Tendaberry, The Bright Light Social Hour & Sol live!

Sunday, May 22 · 7:00pm - 11:00pm


The Masquarade (Purgatory)
695 North Ave Northeast
Atlanta, GA


Top-notch Sunday evening bill at The Masquerade! Post-punk soul gentlemen Tendaberry and ATL rapper Sol host Austin, Texas, rockers The Bright Light Social Hour. Dust off yer dancin' shoes, it's gon' get funky! $6 advance tix (ask the the bands if you want one). Doors at 7 p.m. All ages welcome, so bring the kiddos, too!

Art Nouveau Magazine's 3rd Anniversary ft. Tendaberry

Google appreciates us enough to not close down our abandoned blog so I decided it is time to revisit this medium. Did you miss us? Probably not but no hard feelings.

Art Nouveau Magazine's 3rd Anniversary celebration will be headlining with Theophilus London and featuring such artists as Rhabi, Bosco, Aware and Tendaberry to name a few. Tendaberry will be featuring songs from the upcoming "Hit It" EP which will tentatively be released in April. See you all on Feb 24th!

- Cannon

Tweet Us!

If you haven't done it already, make sure to follow the band @ twitter.com/tendaberry. Carlton also has his person tweet link @ twitter.com/phoenix2618.

Make sure you follow to keep in tune with the latest band and personal info.

Happy Birthday Prince

Joy In Repetition - Prince

He's an obvious influence to the guys in Tendaberry and the folks here at Trivial Design. He's a master songwriter and musician, the most underrated guitarist ever, and just damn cool. There are artists you can listen to often and you're fine with that, other artists you can listen to daily and you have no problems. With Prince you can listen to his music all the time, anytime, because his repertoire is so diverse there is something for everybody at anytime. If you don't listen to Prince you don't listen to music.

So if by chance you read this your purply highness, we need someone to produce the L.P. and take us on a national tour... How much more begging do we have to do?

TENDABERRY EP RELEASE SHOW!

CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF "AM I STILL ILLMATIC?"

Prepare to have your socks rocked off, you're feet shufflin' and your head to bang for Tendaberry's EP Release Show with our friends The Killer and The Martyr, Night Nurses, The Doppel Gang, Small Eyez & L-Marr the Great, and of course, Tendaberry. Come and celebrate with us. It should be a shindig to remember.

$5 bucks at the door!

Start Time:	Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 10:00pm
End Time:	Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 2:00am
Location:	Lenny's Bar
Street:	486 Decatur Street SE
City/Town:	Atlanta, GA

Tenda Berries Make Fine Wine

On Trivial Design, the gentlemen and myself bring a plethora of musical knowledge to the forefront for the enjoyment of the masses. It ranges from us speaking about obscure 80s groups, to the newest metal group moshing it's way through the music scene. It's not only entertaining but educational.

Not to pigeon hole ourselves as just a music blog, we wanted to expand our blog-a-sphere horizons are write about other various subjects that we hold near and dear to our hearts; therefore, we are creating a post called "Tenda Berries Make Fine Wine" (this is subject to change if you can come up with a more fluent and catchy title). It shall be about actresses, writers, singers, and other members of the fairer sex that are making productive strives in their respective industries.

This particular post will be a double feature. The first dedication goes to Megan Fox. She has been compared and often referred to the next generations Angelina Jolie. This 22 year old has been recently thrust into the mainstream limelight due to her role in as Mikaela Banes in the movie Transformers. She has also been featured in other films such as Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, and How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Megan has also been dubbed in 2008 as FHM's "Sexiest Woman on the World". Viewers will be paying close attention to her as she reprises her role in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen due out June 24th, which will be one of the summers biggest blockbusters. Even with the Angelina comparisons, she is becoming a star in her own right.


Another tour de force in the film industry is an actress named Zoe Saldana. Some may know her as Nick Cannon's love interest in the movie Drumline or as the daughter of Bernie Mack in the comedy Guess Who. This New York native bodly plans on going where no man has gone before in the feature film Star Trek, which is released on May 8th. She will take the U.S.S. Enterprise to new heights and will give Trekkies more to believe in out their in the universe.

If anyone has any suggestions on whom shall grace the next post, we are open to suggestions. these lovely individuals all deserve praise for their accomplishments and what they bring to the table. On that note, there is only one song that could be played to finish this off..."A Girl Like You" by Edwyn Collins! Thank me later.

New Transformers Trailer

FHM's "Sexiest Woman in the World"

Star Trek Trailer

Tendaberry @ Little Kings!!!!

Come and see Gemini Cricket, Mouser and Tendaberry for the low low recession price of 3 bucks! Tell your friends, tell your enemies, neighbors, pets, whomever will listen. As long as they come and have a good time, we'll allow it!

Start Time:	Friday, May 1, 2009 at 10:00pm
End Time:	Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 3:00pm
Location:	Little Kings
Street:	223 West Hancock St.
City/Town:	Athens, GA

Commanding Seduction...

Many comedians have joked about a certain R&B legend's fiery imperative statements for years... That legend's name is Teddy Pendergrass. After speaking to women throughout the years, he seems to have been a joy to obey. Armed with a velvet baritone voice, words actually come off smooth until that climactic part of the song where he kindly shouts, "Come here, woman!" Almost each one of his greatest hits house commands, whether in the song title or verse. Song titles like "Come On and Go With Me," "Turn off the Lights" and "Close the Door" are shining examples. Oh Teddy, you sly, sly dog. You were "trying to take control of the love," and it worked. Not only have you made millions of women swoon throughout the years, you also managed to influence a post punk soul band. Kudos to you, gent.

A sample for your eyes and ears...I suggest you do what he says...



And for you true Teddy fans... A side of Teddy few may remember... We cannot be upset with you, Teddy. The way you segued your position as the drummer of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes into the lead singer position is classic! Besides, it was 1973...

"Friendly Neighborhood" Tendaberry

Apparently we have a couple of post out there about us on the internet and we would like to share them with the rest of the world...so...world...check this out. We have a review from our Athens Popfest gig coming from The Flat Response blog. You can listen to all our songs from that performance. Also, we have a review from Stop.Okay. Go referring our soon to be released EP AM I STILL ILLMATIC? Which will be out in May. Read 'til your hearts content.

The Flat Response Link

Stop.Okay.Go link

Ink Blot Indie Fest

The Inkblot Indie fest is my Interpretation of the Future of the Music Scene In Atlanta!

20% of the proceeds from this concert will go to a Music and/or Art Scholarship for children this summer to receive free Lesson Through the Academy






The Line up includes:

The 54
Sam Dew + Fusion
Tendaberry
CeCe Wells & Her Band
Iyana
Corinne Stevie
Richelle L. Brown
Truth Be
Allah's Aprentice

Hosted by:Green Tea, it starts Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 6:00pm at Niche in Atlanta, GA!!!

$10!!!

TENDABERRY AT LENNY'S BAR!

Tendaberry will be playing with It's Elephant's, Prism Prison, and The Starter Kits. It starts at 9pm for the low low price of $5. You can't beat this deal!!!

myspace.com/tendaberry

twitter.com/tendaberry

Janelle Monae & Yours Truly

Come one come all to see Janelle Monae at The Rialto hosted by the Wondaland Art Society.

FRIDAY, APRIL 3RD

6:30pm - 11:30pm
80 Forsyth Street, NW

Atlanta, GA

The acts that will be performing are Rahbi, Deep Cotton, Scar, Jaspects, Brittany Bosco, Hollyweerd, Jimi Cravity, and *points to us* TENDABERRY!!!!

We will have merch for sale at the venue to satisfy you're musical needs! It's about to be a musical experience that will make babies laugh, children skip, and the eldery frolick!

Purchase Tickets

Reunited...and it feels so good!

It took us a while but we finally got something we've been waiting to see. Our friend Ariel T. took a couple of pics of the band to and from our performance at Little Kings back in January, and we're putting a sample of them up. She was kind enough to also record a some video footage of us playing "Prophets". <----- link


We've awaited this moment for a while because our keyboardist and vocalist, Shane (The gentleman to the right of this picture), was taking his winter vacation from law school. It was good to have the full band back together. As soon as he graduates, the keys will become apart of the norm once again. Check out the video link.

The Once Room

Tendaberry will be playing with Sunday's Best and Gaylord at the Once Room in Decatur, GA. Here's the deal: you pay $10 to get in and get free food and beer plus 3 wonderous bands for the rest of the night! Great deal, right? Right! We'll see you there!

"You Give Love a Bad Name"

Hello Ladies and Gents! My name is Maximus James Longfellow-Bentington and I will be your host for this post. As you know Trivial Design is the blog for all future Tendaberry post. You'll have a chance to see and hear about our music, but we will talk about various other topics such as our favorite bands, movie reviews, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon , and the list will go on and on.

Earlier we asked our friends on facebook what the actual name of the blog should be called. We heard a little bit of everything as a response. One of the best ones I read was from Mr. Parris saying "TendaberryJuice (new posts are freshly squeezed)". I don't think anyone could argue with that slogan. It pulled me right in at least. Longshire said "Tendaberry Crunch
(To Be the Man, You've Gotta Beat the Tendaberry)" I enjoyed this one as well because to the reference to Captain Crunch and Rick Flair (Wooooo!!!).

Here are some of the other suggestions:
Tendaberry Jam, Tendaberry Bush, Tendaberry Sqush, tendaberry sound, tendaberry mine, tendaberry sunset, tendaberry sky, Tendaberry coke, Tendaberry M.D., Tendaberry pit, TNDAB, Tendaberry lotion/cream, Tenda-pain, Tendaberry pie, Tendaberry shortcake and Tendaberry Smoothie

Thanks to our friends for creating such inventive names. These suggestions will probably show back up in the future.

Now go tell all you're friends you're friendly neighborhood Tendaberry has a blog now and if you have any advice, creative critiques, ideas you want to share, just let us know. Retro vid! *Jersey fist pump*

-Maximus James Longfellow-Bentington