STANTON MOORE DRUM COMPANY OF NEW ORLEANS
Stanton Moore is pleased to announce the release of his long awaited signature Titanium snare drum available here by June 1st!

"The whole idea started about 6 or 7 seven years ago when I met drumsmith Ronn Dunnett for the first time and started to become familiar with his incredible drums. I saw some of his titanium drums and I was intrigued. He explained the sound characteristics of titanium and I became very interested in the sonic possibilities. I asked Ronn if he could make one as a 4x14. His reply was something along the lines of 'I'll give it a shot.' A few months later Ronn presented me with the 1st prototype. I immediately fell in love with the drum - its sound, its tone and its feel. As I was playing to larger rooms with Galactic, I needed a drum that would be sensitive and buttery enough for the intricate buzz roll work that I do with some of the New Orleans second line grooves, but would also cut through a loud funk band when I smacked a back beat. This drum had what I was looking for." READ MORE

In addition, there are some fresh new Stanton Moore Drum Company T-shirts now available. Visit Stanton's Official Store for details.

To kick things off with my new digital label Moore Music, I am releasing Take It To The Street (The Music), the music from my 'Take It To The Street' book and DVD project. The music was recorded with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and features George Porter Jr. and Ivan Neville on select tracks.

I've always enjoyed listening back to the music we recorded for the project. For the book and DVD, only a few tunes could be included on each due to space issues and the tunes needed to be faded out after a few minutes. Included here is the majority of the tunes from the project in their entirety including a couple of bonus tracks that didn't make it into the original project.

As I was growing up and developing musically in New Orleans it was always a dream of mine to play with members or the Dirty Dozen and the Meters. My dad used to come into my bedroom and listen to me practice to the Dozen's 'Voodoo' and the Meters' 'Look-a Py Py' albums. As you can imagine it was quite a thrill for me to play this music for this project with the Dozen and George Porter Jr. I hope you all enjoy hearing this music as much as I enjoyed playing it. -Stanton

IRMA THOMAS 'SIMPLY GRAND' NOMINATED FOR GRAMMY
Congratulations to Irma Thomas for her Grammy nomination for her latest album 'Simply Grand'! Stanton appears on one track.

WILL BERNARD'S 'BLUE PLATE SPECIAL'
Guitarist Will Bernard invited Stanton to play on his newest record. Joining Stanton and Will is John Medeski on keyboards and Andy Hess on bass. The result is 'Blue Plate Special' which is out now on Palmetto Records. For sound clips and to purchase, check out WillBernard.com.

STALETTA FEST: A Benefit for the Tipitina's Foundation
Celebrating the marriage of Aletta and Stanton Moore
Married in Mexico 7.30.08

Staletta Fest was an event to be remembered and everything went off great.  The line up was top notch and featured Preservation Hall, Rebirth Brass Band, George Porter Jr. (with Stanton manning the drums),  Big Sam's Funky Nation and The Morning 40 Federation.   The silent auction ran smoothly with lots of great items.  A substantial amount of money was raised and the Staletta Fund has now been set up.  The Staletta Fund is a scholarship fund that Stanton and Aletta have set up to benefit outstanding young  New Orleans musicians.  There are lots of great young musicians who have been coming to the Tipitina's Sunday Music Workshops.  Some of them have been getting accepted to jazz camps and auditions around the country.  The Staletta fund will help cover costs for these young NOLA music students to realize their musical dreams and further their education.

You can donate to the fund by going to Tipitinas.com.  Please specify that you are donating to the Staletta Fund.


ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS:
Stanton started The Tipitina's Sunday Music Workshops after Hurricane Katrina with Deborah and Johnny Vidacovich to give the kids of New Orleans an outlet to learn from local and national professional musicians. The proceeds from Staletta Fest will go to establish a scholarship program that will help outstanding students cover expenses to jazz camps and auditions around the country.

Stanton says…"There was a thing called the Young People's Jazz Forum every Sunday at Tip's when I was in high school. This is where I met and started learning from Johnny. The workshops were important because I got to play with better musicians and I could get tips from Johnny on a weekly basis. This was also my first exposure to Tipitina's and I remember standing on that stage and looking into the balcony thinking 'one day I'm going to headline this place.'"

LATEST RELEASE: EMPHASIS (on parenthesis)
On April 22nd, Stanton Moore released his new Trio record entitled 'Emphasis (on parenthesis),' his second release for Telarc Records. As with his previous effort entitled 'III', Stanton gets help from Will Bernard on guitar and Robert Walter on organ.

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FUTURE RECORDING PLANS
2008 is looking to be a very busy year for Stanton! In addition to nation-wide and overseas touring with Galactic, a new Garage A Trois record featuring Stanton with Skerik on saxophonics, Marco Benevento on keyboard and Mike Dillon on percussion will drop in the fall. And still being recorded is an exciting project called Street Sweeper with Boots Riley of The Coup and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine. More news to come about these exciting projects!

NEW SNARE DRUM COMPANY, BOOK & DVD
Stanton will be debuting his new snare company manufactured by Dunnett, distributed and marketed by Bosphorus as well as adding new crash cymbals to his signature line. If that’s not enough, Stanton is finishing up his next book “Groove Alchemy,” and will film the accompanying DVD in late 2008!

GALACTIC RELEASE: 'FROM THE CORNER TO THE BLOCK'
Galactic's 'From The Corner To The Block' is in stores now! Galactic's follow up to 'Ruckus' shows the band pushing their limits further than ever, blending their trademark funk with cherry picked guest list of hip-hop's most dynamic artists along with an assortment of other talented artists. The record features an all-star cast of vocalists such Juvenile, Chali 2na (of Jurassic 5), Lyrics Born, Boots Riley (of the Coup), Mr. Lif, Blackalicious' Gift of Gab, Ladybug Mecca from Digable Planets and many more.

Here is some of what has been written -

"Awesome" - The Fader Magazine

" ...(Galactic) enlists a monster guest list of MCs to rock over its densest grooves to date" - Billboard

"... And 'Hustle Up' with Boots Riley is hereby nominated as the anthem for next Mardi Gras - a call to get down when you've had it up to here with everything else. "
- Rolling Stone

"88%... Galactic is too hot for New Orleans... These electric bayou grooved got the paint peelin' off the wall "
- Filter Magazine

"[From The Corner To The Block] is sure to make eclectic listeners rejoice" - Scratch Magazine

"At the intersection of jazz-funk and hip-hop, you'll find a fascinating new disc by Galactic" - Relix Magazine

"[a] metaphorical nirvana...kicking bouncy hits from curb to curb while blurring genre definitions with supreme easy"
- Drum Magazine

"... A rattling surprise... Exuberant" - Vibe Magazine

"...all thick retro soul and funk, while rappers like Lyrics Born, Boots Riley and Gift of Gab swing wonderfully in the pocket with their new pals. The horn-adorned band and MCs alike let loose like they couldn't give a shit how much street cred the collaboration earns them, as long as it makes listeners move." - Playboy

"Almost every tune is a hip-hop classic, welding vibrant story telling, strong voices and agile worldplay to a rhythmic and melodic genius that is simply galactic". - Harp Magazine

"Its the shit." - Urb Magazine.

NEW ALBUM NEWS!
Stanton's new record is out now!! The album entitled III features Robert Walter on organ and Will Bernard on guitar with special guests Skerik on saxophone, and Mark Mullins on trombone! The record was recorded at the legendary Preservation Hall in New Orleans and was released on Telarc Records on September 26th!CD's will be shipped to arrive on or shortly after release day! Order Now!

LIVE DOWNLOAD! STANTON MOORE TRIO
We are pleased to announce the first of many live downloads being released by Stanton Moore. The premiere offering is the early show recorded on December 7th, 2004 in Studio City, California with Robert Walter on organ and Will Bernard on guitar. The recording combines feeds from the soundboard and on-stage mics to create an incredibly clean and rich representation of the performance. Stanton Moore Trio - La Ve Lee - Studio City, CA 12/7/04 is now available for download in AAC, MP3, and CD-quality FLAC formats exclusively here. CD label and jewelcase artwork for print is included.

For those who missed the Frequinox tour, or for those who were there and want to re-live the magic, three shows from the February Colorado tour are available for download from www.DigitalSoundboard.com.

RENEW ORLEANS
RENEW ORLEANS is a simple concept for a complicated time - solidarity. A commitment to hope and a public affirmation of the past, present and future of New Orleans.   Buy a t-shirt and contribute directly to the New Orleans Musicians Hurricane Relief Fund. Wear the shirt and personally broadcast a statement - New Orleans will be rebuilt and faith will be restored.  There can't be any future for New Orleans without music, and we hope this to be one small step towards bringing it back.
The New Orleans Musicians Hurricane Relief Fund is a certified non-for profit company created to directly assist the hundreds of thousands of New Orleans musicians that are now without home, family and even their instruments. It was created as an instant response to Hurricane Katrina and is now the only non-profit that actually pays monies directly to musicians that need it the most. Renew Orleans now!

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY
Stanton joined forces with the Grammy-nominated heavy rockers from North Carolina, Corrosion of Conformity to record In the Arms of God on Sanctuary Records. The band was very excited to work with Moore. Over the past year, COC found themselves writing intense material and needed a drummer who could not only handle it but take it to another level. Lead vocalist/guitarist Pepper Keenan, who had since moved back to his hometown of New Orleans, called his old friend Moore to ask him if he knew any drummers up for the task. Moore laughed. "Yeah, me," he said. Within four days, COC was in New Orleans undertaking a musical adventure without a map. "He's one of the most progressive drummers I know," Keenan says of Moore. "In the heavy metal world nobody really knows who he is, but after they hear this they will. He's an accomplished jazz drummer playing manic heavy music - I've never heard anything like it." Check out the video for "Stonebreaker" from the album in the A/V section!

STANTON MOORE SIGNATURE CYMBALS
Bosphourus has worked for years with Stanton on the development of the new Stanton Moore series cymbals. The sound is 100% Stanton…raw, aggressive and trashy, but always musical and extremely funky. He chose the names Wide Ride and Fat Hats to represent the fat groove he gets on the wide variety of styles present in his playing. To find out more about Stanton's cymbals check out Bosphoruscymbals.com or to hear or buy Stanton's cymbals go to cymbalsonly.com.

STANTON MOORE SIGNATURE STICKS
Also a signature stick has been released by Vic Firth sticks. The stick was designed by Stanton to fit all the musical situations that he finds himself in. To buy Stanton's signature stick please visit Vicfirth.com.

GARAGE A TROIS - LIVE DOWNLOAD
Garage A Trois is proud to present their first exclusive download, a digitally mastered recording of their show at the Fox Theater in Boulder, Colorado on October 3rd, 2003! Songs include selections from Garage's 2003 release Emphasizer , as well as funky versions of Charlie Hunter's "Two for Bleu," Stanton Moore's "Tchfunkta," and Skerik's smash hit "Making Out with My Dad." Also featured are covers of the band's various influences such as James Brown, Charlie Parker, Prince and Ornette Coleman.

This soon-to-be-classic can only be found on GarageATrois.com and is available in both mp3 and Flac (lossless) formats. You have never heard Garage A Trois quite like this before!! Head over to the Garage A Trois site for details!

GALACTIC - 'RUCKUS'
Galactic's album Ruckus is a product of the band's rapid growth over the past several years. Working with renowned hip-hop producer, Dan the Automator (Dr. Octagon, Gorillaz and Prince Paul), intensified the band's focus on songwriting and allowed them to use a broader sonic palette. The final product of this perfect collaboration is Galactic's finest and most adventurous work to date. Ruckus pushes the band's creativity to the limit without diffusing the trademark Galactic groove. For more information on Galactic and Ruckus, please visit GalacticFunk.com.