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March 30, 2010 --- Hello Amber Blues fans, friends and family... The last few weeks have been a lot of hard work for us, as we were finally able to work on our upcoming album, and we can officially say that we can smell its completion. Our show schedule is now starting to fill, and more show dates will be popping up as our studio schedule gets more relaxed when all recording is done.

This week will be the first 'Northeast Mini-Tour' of the year! Last year we had a few northeastern tours, hitting towns in upstate New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont, and Massachusetts. This Thursday, April 1st (no joke), we'll be hitting the road to Rhode Island, playing at The Wheel House in Narrangansett, RI. Our set starts at 9:30pm. This will be our first show in RI so spread the word to any family or friends in the area, support for us there will be much appreciated.

On Friday April 2nd, we return to The Bean and Leaf, in New London, CT... it's one of our favorite venues, and we're always very happy to come back to New London and see our friends again. It's like a home away from home for us. We'll be at The Bean and Leaf around 1pm, we'll set up and play multiple sets throughout the day. Come hang out, enjoy some Amber Blues music, and tell us how life has been! ♪

On Saturday April 17th, we'll be home again in NJ playing in East Windsor at City Streets restaurant. This will be a new venue for us, and we hope to see a lot of our friends in the Trenton/Princeton area. We'll be playing all evening, starting at 7pm. We will keep you all updated on other shows near the end of the month. Check out amberblues.com for all current info. We hope to see you soon! Until then....Peace, love, light, and happiness, Amber Blues -Tarek

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January 8, 2010 --- Hello Amber Blues family, friends and fans, First of all we want to wish everyone a very HAPPY NEW YEAR. Hopefully the last week gave everyone enough recuperation time after new year's. We're looking forward to another exciting year for us as we plan for bigger projects (we'll announce those when the time right, so stay posted).

On Thursday night, 1/14, we will be performing on the Rutgers radio station WRSU 88.7 at 11pm. Tune in and listen and request your favorite Amber Blues song. You can also listen via the web if you are not local. http://wrsu.rutgers.edu/index.php

We'll back again at the Old Bay in New Brunswick on Friday the 15th of January. Cover is $4, and 21+ to enter. The Old Bay is always a blast, and gives us a chance to jam out and bring a lot of old friends to come out and play with. We will be having a lot of special guests on stage. That's our first hometown show in months, so we're very excited !!

On Thursday January 21st we'll be playing at the Stone Pony is Asbury Park. This will be an all ages event, starts at 7:30p. We'll be on at 10:30p after Kimon and the Prophets, and Groove Train Riders. This will our third year in a row appearing at the Stone Pony in January...not a bad habit!

Hope to see you all soon, Until then we wish you all a happy and prosperous new year, -Tarek

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August 19, 2009 --- Hello Amber Blues fans, family and friends! This weekend we have two very exciting shows back to back. These will be our last local shows until October, so hopefully we will see you all there. On Friday, August 21st you can find us at the Triumph Brewery in New Hope, PA at 10pm. If you bring a copy of the flyer, you will get a $1 off admission. (You can also catch a sneak peek of the show tomorrow at Triumph during open mic.)

We also will be headlining at Sullivan Hall in New York City for the very first time. Please arrive by 11:30pm and say you are there for Amber Blues. For those who need transportation contact one of the band members and we will work out some sort of caravan. Visit our facebook page for links to both events.

Next weekend we are performing at a new place in Stamford, Connecticut called the Seaside Tavern. Wish us luck! And finally we will close out the summer at one of our favorite places, the Bean and Leaf in New London, Connecticut for an outdoor all afternoon event. Can't wait to see you folks!!

We're giving away a new Demo CD with new studio tracks and live material, so come out and get some good free CDs.

Also, please don't forget to vote for Amber Blues for the Taylor Music sponsorship. We have until August 31st to get votes in. You can vote every day at: http://testdrive.taylorguitars.com/BandProfile.aspx?c=9084&p=325

Thank you for your support everyone! We look forward to seeing you all. Peace, Love, Light, -AB

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August 3, 2009 --- Hello Everyone!! We hope you are all doing well. Amber Blues has been busy busy touring this summer and working on our next album. For those of you who have received our free demo with some sneak peeks of the new material please feel free to email us and let us know what you think of the newest songs. We would love any feedback you have to offer.

We also wanted to remind you that tomorrow and every Tuesday WCNI 90.9FM (New London, Connecticut) will be playing songs from our debut album A Year and Some Days. The show radio show starts at 9am and ends at noon so be sure to tune in. For those not in the New London area you may listen via internet here: http://video.conncoll.edu/wcni/wcni_live.html. For information on the station (playlists, contact info etc) please visit wcniradio.org. Listen in and request your favorite Amber Blues song. You will also have a chance to call in and win a copy of our album!

For those of you in the North Jersey/New York area, we will be at Sullivan Hall on Thursday and really need your support. We need to bring 30 people to the show to be able to continue performing there. Please be there at 7:30 and say you are there for Amber Blues at the door. The show is 18+ with a $10 cover charge. Anybody who comes to the show and mentions this message will get $2 off any Amber Blues merchandise item. (wait until you see the new Tie Dye shirts! They are awesome thanks to Zoli and Danni)

And finally we are trying to win a sponsorship from Taylor guitars and Elixir Strings. If you could be so kind as to vote here : http://testdrive.taylorguitars.com/BandProfile.aspx?c=9084&p=325. You can vote for us once each day through August 31, 2009. Please pass the link around to your friends and family if you can! Thank you all for your love and support! We appreciate it so much! See you soon! Peace, love, and light, -Tarek

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July 1, 2009 --- Greetings Amber Blues Fans, This is a quick update to tell you about our shows this week. We'll be having 3 shows this week and we hope to see many of you there. On Wednesday we'll be in New Brunswick, NJ at one of our favorite regular venues playing at the Harvest Moon. It's a 21+ venue, and there we will be celebrating Dave's little brothers 21st birthday.

We haven't been in Brooklyn in years and we're very excited to be there again. On Thurs., July 2nd, we'll be at the Public Assembly on North 6th St. between Wythe and Kent. There's a $10 cover charge and its 21+. It's a big event for us to be part of, so support from everyone in the New York City and North Jersey area would be incredible.

Finally on Saturday, the 4th of July we'll be playing in New Hope, PA. The show will be outside 'Whatever's Hot', so if you're walking down Main St., you'll be hearing us. Come out for a nice day in New Hope, celebrate the holiday and pass by for some live Amber Blues music.   Visit our website for more details and updates. Hope to see many of you soon... Have a wonderful week! Peace, love, and light, -Tarek

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February 21, 2009 --- I want wish everyone a very belated happy new year, it's still in its beginning and hope the winter hasn't been too brutal on anyone. We kicked off the year with a fairly busy January. We started off at Finnigan's lounge in West Windsor on the 10th, and to a packed crowd at The Old Bay in New Brunswick on the 23rd. The winter however was a bit brutal for us on our trip to VT & CT where we had shows the last weekend in January. After some gear adventures which resulted in an interesting night of obligatory instrumental Amber Blues at the Perfect Wife in Manchester, VT, we ended up with our van off the road in a ditch. Misadventures aside, we met a lot of amazing people in Manchester and we'll definitely make our way there again to see them all again...but maybe when it's warmer and less slippery. In New London, CT, we played at The Bean & Leaf for the second time (1st being last summer) where we had another wonderful crowd and played a set full of lushy vocals in contrast to our jammy night in VT. We also stopped by at 'Eclectic' across the street and played a short set for a pumped up young crowd. We'd like to again thank everyone we met that weekend, and we'll surely be seeing you all again.

Currently we've been heavily working on completing our second studio album...we started the mixing the first batch of finished songs. Pretty soon we may have a few demo tracks available at our shows as sneak peeks of what will be on our next album. Next week we'll be very busy, playing at the Harvest Moon in our hometown of New Brunswick on Wednesday Feb. 25...on Friday the 27th we'll be at the Donegal Salon in Kearny, NJ with our good friends Turtle Soup. On Saturday we are co-hosting a heavy metal event at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park with The Darksyde, a very cool metal shop in Howell, NJ. The show will feature Morbid Visions, Luminis, exZAKKed (Black Label Society tribute) and Black Reign (Black Sabbath tribute). We'll be playing a short set of our heaviest rockin material with surprising new cover songs. The event will also feature "Dark Art," artwork displayed by local tattoo artists, airbrushers and painters. It is sure to be a good metal night!!

There are plenty of good things happening in March that we'll just have to keep for the next edition of blooze news. Have a blessed day everyone, with peace, love, light and happiness, -Tarek

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November 18, 2008 --- Hey there Amber Blues Friends, Fans & Family, This is my first entry for the Blooze News people, so let's get it crackin'! We've been in the studio beefin' up some of our new tracks to debut on our next album (due out next spring). The tracks are tight! You guys can get a taste of the new sounds on myspace.com/amberbluesspace.

In the meantime, get ready for some AB Live baby in the city that never sleeps. We're gonna bring the noise in NYC at Sullivan Hall on Saturday, November 29th. You know I'm gonna get all my peeps at this show so there's no excuses for y'all not to show up! Line up at the door! Wednesday, December 3rd, we're back home to get up on the downstroke at the Harvest Moon Brewery in New Brunswick. Man, we're gonna funk that place up. I mean, some serious, stank nasty *ss, greezy funk too. Ugh! On December 13th we will be trying out a new venue called the Lawrence Grill located inside of the Quakerbridge Mall, Rt. 1 in Lawrenceville. Get your holiday shopping finished and come rock out with us afterward.

We had an amazing turnout at The Old Bay show on this past Saturday. Thank you to all our friends and fans! We rocked the Bay, and we were cheered on for 3 encores.

On another note, contrary to the rumors, people have been saying that I'm leaving the band. As long as gas stays cheap, this cat ain't going nowhere... Payce. -LaMar

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September 10, 2008 --- Hello Amber Blues friends, fans, family, etc... I'll be in Egypt for much of September. I'm here at the moment, enjoying the company of my family and my best friends at home. Weather's good here, and I've been eating guavas, pomegranates, and mangos...you know, the best fruit in the world in addition to my mom's food. Life's gonna be good for a couple of weeks before I return all fresh and inspired for musical goodness with Amber Blues. Hope everyone's having a good start in school (if you're in school) and looking forward to a beautiful fall. -Tarek

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September 5, 2008 --- Greetings and Salutations Amber Blues friends, fans, and family! Dave here with the AB Blooze News Summer Recap! First and Foremost, I hope all is well with everyone and that everyone had an exciting and happening summer like us! For those of you who made it out to any of our shows this summer, thank you so much for all of your love and support!

This summer was an exciting and eventful one for us. We played up and down the East Coast and made some wonderful new friends along the way! We had a huge success with all of our charity shows this summer, Anthem of the Arts in Waverly, NY was wonderful, The Valerie Fund Walk-A-Thon in Verona Park, NJ, our benefit for Project NOAH at The Milltown Ice Cream Depot in Milltown, NJ, and we capped it all off with our annual Groovin’ 4 Goodwill event at the legendary Stone Pony. This year’s beneficiary for GFGW was an organization called Drums and Disabilities, which we are extremely happy to be working with because they do work that hits very close to home for a couple of our band members. They provide music therapy for children and adults with learning disabilities such as Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, Tourettes Syndrome, and many others. We will be working with them a lot in the future so please check them out www.DadProgram.org! All said and done, with your help we were able contribute sizable donations for each of the charities and organizations this summer! So once again thank you for all you love and support, we could not have done it without you!

On another note, we all would like to wish Tarek a safe and wonderful trip as he leaves for his annual visit to Egypt to see his family. He will be spending the majority of the month celebrating Ramadan in Cairo with his family and friends and will be returning just in time for our big show on Saturday, September 27th at The Starland Ballroom in Sayerville, NJ. This show is going to be Amber Blues’ biggest and most important show to date! We will be the only opening act for The Machine, the country’s premier Pink Floyd tribute band! We will need everyone’s support for this one as we have a huge number of tickets to sell to meet our presale requirement for this show. The tickets are $16.00 each if you buy them from any band member, versus $20.00 from Ticketmaster or the Starland box office. So please contact any of us if you need tickets. We will also be running some exclusive promotional deals on the tickets to save you and your friends even more money! Visit us at www.amberblues.net, or www.myspace.com/amberbluesspace for more information. If we meet our requirement it will open up a lot more opportunities for us with both The Starland Ballroom and Live Nation. We hope to see you all there!

Last but not least I’d like to announce that our .com will soon be up and running again. We apologize for any problems or inconveniences that it may have caused early in the summer with some of your personal websites and myspace pages. But after 3 months of struggling with our webhost to regain control of amberblues.com it will hopefully be up within a few days. For those of you who have been going to amberblues.net, we thank you for keeping current with us and we will be keeping both websites once the .com is back up.

That is all for now, keep checking back with us frequently as Danni, our wonderful manager, is currently working on filling our fall tour schedule. As of yet we’ve got the Starland show on 9/27, Orphan Annie’s in Stirling, NJ on 10/8 and a show at The Old Bay in New Brunswick on 11/14. Hopefully we will be revisiting some of our new friends in NY, CT, PA, NC and NH. We’ve got a lot in store for the fall, so keep your eyes peeled on both of our websites and our myspace for the latest and greatest in Blooze News! In the meantime we will continue working diligently in the studio on our new album which we hope to release early next year. Peace, Love, and Light, -Dave

Photos from Groovin' 4 Goodwill 2... The Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ... Saturday, August 30th, 2008
		Photos & Flyer Design by katyann.com

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August 3, 2008 --- Hello Amber Blues family, friends, fans and beyond, We're having a lot of fun this summer playing at different venues and cities we've never been to, and expanding our musical catalog with new songs. We're happy to announce an outdoor festival coming up this weekend in East Brunswick, NJ we're co-presenting with 'The Ark'. From Friday the 8th of August to Sunday the 10th, the camping grounds will be ready and live music will be playing, with late nights DJ trance sets, and drum circles will be on...sure to be lots of fun for all. GA tickets for the weekend are $25, and a camping with GA for the weekend is only $30 so if you live more than a couple towns away you should bring your tent and camp out. The grounds are on 163 Dutch Rd., East Brunswick, NJ. Check the attached flyer and visit amberblues.net/prism08, or www.myspace.com/theark2012 for festival rules and details. Amber Blues will be playing an acoustic set on Friday night, and a full electrified set on Saturday night. Other bands on the line up include our friends Jazz vs the Space Tiger, The Bad Apples and Lunar Electric as well as The Powder Kegs from Vermont, The Weirdbeards from New London, CT, The PJ Cotroneo Band, and late night trance sets by DJ Balls, DJ Lemongelli, and DJ Axis Powers. So come out, enjoy the summer fun for what we hope to be a memorable weekend for everyone.

So far our rehearsals are sounding really cool, and definitely will be a very different sounding Amber Blues for everyone. On Saturday the 16th we'll be going back to the Milltown Ice Cream Depot in Milltown, NJ. We had a lot of fun playing there on the 19th of July with the charity event for Project NOAH, met up with a lot of really cool people, and had some great ice cream! Definitely a good place to be in this hot summer.

In recent news, we recently had a couple of out of state trips to New Hope, PA, New London, CT, and Waverly, NY where we played a couple of our best sets to date. We were received in both towns by some very energetic people that we've never met before. Cheers to all who came out to these shows, and we'll surely come back again to see your lovely faces. Hope everyone's having a great summer, and hope we can see you all soon, Peace, love, happiness, light and blessings, -Tarek

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July 9, 2008 --- Greetings Amber Blues Fans, I am excited to announce that Amber Blues has returned to the studio to begin recording their second album. Everything is flowing smoothly and we expect to release one or two of the songs in the near future so that you may get a taste of the upcoming album. We have also been doing some heavy gigging and plan to continue to do so throughout the summer. Keep you eyes peeled for an Amber Blues show near you. Please visit our new website at www.AmberBlues.net to see our upcoming shows. We are eagerly anticipating going back to some of our favorite places, Sullivan Hall in NYC on July 12 and Jivin' Java's in Waverly, NY on August 2nd. We are testing out some new venues this summer as well. You can see us at the Rock to Rebuild at Milltown Ice Cream Depot for a free show (any donations that you make will go to Project Noah which is an organization that goes to New Orleans to rebuild houses), the Bean and Leaf (our first trip to Connecticut), and the Bagel Dish in Highland Park. On 08-08-08 and 08-09-08, we will be playing at The Prism Gathering, all the details can be found on the upcoming shows page on our website. We will close the summer by hosting a charity event at The Stone Pony on August 30th which will feature many bands that you know and love. All proceeds will go to the Drums and Disabilities organization which goes from school to school teaching children with mental handicaps music therapy. More information will be announced over the next few weeks. We hope that everyone is having a wonderful and safe summer. We can't wait to see you at the upcoming shows. Peace, Love, and Light -Danni    P.S. Everyone wish Dave a happy birthday!!!

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June 7, 2008 --- Due to conflicting career paths Amber Blues is announcing the departure of our percussionist Mark Nettleingham. Amber Blues will continue on as a four piece and wish Mark good luck in his future endeavors.
On a more positive note, we have played a number of successful out of state shows. This past weekend we had a warm welcome to North Carolina. The crowds were great and wonderfully generous. Keep rockin' NC, we will be returning soon.
Next weekend we will be returning to one of our favorite spots, Waverly, New York, to perform at a charity event hosted by Jivin' Java. We are eagerly anticipating seeing our friends and fans in the area as well as participating in such a good cause. Please see our myspace gig list for more information. If you wish to make any donations please contact one of the Amber Blues members.

Also I would like to mention that we have been having some server issues and our website is currently down. Please don't fret, it will be up and running again soon. :)
On a final note, as some of you may have heard, Amber Blues is currently on iTunes. Please take a peak, buy some songs and keep checking back for limited edition songs that we may pop on there from time to time. Peace, Love and Light, -Danni

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May 6, 2008 --- Hello Amber Blues fans, family, and friends, We're feeling good and getting ready for a very rockin' May starting this week. Last Saturday we went up to upstate New York to Waverly where we were greeted by beautiful people who really made the long trip worth it. We had a wonderful crowd and we'll be definitely going up there again this summer.
 
This week we have 3 shows, 2 of which are new venues for us. We'll be starting off in Asbury Park, playing at The Saint with The Atmosferics again on Wednesday the 7th. On Friday the 9th we'll be in Ewing, NJ at The All Call Inn...which will be a chance for us to see faces from the Trenton area.  We're very excited about our show on Thursday the 8th, where we'll be in New York City, at Sullivan Hall (known as the Lion's Den) in the Village. It's a very important show for us, and we're setting up rides to the City and back for our NJ fans to make easy to join us in going to the show. The trip will be $10 to help out in gas and parking for our friend drivers, and the show is $10 at the door. A good turnout at that show will be a big boost to our presence in the Big Apple.
 
To wrap up the month we've got a show on Saturday, May 31st at The Juggling Gypsy in Wilmington, NC.  We are also trying to secure another show in Wilmington or perhaps Boone, NC on Friday, May 30th.  This will be AB's first excursion down South and it's sure to prove to be interesting and fun!  We've been working on many new ideas, and we've got a lot of craziness happening this summer so keep checking our website and myspace often for updates and show additions! Hope to see you all real soon rockin' out at an AB show near you! Peace, love, light and unity to everyone, -Tarek & Dave

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Mar. 14, 2008 --- Hello Amber Blues Peoples, We wanted to announce the first Amber Blues poll on amberblues.com. We'd like everyone to help us out and participate. The poll this month is "What is your favorite AB song?". You'll find the poll at the middle left of our home page, in a green box titled March's poll. There's a drop down list of AB songs including ones we haven't played in a long time, as well as new songs we premiered at our CD release show. This will help us see which songs are the crowd favorites and tell us if we need to revive some of our older material for live shows soon. So go to amberblues.com and let us know what you think. We hope to make the polls a regular thing each month, so we can get as much feedback as possible from everyone.

Before I go, just a reminder that we'll be at The Old Bay in New Brunswick this Sunday the 16th (free show!), at The Saint in Asbury Park next Thursday the 20th with the Atmosferics and Turtle Soup, and at The Hills Tavern in Lenox, Mass. on Friday the 21st with the Bad Apples...it's gonna be a very interesting week for sure. Peace, love, light and anything you like, See you all soon -Tarek

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Mar. 1, 2008 --- Hello Amber Blues friends, family, and fans, February was quiet on the outside since we had no shows booked for the month. We started making demos of our new songs to see how they sound, worked a little on some of our old ones, and tried different things. However, we're back to playing live heavily again in March. We got 5 shows booked this month, reaching out to different parts of Jersey we've never been to and going up to Massachusetts for the first time.

We're starting this Sunday at Matawan Ave. Middle School in Cliffwood, NJ. It's a benefit show, where there will be canned food/clothing drives. It is presented by members of the Girl Scout troop of Matawan, and we'll be playing with our friends Hartwell, Lunar Electric, and Bad Apples. There will be other performances by high school students as well. On the 16th, we'll be playing our first Sunday night (and also St. Patty's Day - Eve) at the Old Bay in New Brunswick (free show!), which is always a lot of fun.... and that will be the beginning of a crazy week! We play at The Saint in Asbury Park on Thursday the 20th, and then we'll be driving up on Friday the 21st to Lenox, Mass. with Bad Apples to play at The Hills Tavern. We'll end the month in a another new venue in Morristown, NJ at Cafe Arabica. So there's lots of shows this month, and as usual lots of surprises and new material to look out for.

In case you haven't been there in a while, we have a totally new look to amberblues.com. The website is renewed with new features, lots of nice new photos (you may find yourself there if you came to our shows), music, new wallpapers, and just overall goodness. You'll find details for all our upcoming shows there, so check out our calendar and come out if we're near you. We'll be bringing out our new merch and CDs to all our shows. We're currently working on getting our albums and merch sold online to be available easily for everyone, anywhere. It's exciting times, and we're planning shows in upstate NY, NC and returning to NH again in the spring. There's more in the works too as we recently finished our press kit and we're sending it out to new venues, so check out amberblues.com regularly for updates and new bookings. In the end we want to thank all our supporters and lovely fans, and hope to see you all soon. Peace, love, light and happiness to everyone, -Tarek

P.S.: I love you

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Jan. 16, 2008 --- Hello Amber Blues family, friends and fans,
We'd first like to thank everyone who made it to the CD release party on the 5th of this month. The turn out was really amazing, and the support we got was overwhelming. We can't thank you all enough for being there. We also want to thank all the participating bands that night that really made it worthwhile to hang out at the pony from as early as 7 p.m until 1:30 a.m. Bob Denson, Lunar Electric, Newbru, Chemical Swing (feat. Bernie Worrell, which was quite a treat!!), Hartwell and Jazz vs. The Space Tiger all did an excellent job in entertaining the crowd to the fullest. Not to mention our friends Murdock & Johny from 90.3 FM radio, "The Core," who did commentary on the compilation CD, Patchwork, and introduced bands, hosted AB trivia, and announced our raffle winners. We can't thank them enough!! It was a celebration to remember. We got good response towards our new merchandise... Keep rockin' those Amber Blues' shirts!!

All we hope now is that the album was worth the long wait. So sign our guestbook at www.amberblues.com, and let us know what you think of the album and what your favorite songs are. We greatly appreciate feedback and constructive criticism and we're actually hoping to get some reviews. We're wrapping up the group of shows this month on Saturday the 19th at Finnigan's Lounge on Rt. 130 in East Windsor with Jazz vs. The Space Tiger; which is sure to a lot of fun!! Saturday will be our third consecutive show with the space creature fighting jazz band. We've also started planning ahead and putting together ideas and listing songs for our next album.

Before I go, I also want to thank the big group of people who came out to the Old Bay in New Brunswick last Saturday, it was a lot of fun and turned out to be one the biggest turnouts we've had in New Brunswick to date. So, another big thank you to all the people who made it there...and keep coming back! Peace, Love, Light and Happiness to you all, -Tarek

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Jan. 4, 2008  Amber Blues Gets Pressified:

--- Amber Blues in The Pulse/The Home News Tribune:
A colorful mix: East Brunswick's Amber Blues rocks to its own beat

--- Amber Blues in The Asbury Park Press:
Don't paint Amber Blues in a corner

--- Amber Blues in The Daily Record:
Amber Blues has established a broad fan base

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Jan. 3, 2008

--- Amber Blues in The Sentinel:
Amber Blues to host CD release party in Asbury

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Jan. 3, 2008 --- Hello dear Amber Blues fans, family and friends,
We're eagerly anticipating this Saturday (Jan. 5th) for our CD release party. It's so exciting!!!!!!! We're planning for a show like no other that night to give our fans something extra special, and give people who haven't seen us before a good reason to come see us again and again. We've been practicing more aggressively as the show gets closer. We'll be playing a group of new songs as well as a few older songs we haven't performed for a while (or ever!). The bands joining are preparing killer sets as well (check out our attached flyer for all participating artists and bands), so it'll surely be quite a night! We'll be sending you more blooze news after the show to give everyone an update on how the show went, and what's coming up after. That's it for now.

We wish you all a happy happy new year.....and hope to see you on Saturday.
Peace, Love, Light and Happiness to you all! -Tarek

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Dec. 19, 2007 --- Hello Amber blues fans, friends and family,
We in Amber Blues are proud to announce that our first studio album is finally complete. We actually have copies that we're listening to these days..YAAAY!! It took a really long time, with many many hours of tedious mixing and recording and rerecording and remixing...etc, and we finally have the full album. We are almost done creating the album sleeve, artwork, and doing all the final touches to release the album. The album is titled "A Year and Some Days", and as you can imagine we're really excited. Our CD release will be on January 5th, 2008, at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ. We've been meeting with all the participating bands, and artists to get everything together. We're really excited to be playing with all these great bands that agreed to celebrate our album release with us. James "J-Pat" Dalton, Hartwell, Newbru, Chemical Swing, Lunar Electric, and Jazz vs. the Space Tiger will all be joining us for the event. We've also been rehearsing with some guests to spice up our set a little more than usual. So expect a few surprises from us. We'll be having some cool new merch for all of you, including some Amber Blues winter gear. Everyone here's been busy getting all their usual holiday things together in addition to the work we're doing towards the show.

As for the band, we've been working on a number of new tunes we're planning to premiere gradually into our set lists. We've been surviving well as a 5 piece, and it will be worth it for our old fans to come and check us out in our new simpler version of the band without Seth. We had a couple of warm up shows in December.... Last Friday the 14th at the Crossroads--it was great to perform with The Atmosferics and Jazz vs. the Space Tiger. We also had a show on 12/8 at Marita's Cantina in New Brunswick with our friend James "J-Pat" Dalton, which was a lot of fun.

In the end we'd like to wish you all happy holidays (Hanukkah/ Eid ElAdha/ Christmas/ Kwanzaa), and we hope to see you all soon. Peace, Love, Light and Happiness to you all! -Tarek

P.S: "Only the mediocre are always at their best"

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Oct. 15, 2007 --- Hello Amber blues fans, friends and family,
Even though we were in the shadows most of September, it was one our busiest and actually most productive months. We spent a lot of time cutting final vocal and guitar tracks and doing final mixes for the remaining tracks on the album; and it's actually very close to completion (serious this time). We're still looking for a title and already started reviewing artwork ideas. On Saturday the 22nd we played at the Old Bay in New Brunswick to a packed crowd, where we said farewell to Seth. We had a GREAT time, and we'd like to thank our friends Hartwell and everyone who came to cheer us up as we were sadly saying goodbye to Seth's days in Amber Blues. It was really a great turnout and appreciate the love. Oh we'll miss Seth.

We have officially become a 5 piece, Jimmy will be handling all the guitar work. We've been spending a lot of time re-arranging our older songs to fit the new formation, and have been actively writing very exciting new songs. We're looking into finishing the album tracks in October. We'll be back in live action near the end of the month in New Brunswick. We're really excited to be playing "Rock the Vote" in Rutgers, New Brunswick on the 26th. We'll also show up at the Harvest Moon on the 28th to cap the month. We'll be a different formation by then, so expect our old songs to sound different and possibly a new song or two. Hope to see you all soon, Peace, Love, Light and Happiness to you all.

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Jun. 7, 2007 --- Hey out there AB fans! Summer is off to a hot start this June, and we've got a lot planned for the summer. We just had a fantastic show with Keith Kenny this past Sunday at the Harvest Moon. (Third time's a charm... The rain didn't stop usthis time!!) Our second show this month is Phanphest's Battle of the Bands TONIGHT (Wed., June 6) at The Saint, Asbury Park, NJ. Unfortunately due to his extremly busy work schedule with the NBA, LaMar will not be performing at this show. He will be flying out to San Antonio for the NBA finals. We wish him a safe trip and anticipate his return. Our friend Brian will be filling in on drums for this show, some of you may recognize him from our Tent State show (4/21). We've got a lot of crazy surprises for everyone tonight, it's sure to be an Amber Blues experience unlike any you've ever seen. The show will include a very unique performance as well as some "special guests", we're pullin out all the stops for this one, hope to see you all there to support! The remainder of June will be spent in the studio mixing and fixing tracks for our album and then we'll be back in July with some big shows!

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Apr. 7, 2007 --- Spring is here and Amber Blues is warming up for a month of really hot shows! The guys are starting out the month with a huge show tonight (4/7) at The Saint --Phanphest Presents: Amber Blues, Give Us the Money Lebowski, and The Breakfast. But the madness doesn't stop there... On April 15th, AB will be apperaring at the Harvest Moon Brewery with Keith Kenny opening up, this is sure to be a jamtastic show! And we'll wrap up with a huge appearance at Tent State at Rutgers University on Saturday, April 21st at 9pm. This is going to be one of our biggest and most important shows to date, and loyal AB fans in attendance will be in for a surprise..........

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Mar. 6, 2007 --- Happy spring AB fans! March has certainly rolled in smoothly for Amber Blues... we started off the month this past Saturday with a fantastic show at Marita’s Cantina in New Brunswick, with our good friends Chemical Swing! These guys have proven themselves to be a powerful musical ally and we always look forward to any chance to play with them. Some other highlights for March include AB’s first show tomorrow night at The Whiskey Bar in Hoboken, as well as the first round of Jersey Show’s Battle of the Bands at The Court Tavern in New Brunswick. The month ends with a Tuesday night performance at The 449 Room in Trenton with MoBro (The Morrison Brothers), who have also been a really great ally for us. We hope to see you all come out and support this month, especially for the BOTB on the 11th, but if you can’t keep checking back for more info and updates.

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Feb. 18, 2007

--- Amber Blues in The Sentinel
Amber Blues go way beyond playin' the blues [2/15/07]

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Feb. 7, 2007 --- Hey out there AB fans... Another glorious month has come and gone. With January over and out of the way the band is gearing up for February, and what a busy month it will be! This month Amber Blues will be back in The Jam Room Studio recording the final four tracks of their long awaited debut album. We are expecting a late spring early summer release once all the mastering and duplication has been done. This past Sunday, we began our duo February New Brunswick appearance at The Harvest Moon Brewery. Our next Newbie show will be this Saturday, Feb. 10th at The Old Bay (Church St.). This will be the band’s first time appearing at The Old Bay but surely not their last! The third week of February will quiet down for thee band--LaMar will be in Vegas with his new NBA job, and Dave will be up on a mountain somewhere shredding some snow! This month ends with a show at Siberia in NYC on Saturday, Feb. 24th. This is sure to be a great show, as each NY show has been getting better and better. Yay!! Thanks for rockin’ out at shows, and we’ll see you all soon.

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Jan. 17, 2007 --- Happy New Year AB fans! 2007 is off to a ripping start. We hosted our first charity show--Groovin’ for Goodwill--on Jan. 5th and it was a huge success! Over $1,200 was raised (between five bands) to benefit The Valerie Fund and The Boys and Girls Club of Asbury Park. We would like to thank everyone involved and hope that future events will be just as successful. And a special thank you to the bands that played with us: Chemical Swing, The Morrison Brothers (MOBRO), Almost There, and Tito & the Junkyard Band. The rest of the month is relatively calm in comparison. We played at The Rusty Nail in North Brunswick this past weekend. Coming up tomorrow we’ll be in NYC at The Mean Fiddler. Our last NY show was a huge success and we hope this one will be bigger.

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Dec. 12, 2006 --- Hey there AB fans! First and foremost we’d like to welcome the two newest additions to Amber Blues: Vince Troyani on Alto Saxophone and Tom Petrecaro on Tenor Saxophone. We’re really excited to be working with them! Come check out one of the upcoming shows to hear all the good sound blends! We are breaking a new milestone this month playing 3 states in 3 days! (Our first mini-tour!) We’ll be playing in Philly on 12/28, NYC on 12/29, then we’re back in Jersey on 12/30. We’re capping off 2006 with a huge New Year’s Eve extravaganza at Dave’s house. All four of these shows are sure to be rippin’! Contact any of the band members for more info and details!

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Nov. 15, 2006 --- Hey out there AB Fans! The month started off with a bang at The 449 Room in Trenton, NJ. Our friend Tom P. from Chemical Swing came out and played sax on the last two songs, capping off an explosive set. Expect many near future collaborations with both Tom and Chemical Swing who hooked us up with the show. Tonight we're at the Harvest Moon Brewery in New Brunswick, beginning around 10:30pm (21+over, $4 cover), so come on out and get your groove on!

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Oct. 12, 2006 --- After much waiting and anticipation, our Free E.P. Demo has finally arrived! If you've received a copy, let us know what you think--sign our guestbook or post a comment on our MySpace. And don't worry Amber Blues fans, the album is coming soon!! We are currently in the finishing stages... only 4 more songs to go. We're expecting a release date of Jan. 2007, so keep your eyes on the Website and MySpace for updates. October is a light month for us as far as gigs, Tarek will be leaving for Egypt for 2 weeks on Oct. 13. We wish him a safe trip and we eagerly await his return on Halloween! Our next show will be on Oct. 21 at Indigo Coffeehouse in Aberdeen, NJ. If you’ve never seen us before, now is your chance to catch us at a FREE, All Ages show!

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