New Wonderdrug Tour Dates
April 20, 2001: We have listed a ton of new Wonderdrug dates through the
summer on the TOUR
page.
Wonderdrug Recording New Album
April 20, 2001: The band has started a new batch of recording sessions for
their next album "The Space Between People" at Indianapolis's The
Pop Machine studios. Tunes expected to be recorded in these sessions
include: Stupid, Salvation, Field Trip, Taste, Faker, Goodbye, Drag, Mad Mad
Scene, I Know Where You're Comin' From and many more.
New Indianapolis Music Website
April 20, 2001: There is a great new website for people interested in the
Indianapolis music scene. Check it out at http://www.IndianapolisMusic.net
Wonderdrug on TV
February 22, 2001: We were on Indianapolis's WXIN 59's early morning show
today. We performed with the full band electric versions of Hi and Stupid and
did a fine job of ringing everyone's ears so early in the AM.
HAPPY NEW YEAR / THANKS THOM
February 1, 2001: Sorry it has been so long since our last update.
It has been a busy time for us but most of it has been behind the
scenes. Thanks to all of you who attended our last announced public show
on New Years Eve at the Adams Mark. Those of you who were there already
know our biggest news. After over three years of dedicated service Thom
Braun has given up the drum position in Wonderdrug. Thom is moving out
of the Indianapolis area and had to quit the band. Wonderdrug would like
to thank Thom for the many good years and great shows. Thom played the
first of our two sets on New Years Eve.
Kelley
Kicking out the jams!
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NEW DRUMMER
February 1, 2001: Wonderdrug's new drummer is now Indianapolis drum
legend Tony Medeiros. Tony has an extensive background playing in both
rock bands (Healing Sixes) and Jazz music. Recognized in the past as
best unsigned drummer by Modern Drummer Tony released his own album in
1999. With his Jazz/Rock style of playing Tony brings a very cool new
dynamic to Wonderdrug's psychedelic power pop. His first show with the
band was the second set of our New Years Eve show (which fittingly took
place just after midnight in early 2001). His second show with the band
was a last minute show at Birdy's opening for Transmatic (Indy buddies
about to record their Immortal/Virgin debut who played a great set) and
Tantric (about to release their Maverick Records debut/former members of
Louisville's Days Of The New). The 30 minute opening gig received a rave
review (especially Tony's playing) from David Lindquist and the
Indianapolis Star. You can learn more about Tony at his website http://www.tonymedeiros.com/
Marc
at Fountain
Square Theatre
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NEW ALBUM
February 1, 2001: With the addition of Tony Medeiros Wonderdrug has
decided to start over recording their second album. Currently the album
is tentatively titled "The Space Between People." Wonderdrug
has started recording basic tracks for the new album which we hope to
get out for the summer. Songs expected to be on the new album include:
Faker, Taste, I Know Where You're Comin' From, Goodbye, Automatic, Drag,
Salvation and Stupid. Wonderdrug expects to record approximately 20
songs and then pick their favorites for the album. All recording is
taking place at Indy's The Pop Machine studios ( http://www.thepopmachine.com
). Watch their website and our website for pictures from the recording
sessions. When you see us live let us know what your favorite new songs
are!
Wonderdrug Rocks Out
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UPDATED WEBSITES
February 1, 2001: If you have some spare surfing time be sure to
look around http://www.wonderdrug.net
for new pictures from live performances and the recording of our new
album. If you would like to download mp3 song snippets of all of the
songs on Wonderdrug's debut album "Hi!" or would like to check
out the music from some of Wonderdrug's labelmates (Unreel, Push Down
& Turn) head over to our label's website http://www.indie500records.com
Our favorite recording studio, The Pop Machine, has updated pictures and
session info. You can see it at http://www.thepopmachine.com
Eric working
hard!
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WONDERDRUG FANSITE
February 1, 2001: Wonderdrug has a new fan site at http://www.members.tripod.com/glittergrrl676/
created by Lorah. We recommend you check it out! Thanks Lorah!!!
WONDERDRUG TOUR DATES
February 1, 2001: Wonderdrug only played the one show in January
(Jan. 14 at Birdy's which we would have told you all about but we were
added to the bill 3 hours before showtime!) and spent most of the month
rehearsing new drummer Tony Medeiros and recording basic tracks for
their new album. We have all of our new tour dates over the next few
months listed in the TOUR SECTION.
We have a show this weekend at Birdy's in Indy in our old stomping
grounds of 71st and Keystone. It is a very nice place to see a live rock
show. We hope to see you out at the shows!
Marc's
Vintage Marshall
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INDIANAPOLIS STAR SHOW REVIEW
January 18, 2001: Wonderdrug was added at the last minute to the bill on
Sunday January 14th at Birdy's in Indianapolis. They opened the show for
local friends Transmatic and headliner Tantric. Indianapolis Star music
reviewer David Lindquist printed the following in his Jan. 16
review.
"Opening act Wonderdrug (3 stars out of 4) proved to be the
tightest, best-rehearsed band on the bill. New drummer Tony Medeiros
(ex-Healing Sixes) is a thundering asset for vocalist-guitarist Marc
Johnson and his bass-playing brother Eric Johnson -- two persistent,
true believers of the Indianapolis rock scene."
Marc
plays so well the
guitar gets blurry!
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NYE SHOW PLANNED
December 20, 2000: Just a quick update/reminder of our two shows that we are doing yet this
year! After these shows we will be playing less in the first few months of the new year as we really dig in and work on our 2nd album.
First off our scheduled show for Thursday night at World Marti Gras has
been cancelled.
Saturday, December 23, 2000 The Patio, Indianapolis IN 9pm w/ Elektrolab
Sunday, December 31, 2000 The Adams Mark Hotel, Downtown Indianapolis IN
8pm w/ a number of bands, 317-241-2481 for tickets/reservations/information
Here is more info about the NYE show from WTPI's website:
Join Jerry Curtis for the You Survived 2000 New Year's Eve Party at the
Adam's Mark Downtown. Featuring Orquesta Son, Wonderdrug, Push Down & Turn,
and Dog Talk. We will giveaway great prizes during the WTPI Survivor contest including $500 cash.
Room and Dinner Party Package
$299 per couple includes room, buffet dinner, tickets to the party, a
bottle of Chandon Brut Fresco and party favors.
Room Party Package
$249 per couple includes room, tickets to the party, a bottle of Chandon Brut Fresco and party favors.
Party Dinner Package
$79 per person includes dinner and tickets to the party.
Party Only
$49 per person in advance or $59 per person on December 31st.
For reservations and tickets call 317/972-0600.
Kelley
and Marc
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WONDERDRUG PLAYS CHICAGO
November 30, 2000: Indianapolis IN's best power pop band Wonderdrug will return to Chicago
Saturday night at Thurston's. The Drug will then be heading back into The
Pop Machine recording studios to continue work on their forthcoming record "The Space Between People."
Thurston's Chicago, IL
With Great Apes
Saturday December 2 2000 9:00 PM
1248 W. George 773-472-6900
(at the corner of Lincoln and George)
Here is a review of the Wonderdrug debut album "Hi!" in this weeks
Nuvo
Magazine 2000 Gift Guide If they like: Barenaked Ladies, XTC
Try: Wonderdrug, Hi! (Indie 500 Records) Perfectly crafted, excellently performed pop music created by and for adults
is becoming increasing rare in this teenybopper age. But Wonderdrug refuses to stop flying the pop-music flag. On this album the band shows incredible
range-from dreamy space-pop ("Purple is the Color of the
Universe") to straight-ahead, 70's style pop ("Star Trip", "Hi!").
Living proof that pop music isn't just for kids.
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NUVO ARTICLE
November 9, 2000: Wonderdrug has 5 shows in the next 8 days! On top
of all of these shows, check out this weeks NUVO for some info about
Wonderdrug and watch next week's Indianapolis Star for an article about
Wonderdrug and their show with Superdrag. Additionally Wonderdrug's recording
studio, The Pop Machine ( http://www.thepopmachine.com
), was voted best
recording facility in Indianapolis by NUVO.
Eric working
hard!
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THE HOME TOUR
September 22, 2000: Just a quick update to remind you of our show this weekend!
This Saturday September 23 at THE PATIO
Additionally we will be heading into some new markets on the very cool Home Tour. What it is the best of Indiana original music heading out together to
work in some new markets. Here are the bands on the tour and the dates!
Please pass this word onto your friends about the tour and I hope you all
can catch a show!
THE HOME TOUR W/WONDERDRUG, JOHNNY SOCKO, SCHAFFER STREET,
MUD KIDS and BLUE MOON BOYS
THU SEP 28 PIERE'S FT WAYNE,IN
FRI SEP 29 PHOENIX HILL TAVERN LOUISVILLE,KY
SAT SEP 30 LUDLOWS COLUMBUS, OH
WED OCT 4 DUCK INN EVANSVILLE, IN
THU OCT 5 DILL STREET MUNCIE,IN
FRI OCT 6 PATIO INDY
SAT OCT 7 BLUEBIRD BLOOMINGTON
Kelley
being dreamy.
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WONDERDRUG ONLINE
August 10, 2000: Wonderdrug's success has continued on the
website www.garageband.com where
our song Star Trip has reached as high as #3 on their general music
chart. Star Trip is now in the "FINAL COUNTDOWN" where the
winning song and band wins a $250,000 recording contract. Basically they
take the top 100 songs every two months and put them in direct
competition against each other and give a record deal to the winner. The
top 100 songs battle it out for about another week and we hope you can
help.
So far "Star Trip" has fared pretty well hovering about the
#18 mark on their charts. We would ask for some of you fans to help us
move up the charts, this is what you can do. Go to www.garageband.com
and register with them, then review music on their site.
The review process goes like this. You review pairs of songs randomly
from their pool of about 18,000 songs. You give them your feedback on
the song while you listen to it in Real Audio and then you tell them
which song you like out of the two and then you are told what song and
band you have been listening to.
After you have review 2 sets of songs (4 songs total) then on the review
page you have the option of reviewing one pair of songs from the 100
songs Final Countdown. Hopefully you will get a Wonderdrug song and get
the chance to give a glowing review. You don't need to be overly
critical of the other songs in the competition you hear but naturally a
glowing review of other bands music doesn't help Wonderdrug win. You
earn points for every song you review which you can cash in for cool
stuff and you can review as many songs as you want.
We will let you know when the competition ends and how Wonderdrug ends
up (hopefully we will WIN!) but please check out the site and review
some music on there. Once the Final Countdown is over we will upload a
few more songs into their competition!
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WONDERDRUG ON SPINNER.COM
August 10, 2000: Another cool thing you might want to check out is
that our song "Morningstar" has been added into the rotation
on www.spinner.com. For those of
you who have not visited Spinner.com they are like a huge radio station,
commercial free. They have about 100 channels of audio divided into
formats (Pop, Modern Rock, Heavy Metal etc.) and geared at the same
listeners who listen to stations on the FM dial. Unlike some other
online radio stations Spinner.com is totally programmed by radio
pro's.
We were asked to submit a disc to them a few months back and they really
like "Morningstar" and added it into the rotation on their
Modern Rock formatted ModernMix channel. This is a channel that plays
pretty much everything you would expect from a good Modern Rock station
today (Stone Temple Pilots, Everclear, Kid Rock, Korn, Metallica, Pearl
Jam etc) and we were told that we are the only "baby band"
(band without a major label record deal) currently being played on their
channel, that's how much they liked the band and the song. Spinner is
really cool in the fact that you can give your opinions about the songs
you hear while you are listening to them. We have a link on the main
page of Wonderdrug.net for you to listen to Spinner, we recommend you
check it out!
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NEW WONDERDRUG WEBSITES
August 10, 2000: Wonderdrug has two new websites that have
just gone public that they are involved in!
www.indie500records.com
This is the official website of Wonderdrug's record label Indie500
Records! You can buy Wonderdrug's album online from here along with
other acts on the labels albums!
www.thepopmachine.com
Wonderdrug's Marc and Eric Johnson have their own recording studio, The
Pop Machine. The official website for the studio has all of the info you
could ever want about recording at the studio!
Promo Shot 1998
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WONDERDRUG ONLINE
July 27, 2000: Wonderdrug has been extremely successful on the
website www.garageband.com where
our song Star Trip has reached as high as #3 on their general music
chart (#1 on the Pop-Rock chart) and currently we are #41 on the general
chart and #5 on the Pop-Rock chart. This is a very cool site for fans of
new original music. People join the site and listen to music and rank
the songs and give their feedback. Everyone is given equal play and
treatment and the response of the listeners pushes your songs up and
down the charts. That must mean that plenty of online listeners are
digging Star Trip! We encourage you to check out their site and if you
happen to get a Wonderdrug song to come up give us a good rating and
review! If you review music we are in the Pop/Rock category. The highest
charting songs then enter into a competition every few months where a
team of industry heavy hitters (Sir George Martin, Jerry Harrison, Bob
Rock, Steve Earle etc.) review the songs and give some of the
bands record contracts or produce their albums. After Star Trip enters
into the final competition we will upload a couple of new Wonderdrug
songs to their site.
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LOUD ENERGY
July 27, 2000: Wonderdrug will be the featured band on www.loudenergy.com
the week of July 30th through August 6th. This is a site where featured
artist's music is reviewed by a group of music producers who give the
artists feedback (and sometimes record deals!).
TOUR DATES
July 27, 2000: Wonderdrug has added a bunch of new tour dates all through
July/August and all through the fall. Check the full details of the
dates out in the TOUR
section! Be sure to let us know what you think of the shows, we are
always around before and after the shows to talk to fans!
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RECORDING CONTINUES
July 27, 2000: Wonderdrug continues to record new songs in their
studio (The Pop Machine) as time and tour schedule permits. The most
recent tunes to have been recorded are longtime fan favorite
"Drag" and a newer rocker "Automatic." No release
date for the album has been set yet. The band plans to record at least
20 of its tunes for consideration for their next album which has no
title at this point. Early favorites for inclusion on the next
Wonderdrug disc include: Drag, Faker, I Know Where You're Comin' From,
Taste, Goodbye, Rollin' Away, Automatic, Field Trip and Mad Mad Scene.
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MONSOON RETURNS
July 27, 2000: Monsoon audio's TV commercials that used Wonderdrug's
"Supersonic Daydream" and "Star Trip" have begun
running again, so don't be surprised to hear the drug on your TV in the
near future! The commercials run often on MTV, VH1, CNN and ESPN and their
affiliated substations.
Head over to Monsoon's site to watch the commercials featuring our
music, http://www.monsoonpower.com/ads.html
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WONDERDRUG PLAYS THE PATIO
June 27, 2000: We are playing one of our favorite venues this
weekend, The Patio just down the road from our homebase here in Indianapolis. We hope
you will all make it out and hear your favorites as well as the new tunes that
will be on our next album! We have booked a lot of shows through the rest of
the year so check out our website for that info and also check the news page on
info how you can buy all of our Hi! album online in MP3 format!
HI AVAILABLE ONLINE
May 17, 2000: Wonderdrug has just put its music online for sale in
MP3 format at LaserTrax.com. The album is available for purchase there
also, you can buy tracks for 99cents each. We are a featured act on
their site for the next few months. The site is giving away the album
version of the song Hi on their site for free download as well. If you want to see our page please
visit http://www.lasertrax.com/band/wonderdrug.shtml
or click on the link on the navigation frame on left!
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RECENT CONCERT SETLIST
Here is the setlist from the Saturday May 13, 2000 show at Bloomington,
Indiana's Bluebird Nightclub:
Turning Pro
Faker
Goodbye
Field Trip
NYC High
White Rabbit
Space Out
Star Trip
Purple is the Color of the Universe
Mad Mad Scene
Rollin' Away
Hi!
Piranhas
Highway to Hell
Supersonic Daydream
encore:
I Can't Explain
April/May/June. A few shows will be on the
http://club.mp3.com tour. Be sure to let us know what you think of the shows,
we are always around before and after the shows to talk to fans!
WILD ON THE WEB UPDATE
April 28, 2000: Just an update to those of you who read the news story
below about Wonderdrug being featured on the www.musicmonster.net
website. Wonderdrug album "Hi!" continues it steady hold on
their top 20 charts reaching an all time high of the #3 position on this
weeks chart!
ALBUM REVIEW
April 28, 2000:
Online Pop Rock music newsletter Not Lame
recently featured Wonderdrug's "Hi!" in its review section of
its April newsletter. Here is what they had to say! WONDERDRUG -
Hi! - $10 Sounding like a rocking verson of The Pursuit Of Happiness, this
trio is filled with blustery, punchy guitar chords, in your face
melodies and big rock sound with vague-ish evokations of Cheap Trick,
POH, Echobelly
and Not Lame faves like Montgomery Cliffs and Wonderboy. Flairs of early
80's new wave pop up to make the proceedings exceedingly more
interesting and the highly addictive rocking guitars nail the hooks on
the door. Fans of loud, guitar based pop-rock will love this one! Learn
more about Not Lame at www.notlame.com
NEW ALBUM
April 28, 2000: Wonderdrug is back in the full swing of writing material for their
next record. So far the band has cut 4 tracks for consideration for the
new disc. Wonderdrug just cut two new songs "Mad Mad
Scene," and "Goodbye" with King Williams (Robbie Fulks,
Dust Brothers, Tiny Town) at our The Pop Machine studio and they were
mixed this weekend at Universal Music Publishing in Nashville on a Neve
console. The two other songs that have been cut are Faker and I
Know Where Your Comin' From. Their upcoming shows will see the debut of more new
material that will be considered for their 2nd album. At the shows you
will be hearing two brand new Wonderdrug tunes. Experience the indie
rock of Field Trip and the melody of the Kelley Milligan sung Rollin'
Away. Plus you will hear some of the other new tunes like My Guru,
Faker, Goodbye, I Know Where You're Comin' From, Taste, Be Aware, and
Mad Mad Scene.
As Wonderdrug starts on their next album (no release date
planned at this time) the band
would appreciate your input as to what songs they should consider for
the next disc. Let them know what your favorites are after a show or
give us an email at wonderdrug@bigfoot.com
LA TRIP
April 12, 2000: Wonderdrug finally headed west to play LA in early April.
Our showcase show was well attended by the industry and we made LOTS of
great contacts and friends in LA. Look for us to head back out there in
the future to showcase again!
NEW SINGLE
March 23, 2000: Wonderdrug has released the brand new song Faker as their new
single in Indianapolis Indiana. Other past singles include Supersonic
Daydream, Star Trip, Space Out and N.Y.C. High. For our
Indianapolis area fans you can call Call X103 at 317-239-X103 to request
"Faker" and call WEDJ at 317-239-1071 to request
"Supersonic Daydream." Please call your favorite radio stations and ask them to play
your favorite Wonderdrug songs!
LIVE ON THE RADIO
March 23, 2000: Hope a few of you caught Wonderdrug on X103's
morning show Tuesday March 21st with Edsel Ferrari and Sky Wanker. Wonderdrug
performed a small acoustic set as well as talked about their upcoming LA
trip. "Faker" has been added both to X103's primary rotation
and to an X103 commercial where is says X103 plays new music first and
it plays new songs by Creed and some other nationals then Wonderdrug
MEDIA BLIPS
March 21, 2000: The following blurb recently appeared in Indianapolis's NUVO
Newsweekly:
"GRAMMY nominated studio ace King Williams will be at the The Pop
Machine this week recording tracks with Wonderdrug for their
upcoming release tentatively titled "Bionic Embryo".
King's recent work with the Dust Brothers, John Prine, Iris Dement
and Robbie Fulks should be a great combination with Wonderdrug."
THANK YOU!!!
March 21, 2000: Wonderdrug wants to thank all of its fans for their dedicated
appearances at our shows. As some of you know there have been quite a
few record labels out at our shows checking out the band. Your physical
and vocal support of the band really does help show these labels that
Wonderdrug is a viable national act.
WILD ON THE WEB
February 15, 2000: NUVO Newsweekly in Indianapolis talked about Wonderdrug in their Feb
10, 2000 issue. The article talks about Wonderdrug's online involvement
in promotion focusing on the Music Monster Network - http://musicmonster.net,
which is one of the best online radio stations. Wonderdrug has been very
popular on their station peaking at #4 on their general chart with Hi
and the station picked up the just released Supersonic Daydream single.
The really cool thing about their station is that if you are using the
latest versions of the Real Player you can look at the playlist and jump
ahead to listen to the song you want to (which helps the bands move up
the charts!). Head over to http://musicmonster.net/charts/top200.htm
to request both Hi and Supersonic Daydream plus its a great site to
check out new music!
We also hope that you all head over to another great online music site. www.garageband.com.
Its an online music competition that is based on how fans like the songs
that are listed on the site. You can find our page by clicking HERE
and leave your comments about the song. However it would be cool if you
sign up to review some music and just maybe you will have a Wonderdrug
song come up while you are trying it out!
CDNOW.com's Cosmic Music Network: CDnow has jumped into the online music
game with their own Mp3.com type website. Wonderdrug is a featured
artist on the site (we were one of the first 30 bands listed on their
site the week it opened up). We currently have the album version of Star
Trip up on their site in MP3 format. Check out Wonderdrug's site on cosmic.cdnow.com by clicking here.
Of course we are still listed on MP3.com. You can find our songs at http://www.mp3.com/wonderdrug/
RECORD LABEL
February 5, 2000: The Drug is working with their partners in the Indianapolis
based Indie 500 Records. Indie500 is planning to release several
artists' discs in 2000. We will give you more information as those
releases firm up. We have just gotten Indie500's website up and online.
Its at www.indie500records.com
NEW STUDIO
February 5, 2000: The bands new studio THE POP MACHINE ( www.thepopmachine.com
) located in the Broad Ripple area of Indianapolis, is fully functional
right now! Marc and Eric will begin cutting some new Wonderdrug
tunes for consideration on their next record in the first few months of
2000. The studio will also be available to book sessions starting in
March. For booking info email Eric Johnson eric@wonderdrug.net
What people are saying:
"Wonderdrug is the kind of band that can write a great song
like N.Y.C. High and still let me get up and ruin their set by playing
bad Cheap Trick covers!"
Scott Lucas - Guitarist and Lead singer of Island Recording Act Local
H
November/December 1999:
ALBUM AND RADIO
Wonderdrug and its label Indie500
Records continues to push their debut album "Hi!"
aggressively to both local and national radio stations. Please take the
time to call in to your local rock stations and request our music. While
not all stations will play your request they will log it and the program
manager will see it. Every single request helps us climb the mountain!
October 1999:
TOUR DATES
Wonderdrug has a bunch of new tour dates all through October and
November. Head over to the tour page to
check out where you can next see the drug. We have details firming up
for our west coast tour in late November and early December, watch our
tour site for the details.
For those of you who haven't been out to see the band lately here is
a recent setlist of what the band is playing
Hi
Acid Karma
Faker (New Song)
Goodbye (New Song)
White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane Cover)
Space Out
Star Trip
I Know Where You're Comin' From (New Song)
Purple Is The Color Of The Universe
Taste (New Song)
Highway To Hell (AC/DC Cover)
Mad Mad Scene (New Song)
Be Aware (New Song)
Turning Pro
Supersonic Daydream (Extra Dreamy Version)
ALBUM AND RADIO
As reported last month Wonderdrug is involved in a national radio
promotion campaign and is getting airplay on stations all across the
USA.
Additionally Wonderdrug's debut album Hi! is now available via CDNOW.
Click on here
to buy the album at a very reasonable price of $10!
WONDERDRUG (MONSOON AUDIO) COMMERCIALS
Many of you have written in saying you have heard Wonderdrug's music in
some commercials! Wonderdrug has licensed two songs "Star Trip," and "Supersonic Daydream" to
Monsoon Car Audio for national
television ad campaign called "Drive Drenched in Sound." Monsoon is a high-end car audio company for
Pontiac, Chevrolet, Buick, AM General and Volkswagen. The
spot is very similar to other VW ads featuring The ORB, Spiritualized
and Hurricane #1. The Ad is running now with focus on CNN, ESPN, VH1 and MTV. Keep your eyes peeled!
Head over to Monsoon's site to watch the commercials featuring our
music, http://www.monsoonpower.com/ads.html
September 1999:
LIVE ON X103
On Tuesday Sept. 14th Wonderdrug will perform an live acoustically
on Indianapolis radio station X103 during their Wenck and O'Brien
Morning Show sometime between 6 and 10am Central Time. Visit them online
at www.wrzx.com (they broadcast
online).
MP3.COM
Wonderdrug is now on MP3.com with 3 album quality cuts. Head on
over, listen and download. Tell your friends and push us up the MP3.com
charts! www.mp3.com/wonderdrug/
Wonderdrug was also recently featured on Polo Jean's WayUpFront.com
website and easily won that weeks fan voting between the three bands
listed with a large majority of the votes (55%).
ALBUM AND RADIO
Wonderdrug will very soon have their album available in most major
record stores nationwide as well as at all of the major online music
stores. Watch the album page for links
to where you can buy Hi!
Many of you have been writing in saying you have been hearing Wonderdrug
on your local radio stations. Wonderdrug has a national radio campaign
going promoting their debut album to radio stations across the country.
The band has received glowing reviews in several industry magazines
including the record to watch in the Sept. 3rd Radio and Records
magazine. More stations every day are playing Wonderdrug and adding us
to rotation. We hope to have a list of those stations for you soon. For
all of the local Indianapolis fans X103 has added Wonderdrug to
rotation. Wonderdrug has been getting airplay on WOXY in Cincy Ohio.
Thanks to those fans that have been requesting us by aiming your web browser at
www.woxy.com and sending an electronic song request
So please call your local stations and request your favorite song(s)!
Wonderdrug performed on the 5pm evening news Thursday September 9th on
Indianapolis' channel 8 in promotion of their performance at Rock the
Ripple that same night. The Indianapolis Star also featured a note about
Wonderdrug as one of their top recommendations at Rock the Ripple.
August 1999:
ALBUM AND RADIO
For those of you who have not been able to get Wonderdrug's debut album "Hi!"
at your local store (or have not been able to special order it through
your local store) you soon should be able to get it through you favorite
record store. We will soon have a new national distribution deal that
should make it easier to find the album.
Beginning the week of August 16th the album Hi! will be sent to and
promoted at over 100 Modern Rock/Alterative rock stations. Listen for
tracks from the album and PLEASE call in and request your favorite songs
from the album! We hope to have a list up with all of the stations the
album has been sent to late in the week of the 16th. The songs we
suggest you request would be Star Trip, NYC High, Hi! and any of your
favorites! Wonderdrug really does appreciate EVERY request you put in to
your favorite stations! For the local Indianapolis people WRZX X103 has
been playing Hi! and Turning Pro and Bloomington's WTTS 92.3 has been
playing Star Trip. WOXY 97X in Cincinnati/Oxford has been playing Hi! as
well.
Scott Lucas of Local H ( www.localh.com
) has been giving Wonderdrug spins during his weekly show on Q101 WKQX in Chicago, the windy city's largest
modern rock radio station. On August 8, Scott played "N.Y.C. High" and promoted the group's upcoming performance at the Double Door on Saturday,
August 14. When Wonderdrug opened up for Local H a few months back the
bands performed Cheap Trick's Surrender together as an encore.
Thursday, August 12 9:00 PM WLUW in Chicago will dedicate an hour worth of programming to
Wonderdrug. The show will contain never before heard live versions of songs recorded
July 30 during a sold out hometown show at The Patio in Indianapolis
WONDERDRUG ON TV
On Friday, July 30 Wonderdrug performed their new single, "Star Trip" on
the Indianapolis ABC affiliate WRTV 6 morning news. This marks the first
time that a band has ever performed live in studio during the news.
WONDERDRUG VIDEO
Wonderdrug continues to receive air time on M2, MTV's music video-only channel. Information on Wonderdrug continues
to air on M2's News segment. Wonderdrug is currently in talks with various video directors to shoot a video for one of the album's
singles. Look for Wonderdrug soon on MTV's 120 Minutes, Flying Indie, The Box and VH1's Midnight Minute.
July 1999:
SHOWS AND PRESS
Now that Wonderdrug's debut album "Hi!"
is available nationwide (an soon to be available online) the band is
hitting the road, check out the new tour
dates. The band has been getting a good deal of press coverage, here
are a few of the articles: Indianapolis
Star, NUVO/MTV
interview/review and additionally M2 has been running info about
Wonderdrug between videos.
THE WONDERDRUG SINGLE
The first single off of "Hi!"
is the title track Hi! (Listen in
RealAudio). WRZX (X103) Indianapolis IN has officially started playing the single "Hi!" in
their rotation. It is VERY important that you call in and let them know that you
like the song and the band. The request line at the station is 317-239-9103. So make sure that you call and request Wonderdrug.
X103 is very excited about the band right now, but it will take the fans
to win them over for the long haul. While you are at it, ask about us playing X-Fest on August 14th. Although Wonderdrug wasn't on
the original announced line up, we are still talking with them about being added to the bill.
LISTEN TO WONDERDRUG ONLINE
We have put up RealAudio cuts of all of the songs on "Hi!"
and also have a few MP3's up in our MEDIA
section. Additionally we have made available a live version of
Supersonic Daydream that is available only through our website. If you
want to download all 4 of our available MP3's you can download the Hi
Internet Single. Head over to the MEDIA
section for more info! Chicagoland area.
May 1999: Wonderdrug's never ending tour continues across the
midwest. The album "Hi!" is finally pressed and available at shows
with national availability coming in June. Wonderdrug also is pushing their album to many
radio stations in the midwest.
April 1999: Wonderdrug continues to spread the word around the Midwest via their
powerful live show; check the tour dates for a show near
you!. Final mastering and artwork are behind the band now. Their debut album "Hi!" will be released on Indie500 Records and
will be available throughout the country in mid May! Very soon we will have complete
artwork and audio files of the songs that will be on Wonderdrug's debut album.
January 1999: Be sure to check out the new Tour Dates.
After much hard work and planning it appears that the band will put the finishing touches
on the last of their 30 original songs soon and the band will make the final decision of
which 13-15 songs will go on their debut CD Hi! The label
that the album will be released on is still up in the air but there are several
independent labels and distributors wanting to put the album out. The release will
coincide with the public opening of Wonderdrug's studio in Indianapolis Indiana, REV
Recording Company. Look for more details on final tracklisting and Midwestern tour dates.
December 1998: Wonderdrug will play an acoustic set on WRZX 103.3 (Indianapolis
IN) on Sunday December 19th. On the show (hosted by Michael Young) the band will debut the
new song "I Know Where Your Comin' From."
September 1998: Wonderdrug's new single "N.Y.C. High" should be at most
stations in the country. The song is included on the compilation IndyHits. You
can listen to the single at their website www.indyhits.com.
Call your local alternative and college rock stations and request the single!
You can order the IndyHits CD for $3 from their website, so pick up this collectors
item now while its available, Wonderdrug is featured on the September IndyHits CD.
August 19, 1998: Wonderdrug opened up for Matchbox 20, Soul Asylum and Semisonic
at Deer Creek Music Center outside of Indianapolis Indiana. Thanks to all of the
fans who came early to see the Drug play and welcome to all of the new people who saw the
band for the first time. The raves from those in attendance attest that the band is
playing better than ever! Members of Matchbox 20, Soul Asylum and Semisonic all
watched the bands set and appeared to really enjoy the band.
August 1998: Wonderdrug played a bunch of shows throughout the month to raving crowds,
we are sorry for the delay on the release of our CD. The Drug is the subject of much
interest from a number of major label record labels and that has slowed down the whole
album release process.
July 1998: Many record labels are courting the band since advance copies of the
debut album "Hi!" were released. Check back here for more info to see what label
the album will come out on.
July 1998: Wonderdrug Bulletin
Board/Discussion Board added.
March 25, 1998: New tour dates added to the Tour
Section
Feb. 1998: Wonderdrug plans its new Midwestern tour. New show dates added to
the Tour Section
January 10, 1998 : New Show date - Jan. 15 at C.T. Peppers, Indianapolis
January 1998 : Wonderdrug.net undergoes a major redesign
December 31, 1997/ January 1, 1998 : Wonderdrug plays a packed house at The Patio
followed by a blow out aftershow party w/ jam session of Indy's top musicians at REV
Studios.
September 1997: Wonderdrug's official web site is established, www.wonderdrug.net
Navigate Wonderdrug.net:
<home> <album> <tour> <news> <media>
<band> <the
pop machine> <indie500
records> <talk>
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