July in the Rolling Stone Magazine link is here.

The band is all together now in Cochin getting ready the Java Rockin Land Festival they arrive late on the 7th and have the great time slot before Mr. Big. I have created a new event page on facebook so we can interact with the new fans in Indonesia before and after the show. We are are going to try to do something special a give you lil updates from the band while they are in Indonesia , so stay tuned to the live streams on facebook and twitter.

A blog from a new fan who found the band on myspace, we hope more and more of you who have never heard of motherjane happen upon the band and share it too.

Lots of Love and Laughter,

From the lil Irish Gypsy,

Eva

Breaking News Motherjane to Rock Indonesia

evadowd — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:04:39 +0000

This is only a tease of all the details to follow but it is official motherjane will rock Jakarta Indonesia Between Aug 7th to Aug 9th at the Java Rockin Land Festival ,the news is so fresh the organizers have yet to put up all the motherjane details on their site so keep checking back for that and yes to learn the final selection of International Bands that will play alongside motherjane.

We have created a blog to welcome all our new Indonesian Fans on Myspace and thanks so many of you on facebook for your well wishes !

Stay Tuned as motherjane brings their unique Sound of Indian Rock to Indonesia.

PS : Motherjane is busy tonight rocking Chennai at JRO 09 while here in the USA we celebrate our Freedom with Fireworks that light up the skies, I hope all the fans around the world have a weekend that rocks their hearts too , Please keep in touch we all love hearing from you !

Eva

motherjane headlines JRO 2009 July 4th in Chennai

evadowd — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:28:03 +0000

Been a little quiet here after the flurry of activity with the band launching the new Indian Myspace Music Hub and headlining the 1st ever Secret Show by Myspace in India , we all would like to thank the hundreds of new fans who joined the band’s ‘ myspace site in June !

The band once again has the pleasure of performing in Chennai on July 4th at the JRO 2009 Festival , motherjane will close the event but many talented bands will also be performing starting on July 3 .

Some of Detials from the Unwind Center the host of the Festival :

THE BEAST HAS BEEN AWAKENED!!
JRO IS READY TO ROAR AGAIN!!
The list for 2009 is out and the expectations are firing up! This phenomenon happens ever year – some folks get disappointed and some hit blitzkrieg levels and are hard to bring back to normalcy!

Venue: Bucks Theatre, YMCA
Date: 3-4 July
Time: 5-10pm
Weather Forecast: We are prepared to face the rain! (It’s a not-so-secret yarn that JRO brings the rain! Rain or shine, we intend to rock!)

July 3rd bands (Fri )
BLOOD COVENANT
DARK HORIZON
E FLAT
HERETIC
NULL FRICTION
REALMS
RUSTY MOE

July 4th bands (Sat)
ABRAXAS
BLEED
BLOOD & IRON
CRIMSON WOOD
PUBLIC ISSUE
SKRAT
TOUCH WOOD

motherjane closes the show at 8:30 PM on July 4th.

The event page on Facebook , will add links to other bands as they become available.

Please help spread the word of the Festival as I have said many times the fans are the best promoters the band could ever wish for

Enjoy the Weekend , I am hoping to have one day sunshine it has rained here for 3 weeks but life is still a smile !

Eva

The Reviews are in Motherjane Rocked Myspace India’s 1st Secret Show

evadowd — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:51:40 +0000

Happy Weekend

Thought rather than post my normal click this link update, I would post the text of this review from radioandmusic.com as yes I admit it I loved…

reading the review they did of motherjane so hoped you all would too !

In closing thank you to everyone who has been supporting motherjane as they help Myspace launch the music central site to bring Indie Indian Music to the World. Our myspace blog is currently featured on Myspace India’s Home Page it gives details of the launch, pictures from the show link and yes more reviews from fans .

PS: Thanks to everyone who have been visiting our myspace site, tonight motherjane is listed as number #1 in Indie catagories for Rock, Progessive and Alternative Music

Love and Laughter to All,

Eva

MUMBAI: The changed music scene in the country is offering ‘hope’ and most importantly a ‘stage’ (rather grand ones) to the independent artistes back here. Held at the scenic Bandra Amphitheatre, India’s first ever MySpace Secret Show was nothing less than terrific – Performing bands Motherjane, Scribe and Black played an all original set for close to 45 minutes each – making the most for every second where the listeners who came in hordes with the printouts of their myspace profile pages that served as an entry pass for the free concert!! The secret show was hosted by Radio One RJ Malini.

For those who don’t know, MySpace Secret Shows are free concerts for MySpacers which were started first in the United Kingdom in February 2006 with a performance by Scottish alternative rock band ‘Primal Scream’. Wondering what is so exceptional about this? – it’s the concept of ‘disclosed locations, but ‘undisclosed’ artistes’. Ever since its inception, thousands of MySpacers across 10 countries have grooved to the music of their favourite artistes and bands at more than 150 Secret Shows. Some of the renowned acts to have played are U2, Lily Allen, Neil Diamond, Pink, Moby, Fall Out Boy, Duffy, Gnarls Barkley, Slayer and Faithless.

The performing bands for India’s secret gig were a mix of promising acts and known names. A five member Mumbai based band ‘Black’ who came to lime light in I- Rock opened the secret show whilst playing a lively set to warm up the seated audience. Their sound, a mix of clean and distorted reverberations and chunky riffs was enough to get things started. After Black, it was time for listeners to loosen up. Scribe took the stage and ensured everyone was ‘up’ and ‘beat’ not down or seat (bad rhyme?). Needless to say, the mosh-pit prone where not happy with the English way of watching a band– Scribe where loud, heavy and hard hitting. There was fire spitting (by one of scribe’s supporter called ‘Mac’ – a popular face at rock do’s) for effects. To add, some of Scribe’s old friends also joined the band on stage for some head-banging (or was that an impromptu jig?). Though many among the audience felt they went too far with their antics, their power-packed performance couldn’t be overlooked.

The steal for the night, however, was Southern India’s most revered band MotherJane. The bands musicianship, song writing and energy surely deserve international recognition (which they got to some extent after winning the AVIMA award). Unlike others, they didn’t have to put an act. Besides music, lead vocalist shard with the curious listeners about why their faces are half painted like Katahakali dancers, “We believe that there’s God in each one of us, the painted part of our face signifies just that,” he said. Front line listeners could be seen bowing to Mother Jane’s lead guitarist Baiju as he astutely fused blues, rock and (his forte) the Carnatic glissandos with ease – hats off man!

The evening was splendid. And when it was over, many where heard saying, “That’s the way to – spend it.” Though the ideal bands to play music for such setting/venue would also be soft and mellow, Mumbai rock lovers know how to make the most of what they love – whenever or wherever. Disclosed or undisclosed.

Mumbai – 05/29/09 – Bandra Ampitheatre – India – The Secret is Out! Motherjane Headlines Myspace 1st Secret Show

evadowd — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:30:00 +0000

The Secret is Out! Motherjane Headlines Myspace 1st Secret Show

evadowd — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:52 +0000

The Date :May 29th

The Time : 6:30 PM Start Time come early Free Concert enrty based on Arrival .

The Venue : Bandra Amphitheatre in Mumbia

The Bands : Motherjane, Scribe and Black

The Event Page: Facebook Link

Tickets : FREE Join Myspace Secrets Shows for full details at the site .

Hello Everyone this has been has been a long time in the making and been very hard for all us to keep it to ourselves but it is now official myspace has asked motherjane to help launch their intiative to not only promote Indian music in India but around the globe, all us at motherjane both the band and support team behind the band are huge supporters of promoting the Indian Music Scene so it was a natural to say yes !!!

Listen to the Radio Spot with announcing the show.

There is more to come with myspace and motherjane all we can say is stay tuned !!!

Motherjane’s Awesome Performance

Vinay Vidyasagar — Sat, 23 May 2009 06:57:22 +0000

I finally got to see them live and was I glad I didn’t miss it. (Of course, I wouldn’t have missed it for the world ) There’s just something about their music that makes you want to listen again and again. Something that really touches the soul I guess. Of course, my day was made when they performed “Fields of Sound”. The intro lead piece especially was a brilliant touch. I guess Suraj knew how much I love this song coz he looked at me and pointed to me. Lol, my evening was made . For those of you who who haven’t heard it, here’s a snippet. If you do like it, I strongly recommend you pick up a CD from the website. It really is worth it.

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