| Sunday, February 7, 2010 newish music now available to download!!! |
| Hi folks the new record is available through some online stores: emusic, zunior, amazon, itunes. I'm sure there are more out there... you'll find them. The hard copies are available in Calgary at Megatunes, Sloth and Melodyia . Hope you enjoy. Shows to check out in the next few weeks. extra happy ghost!!! Feb 19th @ Broken City with the Summerlad night committee Feb 25th @ the Distillery night committee Mar 4th @ Broken City. We also charted nationally on earshot at 29. You can always find heatray practicing hot yoga on 11th ave! Maybe it's time key to the city and heatray team up for a show, the Jan 14th show at the Republik was good times. Enjoy the rest of your February! 0 comments |
| Saturday, October 31, 2009 |
| Hey guys, quick update on the HLR members and their new projects. Andrew and Joel finally have a name for their project... they have wrangled Brooker Buckingham, Laurie Fuhr and Lorrie Matheson to play some new tunes for all you nice people... Night time music is the game and Night Committee is the name. They are not sleepy, they just never see each other in daylight. The 1st show will be at the Marquee Room, Nov. 14th. Matty's extra happy ghost!!! have a few shows coming up... Oct 31 @ Marquee, Nov 7 @ Weeds and Nov 28 @ Tubby Dog. Joel is playing at Vern's Tavern on Nov 7 with Key to the City. Ace rocked CJSW's Cash vs. Clash night and with his expertise as a Clash historian proved that yes, Joe Strummer would definitely have the upper edge in a battle with the man in black. You may one day see this very battle waged on Deadliest Warrior. Check out Heat-ray at the Blind Beggar Nov 6th. FFWD magazine has posted a nice article on the local music scene and we were included in the line up, thanks Malissa Dunphy for your kind accolades. It looks like CJSW is playing the new record with some regularity. Thanks Guys!!! Support your local campus and community stations, they work hard for free for your listening pleasure.  0 comments |
| Friday, October 2, 2009 Hot Little Rocket 1998 -2009 |
     Hot Little Rocket played their final show September 19th, 2009 at the Marquee Room in Calgary Alberta to a very supportive and emotional group of friends, family and fans. Thank you for coming out to the celebration!!! The new and very limited edition CD is available from the back of Joel's car... or at Megatunes, Sloth Records and Melodyia Records in Calgary. The album will be available for digital download in the very near future. We will continue to update you on the happenings of the members of Hot Little Rocket here from time to time. Please email any photos of the band you may have in the archives. It would be nice to see them. We'll post em' here. hotlittlerocket@hotmail.com These photos courtesy of Brenda Bazylewski.     0 comments |
| Tuesday, August 25, 2009 Last show!!!! |
| September 19th at the Marquee Room... with special guest performers.... Papermoon to open the festivities. It's a celebration. In the meantime check out our other projects: The new album is near completion and we will be posting it soon. 0 comments |
| Monday, June 1, 2009 So you wanted to know.... |
| So this is the deal.... you read it here first or maybe on facebook or myspace 'cause I'm just going to repost this the same way. This is the official word or press release or whatever you want to refer to it as. Yes... Hot Little Rocket will be releasing a new album this summer/fall. We recorded 12 new songs with 2 of our favourite people, Lorrie Matheson and Dave Alcock. The tentative release date will more than likely be our 11th anniversary in September because we took way too long to finalize the details. And yes, the plan is for the band to split up, sell the house, disrupt the kid's lives and move to opposite sides of the island. In reality it really just frees up some evenings so we can move on with other projects that are in the works. Oh yah, another good reason why we are breaking up is because we have officially run out of things to talk about in the van... So this is going to be the way it rolls out.... Aaron will continue on with "Heat-Ray" who have a new record out this summer, Matt will release his solo venture this summer as "extra happy ghost!!!" I will continue playing with "Key to the City" and yes, we also have a new record coming out this summer.... that's right one band tied to 4 new records and all this summer....FYI, Andrew is also in the process of gathering some crazed individuals to rock some roll (name and lineup not released at press time)... so you really want to know why we are breaking up, because breakups mean much more hard feelings, anger and depression....and anger and depression leads to more creativity, and more creativity leads to more records. So more records will be made by Hot Little Rocket... maybe not in this form but in many many other mutations.... and aren't mutants just way cooler... Wolverine kicked some serious ass! To summarize, we are breaking up and we are also releasing a new record... That's it... I said it. Done. It's out there! We will have a few shows coming up to pay back some favours, and also to have some serious fun. We will be at Sledisland this summer and will also be playing an outdoor show for CJSW's Olympic Plaza Concert Series. The last Hot Little Rocket show ever/ CD release party / Mega Merch sell off will be announced soon. We really love you guys! 0 comments |
| Monday, March 23, 2009 It's Spring 2009... and what does the future hold? |
 I see some melting snow! That's about as much foresight I am able to give you at present. We have finished recording our 4th full length album with Lorrie Matheson and Dave Alcock at Arch Audio studio and Sundae Sound studio. We wrote, re-wrote, demoed, re-wrote, demoed some more and finally were able to get 12 solid songs down onto magnetic tape using various drum kit configurations, amp manipulations and of course some "borrowed" gear. We are still working out the details on how we will be presenting these songs to you. It will be sooner than later, and will probably be a sought out collectors item before it is even released as we will probably be releasing it in limited quantities with our own limited resources. We will be mostly using white glue, scrap cardboard boxes and scotch tape.... DIY!!!! We also have a few upcoming shows to announce. April 3rd @ Broken City with the Ex-Boyfriends (Can you believe we have never shared the stage with these guys....yah... I know!!!) We will also be warming up the crowd for the most Calgarian of all shows April 17th at the Gateway with the Dudes and Chixdiggit. This show should be sponsored by the City of Calgary, Big Rock, Peters Drive In and Spolumbos! We will see you soon! 0 comments |
| Friday, September 12, 2008 Some nice words from our friends. |
 Hey thanks FFWD! 0 comments |
