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JOSH MARTINEZ RELEASES PISSED OFF WILD

ACROSS CANADA: POW TOUR

BAM! CRASH! The P.O.W. tour hits Canada… HARD

WHEN YOU START A CROSS CANADA TOUR WITH 3 GROUPS, 11 MEN, 2 VANS, 1 TRAILER AND 12 SHOWS IN A ROW TO START, YOU RUN THE RISK THAT YOUR HEART AND SOUL WILL BE TORN ASUNDER EARLY ON. AS THE HEAT OF THE LIFESTYLE BURNS A COOL WHITE, AND THE ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF TOURING CREAKS WITH EVERY TURN OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, THERE IS A VERY GOOD CHANCE THAT THERE WILL BE BLOOD, AND MUD, AND ALSO TEARS. JOSH MARTINEZ AND PISSED OFF WILD, EVIL EBENEZER AND THE LYTICS TEAM UP WITH EXCLAIM MAGAZINE TO THROW THIS PARTY INTO OVERDRIVE FOR 16 DATES ACROSS CANADA.

We also happened to coincide this tour run with the Stanley Cup run of the HomeTown Vancouver Canucks. In fact, The LYTICS, from Winnipeg, MB, are also big sports winners, as their Winnipeg Jets have returned to the flock. I also can say that I heard a great name for the new team, if they are to sway from the former name of the Jets: I propose the Winnipeg Winter – I can’t think of a single thing more intimidating than winter in Winnipeg. First Show is at Lucky Bar in Victoria and after the customary introductions of all members of all groups, we jump to the hotel and watch the Canucks break a scoreless tie with less than a minute to play. Big Wins for Big Times.

The show was packed to the gills with the spillover from the Canucks win and the hungry faithful of the Camobear crew and their sound. 3 incredible performances later, the Victorian cityfolk were satiated, there were towels full of sweat, and no one was dead. This was all to the good. Vancouver was similarly bananas, and night 3 involved the suburban outskirts of Coquitlam, where many confused patrons were won over by the positive upbeat songs of The LYTICS, the stage presence and cadence of EVIL EBENEZER and the overwhelming strut of Ol Man Martinez.

Needless to say we made it through the weekend and things are going great. I did lose my phone and one of the two sets of van keys, so I’m kind of on fire out here, but other than that, we are making many things happen. Come out to our final show in Halifax on the 24th and check the good times.

Tour Dates for Josh Martinez and Pissed Off Wild: June 1, Lucky Bar, Victoria BC June 2, Red Room, Vancouver BC June 4, Pemberton Hotel, Pemberton BC June 5, Sapphire Club, Kelowna BC June 6, Spirit Bar, Nelson BC June 7, Dickens Pub, Calgary AB June 8, Rivers Pub, Kamloops BC June 9, Drake Inn, Canmore AB June 10, Cosmo Centre, Saskatoon SK June 11, Pyramid Club, Winnipeg MB, June 16, El Mocambo, NXNE, Toronto ON June 24, Seahorse Tavern, Halifax NS

JOSH MARTINEZ – PISSED OFF WILD – OUT MAY 31

Camobear Records is pleased to announce the releaseof Josh Martinez’ new album, Pissed Off Wild, on MAY 31, 2011.  Nova Scotian born, Vancouver matured, Portland based multi-tasking artist /music industry visionary, Josh Martinez’ latest musical venture does not see him resting on the laurels of what he’s proven to be successful in the past.  Pissed Off Wild is an extraordinary leap outside the already unlimited boundaries that Martinez observes.

Taking its inspiration from 60s psyche-rock, 70s blues, 80s punk, 90s grunge and the failings of the 21st century, Martinez has produced an original work of music unlike anything made yet.  Full band, no click tracks, mostly live off the floor, has resulted in a labor of love that took five years to make.  It represents the strongest Martinez record yet, with a grown up sound that mixes solid production with the whimsy and sexy good times that the big boys are most known for.  This record could share a room with Gnarls Barkley, G.G. Allen, Black Keys and Beck and still GET LAID.

EXCLAIM! MAGAZINE – P.O.W. CANADA TOUR

This incredible tour goes all the way up your skirts. Get ready for the party of a lifetime. With Josh Martinez and live band Pissed Off Wild (P.O.W.), Evil Ebenezer &  The Lytics, this tour is sure to bring happiness to the confused youths, angry adults, and hoodlums the world over.

Josh Martinez/Evil Ebenezer/The Lytics

• June 1 – Victoria, BC – Lucky Bar
• June 2 – Vancouver, BC – Red Room
• June 3 – Coquitlam, BC – Roos Pub
• June 4 – Pemberton, BC – Royal Pemberton Hotel
• June 5 – Kelowna, BC – Sapphire
• June 6 – Nelson, BC – Spirit Bar
• June 7 – Calgary, AB – Dickens Pub
• June 8 – Kamloops, BC – Rivers Pub
• June 9 – Canmore, AB – Drake Hotel
• June 10 – Saskatoon, SK – Cosmo Centre
• June 11 – Winnipeg, MB – Skate for Cancer Benefit at Pyramid Club
• June 13 – Thunder Bay, ON – CrocsJosh Martinez
• June 16 – Toronto, ON – El Mocambos @ 1am for NXNE
• June 18 – Ottawa, ON – Kapacity Club – w Digable Planets
• June 24 – Halifax, NS – Seahorse Club – w Three SheetEvil Ebenezer
• June 15 – Toronto, ON @Nocturne – w D-cisive & Angerville
• June 18 – Prince George, BC @ CN Centre w House of Pain, Moka Only (Cariboo Hopfest 2011)

THE LYTICS

Festival Dates

• 6/19  Winnipeg, MB – Winnipeg Jazz Festival
• 6/25  Calgary, AB – Sled island Festival
• 6/26  Edmonton, AB – The Works Art and Design Festival
• 7/1    Saskatoon, AB – Saskatchewan Jazz Festival

Before the crazy dawn of the Internets and viral music blogging, Exclaim! was the leading Canadian tastemaker for the independent music scene.  Now, as the P.O.W. Canada Tour gets underway, the pairing of this quirky nationwide publication, with Martinez’ reputation for the Great Canadian Music, is a match made in media heaven.Tour Dates:

JOSH MARTINEZ – RELEASE DATE FOR THE POW

You’ve heard rumors, maybe even seen the madness live, but finally, after years of perfecting the blend, Josh Martinez is ready to announce a release date for his hyperactive rock project The Pissed Off Wild.

After 5 years of uninhibited disappointment, setbacks, failure, fire, raining frogs, garbage strikes, Stephen Harper, Roofies and sexually transmitted innuendo, the PISSED OFF WILD album has made its way into the oozing viscuous puss of the modern era. Started five years ago in Vancouver, BC, when Martinez was full of chutzpah, ample virginity and the full breasted lifestyle of a young hungry dreamer, The Pissed Off Wild album is a triumph of tribulations.

The album is titled “The Bender is Dead…” as a testament to finishing something destined for historic revision, an incredible musical journey that five years ago was cutting edge and to this day is still ahead of the curve of 99% of the new indie rap game. The one rule was that each song could not have more than 2 verses of rap and most have significantly less. It moves from minimal punk fight songs, to drunk Irish singalongs, to gorgeous melancholy heartache that sounds like the Black Keys at their best.

A lot of opinions and spilled milk later, the project was finally completed over XMAS this year. Mixed by young genius Prince “Rick Rubin” Strickland, the final product is a masterpiece in no uncertain terms. Fans of Martinez solo work will see in this project a return to an older style, a looser Martinez (if such a thing is even possible) a more naive, vulnerable, intellectual piss-ant, but with cockiness ratcheted up to beyond all measure.

It was a cocky era, full of cocky bandmates who would almost always get into fist fights with other bands on the bill they deemed were less worthy. It got so punk rock that THE POW were banned from the city of Vancouver for a year while the tension died down. The band spent much of that year touring Japan, Hawaii and Australia, building up a reservoir of fight songs and new kinds of punches.

Sadly, there is currently no such thing as the band left to play this music, but originally, the Pissed Off Wild was made up of Martinez on lead vocals and congas, Pete Schmitt on bass, Jesse Waldman on guitar, Kenton Loewen on drums. Jesse was tragically killed in a hippie stampede on an unnamed Gulf Coast Island, and Kenton contracted “the fever” and has been on the road playing hired gun drums for the highest bidder in every awesome place since. So the Pissed Off Wild, as it was once known, is no more. But the music stands as a testament to a forward thinking journey into the most remote regions of music thievery, borrowing solidly from HipHop, Punk, Jazz, Soul, Blues Rock and anything else we thought we could pull off at the time.

The Pissed Off Wild was named after a friends father, who, whilst raising three teenage daughters, would often find his patience bored down the gullyhole. When confronted with the sassy female teenager bravado, he would shake his fist relentlessly, yelling with increasing pitch that he was getting “PISSED OFF…WILD!!!!”. The Music was made over 3 years, with no click tracks and beds laid down and messed with forever, as Martinez worked his lyrics and singing into a place where it matched the power of the music. The fighting, the sadness, the regret, the beauty and the times have never been more evident than on this project, Josh Martinez & The Pissed Off Wild – The Bender is Dead….

GET YOURS HERE ON TUESDAY, JUNE 14th!