Everyone You Need To Know

New “Everyone You Need to Know” format - one opener and then Joe Raciti and the Pure Premium. Less rushing, more awesome.

Kicking things off within this new experimental format, American Idol contestant Stephanie White and the Philth Harmonic.

This group delivers a tight, funky-fresh live show with carefully orchestrated instrumentation that will loosen your shoulders without even trying. Lead singer Stephanie White sounds like Adele and will surely pierce your soul with a voice that simply needs to be heard.

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Featuring a bunch of new material and a couple of unexpected covers, Joe Raciti and the Pure Premium is set for the best “Everyone You Need to Know” Showcase to date and we are going to blow your minds. Hot off of shows in Boston and New York, we have tightened our act and even have a few new tricks up our sleeve.

Check out this new drawing of Sam.

No promises but there might be a cardboard bass in action for this show. I think we might take it out to Union Square to hand out fliers before hand. Let me know if you wanna help.

By chance, it happens that the two acts playing before us at the next “Everyone You Need to Know” showcase are from far away lands.

From Russia we welcome Tatiana Kochkareva.

A singer/songwriter who wrote a new song just for this showcase that I get to play piano on. I hope I’m not ruining it if I mention that it’s awesome.

When Tatiana and I were talking about the show, I mentioned that I encourage the acts to be upbeat and funny… she responded by saying that she was Russian and therefor she was unable to be funny. Ha.

Having studied mostly Jazz in school but having an ability to compose and play in a number of genres, her style reflects the educated, passionate person behind the music.

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Playing second is a woman from Northern Ireland who really needs no introduction but, what the heck, meet Susan Enan.

I guess it would be foolish for me to try and say what Rolling Stone Magazine has already said:

“Her forlorn, hyperromantic lyrics are what you’d expect from a girl who reads Shakespeare”
-Rolling Stone (October 2006)

Susan is going to warm our souls with beautiful music right before my band and I take the stage to make fart jokes and loud noises… what could be better?

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Drawing from our entire catalog, we aim to compliment the other performing acts with songs that carry you between delicate psychological mental states. Prepare to have your brain massaged all over. That sounds bad… or perhaps really good.

And stick around - after Joe Raciti and the Pure Premium play the closing set, we all sing along with the three night’s acts leading the charge to “Somewhere Under the Ocean”, you remember don’t you?