12 - 9 - 12 Internet only acoustic performance, TONIGHT!
Tonight at 8:45pm, Paul and I will be doing our first live, online perfromance via Ustream. Follow this link at 8:45 tonight: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/megaphone---orlando-rock-band
Hang out with us for about a half-hour as we play some megaphone faves as well as few songs we've never done acoustic before. See you there. - matt
10 - 27 - 12 ALL AGES show at House of Blues
Orlando Rocks Pink! Friday, December 14th, 2012
FINALLY! megaphone will be back at House of Blues for an Orlando Rocks show to benefit Rock Pink! The line up on this event is KILLER!: Traverser, A Brilliant Lie, Nerver (featuring Casey Daniel of 7mary3), megaphone and the return of Social Ghost!
To make it ever better, tickets are FREE! Not only are tickets free, but we'll send them right to your door. Fill out our ticket request form NOW ! We'll send them out as soon as we get them. Rock Pink we'll be there hosting the show and giving away great stuff like concert tickets, gift certificates and autographed rock paraphernalia!

Friday, December 14th, 2012 • Doors at 7 • Show at 7:30
tickets are FREE • ALL AGES welcome!

10 - 1 - 12 megaphone at Orlando Harley- Davidson 10-19-12
Hard Rock and Hogs among other things is what will be happening at HOGTOBERFEST 2012 at Orlando Harley-Davidson. The three day event is packed full of all kinds of crazy stuff. megaphone will be there Friday Oct. 19th playing 2 hour longs sets in the afternoon starting at 1 pm. Later that night stick around and check out Journey Tribute band "Odyssey Road".
For full details of the event, check out HOGTOBERFEST!
8 - 1 - 12 megaphone's EXIT SILENT MODE turns 3!
Yes, it was 3 years ago this month that we released our second full length album EXIT SILENT MODE! Hard to believe it's been 3 years. If you still don't have it you can download it at iTunes right now! Songs like "Gravitate", "Bad To Good" and "My Favorite New Disaster" are still staples in our live shows. So while we're working on album #3, check out this collection of 12 classic megaphone tunes that we call EXIT SILENT MODE!
11 - 15 - 11 The Perfect Gift now available EVERYWHERE!
Up until just last week, megaphones original Christmas song, The Perfect Gift, has only been available on the apple iTunes music store. But now The Perfect Gift EP is available at most, if not all online music stores including: iTunes, Amazon mp3, Zune and many many more. If you haven't yet, please go check out this modern alternative holiday tune. Find out more about The Perfect Gift.
9 - 24 - 11 megaphone plays Hard Rock Cafe's 40th Birthday Bash!
Saturday Oct. 1st is the Downtown Throwdown, a music festival in honor of 40 years of Hard Rock Cafe. megaphone along with bands including Everclear, Tonic, Collective Soul, the Ludes, Big 10-4 and Plain Jane Automobile will be rocking 4 different stages over downtown Orlando from 3pm till 11pm. Don't miss megaphone, 4:30 pm, performing on the stage at Wall St. Plaza, at this ALL AGES, FREE music festival!
9 - 2 - 11 Orlando Examiner interviews Paul Smith of megaphone
Orlando Examiner turns their focus on Paul Smith of megaphone. Check out the interview right here!
8 - 29 - 11 Backstage at HOB Orlando with MR BIG and megaphone
Here are a few photos of MR BIG's Billy Sheehan and Paul Gilbert with Matt Bloodwell and Paul Smith of megaphone. Damn we had a great time great time at HOB that night. MR BIG's fans made us feel right at home. Thank you everyone.

4 - 1 - 11 megaphone makes the Orlando Sentinels Best Bets List!
The Orlando Sentinel released its 2011 readers poll, "Best Bets" Friday April 1st and listed megaphone as 3rd best band in Orlando. This came as a big surprise.
"This isn't something we campaigned for. It's nice to know that even though we haven't done a show in Orlando for a while you guys are still with us. It's inspiring to get this info while working on new material too. We're very grateful." - matt
4 - 23 - 10 megaphone featured in Hits Daily Double!
megaphone is one of two bands spotlighted this week in the Wheels 2.0 Blog on Hits Daily Double news online magazine. Every week this A&R blog features new and up-and-coming artist. Perfect timing for us, this new blog post hit the day of our FMF showcase!
4 - 2 - 10 We were on G4 TV, for a second!
G4 TV did a segment about the PAX East conference, a video game conference in Boston. As they were talking with Harmonix about the new Rock Band Network, they showed clips of someone scrolling through the store menu alphabetically and Not Your Enemy and Disaster are right next to each other. It was really quick but we noticed it. Later, they showed another clip of someone scrolling through artists and it showed "megaphone" with all three songs underneath.
3 - 30 - 10 Harmonix picks Gravitate
Every once in a while in the Rock Band blog, the Harmonix developers pick their favorite RBN songs. One of them picked Gravitate. Here's what they said: megaphone - "Gravitate" - I really like the chorus on "Gravitate". There's a cool guitar riff that kicks it off each time, and the melody is just fun to sing.
Check out their blog here!
3 - 24 - 10 "Not Your Enemy" now on ROCK BAND 2!
"Not Your Enemy" has just been added and is now available to download and play on Rock Band 2 through the new Rock Band Network! Check it out!
3 - 21 - 10 "Gravitate" now on ROCK BAND 2!
"Gravitate" has just been added and is now available to download and play on Rock Band 2 through the new Rock Band Network! This one is a little more challenging than "My Favorite New Disaster" Check it out! "Not Your Enemy" from our first release For Cryin' Out Loud, should be available later this week!
3 - 15 - 10 "My Favorite New Disaster" now on ROCK BAND 2!
"My Favorite New Disaster" is now available for Rock Band 2 through the new Rock Band Network store. The new network store just opened last week and this is the first of many megaphone songs that will be available for the video game through the network. Currently this new content is only available on the Xbox 360 but should be available soon for PS3. No solid word on Wii availability yet. For only $2 (160 MS points) you can download and play "My Favorite New Disaster". Soon to come: "Gravitate" for $2 and "Not Your Enemy" for only $1. So if you have an Xbox 360 and Rock Band 2 you can start rocking out with megaphone right now! Download it now and when you do, rate it!
12 - 5 - 09 megaphone and Joe Perry - the proof!
Our show with Joe Perry at House of Blues on Dec. 2nd was amazing! Simply put, Joe Perry is a living legend and he plays guitar like no other. Watching this show was inspiring and playing at this show was an honor. We met Joe briefly and he was very humble. He thanked us for playing the show and for sticking around to watch his performance! Are you kidding?



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11 - 16 - 09 MEGAPHONE OPENS FOR AC/DC AT AMWAY ARENA!!!
NO JOKE! We were contacted today and asked to be the direct support act for AC/DC on the last stop in North America on this tour. Thursday, November 19th, megaphone will open the show at the Amway Arena in Orlando, Florida! Doors open at 7 pm, megaphone rocks 17,000 in our first arena show at 8 pm, followed by AC/DC!!!!! Tickets are still available!
11 - 3 - 09 megaphone featured on the musicians cooler podcast!
Jammin' Dave Jackson is the host of the Musicians Cooler podcast, a podcast that we've been fans of for a while. In show #255 Dave talks quite a bit about megaphone soon adding songs to the video game Rock Band network. He also discusses our drummer Scott Smith's new website: rockbandyourrockband.com and plays "Write It Down" Check out this episode of the musicians cooler podcast. A HUGE thank you to Dave, now go check out his site!
10 - 14 - 09 ESPN Action Sports Podcast features megaphone!!
This is huge! We have been on many podcasts but not many of them can boast 50,000 downloads a week! The new episode is available now! Check it out! It's episode ESPN Action Sports: 10/14. Down load it for free on iTunes! After you listen post some feedback on their site. If we get enough positive feedback we could get added to their national radio broadcast!
9 - 25 - 09 Cali Lewis wears megaphone t-shirt on geekbrief.tv video podcast!
This is so cool! Check it out! Geek Brief #634
The hugely popular geekbrief.tv video podcast has given us some love. Our drummer, Scott Smith, sent Geek Brief host Cali Lewis a new megaphone t-shirt and she was kind enough to wear it on the show.
5 - 14 - 09 "Megaphone was the Wall St. highlight on Wednesday" -
Jim Abbott, Orlando Sentinel
Music critic Jim Abbott for the Orlando Sentinel stopped by to check out our set at FMF 09 Wednesday night. I spoke with him briefly, very cool guy and he genuinely enjoyed the band. The next morning he gave us a very favorable mention in his blog. Here is an excerpt from his blog...
"Next stop: Wall Street Plaza for Orlando's Megaphone. Matt Bloodwell and the band put on a fine performance, even though the crowd wasn't exactly  of rock concert proportions. The band is preparing a CD for late June release, a process complicated by Bloodwell's vocal cord problems in January that delayed the studio work. 
"It scared the hell out of me," he said backstage. "We had completed everything except the vocals." Megaphone was the Wall Street highlight on Wednesday..."
You can check out Jim Abbott's blog here.
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