The second annual Harvest of Hope Fest (HOH Fest) has announced another round of bands confirmed for their multiple-stage music festival that will take place March 12th – 14th in sunny St. Augustine, FL.

Added to the already impressive lineup will be High on Fire, Kid Sister, Gringo Star, Port O’Brien, We Are The Union, Cheap Girls, Avi Buffalo, The Dig, Yelawolf, Young Brother, Barnaby Jones, The Duppies, Umoja Orchestra, Sunbears, Liquid Limbs, The Takers, Glorious Johnson, Bent Left, No More, Cassette, Antarctic, Toby Foster, Paleface, The Pauses, The Attack!, Premadonnasaurs, Scum of the Earth, Towers of Hanoi, Company Man, Lighthouse Music, The Ones to Blame, The Cougs, The Ex-Boogeymen, Superfish, 3rd Stone, Made of Hemp, Mindrise, BLORR, and Christina Wagner.

Harvest of Hope Fest recently announced a diverse roster of national and international acts confirmed including Billy Bragg, Dr. Dog, The Mountain Goats, 7 Seconds, Leatherface, Rogue Wave, Delta Spirit, Senses Fail, Anti-Flag, Dead Prez, Kimya Dawson, Dead Confederate, Torche, Strike Anywhere, Anvil, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Dr. Octagon AKA Kool Keith, Small Brown Bike, Portugal. the Man, Black Sheep, Danielson, Man Man, forgetters, and over 150 more artists joining together to raise awareness to the plight of migrant farm workers! Harvest of Hope Fest is the only festival of its kind that has such a large group of musicians donating their time and performances to charity. A full list of confirmations can be seen by clicking “more” below.

Three-day tickets are on sale now and will rise in price as the festival draws closer. This will be the last week to get tickets at the early-bird price of $39.50. From February 12th to March 11th, they will jump to $49.50. Walk-up 3-day tickets will be $60.00. Single day tickets will be available for $25.00/day in advance and $35.00/day weekend of. Three-day camping passes are also now available at $19.50/person. A small number of VIP passes are available at $99.50 per person. The VIP pass includes access to the VIP camping area, a three-day festival pass, and extra surprises.

Proceeds from the charity fundraiser festival will benefit the Harvest of Hope Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides emergency and educational aid to some of the hardest working and often overlooked people keeping our agricultural economy moving – migrant farm workers. Harvest of Hope distributes funds to migrant farm workers and their families to help pay for food, medical services, clothing, rent, educational scholarships, and more.

For more information on the Harvest of Hope Festival, including ticket information, camping info, and the most up-to-date line-up, please visit http://www.harvestofhopefest.com.
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Joey Cape (singer of So-Cal punk legends Lagwagon) recently began recording the follow-up to his debut album, “Bridge.” In a recent Myspace blog, Joey wrote:

“Planning to record some of the songs I play live, Bad Astronaut, Lag Wagon. Also some new ones. So far so good. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”

Jon Snodgrass (Drag the River) recently returned to Colorado after spending some time with Cape in the studio, where he lent vocals to 9 new Joey Cape songs.

Both Joey and Jon will continue taking over the world when they hit the West Coast together after playing at Suburban Home’s 14th Anniversary Gathering, just prior to their appearances at THE FEST 8 – Halloween weekend in Gainesville, FL. Dates can be seen by clicking “more” below.
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Suburban Home Records has announced the final lineup of their 14th Anniversary celebration. The weekend will feature two stacked shows consisting of most of the Suburban Home Family as well as garage sale, BBQ, Washers Tournament and Art Show.

Tickets for the shows can be found on the Three Kings Website. There are also a group of hotels reserved for the weekend. You can follow this link to get a room at Towne Place Suites (a Marriott owned hotel) for $59 a night. The rooms are located only 8 blocks from where all the shows are being held.

Friday, September 11th at 3 Kings Tavern
Joey Cape
Jon Snodgrass
Austin Lucas
Josh Small
Jr. Juggernaut
In the Red
Look Mexico

Saturday, September 12th at 3 Kings Tavern
Tim Barry
Two Cow Garage
Chad Price
Ninja Gun
Mike Hale
The Takers

Saturday, September 12th from noon to 4 pm :
Suburban Home will host a garage sale at the Suburban Home/Vinyl Collective offices where a few of their artists will be performing surprise acoustic sets.

Sunday, September 13th
Suburban Home 14th Anniversary BBQ and Washers Tournament at Washington Park, along with an art gallery set up in the basement of 3 Kings Tavern with art from Vanessa “Jean” Speckman, Josh from Look Mexico, and other great artists to be announce shortly.

Suburban Home Records is proud to announce the first leg of the Suburban Home Records Tour, which will feature Austin Lucas and Two Cow Garage on all dates with support from Jon Snodgrass and Mike Hale on select dates.

Austin Lucas is touring in support of his Suburban Home debut “Somebody Loves You,” released in March of 2009, while Two Cow Garage continues to support last year’s “Speaking in Cursive,” also on Suburban Home. Jon Snodgrass and Mike Hale both released their solo albums earlier this year on Suburban Home.

Dates for the first leg can be seen by clicking “more” below, with the soon-to-be announced second leg swinging out through the Western states and including an appearance at Suburban Home’s 14th Anniversary Weekend in Denver.
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Cross-country buddies Jon Snodgrass and Cory Branan are proud to announce the imminent release of a collaborative split LP featuring their own original songs alongside two covers. While they’ve been planning the record for quite some time, they finally got around to tracking the songs in late 2008 while Branan was touring through Colorado.

Track Listing:
1. Excitable (Branan)
2. Corner (Branan)
3. Solo In Soho (originally by Phil Lynott)
4. Wild One (originally by Thin Lizzy)
5. Walk Around (Snodgrass)
6. Born Apart (Snodgrass)
7. Yeah, So What (Snodgrass)

The album, which features epic cover art depicting the great duality of nature and artistic allusions to da Vinci’s The Last Supper and van Gogh’s Starry Night, will be available exclusively on vinyl and a very small number of mailorder-only cassette tapes. It will be released on July 21st, 2009 on a limited pressing of colored vinyl (500 sun colored, 500 moon colored) care of Suburban Home Records.

Snograss and Branan will be hitting the road just prior to the record’s release with labelmate Joey Cape, all three of whom released solo albums in the past year. Cape continues to support his album “Bridge,” released last October by Suburban Home, while Snodgrass dropped his “Visitor’s Band” album this past February, also on Suburban Home.

Click “more” below for the dates!
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