Beginning January of 2009, Atomic Brother will be hosting “Teen Strong: America,” a series of benefit concerts to raise money for teen and youth centers across the country. Our goal is to hold at least one benefit every other month, increasing in frequency until we have successfully reached out to the highest number of teen centers in every state. Each event will vary in size depending on how many teen centers are involved; there is no minimum or maximum, but we hope to involve at least 10 teen centers in each state.

Teen centers and youth programs provide a valuable service to teens, providing a safe, positive and friendly environment for teens to gather. These teen centers foster a sense of respect and responsibility, giving teens the tools to get through these tough transitional years. 

To provide these services, teen centers depend on corporate and private donations, town funding and fund-raising efforts from within their communities. With “Teen Strong: America,” Atomic Brother is helping to raise money so that these important non-profits are able to continue providing their valuable services to the teens of America. Each teen center which attends the show will receive 100 tickets which they will sell for $10 each, whether to fellow teen center members or to friends and family—and 100% of the proceeds from ticket sales will be given directly back to the centers as a donation. 

For more information about Teen Strong: America, or to find out how you can become involved visit our site at http://teenstrong.atomicbrother.com.

Teen Strong: New Hampshire
2PM January 24, 2009
Stockbridge Theater @ Pinkerton Academy
5 Pinkerton Street
Derry, NH 03038
Doors: 2pm
Show Time: 3pm

Week 5: We were back in studio on Sunday, Nov. 16 working on the song “When It’s Over.” This is a song that we wrote for the first album, and it’s one of our favorites, but it wasn’t quite ready for recording. So we’ve been tossing it around in the rehearsal studio and playing it out at shows every now and then, and it’s finally ready to be recorded. 

You can watch this session and the sessions from the last 2 weeks over at our Mogulus channel at http://mogulus.com/atomicbrother.

We were in studio today working on a new song called “Rain On Me (Uninvited),” and the recording session was broadcast live on our channel at http://mogulus.com/atomicbrother. This is our 4th week broadcasting our demo sessions live on the internet, and if you haven’t joined us you’ve missed watching us record demos of “Gold Digger,” “Perfect Day,” “Sin Is In,” “Bullet To Your Brain,” “Hands Up,” and “Better Day.” Recording is always fun, but this experience has been better because we’ve been joined by our fans, friends, even sometime Atomic Brother band members (Pat, Mike & Toby) in the chat room, and some new people that just stumble upon the channel. 

We’re 7 songs into the 14 we wanted to demo. Join us next week to see what song we’ll do next!