Solos Galore + Free Trax + $5 Album
Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by debra.
Hey, if you’re visiting from Guitar International, we want to let you know that despite video evidence above to the contrary, I do play a lot of lead on our Get Free album (and I usually wear a bra!). In fact, “All That I Need” is the only song on the album without a guitar solo!
We’ve set up some free track downloads for you and a limited-time-only $5 download of the 11-track Get Free album. Here are a few of the album’s biggest guitar jams, for my fellow guitar freaks:
When It Comes Down (at 3:15) – free download
C21H23NO3 (at 3:10) – free download
Love That Lasts (at 2:15)
The Needle and the Damage Done (at 2:30)
P.S. You can also download Get Free at iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody and Napster.
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Deb at COC Guitar Festival in Montana
Posted on 23. Aug, 2010 by debra.
Yep, that’s me at the bottom of the poster there! I’m headed to Bigfork, Montana, Sunday to teach and play at the first annual Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival, a unique workshop-style festival that will provide a rare opportunity to study with master guitarists Pat Metheny, Lee Ritenour, Alex De Grassi and Scott Tennant at a beautiful lodge in the Rocky Mountains.
Initially, I was only attending to write about the festival for Vintage Guitar magazine but I’m really grateful to have also been invited to teach two workshops (on alternate tunings and on developing a strong vibrato)…and to perform some Devi songs with the festival house band at the Guitar Extravaganza concert Sept 4th at Flathead Lake Lodge!
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Debra – Fender Girl Rock Nation Artist
Posted on 20. Aug, 2010 by debra.
Check out my new artist profile on Fender’s Girl Rock Nation website! I’m so excited! The goal of Girl Rock Nation is to motivate and inspire young women to rock in whatever they do – picking up a guitar, writing a song, mixing sounds to make music or to rock in life. It’s a Girl Rock Nation Revolution; I can get with that!
As a Strat fanatic, I’m very proud to see Fender reaching out to women like this. We are your market, too, guitar and amp companies!! Enough already with the ads showing women straddling guitars; show us PLAYING them and we might buy them!!
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Devi to Play ‘Last Band Standing’
Posted on 20. Aug, 2010 by debra.
We’re psyched to have been added as one of eight bands competing for the title of Last Band Standing at Parlay Studios in downtown Jersey City this Sunday from 2 pm to 6 pm. Normally, the phrase “battle of the bands” would send me running for the hills, since we don’t play any Van Halen, but this one’s different, I swear.
First, it’s for a great cause — to raise money for the JC 4th Street Arts & Music Festival. Second, the other bands are hella cool (Easter Vomit, In Musth, Plastiq Passion, Shayfer James, Los Huevos and Prison Pretty). And third, there will be food. Food! Five bucks to watch eight bands duke it out, hang with hipsters and eat.
The judges are pretty cool, too – our fave DJ, Lindsay Klein from WHDA-FM, music manager Eddie Applebaum (Morningwood, Earl Greyhound) The Needle Drop blogger Anthony Fantano and Pistol Pete Kaufmann from RockinLifestyle. Come root for us!!
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Guitar International Reviews GET FREE
Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by debra.
Wow, what a nice review our album got from Dr. Matt Warnock at Guitar International! Click below to read the full review. When Matt gets back from Brazil we’re going to do a special promotion for the album with GI, so stay tuned!
It isn’t often that I come across an album that’s so good I have to listen to it multiple times in a row. When I sat down to check out Devi’s album GET FREE, I found myself doing just that. Every time the record finished I started it over, eventually just setting iTunes to “repeat all” to save me the hassle.
After about the fifth time through the album I found myself left with only one question, “How in the world have I never heard of this band before?”
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Devi on 105.5 WDHA-FM
Posted on 20. Jul, 2010 by debra.
Big shout out to 105.5 WDHA-FM “The Rock of New Jersey” DJ LINDSAY KLEIN for posting about DEVI on her HOMEGROWN SPOTLIGHT blog!!
Lindsay is a super-vivacious stalwart of the NJ rock scene and we’re very grateful to have her support. Plus, it’s always great for me to meet another woman who loves the ROCKNESS!
Keep an ear out for some Devi on her show tonite 9 pm to midnite. Tune in to 105.5 or listen online. You can email her a request or text “DHA” then a space followed by the song name to 30241.
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Guitar Geeks Challenge:”Love That Lasts”
Posted on 19. Jul, 2010 by debra.
Check out Perry Robinson’s clarinet intro and John Hummel’s incredible drumming around 2:20 on Love That Lasts from our Get Free album. John’s gotta be the bastard musical lovechild of Ginger Baker and John Bonham.
OK Guitar Geeks – what tuning am I using on this song? I’ll give you a hint, it’s a favorite of Jimmy Page. This photo of him makes me want to lick his neck.
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All That I Need…I Get From You
Posted on 12. May, 2010 by debra.
Three chords, sometimes that’s all you need. Good friends, sometimes that’s all you need. Here’s our first music video, shot by filmmaker Jill Morley. The song, All That I Need. is the end credit tune in her fantastic upcoming doc on female boxers Fighting It. Thanks Jill!
Big thanks also to director of photography Evan Seplow and assistant director Jason Jaworski. Shot in one long-ass day in my apartment and at Boca Grande, Keith’s new rock/art bar, both in Jersey City.
I blame the dress.
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Jamming for Bonobos – Debra and Wynne Paris
Posted on 24. Apr, 2010 by debra.
I just wrote a new blog post for HeadCount about the benefit concerts my friend Wynne Paris is putting together for the Bonobo Conservation Initiative (BCI).
We’ll be playing together in DC May 14 and 15 to raise money for BCI. I’ll be playing with Groovananda, and then I’ll perform acoustic versions of some Devi songs, backed by Groovananda musicians including Wynne on sarod/vocals, the great tabla master Badal Roy and jazz clarinet maestro Perry Robinson (who also lives in Jersey City and is the nicest person). Wow, I’m feeling very lucky!
Check out the Facebook invitation for more info on lineup and location.
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Devi Interview: Friggin Fabulous Radio
Posted on 16. Mar, 2010 by debra.
Last week Keith and I sat down for an interview with Nick Ciavatta of Friggin Fabulous Radio at Keith’s new art/rock bar Boca Grande.
Keith and I both decamped to Jersey City last year. Me in August, escaping the yahoos of Hoboken, and Keith in October, to help a friend rescue a lost-cause restaurant then-called Ole.
Six months of 80-hour weeks and inestimable sweat equity later on the part of Keith and his crew of rockin maniacs (including my awesome nephew AKA Hawk), Ole has been transformed into Boca Grande, a hip Mex restaurant/bar that is increasingly packed with the super-vibrant downtown JC art and music scene that Nick chronicles in his podcast. It’s been amazing to watch these guys rip the place apart and rebuild it from the ground up. Check out the open mic on Wednesday nites, which Nick also hosts. I dig this town.
