Our music video for "The Devil's Chain Gang" took home three awards at the Sacramento Film and Music Festival! We attended the festival on Saturday night, along with the video's directors Jason Knight and Sean Kime, and had a great time watching it on the big screen at the Crest Theatre in between several other music videos for local artists. Then at the awards ceremony Sunday night, Jason … See more
Update 09/02/2013: Join the band and the video's directors after the screening to celebrate at Gallagher's Irish Pub! Last month we were excited to learn that our music video for "The Devil's Chain Gang" was accepted into the Sacramento Film and Music Festival. We're very proud of the video and thankful to directors Jason Knight and Sean Kime for how it turned out, so this is a real honor … See more
Hey y'all, Kenny Franklin Valentine here to tell you what's up with The Nickel Slots in August. Roll the projectors The boys' very cool music video for their song "The Devil's Chain Gang" was just accepted into the Sacramento Film and Music Festival. I'm no Roger Ebert, but that seems pretty awesome to me! Save the evening of Saturday, September 14th to come see the video on a big screen at the … See more
The boys recorded a video blog this week to do the drawing for their house concert contest. I tossed my name into the hat, but they said I ain't eligible to win. The video's also got some practice footage of a new song called "Float Around." Check it out! http://youtu.be/G3JwcG9FYtw Links to stuff they mentioned: Old Ironsides, May 31st Honky-Tonk Showdown, June 8th "The Devil's … See more
We're busy right now booking shows for this summer in large outdoor venues: festivals, park concerts, county fairs and such. To make sure we don't get too bored with these wide open spaces, we want to play at least one intimate show. So we're going to give one lucky Nickel Slots fan a house concert this summer! Here's how it works: from now through the end of April, add a comment on this post … See more
The boys recorded another video blog for y'all this week. In this one they drop some behind-the-scenes footage from the "The Devil's Chain Gang" video shoot on you and tell you how downloading a free MP3 of the song can help them in a Hard Rock Cafe contest. Check it out! http://youtu.be/-cgnUE9bIu8 To download and vote, go to http://on.fb.me/11zrn1X by February 10th. Anyone can download the … See more
You already know what the four of us sound like as The Nickel Slots, but not as much about the music that brought us to this point. We want to take you backstage to get a look at those influences. And given a certain song of ours, it seemed appropriate for each of us to share seven of them. So behold our Lucky Seven albums! These are the albums that shaped us, the ones we can't imagine music … See more
