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Our top priority is you, the working musician who rehearses
at the Hothouse Studios.
Mission statement
Richard Morales
Victor
Caballero
Hothouse Music Group Advisory Board
John Easdale
Blending hard rock wallop, alternative rock
smarts, power pop songcraft, and punk rock urgency, Dramarama
was a band who seemed on the verge of a major commercial
breakthrough several times during their 11-year career.
Puzzlingly, it never arrived, though the band developed a potent
following in their native New Jersey as well as the West Coast;
their almost-hit, "Anything Anything (I'll Give You)," was cited
by L.A.'s KROQ-FM, arguably America's most influential
alternative rock outlet, as the most requested song in the
station's history. Formed in Wayne, NJ, by vocalist and
songwriter
John Easdale
in 1983, Dramarama self-released a single and a five-song EP
before a French label commissioned a full-length album from the
band, which recycled material from both previous releases. The
result, 1985's
Cinema
Verite, featured "Anything Anything," which began
scoring airplay after the album was picked up by Chameleon
Records in the United States. The group relocated to California
in time for their second LP,
Box
Office Bomb, which earned enthusiastic reviews
but not significantly greater sales. As the band was completing
their fourth studio album,
Vinyl,
in 1991, Chameleon Records went bankrupt, and as the band
scrambled to come up with the cash to finish the project, the
elusive major-label deal finally materialized when Elektra
picked up the project. However, while the success of
Nirvana
in 1991 would seemingly have broken open radio for bands as
adventurous as Dramarama, their sound was too far from grunge to
capitalize on the new openness, and the band's 1993 album,
Hi-Fi
Sci-Fi, failed to make an impact outside the
band's devoted cult following. Dramarama called it a day after a
farewell show at Asbury Park's the Stone Pony in 1994; four
years later,
John Easdale
returned to the music business with a solo album. The group was
featured on the popular VH1 reality series Bands Reunited
in 2004, prompting the collective—minus bassist
Chris Carter—to
reform around material originally intended for an
Easdale
solo record. Dramarama relased
Everybody
Dies in 2005.
Website:
www.johneasdale.com
MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/dramaramamusic
Jonathan L
A longtime music industry vet. I am all about networking and trying
to help people. If you happen to live in the Phoenix area. You
can listen to my radio show's that I program and host live. I
play some crazee shite! "The Lopsided World of L" is on twice a
week. Every Saturday morning 7-10 am and every Sunday evening
7-9 pm. Saturday is a mix of new and older music of my choice.
Sunday is a majority of new music, also my choice. It's on
98KUPD (97.9)
The website is the second career love of my life other than
radio. My radio show playlists can be found there too.
Website:
www.jlradio.com
MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/jonathanlradio
Roger Calvillo
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