11.10.08Thanks for rockin the vote you guys and girls.As you can see we now have merchandise available. Just click the image to the left or click merch up top. To buy the CD with a credit card, click the CD with a baby at the top or you can download mp3's from itunes through the link at the top left. Just a side note, there isn't a way to respond through the website, but we hear you loud and clear through myspace. We appreiciate all of the support you have given and we hope it keeps on coming with more of our exposure. There are tons of messages that we sift through daily. We read them all, but there is just not enough time in the day to respond to them all, so if you haven't gotten a response, we thank you and please keep supporting us and spreading the word about our music. We're making big ground behind the scenes even though we're not playing many shows, mostly until stewy gets better, but we're getting things together in other way like merch, new songs, advertising and hope to have a huge push by next spring. These things take time and alot of work, so if you have any ideas or suggestions, let us know or if you'd like to help spread the rock in your area, send us a message on myspace and we'll give you the information to do it on your own. Thanks 87 times! 11.4.08
10.12.08It was a great night with Parmalee and Joe Hero last night, you guys rocked it out. We apprieciate the support from those of you upstairs in the smoking section and all of you down at the bar. Now if we can just get those two sections into one with the music we'd be all set. Stewy's has been gone for quite sometime now, but he came back for a little taste. He's still waiting for his surgery, but once he's well we'll be exploring areas outside of North Carolina and some other cities inside of NC.This also is news that has been a long time coming. T-SHIRTS!!!!!That's right! Getchya T-shirts haier. Stay tuned and we'll tell you where you can get them.Lastly, Modena is coming to Charlotte for the first time this friday. We wanna see all of you crazy Modenians from the Charlotte area rockin out. We'll have our CDs for sale for cheap at the Show. We may even have shirts in by then. See you at the Underground! 9.16.08OK, so it's last minute, but you wanted more Raleigh shows, so there you have it. one more this month, so you'd better be there you crazy fans! Also, come check out Wicked Jones out of Charlotte, NC . They are sick and you need to come see them. You can check 'em out on their website. See you at the Brewery Wednesday night!8.23.08Please keep our bassist stewy in your thoughts. He is having surgery sometime next week.8.22.08Come check us out if you're in the Murfreesboro area with The Duperz TONIGHT and get our CD for a discounted rate of 5 bucks. Why buy one online when you can get a try before you buy show live at Zack's Coffeehouse!8.17.08GET YOURS!8.17.08As all of you Modenians head back to the dorms this fall we want to make sure your move is a smooth one and that you bring everything that you might need. Here's a list of things to remember as you pack:
If you get there and find that you've forgotten your Modena CD, you can buy one on the internet at CDbaby.com. 8.4.08Whoops! We messed up. The Deep South open mic is tomorrow night and our acoustic show at The Blue Horn is playing tonight! So, if you read this in the next five minutes we'll see you there! We gotta GO!!8.2.08...Happy Birthday Mendie....and many more...7.21.08Drummer of Modena recently had a testicular invasion. He responded, "I had to pick a tick off my dick. I burned the tick on the wick of my bic. I flicked that tick it was sick!"6.22.08It was a Farm and it Jammed Friday night and we've got the T-shirt to prove it! Unfortunately Stewy wasn't there to rock out with us, but we've got a good replacement until he gets better in a few months. Thanks to Jason! He'll be at Mariah, NC with us saturday at the insane entertainment's summerfest!And it's official, the EP's including 8 originals songs are getting printed as we speak. Check back here or the myspace to find out how you can buy your own copy online, or just catch up with one of the band members at a show and we'll hook you up. 5 bucks little man, put that shit in my hand. T-shirts won't be long after. 5.10.08Our bass player, Stewy Stew, is in the hospital for Diverticulitis. That explains the trouble he has been having lately. He may need surgery in a few months, and doctors are saying everything should be OK. We may need to postpone a few shows, but everything else should stay right on schedule with our CD release. He should be home from the hospital early this week, so be looking for him around town again.4.2.08MODENA STICKERS AND T-SHIRTS ON THEIR WAY, CAN I GET A HELL YEAH!?3.23.08Tune your radio to WKNC 88.1 at 8:00 AM April 11 if you're in the triangle area of NC. DJ Tampa will interview the members of MODENA along with playing your favorite songs all morning long. And it's not just that friday morning, listen to her spin other great tracks on your way to work, while waking up, or driving home from that thursday night party.3.2.08We're back in the studio and it feels good. Things are on their way and the sounds are phat. Hang tight while we get things in order and the rockin' shows will continue on. Send your donations to P.O. Box 87 Modena, Italy.1.17.08Yes, that's right folks. Your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. You might have noticed we've added some acoustic gigs in Chapel Hill. We're trying to raise money for our upcoming EP, and what better way to do it by gigging??We'll be playing at a bunch of different bars and small clubs in and around the Chapel Hill and Raleigh area in the next couple of months. The acoustic act is slightly different than the full Modena lineup. It includes Justin on vocals/guitar/piano, Jaymz on vocals/guitar, and our good friend Robbie Dimauro helping us out on drums. And in case you're wondering, don't worry, Modena is still in the full swing of things. We'll be booking ALOT more shows with the full band lineup once our EP is completed and ready for release. P.S. If you are a band and would like to play with either Modena or the acoustic act PLEASE send us a message via myspace and we will set something up. We hope to see you guys out there!!! Rock on... 11.18.07OK, so we're settled into the new bandroom, now it's time to start getting serious, more songs, more gigs, more recordings, more merch. Well, merch. Last night at the Volume 11 Tavern Modena played their newest song, Hang it High, and it rocked. You should come check it out for yourself. Here's another picture of the practice room.10.18.07An update on the Modena band room. Here are a few pictures to wet your taste buds.Modena's music is now available on itunes. Search for us and we'll show you the way. If you like us, buy a track or two and leave a comment. We appreciate any support you can give. 9.18.07Young Flu, you are the man for making Modena history and giving us another edge! Everyone check out his website and look for him to appear at another Modena concert. The crowd was killer at the Cat's Cradle Sunday night all because the fans were there to make it happen. Thank you a million times. Enjoy the demo. If you didn't get one we'll have more at our upcoming shows, but even though we lost the battle, it doesn't matter to us because you guys were there to rock out with us. Tell your friends, tell your enemies that Modena is your next favorite rock band!8.17.07Three out of four members of MoDenA have been playing their instrument longer than they've been having sex. Can you guess which one hasn't?7.22.07OK, Graham and Burlington we've got The Raven rescheduled on Saturday August 11, so if you've been waiting for MoDenA to come to your area, here's your chance. Don't miss it! Check out www.myspace.com/foxfmfest for more info and the schedule.7.17.07Fun night in Wilmington, it was a rockin' crowd. Thanks for all who came out to support us. In case you didn't catch the end of the set, MoDenA finished up with a 12 minute jazz/funk instrumental with a few solos.7.12.07it 'posed ta be 87 degwees sat-day7.9.07Polls say MoDenA rocks.Look for some live tracks of MoDenA right here very soon! 7.1.07Modena is working on a new song. Look out 'cause here we come with another hit!We're also in the process of building a new band room. We're cramped in the old one so we're gonna double the size and double the rock. Check out the first phase of it being built by our very own drummer, Derek. We didn't catch him with his tool belt on, but we'll get him next time. Word has it he works naked at night. 6.24.07Well you guys definately know how to rock at The Berkeley. Let's see how you do at Volume 11 next time we play Raleigh in August Check back here and on our myspace for some pics of last night. Who knows you might be in 'em. We're off to Rock Hill South Carolina in two weeks if you're in the area stop by to check us out!6.9.07The Saturday gig at the Raven has been cancelled due to some management changes. It will be rescheduled very soon. Sorry for the inconvienence. We do have a show on Thursday in Chapel Hill which is only 30 minutes further than the raven to fill your Modena void in the mean time.5.30.07That was a close one. We almost had to cancel the last one at volume 11, but the drummer was able to make it after his wife had a baby at 7:00pm. Everything is fine with parents and baby and the rock was espectially tasty Friday night. Thanks to everyone who showed up for a great show. All the bands were the shit.5.24.07Well! If you didn't know, The Library in Chapel Hill is NOT for studying. Nothin' but wild crazy fun there and Modena was there to keep it going.Happy Birthday to Jennifer! We all sang Happy Birthday to her and she danced on stage for us too. Check us out again live in Raleigh at Volume 11 where we'll feature our newest song recently named "87." It's gonna be a big night starting at 9:00 packed with four bands including: Playin Jojo, Upside of Down, and Nephilym. 5.17.07This Friday support your favorite local band and the North Raleigh Theatre and get a demo hot off of the press for a few bucks. Also, if you have seen us before we'll debut a new song, so come check us out and let us know what you think of it. Rock on, NRACT, at the rock show!!5.12.07Hell of a show at the Coffeehouse. We all had a great time. Thanks to all the bands and thank you to Zack's for supporting local music.5.12.07OK, so gas is back up again. so what? pay it or do something about it. It needs to go up to four dollars a gallon so people freak out and start looking for other ways to get around. electric power for a car is perfect. instead of stopping to fuel up, you plug in while you sleep, simple as that. you still might need some kind of fuel for big trucks even small ones, but electric power is definately doable and has the potential to be cheap. the supply is infinate and doesn't require huge plants and complicated energy processing or transportation. all you need to do is wait for it to come to you and if the sun stops shining, ha, we've got bigger problems than how to get to a modena show and back. we'll be dead in a week with no sun. hah! maybe we should worship the sun, it's pretty important. eh' just a thought. and the technology for solar and wind power are out there, it's just waiting to be profitable. it'll be profitable when gas gets to 4 dollars.5.5.07Sandi's blood sugar is 87, regular octane is 87, Justin got his oil filter on Hwy 87, James lives off of Hwy 86, which ain't too far from 87, so that's not too bad, Stewy was born in 1987, Derek framed up an opening that was 87 inches, we tune our radio to 87.9 for itunes, it's gonna get to 87 degrees Wednesday. Dat 'Ol 87 is the number. It's everywhere you go! You got 87 and you got it'all, we might just write a song named 87.4.15.07You, The Dive Bar, Friday night, enough said.Listen to our new tunes on the myspace site for free! We'll get them up on the website as soon as they're fully mixed and mastered. 4.15.07MoDenA enjoyed some Tokyo Express while recording two songs this weekend at Last Chance Studios. The hibachi was good, but more importantly the two songs that were recorded sound amazing. One of the tracks is "Hit and Run," one that has never been recorded and could only be heard live. The other track is "Acquiescense," usually the first song of the set and also came out outstandingly rockishly well. You can here a live version from Rock Hill, SC on the website, but soon the recorded version will be on myspace and on the website.4.7.07Someone told me that while talking to a friend about electricity, he asked him how to go from amps to volts and volts to amps. His friend told him that it was about the same thing, but he thinks it's a 1 for 2 conversion etc. I told him they have nothing to do with each other and he insisted on saying that you use amps to get volts and use volts to get amps. Oh so now it makes sense. I just gave up and told him that it was sort of related. Kinda like leaves. And ice cream. They're related. The leaves fall, fertilize the grass, the cows eat the grass, the cows make milk to make the ice cream, and so they related. I guess you could say everything's related. So he must be right!In other news, MoDenA is featured on In Tune Publications, an online entertainment magazine. Check us out here. 3.27.07Well, The Cave is, a cave! A cool cave. And MoDenA caved it up along with Grey Market(from Tampa[who has lots of talent even without solos]) and Hammer No More The Fingers.3.25.07Man! You guys were choice Friday night. Thank you to Driving Force, Playing Jo Jo, My Captain, Up Side of Down, and all of the fans. Great night!If you didn't get a demo, you can get them at every show, and if you like us, tell a friend, hell, BRING a friend. The Berkelely Cafe was our first show 6 months ago so it's kind of our home base and it was great to play there again. 3.19.07Who wants to see Chris Daughtry for free when you can see MoDenA for a couple of bucks this friday at The Berkeley Cafe? Come see your real American Idols. Hey, and stop by during the week for lunch and get some of their tasty specials!3.04.07We are currently being rotated on 96 rock's locals only show from 10-11pm. Check it out on Sundays to hear your favorite local band and check us out live to hear more of our music.3.03.07Thank You Thank You Thank You to all who showed up last night to support us and the Volume 11 Tavern. It was a great night and an awsome place to rock out.Next up is The Pour House next Friday with Lactose Quervo and Out of Orbit. Come check it out! 2.26.07WOW! That might have been one of MoDenA's best shows at the Marvell Event Center...thank you if you were there. If you weren't, you missed it! Well that's ok, you have a few more chances coming up soon, one being the Volume 11 Tavern in Raleigh. That night is going to be smoking with 3 other bands lined up, The McCaulfee Bros., A Breath Forgotten, and Last Rights. Come out and rock with us like it's 1987!2.10.07Check out a drawing by one of our friends and an awesome fan on the pictures page. She drew it by hand in about three weeks and it looks amazing, almost like a copy on grey scale. Stop by her myspace page to tell her how much you love it. Thanks to Bekah for taking the time to do that for us and for you to see!2.4.07We've been chosen to be Onlinerock.com's featured artist of the month for February 2007!!! Thank you Online Rock for this great honor, and kids, tell your friends!1.27.07Tada! I give you The Official Modenias Group/Messageboard. Give it up for Miranda(a cool chick) for taking initiative and creating the group for Mod...what's the band's name? one second...MoDena. Now go and use it and tell us what you think, about us, about you, about whatever. There is an easy to use link on the...where's the link?... at the links section of the website.1.20.07The drummer of MoDenA is going to be a baby's daddy. She's due in 4.5 months and the baby's daddy is very excited to bring one of his own into the world.1.13.07Thanks to the North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre for having us there to play and thanks to all who enjoyed our music. We enjoyed it too and would love to come back and do it again. You were all awesome. Check back here for more shows in Raleigh, and tell your friends about how MoDenA rocked your world! Thanks again!1.12.07Damn great show guys! Praetorius, Last Rights, Good Samaritan and Modena, a four band rock block worth every dollar at the brewery.1.2.07During the holidays, Derek visited his roots in Louisiana. He says he had a great time poling the pirougue and eating jambalaya with his family. The Lafourche Bayou was at capacity due to recent heavy rains, but that made the gator wrestling even better. Cajun's don't eat turkey for Christmas, they eat gator! Anyway on to band news, you have three chances to see us next week in Raleigh, so we don't want to hear any complaining with, "y'all never play anywhere..." just come see us and have a good time. Also, we've added modenamusic.com email addresses. for booking, it's booking@modenamusic.com, and you can email the rest of us just the same. just put our names in lower case and then @modenamusic.com. use them as you wish. First up, Raleigh Music Hall, we'll see you there on Sunday!1.1.07HAPPY NEW YEAR!12.22.06MERRY CHRISTMAS!12.4.06Howdy Y'all! We had a great time at the Raleigh Music Hall on Sunday night. Congrats to Praetorious, they were great. If any of you didn't get to pick up a CD at the show, our music is available online here and at our myspace site, so check it out! Also, we have a new "version" of Surrounding You at Last Chance Studios' myspace. We'll have that one on our next set of demos so come out and get one when we're in your area.11.26.06MoDenA hopes that everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Now we expect lots of presents for Christmas. One of them might be to come see us on on Sunday Dec. 3 for our holiday show at the Raleigh Music Hall and cast your vote for us! Exercise YOUR right to vote!In other news, tonight if you look strait up at the stars you will see MoDenA spelled out in the sky at precisely 12:00:00 midnight. This will be a one time thing as it costs a lot of money to get NASA to do this so we could only afford one second, so be on the lookout TONIGHT and all of us can unite for one second. 11.13.06Check out the new message board Use it often and let us know what you think or sound off about whatever. There will be a link on the website very soon, but first let's test it out. Come to the Raleigh Music Hall on Saturday and then come back here and post if you were there.11.12.06Thank you so much for all you who voted for us at the Lincoln Theatre tonight. Every gig we gain a few fans and we thrive on your support. Soon we'll have a whole slew of you and we can all rock out together. Congrats to Exit 72 and good luck to them in the future. Our show Sunday night will be broadcast on the BarCords television show on channel 8 in raleigh or to find your station in your area click here. You can also watch it online if you miss it tv, but check back here for the link to the video and when the show will be aired.11.11.06Damn rockin show last night guys! See you next time because we will definitely do it again. That's only half the rock for this weekend, though. For three bucks come to The Lincoln and see MoDenA, Playing Jo Jo and Avenue. It's only a dollar per band. Shows start early at 6:00.11.8.06See MoDenA Live two times this weekend!11.1.06Modena's fan base grew this year by 10% with a +/- 1% error taking into the account inflation and probability of a nuclear strike and we pull out of the war in Iraq within 10 days and for everyday in Iraq a 0.55% increase in fan base is predicted and a .45% decrease in fan base for every day under 10 we are in Iraq with a ceiling of 100 days due to finacial limitations to conduct this study.10.16.06A direct quote from Judge Alex. The case was about a home inspector being sued because he didn't tell them that there was a problem with a leaky roof. The plantiff was crying because she lost the case next to her husband dressed in a purple suit who said, "The Man didn't do what he know he had suppost had did."10.14.06HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES!! 30 people, a keg, one apartment. yeah......10.7.06Justin gets a new stool, Stewy is refound, James gets casters for his amp and Derek gets a new truck to haul all of our shit around town for your listening pleasure. Also, we're writing and learning a few new tunes so we can get back to pounding the pavement and spreading MoDenA's rock.09.26.06MoDenA rocks The Pour House and they like it. We were first up to get things started with smokin' guitar rifs and helatious drums. If you were there, thank you, if not, we'll see you next time to get your free demo CD. Stickers? You want free stickers too? We're working on it, but the more you let us know you want 'em, the faster you'll get 'em.09.21.06Why go out on the weekend when you can go out and see MoDenA LIVE on a Monday night at The Pour House. *** James is hydrated and ready to go! We'll see you there!09.16.06Possibly the weirdest sentence in the English language is: “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”.It takes a bit to understand this, so let’s build up from simple stuff. First, suppose that dogs chase cats, who then chase mice. Another way of saying this is: “Cats that dogs chase, chase mice” But the comma and the word “that” aren’t technically needed, so we can say: “Cats dogs chase chase mice”. But cats also chase other cats, so we could say: “Cats dogs chase chase cats”. And they can be chased by other cats too: “Cats cats chase chase cats”. Step back and look at this sentence for a moment. This is the basic structure of the buffalo sentence. Let’s think about buffalo chasing other buffalo: “Buffalo buffalo chase chase buffalo”. Now there’s a lesser-known English verb “to buffalo” meaning “to push around”. So instead of chasing, let’s make these buffalo push each other around: “Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo”. Remember that this means: “Buffalo that buffalo push around, push buffalo around”. For the final step, let’s just talk about a particular kind of buffalo - the kind that live in the zoo in Buffalo, New York. These, of course, are Buffalo buffalo - just as the lions are Buffalo lions. “Buffalo buffalo that Buffalo Buffalo push around, push Buffalo buffalo around” or more properly: “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”. For extra credit, here’s a sentence with “and” five times together: “When you drew that Fish-And-Chips sign, you should have put a hyphen between Fish and And and And and Chips”. 09.11.06Thanks to all that came to The Money and voted for us! 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