AFK, in a Good Way

My apologies on being conspicuously absent for a few weeks, the "Weekly ReverbNation Sweep" might as well be termed Monthly instead at this point. However, it's been a productive absence, and there's a lot of wonderful new music happening.

• Tomorrow night at Cafe Nine in New Haven will be a great show featuring Matt Thomas, Kyla Pitruzzello, and a new project known only as Them Moving Giants.
• Saturday night at The Rock Cafe in Rocky Hill will be another performance by Kyla Pitruzzello, possibly featuring a few surprises along the way.
• New music up at JohnnyMac Music, and also be sure to check out my collaboration with the fantastic FloMotive, featured on his page. Much more is in the works and soon to be seen, be sure to check back for some fresh collaborations and new beats.
• There is an Event in the planning stages right now for sometime in mid-October, a rather large music festival of sorts with a possible pre-Halloween theme. If you'd like to get involved in some way, please e-mail me. We're also still booking bands as of now, but we'll be looking to get a lineup set by early September so that we can start promoting, so if you're interested in playing let me know as soon as possible. We have a location but we're still settling on a date; I'll post both as soon as it's all confirmed.

Tales from the Studio

mcgriz Productions is excited to be in the studio today with Kyla Pitruzzello working on a few tracks for her forthcoming debut CD. As long as we've got her here, we figured we'd learn a little more about this dynamic singer/songwriter.

mP: So Kyla, when did you first get started playing music?

KP: Well I played saxophone all through elementary school and middle school, but I started playing guitar at 15 or 16. I found a guitar in a closet, it was my mom's old guitar, but I wasn't really serious about it, I just kinda messed around with it here and there. I probably became addicted to playing guitar when I started living by myself. I needed to occupy my time in some way. Living alone made me realize I think about stuff way too much, playing music was like my therapy, so to speak.