July 16, 2010 "Lucille" Tops The Click List "Lucille" takes the #1 spot on Logo's The Click List! Click here to check it out!
July 6, 2010 Available Now! the bEdRoom tapeS EP AVAILABLE TODAY! the bEdRoom tapeS!
the bEdRoom tapeS is a four-song throwback to the punk-rock legends that emerged into the mainstream during the late ‘70s and ‘80s. Jim Carroll, with his classic hit "People Who Died," was at the forefront of this movement and Ariel's highly energized cover is a fitting tribute. “Luci...lle,” one of three original tracks, is an ode to a transvestite and is comprised of tongue-in-cheek, infectious lyrics that will buzz about the listener’s head for hours on end. “Torito,” is a Spanish-infused lullaby written for his son, which first made its appearance as “Down in Tijuana/Hang Around” on the album All These Brilliant Things. Ariel has since revisited the track expanding on the awesome horns and hidden Latin grooves dispersed throughout – elements that stood out to him during the mixing phase of the album. Lastly, “The Future” is a psychedelic mind trip into the subconscious as Ariel boldly proclaims that the future is about to begin over hypnotic, layered guitar hooks. Perhaps he is on to something, considering that Ariel is sitting pretty at the top of his game in the New York City punk-rock scene.
Buy it on iTunes! http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-bedroom-tapes/id374815149
July 3, 2010 "Lucille" Debuts at #5 on The Click List! "Lucille" Debuted at #5 on The Click List!
Keep voting so we can get him to #1! Click here to vote.
June 29, 2010 Vote for "Lucille" on the Click List!
Here we go again! "Lucille" is in the running for Logo's Click List. Click the image below to cast your vote... (and vote as many times as you can!!!)
June 4, 2010 Make "Lucille" a Top Watched Video on MTV.com!
The "Lucille" video only debuted two days ago, but it's already climbing up the most watched videos rankings on MTV.com! Help it become #1 by visiting the page and watching the video here!
June 3, 2010 "Lucille" Video Debuts on Logo's NewNowNext
Check out the fabulous new video for Ariel's "Lucille" featuring Khalid Rivera, which debuted last night on NewNowNext!
May 25, 2010 Summer Pride Tour
Check out Ariel at a pride near you this summer!
June 12 - Queens Pride / Jackson Heights / Queens, NY June 12 - Brookyn Pride / Prospect Park / Brooklyn, NY June 13 - Power of Pride Concert / Pier 66 at Hudson River Park / New York, NY
June 19 - Baltimore Pride / Mt. Vernon District / Baltimore, MD June 21 - Make Music New York / Public Assembly / Brooklyn, NY June 26 - Houston Pride / Montrose Neighborhood / Houston, TX July 17 - San Diego Pride / Balboa Park / San Diego, CA
Visit the shows page for more information.
April 30, 2010 Ariel Confirmed for The Power of Pride Concert in NYC
POWER OF PRIDE
GSX • Athena Reich • Josh Zuckerman • Ariel Aparicio
A CONCERT TO BENEFIT GREEN CHIMNEYS
Celebrating gay pride month and raising awareness about our NYC programs.
Featuring: The Green Chimneys Gramercy Singers, Power of Song Musicians and Walkabout Clearwater Chorus
The NYC Division of Green Chimneys (GCNYC) is dedicated to creating safe space for LGBTQ youth who are homeless or in foster care. They seek to empower youth and equip them with vital skills and resources to help them enter adulthood as healthy, responsible members of their communities who feel supported and celebrated rather than disenfranchised and marginalized.
EVENT DETAILS: Sunday, June 13th 12pm-3pm
Pier 66 at the Hudson River Park
New York, NY
Purchase tickets here!
April 9, 2010 New Show Added
Sunday May 23rd at 4PM
Rockwood Music Hall
184 Allen Street
New York, NY 10002
FREE!!!
March 15, 2010 Join "Aerial Ravers"! Some AMAZING and incredibly dedicated fans launched the "Official Street Team and Fan Site" today. Ariel is floored and honored!! PLEASE JOIN. It promises to be lots of fun. Click below to check out the site!
March 8, 2010 Download "Lucille" for FREE!
Ariel's smokin' new single "Lucille" is out. Get it right here, right now, for FREE www.arielaparicio.com/lucillefree. And watch out, the video is going to be even HOTTER!!
February 23, 2010 New Show - Falconworks Artists Group Benefit
Falconworks Artists Group allows Brooklyn youth to make their own, well, anything. To finish this sentence anyway they want. To dream big. Dreams beyond situation and circumstance. You can help Falconworks make dreams realities and futures happen at the Make Your Own Benefit on March 15 at the Bell House in Brooklyn. Ariel and his Hired Guns will be performing at the benefit in support of this great organization.
Make Your Own Benefit 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
The Bell House
149 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY
7:00 pm
Visit www.falconworks.com.
February 5, 2010 Shows, Shows, Shows and a New Single...
Check out the Shows section for this spring's upcoming shows!
2/14 4pm - Rockwood Music Hall
2/14 9pm - Sidewalk Cafe
3/13 9pm - Bar 4
COMING SOON - the smoking new single "Lucille". Check back often for updates!
February 1, 2010 Make the Mer+ge Partnership!
Ariel has just begun a partnership with innovative clothing company, Make the Mer+ge!
Check out photos of Ariel sporting their tee on stage in the gallery section and on their blog http://www.makethemerge.com/blog.html.
January 5, 2010 Vote for Ariel!
Ariel has 3 nominations in this year's ADD-TV Pill Awards!
- Best Virgin Pill - "Life and Times"
- Best Music Video/Alternative - "Life and Times" and "Pretty in Pink"
Go here to vote in both categories! http://www.add-tv.com/pill-awards/
December 16, 2009 Happy Holidays from Ariel Aparicio!
Check out Ariel's version of the classic holiday tune, "White Christmas".
November 20, 2009 "Pretty in Pink" in the Running for Logo's Click List: Top 10 of 2009
The "Pretty in Pink" video is nominated for Logo's Click List: Top 10 of 2009 show! Click on the image below to go vote! You can vote as many times as you want until December 1 - so go VOTE, VOTE, VOTE! (And tell your friends to do it too!)
November 17, 2009 Ariel Nominated for 3 ADD-TV Pill Awards
Ariel is nominated in two categories for the annual ADD-TV Pill Awards!
Best Virgin Pill (Newcomer) - "Life and Times"
Best Alternative Video - "Life and Times" AND "Pretty in Pink"
Check it out here: http://www.addtv.com/nom6th.html
October 12, 2009 "Pretty in Pink (House Remix)" World Premiere!
The "Pretty in Pink (House Remix)" video is officially here! The video debuted on MTV Logo's NewNowNext last night to coincide with National Coming Out Day and the World Equality March. Check it out on Ariel's YouTube (www.youtube.com/bullyrecords), his Facebook, MySpace and below:
September 18, 2009 Ariel's Gift to You!
As a thank you for all your support this past year, Ariel would like to offer this gift - a Collections record. A greatest hits of sorts, with a bunch of tracks from all three previous records and some cool bonus tracks.
Go to this site: http://www.arielaparicio.com/collection and enter this code: 74JG72FXX5 to receive the free mp3s! PS. You can pass it along to as many of your friends as you like!!
Aug 25, 2009 Pretty in Pink (HOUSE Remix)
We teamed up with the super remix team know as Pocketknife to bring you this totally HOT, retro sounding Dance mix of Ariel's latest single. As we so bragged about over and over and over and over, Richard Butler himself "loved" our Pretty in Pink version. Hopefully, this one gets his ass shaking too. The video will be out soon (also, smokin HOT) but you can download the REMIX right NOW for FREE at www.myspace.com/arielapariciomusic.
Richmond, Virginia, we are coming to see you on Sept 26!!
Virginia Pride - Gay Community Center of Richmond
1407 Sherwood Ave Richmond VA 23220 from 2pm-9pm
August 9, 2009 "The New World" video now on LOGO's NewNowNext!
Ariel's latest video for "The New World" offically debuted on LOGO's NewNowNext! Next will be the Click List, so get your voting "clicks" ready!
Check out the News section for more exciting updates on "The New World" video!
July 15, 2009
Ariel Aparicio and the Hired Guns Destroy the Nokia Theater With A Secret Weapon Called "Lucille?"
Firstly, according to our “sources,” it was after much deliberation that Ariel and The Hired Guns finally decided to give in to OUTMusic’s seemingly unending pressure to play live at their special 40th Anniversary Stonewall celebration this summer and thus debut a disgustingly hot new single, which if you haven’t heard you should listen to immediately www.myspace.com/arielapariciomusic. In all seriousness this was an absolutely show stoppingly hot performance, which included a special surprise tribute to the KING of Pop which just about burned the whole goddamn house down.
“Sources” close to us tell us that the artist-formerly-known-as-our-hero had “fun.”
Take note of Ariel’s reportedly signature Runway-Model-Quick-Costume-Change as it takes yet another surprising turn that shouldn’t-work-but-sure-as-heck-does as he slips into a comfy new collision of wildstyles: a little bit of good-old-70’s-style rif-rock, a lo-fi, drum machine, frill-free garage rock, topped off with a healthy dose of good old Tone Loc?
What?
Skeptical?
Go ahead. Doubt all you want, just don’t forget to taste it first www.myspace.com/arielaparicio, and don’t forget to come to Rockwood on July 18th as the righteous reclaim Manhattan (Psst…..For those of you who didn’t make it out to the Nokia theatre this might…just might be your chance to see Lucille as well….cellophane dress and all) .
As always, be keeping your eyes peeled and your visits here regular for new dates all over the place.
We must all work together now to ascend this long-lost-lone-wolf prince all the way to the Rock N’ Roll throne of this great Northeastern Kingdom…and thus restore the universe back to it’s natural order and set our disarrayed cosmos back in harmony.
Saturday, July 18 Rockwood Music Hall 4PM 196 Allen St. New York, NY
Friday, July 31 Bowery Poetry Club 12AM 308 Bowery New York, NY
Don’t miss this rare chance to get up close and personal to the last truly good man in show business before he becomes so big he even forgets his own first name (which we, frankly can already barely remember how to spell).
I know what you’re thinking… “delusions of grandeur”
… “they’ve gone off the deep end.”
… “Ugh! Why are they bragging so much?! It’s so gross!”
I understand these reactions, but I promise all of this madness will begin to make a lot of sense once you’ve taken the leap, so please come one, come all along and join us for yet another unforgettable stop along the increasingly myriad path of The Summer of Love Tour.
Come and see just what it is these boys really do…and THEN you can call us braggarts…in which light we’ll leave with a quote from the great Knuckleballer Dizzy Dean:
“If you can do it…It ain’t bragging.”
June 16, 2009
ARIEL APARICIO’S SUMMER OF LOVE BEGINS: CITIES OF THE NORTHEAST TREMBLE AND TWITCH IN ANTICIPATION!
The longest winter of your life has finally come to an end (we’re pretty sure), it’s tomorrow and the sun has come out and you can bet your bottom dollars that it’s here to stay this time (we’re pretty sure). It has been a long, and treacherous winter for everyone…well almost everyone.
Some of us made time to see Ariel Aparicio play a show or two, and those of us who were there needn’t be reminded what strange and wonderful magic ensued .
Boston oughta know.
This past weekend Ariel kicked off a new season of Pride with a afternoon engagement in the city that baked-beans built.
To see Ariel and the Guns play out live, is to be confronted head-on with the harmonious echo of your innermost emotional landscapes. He reveals to you in plain-view, parts you thought you’d Double-Dead-Bolted, with a “Do-Not-Disturb” dangling from the doorknob, and yet you feel no shame. Pop-tunes, punk-rock, and even sexy retro-dance cuts combine with the narrative continuity of a rock opera … and this Diva HOWLS!! Every live show is a catharsis. With pitch-perfect precision this post-punk poet proves he knows all our wounds by heart, literally.
Saturday, June 20 4:45pm
Rhode Island Pride - Station Park, Providence, RI
June 21st, 2009 6pm
Make Music New York Festival - Brooklyn, NY
June 27th, 2009 8pm
OUTMusic's Stonewall Commemorative Concert Nokia Theater - New York, NY
July 4th, 2009 10pm
Evolve 4th of July BBQ - 221 E. 58th St New York, NY
July 18th, 2009 4pm
Rockwood Music Hall - 196 Allen St New York, NY
July 31st, 2009 12am
Bowery Poetry Club - 308 Bowery New York, NY
June 9, 2009
Pretty in Pink holding at #5 in it's 11th week on LOGO's Click List!!
Just Announced: Ariel will perform 40th Anniversary Commemorative Concert at The Nokia Theatre in NYC on June 27th
June 1, 2009
***New Shows Added***
Come check out Ariel at one of his various shows this month! June 2nd, 2009 12am Trash Bar 256 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (between Driggs and Roebling)
June 13th, 2009 12pm Boston Pride City Hall Plaza Boston, MA
June 20th, 2009 4:45pm Rhode Island Pride Station Park Providence, RI
June 27th, 2009 8pm OUTMusic's Stonewall Commemorative Concert Nokia Theater New York, NY
April 1, 2009
***NEWSFLASH : SOMETHING EXTRA***
From April 1st-30th, Ariel will be donating 100% of his proceeds (that's $.54) from each iTunes sale of “Pretty In Pink” to the Greater New York City Affiliate of Susan G. Komen For The Cure ®. In the words of the biggest little man in rock n’ roll himself: “I decided to do this to honor my amazing friend Celeste Orangers, who was diagnosed in May 2005 with stage III breast cancer, and today can call herself a survivor. In April 2005, Herceptin was just approved as a wonder drug in treating breast cancer, and Celeste was one of her doctor's first patients to receive it. She says, “Without the fundraising done by organizations like Susan G. Komen For The Cure ®, Herceptin would have been many years off, and I probably would not be here.” I decided to utilize my version of this classic tune as a tool to raise money to be put towards the advancement of breast cancer research, education, screening and treatment to eradicate breast cancer as a life threatening disease.” In other words, if you were planning on buying the track and haven’t gotten around to it yet, well, get on it! No time like the present, go to our itunes song menu HERE and download “Pretty In Pink” right away and maybe one day you’ll be able to say to your grandchildren that in addition to being a patron of the arts, you also helped support the search for Cancer’s cure. It’s a win-win situation. Do it! Do it now! And then DO IT AGAIN! You've only got a few more weeks left to make it REALLY count!
***ALSO***
Ariel and the Hired Guns would like to officially announce the homecoming event of the season as they take center stage and prepare to claim the throne in the borough of kings…BROOKLYN!!!WHUT?!!???!!
FRIDAY NIGHT, APRIL 24th, 8PM Ariel and the Hired Guns take the stage at PUBLIC ASSEMBLY (70 North 6th St.) in Williamsburg. The night really begins at 7, however, with an appearance by special guests “SMOOCH”, who we assure you are not to be missed either. And all this, mind you, is merely prelude. The real madness is yet to come.
Stay tuned!
March 20, 2009
Try not to be weirded out at the point in this Month’s Ambiente Magazine cover story (ahem) when they call the music on “All These Brilliant Things” “inspired by and dictated by a higher order,” or get scared when they say that Ariel’s “audience is held hostage by the glamour in his movement,” or be utterly confused when they refer to him as “the inventor of Rock and Roll,” and perhaps most inexplicably “the lovechild of David Cassidy, Jimi Hendrix and Jodie Foster.” Ok, fine, so maybe they didn’t say we made some of that up. Sorry. Sorta. To find out which part we made up…click here. Also to see our COVER STORY and RAVE REVIEW in Ambiente magazine click here.
Also while we’re showing off here I might as well point out that the Psychedelic Furs have heard our little “Pretty In Pink,” and Richard Butler himself has told us that he “loved the version.” Now THAT, we are not making up.
Also, be on the lookout for a show this next month, in good old Brooklyn as Ariel and The Guns prepare to reclaim the Borough of Kings! More soon. Stay tuned.
