(Among active competitors)

1. Hot Lixx Hulahan - 9,000 points

2. William Ocean - 8,000 points

3. Rockness Monster - 6,000 points

4. Big Rig - 5,000 points

5. Five-way tie with 3,000 points:

Airosol
Chuck Mung
Derek Not-So-Smalls
McNallica
Stryker

Friday
05Mar2010

Facebook partners with US Air Guitar

Maybe we didn't exactly "partner" with facebook, but we did setup a super sweet 2010 Tour Event Page.  Pass it along to friends and family who can check out dates and venue info, read a little spiel about what we do, and all that fun stuff.

Event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&eid=393452713064

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/USAirGuitar

Twitter: www.twitter.com/usairguitar

Wednesday
03Mar2010

All the news that's fit to print!!!!!

US Air Guitar has been waiting almost two weeks to smash a couple of stingingly epic high fives into one mega exclamatory blog posting . . .

Co-commissioner Cedric Devitt (AIR LINGUS) watches History Channel while the lovely Minji Kim delivers their first born son!!!!!!

HOT LIXX HULAHAN (Craig Billmeier) gets hitched to the прекрасный Mary Rhodes!!!!!!

In attendance for the wedding at San Francisco's Russian Cultural Center were BETTIE B. GOODE, ROCKNESS MONSTER, K. RUXX SPIN, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, AIR-ANIAN THREAT, BJORN TUROQUE, ZERO PROSPECTS, twins STRYKER & BIG RIG, and twenty five other tables that wished they were ours.

Congratulations to the new father and mother and the new grandparents their blessed gestation has created.  Congratulations to the cowboy newlyweds (you'd get it if you were there), and also their fathers-and-mothers-in-law (especially Janis).

In a world filled with garbage and shit that kills people it is not often we're reminded that there are some other things which aren't deadly or complete garbage after all.

Now that we're below the fold, did I mention DC's regional law school stud and local NRA enthusiast JURIS ROCKTOR (Mike Sacks) made the first paragraph of the front page of the New York Times? 


From left to right in their Christian Sunday best: Large Blonde Wig, West Hays, Angelica Allen, Fatima Hoang, Kriston Rucker, Kate Gray, Dan Crane, Ryan Layman, Randy Layman.  This and other hella tight photos from the wedding by Taryn Kapronica.

Thursday
25Feb2010

The crazies got hold of the bat shit

With the opening shows just over a month away, people have started losing their minds over this year's tour.

I mean, sure, to prove we're still young USAG Corporate is totally on the facebooks and whatnot.  But now fans and performers alike are starting their own regional event pages, garnering hundreds of confirmed guests and making me look like a lazy a-hole by actually updating their sites regularly.

A couple new invitations squirted into our mail this evening, just moments apart from each other.  On JURIS ROCKTOR'S (Mike Sacks) NYC event page, Kate Seip adds with her confirmation, "duh. of course (I'll be there)." Across the country in Los Angeles, SIX STRING'S (Tim Granlund) page urges, "Bring friends, lovers, strangers...I promise it will be the second most fun thing you've ever done behind your first sexual experience." So for all you virgins out there, I guess the LA show at the Troub. is gonna freaking rock.

I'd like to say this was all part of USAG Corporate's master marketing plan, but to be perfectly honest we're not that smart (we're not all that young, either).

USAG Global Operations Center

Sadly, we've had to close out entries in several cities already, so if you plan on performing you'll want to sign up soon.  If your local show has been corked, send us a convincing video to contact@usairguitar.com and we'll see what we can do.

Friday
19Feb2010

US Air Guitar 2010 Dates

Guitars? The Time Has Come Yet Again To Set Aside Childish Things

US AIR GUITAR 2010 TOUR DATES
Regional Competitions Start April 6
Regionals To Be Hosted By Bjorn Turoque & Judged by 2008 World Champion Hot Lixx Hulahan

If history has taught us anything, it is this: the spirit of US Air Guitar is indomitable.

If in January Steve Jobs had unveiled Air Guitar, would it have been any less innovative? If one day the Supreme Court unexpectedly judges a case using the following criteria: technical ability, stage presence, and “airness,” would the rest of us be any worse off? If the last episode of X-Files revealed that Air Guitar was the answer, would you not believe?

With zealous pride we announce the 2010 US Air Guitar tour, now 30% awesomer. Scale back? Heck no. The road awaits, and this year we’re hittin’ it like Tiger Woods. After sell-out regional competitions across the United States last summer, including two nights at DC’s 9:30 Club and consecutive nights at San Francisco’s Independent, US Air Guitar has expanded its tour by two additional months, stretching coast to coast in April and then playing a couple of shows of biblical proportion in May and June. Inspired by mega-churches and God Himself, a month after the first tour, air guitarists will confess their sins at a colossal Vegas show. Then in June, US Air Guitar headlines the historic Fillmore Auditorium – made famous by The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and now, uh, us. Finally, after extracting the greatest professional air guitarists from 17 regional shows and sending them each to New York City for the National Championships, our US winner will book passage to Oulu, Finland, and represent the stars and stripes against 30 other countries at the Air Guitar World Championships. Last year the competition was tight, with two Americans tying for second and a Frenchman named Gunther Love taking the crown. But this year America has an imaginary axe to grind.

US AIR GUITAR CHAMPIONSHIPS
2010 TOUR DATES
Tickets On Sale Now

To Sign Up To Compete, Enter HERE!

April 6 || Harper’s Ferry || Boston, MA
April 8 || Johnny Brenda’s || Philadelphia, PA
April 9 || Brooklyn Bowl || Brooklyn, NY
April 10 || 9:30 Club || Washington, DC
April 12 || House of Blues || Houston, TX
April 13 || Highball || Austin, TX
April 15 || Metro || Chicago, IL
April 16 || Stonefly Brewery || Milwaukee, WI
April 17 || Varsity Theater || Minneapolis, MN
April 19 || Fox Theater || Boulder, CO
April 20 || Bluebird Theater || Denver, CO
April 22 || Dante’s || Portland, OR
April 23 || Casbah || San Diego, CA
April 24 || Troubadour || Los Angeles, CA

May 28 || Hard Rock Café || Las Vegas, NV

June 5 || The Fillmore || San Francisco, CA


Wednesday
17Feb2010

Radio, radio, radio

Looks who's on the wireless! Devner champ MAGIC CYLOPS up an got himself an air guitar podcast, and SANJAR THE DESTROYER of the great Midwest has a fancy online victrola gizmo at jamzonair.com (scroll over "shows" then click on "rock locked" 9 links down from the top).

Comments one of CYCLOPS' listeners, "air guitar is for losers. i can't wait!"

 Plays Peter Gabriel Tunes.  Even in the rain.