‘You, Me, Them, Everybody’ with host Brandon Wetherbee stops in Philly

‘You, Me, Them, Everybody’ with host Brandon Wetherbee stopped by The Grape Room on Saturday, January 21. In front of a live studio (er, 2nd floor) audience, Wetherbee riffs about Philadelphia and other topical nuggets. Guest interviews with local author Doogie Horner, local comedian Carolyn Busa (her recent performance at The Grape Room was excellent, FYI) and The War on Drugs guitarist Robbie Bennett.

Check out the show HERE.

Rock Ridge Music Taking Hotel Carolina To Philly

From antimusic.com:
Rock Ridge Music is expanding the Hotel Carolina brand by starting an new event weekend scheduled to take place at the Grape Room in Philadelphia on January 27 and 28, 2012.

Like the original South Carolina event (which has taken over The Windjammer on Isle of Palms for three years in a row in late summer), the Philadelphia event will feature the best in touring singer-songwriters.

Read more HERE.

The Grape Room : For the love of Beer and Music

From readysetdate.wordpress.com:
“One of the most comfortable venues I have come across. It is dimly lit by well placed dome lighting over the bar and around the perimeter of the building. Not to mention, tea lights randomly placed. (Romance anyone?)  There are also multiple paintings randomly placed  on the walls, not to mention an “out of this world” mural of the staff in outer space. This is painted on the wall the right of the bar where the stage is located.”

Read more HERE.

Thanks, Sam!

YourLocalNote.com: Supporting the Philadelphia Music Scene

The good folks at YourLocalNote.com are sponsoring this Friday’s show at The Grape Room with The Great Socio, Pawnshop Roses, Joe Duffy and The Day Life. The site has become an excellent resource for what’s happening in the Philadelphia music scene. Each week a new podcast with music and artist interviews is uploaded to the site. This weeks podcast features Anthony Caroto (Grape Room booking guy), Alberto Muñoz (The Great Socio) and Zil (Pawnshop Roses). A big ‘thank you’ goes out to founders RJ MacKay and Mike Stringer for including The Grape Room and for promoting the scene.

Band websites – need help?

I’m proud to say that we get a lot of compliments on our website. Honestly, it’s built out of frustration from dealing with so many other venues and their inefficient websites during my years as a tour manager / booking agent. But take a closer look at our site here – it’s really just a tricked out WordPress page. In fact, many people use WordPress for their businesses and /or bands.

In my opinion, using a blog service for your bands website is the way to go. I believe this because blogger sites are already tied in with SEO’s (Search Engine Optimization) and secondary sites such as Flickr and ReverbNation are easy to utilize since coding options are provided.

Does this sort of thing confuse you?

Drop me a line a we’ll set up an appointment for you to come down to the club and I’ll show you how it all works. In the end, you’ll be able to maintain a professional and functional website that best promotes your band.

It’s so easy, even a drummer can do it.

- Anthony

JUMP Magazine Fall Issue Launch Party: This Saturday

Join us this Saturday, September 10, as JUMP Magazine proudly celebrates the release of their fall issue. JUMP Magazine is a quarterly-printed music publication dedicated to the Philadelphia music scene.

Performances by:June Divided, The Strange Heat, Michael Stoutenger, Declan Bennett and Cait Black.

JUMP Magazine website

Manayunk is not under water

The local news, well…. they’re all about sensationalism and stuff. Truth is, only a small part of Main Street in Manayunk – way over on the other end of the strip – experienced some minor flooding. The Grape Room, and its surrounding businesses, made it through without a scratch. So come on down and enjoy some great local original music. Maybe even come down early and enjoy dinner at one of the surrounding eateries too.

Hurricane Irene vs The Grape Room

Schuylkill River be damned.

Friday’s show is still on was awesome. Saturday’s show is still on canceled.

For updates please refresh this page or visit us on Facebook.

Attn. Bands: Immediate Slots Available

Hey bands – do one of the slots below interest you? Drop me an email with your bio and links.

Thursday, September 1:
8pm solo/duo acoustic slot filled

Wednesday,  September 7:
11pm rock slot filled

Thursday, September 8:
9pm rock / blues slot filled

Tuesday, September 13:
11pm acoustic / folk slot

Thursday, September 22:
12am rock / folk slot

Tuesday, September 27:
11pm acoustic / folk slot

Tuesday, October 4:
9pm and 11pm acoustic / rock slot

Hey, Bands: Immediate Slots Available

The dates and time slots listed below are all that’s left for June and July. If your band is interested in one of ‘em, drop me an email with your band name, genre, hometown, bio and links to your web and social sites. Thanks!

- Anthony
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Tuesday, June 28
11pm slot: Acoustic

Wednesday, June 29
11pm slot: alternative / pop / indie

Thursday, June 30
11pm slot: alternative / rock

Wednesday, July 6
11pm slot: alternative / rock

Wednesday, July 20
9pm slot, 11pm slot: reggae

Wednesday, July 27
8pm slot, 10pm slot: rock / hard rock