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"ROADS" AVAILABLE
NOW @ ITUNES
Cas Lucas' new CD, "Roads" is now available for download
@ the Itunes
Music Store!
(whole album for $9.99 or single songs for .99)
Click
the Itunes Icon to get "Roads" now!
"ROADS" PRE-ORDER
NOW OPEN!
Cas Lucas' highly anticipated new CD, "Roads" is now
available for pre-order through caslucas.com.
Click the CD cover image to get your copy now!
"Roads'"
release date will be
April 7th, 2007 on indie label 47
Records. By pre-ordering,
you'll save a couple bucks and also receive your copy before April
1st, a week before the commercial release. "Roads" will
be available for sale through caslucas.com, Itunes, AwareStore,
CD Baby, and in record stores nation-wide.
CAS LUCAS & LUCE TO PERFORM 3/30 @ SAN FRANCISCO CD RELEASE
PARTY...
The CD Release Party/Concert for Cas Lucas' long anticipated album
"Roads" has been announced for Friday, March 30th @
San Francisco's Cafe
Du Nord. Cas Lucas and his band will perform songs from "Roads"
with Bay Area favorites LUCE
scheduled to close the show. Count on a packed house that sells
out well in advance. Reserve your tickets through Du
Nord's website today!
CD Release shows in other cities and tours to follow. Stay tuned
to our tour page for details..
STUDIO
NEWS...
After much planning, foot dragging, begging
for funding, and scraping of the bottom of the barrel, Cas has
started recording "Roads" his follow up to 2004's
underground acoustic hit, “Giving it Back."
Cas is lucky enough to be working with some great local producers,
including Adam
Rossi, producer/keyboardist for local
breakout band, Luce (as well as other Bay Area artists
like Megan Slankard, Brad Wolfe, and Jeffery Halford), and Steffen
Franz of IDC and Positive Sound Massive.
Steffen, a Bay Area independent hip-hop and reggae legend in his
own right, has worked with artists like The Beastie Boys, Mix
Master Mike, and Lee Scratch Perry.
Sample songs from "Roads" (expected
in early 2007), can be heard at Cas's
Official MySpace Page.
HOLIDAY
CD OFFER/MYSPACE PROMO...
Through the new year, 47 Records will be giving away a free promo
CD, featuring 3 previously unreleased tracks from Cas' new CD,
"Roads," to anybody who orders a copy of "Giving
it Back" from CD
Baby or Itunes.
(hear these tree new tunes right
now @ Cas'
MySpace) After you order, email promo@caslucas.com
to receive your free music!
Cas
@ CD Baby
Cas
@ Itunes
FALL
CONCERT NEWS...
After a successful September appearance at LUCE's
"Band Together" benefit at the Fox Theater in Redwood
City CA, Cas has been asked to return and open for LUCE
at Marin County's famous Sweetwater
on November 2nd. Tickets for this even will go fast, and
a sell out is likely. Click HERE
to get your tickets now.
Other than the Sweetwater show, the fall concert schedule will
be lighter than usual, as Cas and the band finish off the new
album and prepare for the tours to follow in 2007.
CAS
ON TV...
On December 8th the Cas Lucas will be featured and perform
live on "Friday
Night Jams," a cable television show that airs statewide
in Calfornia and live on the internet. California fans should
check their local listings. To watch streaming video of Cas's
performance (8pm Pac, 5pm Est) visit fridaynightjams.com. (*if
the video is not available on the air date, check back the next
day*)
CAS
SIGNED TO JOE SCHULD'S MANAGEMENT COMPANY...
Joe
Schuld, a former director of radio promotions for Columbia
Records, has signed Cas Lucas to his management company, Joe's
Music. Schuld also manages several prominent artists from
the Bay Area, including Luce
and Megan Slankard.
In addition to the artists he manages, Schuld has worked in promotions
for a wide range of internationally renowned artists like John
Mayer, Phish's Trey Anastasio, Train, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Aqualung,
Glen Phillips, and Matt Kerney.
CAS
TO PERFORM @ 2006 MIDWEST MUSIC SUMMIT!!!
Midwest
Music Summit, one of the world's
largest music industry conference and A+R showcase, has invited
Cas Lucas to join the many talented artists from all over the
world performing at the 2006 summit in Indianapolis,
Indiana. Confernces like this one and it's cross-country eqivalent,
Austin's prestegious South By Southwest Music Festival, have been
the jumping off point for many a successful recording artists'
career. Representatives from all sizes of record labels will be
on hand, scouting for new talent.
Cas's MWMW
performance is at the summit's Monon
Coffee Stage...on Saturday, August 12th @ 2:40pm.
It will be an ALL AGES, FREE SHOW!
Midwest Cas fans, come on out and show your support!
For full details visit the Midwest
Music Summit website.
CAS
LUCAS REPS/STREET TEAM EXPLODES IN 2006!
Thanks in no small part to the growing
buzz about Cas's music on MySpace,
the Cas Lucas Steet Team/Reps
Program has grown by 500% in 2006. We now get as many
new Reps signing up each day as we did per month in 2005.
Signing up as a Cas Lucas
Rep is the only way to get your hands on a pre-release copy
of the 3 new songs from that are currently featured on Cas's
Official MySpace Page. Stop on by our Reps
Page and sign up to receive your free CD, Stickers, and other
goodies from 47 Records.
In addition to the increase in Reps, caslucas.com's
webhits went up by 400% from May to June 2006... In one month!
NEW
CAS LUCAS "GEAR STORE" GOES LIVE... T-SHIRTS AND HOODIES
FOR SALE ONLINE AND AT TOUR DATES.
New Cas Lucas T-Shirts (by American
Apparel) and Hoodies are now for sale at the CasLucas.com
"gear store."
Stop by and check out the new Swag.
Unlike lots of bands' merch, Cas's gear is all made in the USA.
They've got a vintage feel/look and are as comfortable as your
favorite broken in, name brand shirt.
Cas Lucas Reps can order for reduced prices. For more info, contact
your Reps coordinator or write reps@caslucas.com.
click a shirt to visit the online store
CAS
FEATURED ARTIST ON MYSPACE RADIO!!!
MySpace
Radio has added Cas to their featured artists, so stop on
by and take a listen. MySpace
Radio highlights independent artists on the rise from all
over the world, and Cas is honored to be chosen from the ranks.
CAS
A FEATURED ARTIST ON ULTIMATE BAND LIST... (March '06)
The venerable internet music site, Ultimate
Band List (UBL.com),
has chosen Cas Lucas as a featured artist for the month in the
blues genre. Cas's UBL page will be featured on thei blues main
page and linked to from the UBL main page. Cas's song "Blind"
from the 2002 "One Takes" Blues EP is the featured track.
Check it out here....LINK.
CAS
TO OPEN CALI. SHOWS FOR ZACK HEXUM & GABRIEL MANN'S
"REALISTIC FANTASY TOUR"...
Part two of Cas's Spring Tour will
take place in mid-late May, when he'll open the West Coast leg
of the "Realistic Fantasy Tour," a co-headlining
tour by two of LA's finest independent artists, Zack
Hexum (he and Cas performed together twice in March. Scroll
for more on Zack) and Gabriel
Mann (a SoCal based singer/songwriter who's recent achievments
include the opening act slot for top 40 pop queen, Allanis
Morisette's European Tour and stateside tour dates, opeing
for pop/rock singer Jesse McCartney). Stay tuned for those
dates.
Cas's next full West Coast Tour
will be this summer, starting early in July. More dates are booking
every day, but you can bank on seeing Cas back in Sacramento,
LA, Humboldt County, Portland, Seattle, and plenty of other towns
along the way.
CAS
HITS THE ROAD... SPRING TOUR FAZE 1
After a great run of gigs around California
in early 2006, Cas will head back out on the road this April for
another solo acoustic tour, hitting new areas of the counrty and
sharing the bill with some exciting regional acts.
This trip will mark Cas's first appearances in Colorado and Utah,
playing most major markets in both states. Stop by the dates
page for full dates and details.
Cas's Utah gigs will be opened by rock/soul artist, Cory
Mon.
In Colorado Cas will open a run of shows for the Angie
Stevens Band, stopping in Fort Collins, Denver (two shows),
and Littleton. Cas and Angie have already performed together in
the Bay Area. Both aspiring road warriors, look for them to hook
for shows quite a bit in the coming years. Stop by AngieStevens.com
for more on her.
CAS
A FEATURED ON "MIDNIGHT SPECIAL BLUES" LIVE 365 INTERNET
RADIO...
Midnight Special is a popular internet
radio show, based in Paris, France, but broadcasting from the
U.S. (Live365.com) and the U.K. (StreamSolutions.co.uk). Several
of Cas's songs will be featured in Midnight Speical's programming
in the coming months. Listen, and you might catch a version of
the new "Dream A Window" single.
Check it out here....LINK.
NEW
CAS LUCAS RINGTONES!!!
Ringtones
for Cas's tunes "Feel You" and "Undeciding"
can now be downloaded at
isound.com for 99 cents. Bring Cas with you everywhere you
go, and keep him in your pocket. You can also purchase individual
MP3's on Cas's
ISound Page.
Click
here to get Cas Lucas Ringtones now...
Coming soon, Cas Lucas contact lenses... Just kidding. The ringtones
are real though... get some.
CAS
TO OPEN FOR ZACK HEXUM AT LA'S PRESTEGIOUS HOTEL CAFE!!!
Cas will have the pleasure of opening for
Zack Hexum,
one of LA's top independent artists at Hotel
Cafe on Tuesday Feb. 28th. This will be Cas's first
time back in LA since the Cas Lucas Band's gigs at House of
Blues in 2005. Cas plays at 7pm. Sets by Julie
Newmark and Zack Hexum follow. Nearly every major acoustic
rock act on the scene today has played Hotel Cafe on the way up.
(John Mayer, Jason Mraz, Howie Day, Ben Harper, and more) Come
watch Cas join the ranks.
A few days later, Cas and Zack will
play a show together in the Bay Area at Berkeley's Epic Arts on
Friday March 3rd. Also on the gig will be one of the Bay Area's
most exciting new jambands, Home At Last. Since thier debut
at 2004's High Sierra Festival, Home At Last has been busy
building a reputation as one of the West Coasts best inedpendent
jam bands. Stop by halband.com
for more info.
Look for even more Lucas/Hexum co-bills
in the coming months, including a possible regional tour in 2006.
CAS
HITS THE ROAD...
After years of steady gigging on the Bay
Area scene, Cas is heading out on two seperate legs of his first
West Coast Tour between November-January. In addition to
regular local dates, Cas will be playing all over California,
Oregon, and Washington. Stop by the dates
page for more information. Look for another Cas tour this
Spring that will take him through the Southwest, Colorado, and
Nevada. Plans for a national tour, full band tours, and more are
all in cards for 2006.
Cas's long time friend and collaborator, Stephen
Inglis, is also doing some touring. Stop by his site to see
the dates.
CAS
SELECTED AS FEATURED ARTIST ON EVOLVING ARTIST'S "ENGAGE
RADIO"...
Evolving
Artist has selected Cas's song,
Feelin, to be featured on their Engage
Internet Radio Website. On Engage, Cas will be one of a few independent
artists featured along side world famous artists like Blues
Travler, John Mclaughlin, and Ari Hest.
Hear Me On:
Vote
For Me!
(Summer
05) CAS IN THE NEWS...
We
have added a new press section to www.caslucas.com along with
a link to Cas's Sonic Bids EPK (electronic press kit). Cas has
been featured in the local, national, and international press,
so stop by the press
page and read up.
CAS
LUCAS AREA REPS PROGRAM IN FULL AFFECT...
After a recent increase in touring, CD
sales, digital downloads, and after lots of grass roots promotion,
the Cas Lucas Area Reps/Street Team Program now has over 1,000
members nationally. Due in large part to Cas's ever-growing following
on MySpace, more Cas fans are signing up to do their part every
day, spreading the word about Cas's music in their home towns
and on the net.
If you are interested in becoming a Cas Lucas Rep or Coordinator
for your local area, email Jen at reps@caslucas.com.
CHECK OUT THE NEW CASLUCAS.COM REPS
PAGE...
OLD NEWS ARCHIVE...
CAS ON MYSPACE...
LINKS TO CAS'S MYSPACE COMMUNITY:
Artist Site: www.myspace.com/caslucas
Area Reps/Street Team Page: www.myspace.com/clreps
Cas Lucas Fans Groups: groups.myspace.com/caslucas,
groups.myspace.com/wholovescaslucas
CAS
PLAYS NEW YEAR'S. . . IN BROOKLYN
Cas
will be hitting the East Coast again this winter. He has been
asked to open a show by fellow Hampshire graduate Julian Velard,
a thriving New York pianist, singer and songwriter. The show will
be December 29 at Pete’s
Candy Store in Brooklyn. See dates
page for additional details.
IN
THE PAPERS
The
San Francisco Chronicle is doing a feature on Cas in their East
Bay Living Section. It will run in this coming Friday’s paper
(11/19). For those of you in SF, this won’t come in your standard
Chronicle, but it should be available online. Everybody in the
East Bay, grab a copy of the Chronicle and check it out.
NATIONAL
DISTRIBUTION FOR "GIVING IT BACK"
Cas'
latest disc “Giving it Back”, which is a self-release on 47 Records,
is going to be in stores near you soon, courtesy of Oakland-based
IDC
(Independent Distribution
Collective). They are having good success placing their artists
all over the country. Keep your eyes peeled at Amoeba, Rasputin
and other independent record stores.
The
CD is for sale right now at Chameleon Music
and of course at shows. It’s newly re-mastered, has a new professional/retail
ready look, and Cas is as proud of it as anything he's ever created.
Here’s a press release on what’s up with the CD.
IDC's
page on Cas is www.independentdistro.com/page16.html.
"Cas’s
latest release “Giving it Back” is his first LP and his first
CD of all original material. In addition to the multi-textured,
tastefully intricate, hook-infested compositions present in
all of Lucas’s pervious work, this disc also features the guitar
and vocal interplay between Cas and Hawaiian guitarist Steve
Inglis. Inglis was formerly the singer/lead guitarist of Grateful
Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann’s House of Spirits band, and has
also gigged extensively with fellow Hawaiian singer/ songwriter
Makana (who just opened an entire US tour for Jason Mraz). Cas
and Steve have honed a tight duet sound, performing Cas’s originals
at countless live shows from 2002-2004. “Giving it Back” is
comprised of the highlights from several live in studio sessions
that yielded over 25 tracks of their unique acoustic grooves.
It includes live show staples like Feelin’, Dream a Window,
Refection, and many more.
“Giving
it Back,” the first release by Lucas’s own 47 Records, has been
picked up for national distribution by IDC (Independent Distribution
Collective). It will be available in stores all over California
and the west coast in the coming months and hopefully nation-wide
by year’s end."
