David Alpha
United States, Florida, Tampa
David Alpha 
Hi, all! I'm premiering "Couer d'Alene" today exclusively on N1M. It's another song from my nearly complete new album, Lit, planned for release in July -- my first full album of all new songs since Sacrilege 2.0 in 2014. Cheers!
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Greetings, everyone! Hard at work in the studio, where the new album, Lit, is almost complete. Please go to my web site, (expired link), or click the link below to see a trailer of the new video single, "Balustrade," slated for April 4th release.
Don't be afraid of the security alert when you Google the page. I have confirmed that there is no problem, no risk to anyone's security. It's simply a certificate issue that is being solved.
Also, I'm now on Twitter. Please say hello and follow me @RealDavidAlpha!
Happy St. Patrick's Day to all!
Hi, all. After numerous pandemic and other delays, brand-new songs are just out the gate. I'll post a couple of them next week and see whatcha all think. Everybody stay happy and well!
Dave
Hi, all! I hope you're healthy and happy and looking forward to the eventual post-Covid world as much as I am! I just added a buy tab for "Light the Rockets," which was released under my label's name, "Mediavenger." I'm hard at work on the new album, which is an expensive undertaking, so I do hope you'll consider making my day with a download for just 99 cents!
Cheers, and have a great and safe weekend!
Hey, everybody! I've posted three new songs, and new recordings of brand-new songs will be coming this summer. Among the new tracks just posted is "Universalon," which the Ark of Music named to its "10 Best Singles of 2019" list at #4. These are all earlier recordings that are featured on my new compilation album Chameleon Wheelhouse (cover below). (Online buy links are disappearing like crazy, so please contact me about direct purchase from my website.) I'm also assembling a band to record the truly new songs, and hope to have them out but summer's end.
Cheers to all, and stay safe and well!
Hey, everybody!
I couldn't be more excited about the reviews of Rockin' Roulette that have come in over the past week. Here are some excerpts:
"Alpha totally embodies that lost, vagrant soul that the genre pushed so hard [in the late '80s] and it’s great to hear it down with an authentic heart once again. ... anybody that likes actual rock music with guitars will find a wealth to love here. ... This music does what it wants and takes no prisoners, and nothing finer can be said of a rock n’ roll artist."
-- RJ Frometa, Vents Magazine
"With ... a set of vocal chords slathered in grease, Alpha leaves a very unique and individual imprint on his music. ... David’s solo work contains the bite of his past projects but with nothing getting in his way to deliver the goods. ... out flogs Flogging Molly and sends Social Distortion back to class with its attitude. ... There’s a total outsider perspective to the lyrics with themes of living on the street, self-abuse and screw the world shining through but the poetic turns to the madness incite fist pumps instead of frowns. ... As a one-man gang he’s unstoppable."
-- Anne Hollister, The Indie Source
"A sense of true passion burns through these tracks as David Alpha’s fiery vocal delivery takes front and center stage. Piercing lyricism helps to tie the whole of the collection together, featuring just the right level of wordplay, storytelling, and humor. ... On 'Rockin’ Roulette' David Alpha crafts a unique style, one that feels so contemporary while drawing liberally from rock and roll’s glorious past."
-- Skope, Skopemag
"David Alpha is a man of many faces; from sojourning blues/punk man, to underground rock n’ roller . ... Everything you hear on this EP is an authentic repetition of music and life as it’s meant to be heard. The lyrics talk tough. The music doesn’t relent and you know it’s crossed that path. David Alpha is truly like a lost, yet not forgotten, enigma; he comes and goes as he pleases but he is still in it for the power of the music."
-- Michael Rand, Mobangeles
"... a fireball of vitriol, hard drinkin’ nights and tight songwriting that not only get the job done but set the workplace on fire in the process. ... It’s a lifer’s sentiment on being resented and it hits the mark for those of us who’ve walked that fine line between do-gooder and degenerate. ... David Alpha’s solo work is cooking and burning, kind of like the material laid-down by PW Long outside of Mule. It goes down to the barest bone of his influences while marrying modern aggression to classic melody that catches like a virus and gets stuck in your head like a tumor you don’t want removed.
-- Sebastian Cole, Gashouse Radio
All for now! Everyone rock on safe and well!
Dave
Hey, everybody! After several delays (including a few rather bizarre ones) Rockin' Roulette is finally set for release. It will be available from all major digital music outlets on 10/25. "Instant grat track" ("Jeans") is available now from CD Baby. You can download the one track, or you can order the album (CD or download) and get the grat track in advance, automatically followed later by the rest.
Buy one (pleeeeze), or guitar bunny will getcha!
Hey, everybody! The 14-track album will be available for order soon on CD or by download from all major distributors. Here's a peek at the front cover. More soon. I'll keep you posted. Many thanks to you all, and have a great weekend!
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Hey, everybody! I just uploaded "Sacrilege" from my album Sacrilege 2.0 and also my soon-to-be-released compilation, Rockin' Roulette. "Sacrilege" is a collaboration with East Bay Ray of Dead Kennedys fame and features him on guitar. It's been played on "Little Steven's Underground Garage" on XM Radio and affiliate stations around the globe and at the South Bay Music Festival in California. Cheers!
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The new single, "More Blue Than You," is available for download now from
ITunes, CDBaby and all other major digital outlets .......... It's the lead-off single from the new album, Skinlandia.
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The new single, "More Blue Than You," is available for download now from
ITunes, CDBaby and all other major digital outlets .......... ORDER
It's the lead-off single from the new album, Skinlandia.
"It's all about mind movies for people who like to listen to a lyricist like they're watching a painter. The musical intent is a conscious effort to avoid genres and instead explore the alleys between genres, thus freeing the music to be completely expressive."........Dave
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David Alpha Brothers first attained attention as the lead singer and songwriter of the Fons (pronounced fones), with songs like "Surfside Swing," which was distributed nationally on a multi-band sampler album, and "Things in Love," a frequent spin on local radio. Both songs are from the band's critically-praised six-song EP, S Talk E, which continues to enjoy airplay on community radio.
"Smart stuff," said the St. Petersburg Times. "... a most promising set from a most promising band," said Music magazine. Tampa Tribune music critic David Okamoto noted the band's "infectious rhythms" and David Alpha's knack for "engaging couplets" in a front-page feature of the paper's arts and entertainment section. Circle This proclaimed "Thank God, Ra, Allah, or whoever. Go see 'em even if they have a silly name."
And "go see 'em" many did. The band routinely headlined at Tampa Bay area clubs like Ms. Lucky's, Club Detroit, London Victory Club, Jannus Landing and the Cuban Club, performed a live radio broadcast from Mac Dinton's, headlined as well in Miami Beach and Jacksonville, and drew the praise of Iggy Pop, who saw the band live in Tampa. Still, it wasn't long before that "most promising band" fell apart.
Going solo in the aftermath, David again drew critical praise. "... a trickster, a prankster, a poet," noted Michael Upledger in Music magazine. "Repeated listening is the only way to gain each song's full flavor, but it's a pleasure." In an interview in Players magazine, Charlie Logan, program director at 95ynf, then central Florida's #1 commercial radio station, simply declared David "incredible" when asked who among local performers impressed him.
In spite of the critical approval and breaking through the commercial radio barrier with "The Likes of You," "No Fade to Gray" and "Cupid's Nightmares," David abruptly walked away from music. He returned to graduate school, eventually earning master's degrees in English and journalism, which he followed with stints as a college instructor, magazine editor, university public information writer, published poet and short fiction writer, and independent journalist who appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times and numerous other publications.
He returned to music briefly with another promising but even shorter-lived band, the Dharma Bums, who never appeared live beyond a house party but issued an obscure self-titled album that continues to slowly sell. After disbanding the Dharma Bums, which he now calls the biggest mistake of his musical life, David walked away from music for what he thought would be the last time.
But now, after his longest absence from music, he's back with a vengeance and a new solo album, Sacrilege 2.0, which features his best and most eclectic work to date, along with a list of guest musicians that includes legendary Dead Kennedys founder and guitarist East Bay Ray, who co-wrote and produced the song "Sacrilege" (introduced to the world by Genya Ravan on XM Radio's Little Steven's Underground Garage), and numerous well-known central Florida musicans including Robert Wegmann, Mark Prator and Tim Mullally.
David is busy in 2018 preparing the release of a retrospective compilation, Chameleon Wheelhouse, as well as completing his next solo effort, Skinlandia. The first video released from the new album, the surreal More Blue Than You, is David's biggest success yet, amassing more than 100,000 views after being featured on the cover of The Cool Noise music blog, so stay tuned!
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