NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - May 4, 2009) - Hard-rock upstart band APACHE STONE will make
a sustained multi-media splash over the course of the next several months,
with a self-titled debut album completed, and a major continuing part in
"RESCUE ME," one of television's most-admired series.
The founder, lead singer and chief songwriter of APACHE STONE is the young
actor MICHAEL LOMBARDI, introduced to the public in 2004 as Mike Silletti,
the "probie" -- newly-hired probational rookie -- in the firehouse of FX's
multiple Emmy-nominated dramedy "RESCUE ME." In the new season of the
show, just underway, APACHE STONE will be seen and heard through the year:
Each of the band members have speaking roles in a plot arc tracing the
formation of the group by the now-seasoned fireman Silletti, starting in
the fifth episode. The band will perform two songs onstage in the last
third of the show's 22-episode current run.
Lombardi explains that the series' writing team, headed by series creator
and star Denis Leary, has often drawn story lines from the cast members'
real lives, "and put a comic element, or a twist on them." Appropriately
matched to the edgy, gut-level realism of the show, the two songs slated
for the "RESCUE ME" performances are the introspective and penetrating
rockers "Synthetic Self" and "Social Outlaw."
These and two other album advance tracks are posted currently on the band's
MySpace.com home page. Lombardi and the band members are also featured in
video interviews about APACHE STONE's real-life history and its involvement
with the series at
http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/rescueme/band.php.
The members of APACHE STONE (Hank Woods, guitar; David Leatherwood, bass &
background vocals; Mark Greenberg, drums, and Nick Bacon, guitar) were
gathered through an organic networking by Lombardi, whose presence in the
New York music community dates back over 10 years, to his study of the
drums at New York's Drummers' Collective, as a college student. As such,
the album "APACHE STONE" represents a return to a serious longtime love,
and not a moonlighting lark. And the recorded results erase any doubt,
displaying an assurance and a competitiveness -- an unexpectedly complete
readiness -- that belies APACHE STONE's relative youth as a unit.
The "APACHE STONE" album was produced by Arthur Bacon and engineered by
John Duva -- both of them also noted session musicians and arrangers -- at
the Connecticut's Sonalysts Studio, built as an exact sonic replica of
Manhattan's legendary Power Station.
http://www.myspace.com/apachestonemusic
SEE APACHE STONE LIVE:
May 8 Don Hill's New York, New York
Jun 4 North Star Bar Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jun 5 Chaplin's Spring City, Pennsylvania
Jun 6 El N Gee Club New London, Connecticut
Jun 10 The Stephen Talkhouse Amagansett, New York
Jun 13 Tuxedo Junction Danbury, Connecticut
Contact Information: For more information please contact:
PLAN A MEDIA, LLC
212.337.1406
Patti Conte:
PattiConte@nyc.rr.com
ext 16
Amanda Charney:
AmandaCharney@planamedia.com
ext 15
Daria Coppock:
Daria1521@gmail.com
ext 10