FLASHCUBES NEWS!!!

The FLASHCUBES will be playing live at the TURNING STONE CASINO SHOWROOM in Verona, NY on Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. with Blotto (from Albany).

CDBABY NOW FEATURES THE FLASHCUBES

CDBaby, the premier online music site, is now featuring The Flashcubes on their web site. To go to their web site 'click here'.

FLASHCUBES AT CHICAGO IPO

The FLASHCUBES have been busy over the last few months. They played a rippin' 25 minute set at the Chicago International Pop Overthrow event sharing the Double Door stage with Enuff Z'Nuff, Off Broadway USA and the Rosenbergs. What a thrill to finally play the center of the power pop world.

FLASHCUBES RECORD NEW SONG

The FLASHCUBES also recorded a brand new song for an upcoming Jam Records pop compilation — This is Rock and Roll due this Fall. The tune "Carl" (You Da Man)' is a tip of the hat to friend and longtime Flashcubes #1, fan Carl Cafarelli. Carl helped jumpstart the current phase of the Cubes career with a feature article on the band in GOLDMINE magazine in 1995. The article also serves as the liner notes for Bright Lights.

2 FLASHCUBES IMPORT JAPANESE CDS!!!

The FLASHCUBES have two new Japanese import CDs available now from Air Mail Recordings. One is a live CD that was recorded on May 18th, 2002 at Shimokitazawa Shelter in Tokyo, Japan. The other is a Japanese CD import of "Brilliant" from Air Mail Recordings, superbly mastered and packaged in the great tradition of Japanese CD imports. Both a must have for any Flashcubes enthusiast.

THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO

Sunday nights from 9 to midnight Eastern USA time (with repeats all day Wednesday), on the web at wxxe.org Syracuse Community Radio.

Just imagine a dynamic rock’n roll band, combining the most captivating elements of the mid-‘60s British Invasion and late-‘70s new wave, occupying a really cool DMZ between The Who, The Hollies, The Romantics and The Ramones, playing live shows that convince you that you’ve witnessed the most exciting rockin-pop combo on the whole friggin’ planet, and making records that fully capture the giddy thrill of those live shows.

Now imagine that all started 25 years ago, and you never even heard of the band responsible…Until now.

That band is The Flashcubes--the great lost power pop group of the ‘70s, an act now rightly referred to as “legendary” by pundits who know what they’re talking about. And now, The Flashcubes are back, with both a new live album and a brand new studio album with a self-descriptive title “Brilliant.”

The Flashcubes--guitarists Paul Armstrong and Arty Lenin, bassist Gary Frenay and drummer Tommy Allen--originally formed in Syracuse, NY in 1977, inspired by the heady rush of punk rock and by their mutual love of great rock’n roll, from Eddie Cochran through Big Star, The Sex Pistols and beyond. They wrote a lot of terrific songs, played a lot of sweaty, transcendent gigs, and released two singles in their aggressive bid for stardom. In the minds of The Flashcubes, fans, there was never any doubt that this band was gonna be huge. But it was not to be, and The Flashcubes broke up in 1980, their promise unfulfilled.

But even as The Flashcubes seemed destined to fade away, their legend grew. Fans who remembered told other pop fans of this incredible group that had flourished briefly in the little city of Syracuse. By the early ‘90s, more people had heard of The Flashcubes than had ever actually heard them. When Rhino Records included the group’s first single “Christi Girl” on a power pop retrospective called Come Out And Play, The Flashcubes themselves decided it was time to live up to their legend.

Bright Lights, a CD anthology of The Flashcubes’ singles, demos and four new studio recordings by the reunited quartet, was released in 1997. The Flashcubes hit the road, gaining an ever-increasing new bloc of eager fans via incendiary live appearances in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, and even Japan, where The Flashcubes were treated like the stars they are. A live show from their 2002 Japanese tour is preserved on Raw Power Pop--Live In Japan (Air Mail Recordings), showing that The Flashcubes are every bit as energetic and invigorating today as they were when they used to share the stage with The Ramones, The Jam, The Runaways, The Romantics and The Police years ago.

That point is brought home with Brilliant, the first real studio album of The Flashcubes’ long, brilliant career. Bursting with 12 new original Flashcubes tunes, Brilliant makes the case that not only were The Flashcubes one of the greatest rock’n roll groups to make the scene in the late ‘70s, they’re still one of the very best around. An opening cover of the Eddie & the Hot Rods classic “Do Anything You Wanna Do” serves as both a statement of intent and a gauntlet thrown. Who could resist such a powerful call to arms? Who would wanna resist?

Brilliant. Legendary. The Flashcubes rule again.