Press: The Swagger Sticks Get ‘The Boot’

We got our first review! This is from Vreny.com:
This past Saturday, Nov 14th, The Swagger Sticks played a show at the infamous Bootleg Theater in Silverlake. I was there, and I’ve got to tell you: I am happy I did not miss this.
Seeing this band truly is an experience. The front man, Aron Gibson, [...]

Swagger Sticks This Saturday @ The Bootleg Theater

We are unbelievably excited to be playing our first Fold show at The Bootleg Theater in Echo Park this Saturday, November 14th (thank you Scott). When I say ‘we’ I mean the most rockin’ punk band ever to come out of the Whitley Heights neighborhood in Hollywood. That’s right, I’m talking about The Swagger Sticks!
The doors open at 7pm. There’s been [...]

Don’t Look Back: Swagger Sticks CD Release Party

Wow, this has been the longest in gap in between posts since I started this blog about eight months ago. I think a lot has to do with the fact that a lot of work went into the run up for The Swagger Sticks record release party at Mr. Ts Bowl a couple of weeks [...]

The Swagger Sticks Video Stills

The Swagger Sticks had a BIG day of shooting this past Wednesday, July 22 at The Bootleg Theater. It was a total blast! We finally got to film the band sequence. Here are some stills and some pics I took throughout the day.
I also included pics from our two previous days of shooting (March 22 [...]

AFG Must Rock’s Exclusive American Idol Wrap Up

Adam Lambert faced off against Kris Allen on the final episode of American Idol on Wednesday, May 20th 2009

Hello everyone, in case you haven’t heard AFG Must Rock! has been designated the exclusive blog for American Idol! That’s right, we’ve been given the exclusive blogging rights and we are confident that all the other bloggers [...]

The Swagger Sticks Video Madness (Part 1 – The Crew)

We kicked off the second day of shooting for The Swagger Sticks video this past Sunday for ”She Wants Everything.” We filmed the bizzaro-world audition sequence, which ended up being like a punk rock version Pee Wee’s Big Top Adventure.
Though the band wasn’t being filmed during this sequence, we still had twelve actors and four crew members [...]

Video Clips from “CCTV” Vocal Session

Here is a video clip from my vocal session at Moonlight Studios last week (We did the drums earlier that same day). The song is called “Closed Circuit TeleVision” or “CCTV.” 
This is a rough mix… Soooo, unlike all those MTV videos, where the singer hops in the vocal booth and everything sounds PERFECT, here’s a sneak [...]